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A lot of folks still consider the 1939 film Gone With the Wind to be the best loved and most iconic American movie of all time - a classic national story of struggle and perseverance. Others might call it an American icon for less flattering reasons, i.e., how blithely it
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Karl Thurmond. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Steve Mazan. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Chris Jones Band. 9 pm. Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Kenny Rogers. 8 pm. $40.
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Olympia actor Morgan Picton has an easy, authoritative knack for comic timing, which made sense given his night job as a standup comedian. We saw him riffed on economics and ancient Rome for a dozen people, killing with insights that were probably too smart for most rooms, including that one.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Jeremy's Farm To Table - Chehalis. James Haye. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Ethan Tucker Band. 9:30 pm. NC. B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Little Bill, Rod Cook. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Danny Schmidt, Antje Duvekot. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug McGrew. 7:30 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma -
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Chef Riley Morgan will release his summer menu at 1022 South J on Hilltop Tacoma. The Southern-raised Morgan has created a Northwest meets Southeast menu, adding a Northwest touch to deviled eggs, pulled pork, collard greens, grits and other Southern staples. He's taking Southern flavors and airing
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Monday Music, featuring Kurt Lindsay. 7 pm. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke-Olympians. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma -
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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. Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, with Fields Under Clover. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. BLUES Treos Tacoma - Old Town. Summer Concert Series, with Billy Stoops. All Ages. 6:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade
Military Resources
When a family is dealing with a medical crisis, the last thing they want to think about is paperwork. But for military families traveling to Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord and hoping to stay at the nearby Fisher House, paperwork - sometimes lots of it - is
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Friday night in Olympia is going to be crazy. It's a full moon, Friday the 13th and Evergreen State College graduation all rolled into one. It's a good thing this rock show is going to be at the 4th Ave Tav. The powerhouse bill will need the room to accommodate
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Ellen Hochberg's installations "Boxes" and "Educating Girls" in the Woolworth windows are identity art. They put out there for your contemplation questions of how girls see themselves and how they are seen by others. As conceptual art they are interesting if not earth shattering; aesthetically they are like well-conceived minimalist
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Frank Sinatra always swung in his own fawning way - he would never have made it with bands such as Dorsey's or Harry James' if he hadn't. He frequently improvised, both music and words. Musically it was essentially embellishing the line with a few notes or a phrase, always right
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Every year, more than 30 street bands from around the nation converge in Seattle for Honk! Fest West. Olympia's Rhythm and Rye will be hosting a rowdy Pre-Honk! primer with two of its favorite Honk! bands: The Bucharest Drinking Team and Artesian Rumble Arkestra June 16. The Bucharest Drinking Team,
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Two Boys Kissing by Scholastic editorial director David Levithan follows the interlocking stories of seven gay teenagers who are in various stages of coming to terms with being gay. They are all in different situations. Harry and Craig want to set the world record for the longest kiss to make
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With the recent D-Day 70th anniversary celebration, and the Fourth of July just around the corner, we want to do our bit for the patriotic frenzy pulsing though America. The best thing the Weekly Volcano can do is to preach the gospel of barbecue. It is, after all, the only
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This summer, families can head south and see what goes in the Capital City outside of the rotunda and under the trees. "I believe that fellow military families could really benefit from some of our larger recreation events," explained Christie Lamour, a military spouse and program specialist with the Park Stewardship
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Just five days after Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs amid a growing scandal, U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, met with 25 military veterans Wednesday to hear their stories of frustration in getting health care. Kilmer began the 90-minute gathering at the VFW Post in northern Tacoma with
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[METAL] + SAT, JUNE 7 Taking a smoke break with my co-worker in the alley behind the bar, we de-stressed from our shift and speculated the amount of tips we may have made. Just as we were about to go back in and finish our busy Olympia Arts Walk shift, we
Music
Music culture has a way of building upon itself, of establishing groups of talented individuals that branch out into new and interesting projects. Just a couple weeks ago, Spencer Kelley of Basemint came out of hiding to debut his new project, Deep Kink, featuring local and ex-local musicians like Ben