Food Matters
WINE DINNER Asado (2810 Sixth Ave., Tacoma) will be hosting what's sure to be an exquisite and elegant wine pairing dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept 5. Justin Wylie, winemaker and owner of Walla Wall winery VA Piano Vineyards will be pouring and talking vino. To pair with Asado dishes he
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The Tacoma/Pierce County hip-hop community and the Z53 Zulu Nation (Tacoma Chapter) host a Back 2 School Jam Saturday in recognition of education and community. The Z53 Chapter of The Zulu Nation is in its first year of service, and as a new chapter, it is christening its beginning with
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Hailing from Bozeman, Mont., Rose Gold make uniquely difficult music to anticipate or describe. What generally starts as sort of the fuzzy, meek alt-rock songs tend to descend into howling madness without much notice. Much of this is due to lead singer and bassist Birdie Bowie. Her voice has a
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No one ever accused the Night Beats of being a lazy band, and their most recent activity has been no different. With the release of their wild-eyed music video for their song, "The Seven Poison Wonders," off of their upcoming LP, Sonic Bloom, the psych-rockers have kept themselves very busy.
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There was an Olympia-based emo-bending indie punk band in the early '90s called Lync. After sporadic recordings on K Records, and only one full-length release, Lync disbanded, leaving frontman Sam Jayne to find another project to pour his burgeoning talent into. Jayne's new solo project, Love As Laughter, emerged in 1996
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Event founders Bennett Thurmon and Roxi Lee present an even bigger and better brew-themed festival for this year's Sept. 7 event, featuring 75 breweries with craft-brew concoctions, including five craft ciders and even a winery for those who don't want to fill up on the brewskis alone. And it's not
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The Attack is the latest film from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, adapted from the international best-selling novel of the same name by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra and, like many great films, the story behind the story sounds like the plot of a movie in its own right. Mohammed Moulessehoul, who
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Every year, more than a million people pour into the Washington State Fair (previously the Puyallup Fair) not only as a tradition, but also for the fresh and innovative experiences the fair offers, like this year's feature, Luminasia - described on the fair's website as "an exquisite take on the
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Toscanos Cafe and Wine Bar Puyallup. Curt Hoagland. 7 pm. Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Loch Dhu. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Embers at Indian Summer - Olympia. Tarik Bentlemsani. 6 pm. NC. BLUES Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. OneNiteStand. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Marc Yaffee. 9 pm. $15. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Slade
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Four Shillings Short, Annie Henry. All Ages. 6:30 pm. $12. COMEDY/GAMES Old General Store Steakhouse & Saloon Roy. Broken Trail. 9 pm. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Marc Yaffee. 9 pm. $15. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian
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I love it when Olympia and Tacoma music blends. It's like Korean barbecue washed down with PBR. Saturday, Vanguard, a favorite Olympia band, is playing at Bob's Java Jive, a favorite Tacoma venue. Vanguard's lo-fi punk metal sound use to be the work of an octopus for a drummer and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Bex Marshall. 7 pm. NC. 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 pm. NC.
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Mighty Mouth Blues Show, with Bex Marshall, The Delgado Brothers. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
News Front
Golfers streamed into the Tahoma Valley Golf Course in Yelm Aug. 11 looking forward to a round of 18 holes. The sky was overcast and it was a bit chilly, but that did not stop these golfers from rising early. This was no ordinary day of golf. Throughout the year,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan Tyack. 7:30 pm. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community Center JBLM-Lewis Main.
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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) wants Joint Base Lewis-McChord commuters and local residents to be aware that construction and roadwork is scheduled to begin shortly after Labor Day. The WSDOT reported that more than 152,000 vehicles travel through JBLM gates each day with 80 percent of those cars using
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It's been said the quickest way to a geek's heart is through his or her USB 3.0 port, but that's not true. We pop-cultural enthusiasts occasionally do take a break from mainlining second breakfast, Hot Pockets, and fourthmeal to eat real food-by which, of course, we mean
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If you're a geek of a certain age or, for that matter, anyone who loves cinematic comedy, you know exactly what happens when someone says the name "Frau Blücher." You know how to bring home the chorus of "Puttin' on the Ritz." You know who made a
