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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Gig Spot Gig Harbor. Brandon Pratt. All Ages. 8 pm. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Cami Lundeen. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Patti Allen & Zolton. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Lamont Ferguson.
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Northwest jazz guitarist Michael Powers is a musician's musician whose work has continually progressed far beyond the standard jazz genre. Born in New York and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Powers took up the guitar to strengthen his wrist after a skateboard accident. After graduating from Berkeley High
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Cody Raymond. 8:30 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Kat Eggleston. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. South Bay Pub and Eatery Olympia - Northeast. Michael Coucoules and John Croarkin. All Ages. 8 pm. NC.
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Chance Fashion is the Northwest's longest running monthly fashion show, providing accessible, hands-on networking resources to the Seattle fashion community - including designers, models, photographers, hair stylists and makeup artists. Chance Fashion participants will jump in their cars and head to the Lemay - America's Car Museum to bring Tacoma
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug McGrew. 7:30 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday Blues
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Dean Reichert Band. 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Cash prizes. 6-8 pm. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedy Open Mic.
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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.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Kathye Long. All Ages. 7 pm. C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Treos
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Military families are always in pursuit of new properties, especially after a PCS, but how often do they get to take that search on national television? Sgt. Terry Andrews, a Washington Army National Guard citizen soldier, along with his wife, Brenda, and their daughters, will be featured on HGTV's House Hunters
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Tacoma has a knack for the pop-up venue. From the backyards and porches, living rooms and reconfigured storefronts come shows of punk bands, folk singers, garage rock outfits and hip-hop emcees. We make space in our city for the opportunity to share in these experiences; in venues that are more
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Moss + Mineral is an easy-to-overlook design store tucked away in a small space on Ninth Street near a bail bondsman. They show art and photography by some of the area's best. Featured through July (no closing date set) are works by Carlos Taylor-Swanson (fine woodworking); Claudia Riedener (ceramics); the
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Erin Dengerink's installation "The Hole in Your Heart is a Portal to Another Dimension" is a mixed media installation of small, whimsical arrangements comprising a surreal landscape that delivers a message of hope to the heartbroken. That's what the description on the Artscapes website says. To me it
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There is no such thing as a typical bicyclist, but there are certainly bicycle types. You have your die-hard cyclists, who pour their sinewy bodies into neoprene suits, ride their bikes every day and regard automobiles with derision. You also have your weekend riders, who aren't necessarily competitive like the
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When's the last time someone read you a story? If it's been a while, check out the latest Creative Colloquy session Monday night. This installment of the wonderfully satisfying monthly storytelling series centers on the YA genre. Featured yarns will be spun by New York Times Best Selling author Marissa
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The Washington Army National Guard's 133rd Army Band, which is comprised of more than 40 citizen-soldiers, is in summer mode, which means free outdoor concerts loaded with patriotic tunes. The 133rd Army Band was organized and recognized in the Washington Army National Guard in 1924 as the Band Section Battery
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You can't profess to love hip-hop without having, at the least, a passing appreciation for the foundation. You don't get Outkast or Dr. Dre without EPMD. There's no Jay Z without Rakim. The Geto Boys helped open up the South. Afrika Bambaataa, The Rock Steady Crew, Grandmaster flash, Kurtis Blow,
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Remember before the Internet when the only way to discover the local underground punk rock scene, slow food, yurt-builders, Kierkegaard or Shannon Doherty was to read bits of typed paper from someone pulling an all-nighter at Kinko's? Today, it's called Tumblr. Yet oddly enough, old school zines are experiencing a
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So that's what all the fuss was about! Harlequin has staged its homegrown production of A Rock ‘n' Roll Twelfth Night four times before, but not since 2003, five years before I arrived in Washington. I'd heard glowing reviews of the show and even listened to its entertaining CD, but
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In the news business, there is an intoxication in making a big story your own. In “Zodiac,” a cartoonist strays off his beat and tries to solve a string of serial killings. In Rod Lurie’s “Resurrecting the Champ,” a sportswriter stumbles on the story of a skid row drunk who
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One of the most beautiful things about studying history is finding new discoveries along familiar and well-traveled paths. It is that discovery process that makes history so rich and vibrant. Even better: having these terrific discoveries right in one's own backyard. This is especially true for local authors Steve Dunkelberger and