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On Happy Noose's self-titled debut, the charged punk instrumentation in concert with frontman Ryan Scott's Timothy Grisham's deep, morose vocals went a long way toward connecting musical dots in the listeners' minds: clearly, Happy Noose are a band that takes its cues from early '80s UK New Wave, early Goth
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Featuring more than 100 artworks from the collection of Herb and Lucy Pruzan, Creating the New Northwest is a stunning exhibition of works by many the most famous artists in the region, including William Cumming, Gaylen Hansen, Paul Havas, William Ivey, Fay Jones, James Martin, Alden Mason, Ginny Ruffner, Preston
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Marlayna McBride and her entourage of drag queens from Jake's on 4th in Olympia have been asked to be grand marshals for this year's Capital City Pride. "It is an absolute honor and privilege to have been asked to represent this prestigious title," McBride said. Miss McBride, aka Adam
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Marlayna McBride and her entourage of drag queens from Jake's on 4th in Olympia have been asked to be grand marshals for this year's Capital City Pride. "It is an absolute honor and privilege to have been asked to represent this prestigious title," McBride said. Miss McBride, aka Adam Geribaldi, lives
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"It's a helluva lot of work to produce your own shows - you have to have support. We are all so lucky to have each other's support for the technical stuff, and the emotional stuff - I mean, we're baring our breasts and baring our souls." These are the words of Ginger S.
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB
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Tacoma’s 72-Hour Film Festival seemed to send out a clear theme message last May: mind the zombies. Months later, along came an intrepid group of professional-style film makers creating Rock Zombie (www.rockzombiemovie.com) hoping to amplify that message, loud and clear, and to raise it to: no, really, zombies rock! “They’re the thing
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Chuck Gumpert and Christopher Mathie are painters after my own heart. They both love the act of painting ― the kind of painting that since the 1940s has been called “gestural,” a word not recognized by dictionaries but well loved by artists the world over. Gumpert and Mathie share a studio,
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Sequins. Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol and Uncle Sam. Cotton candy. Artists and sparkly art. Put these ingredients together, and you must have the Tacoma Art Museum’s summer community festival Glitter, Glisten, and Gleam!, a free event happening from 6 to 8:30 Friday at the museum, celebrating “Sparkle then
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DRINK THE PINK Morso Wine Bar (9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor) is celebrating summer with rosés. Morso invites lovers of the vine to Drink the Pink with its rosé wine tasting from 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 21. Expect to sip rosés from Oregon, the south of France, Tavel and Corsica.
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Sometimes you desperately need something to bring a laugh or distract you enough to allow you to let go of whatever has been troubling you, even if only for a couple hours. Lakewood Playhouse's production of The Importance of Being Earnest does all of that. Oscar Wilde's
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Sometimes you desperately need something to bring a laugh or distract you enough to allow you to let go of whatever has been troubling you, even if only for a couple hours. Lakewood Playhouse's production of The Importance of Being Earnest does all of that. Oscar Wilde's 118-year-old script is
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"All the bands are top musicians," says Lee Brooks, who is presenting the third consecutive Soulstice! celebration in Olympia Friday. "The key word we've been using is "heavy." It's heavy funk. Its amazingly mind-blowing heavy funk." The Jefferson Rose Band, McTuff and The Brown Edition will be plowing through spring and
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It's been brought to my attention through moderate observation that young people today are in a state of obstructed progress - or at least some may deem it so - by maintaining a transitory existence and avoiding the pursuits of careers, marriage and the like. This lifestyle receives heavy amounts
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It should be no surprise that Free Ya Mind and Stella Haioulani have provided the longest running poetry/literary/hip-hop community programming in the Pacific Northwest, since 2001. Some may be unaware of the artistic community developed by Haioulani and inspired by the emotional remains of the horrific 9/11 tragedies. What was
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"It's a helluva a lot of work to produce your own shows - you have to have support. We are all so lucky to have each other's support for the technical stuff, and the emotional stuff - I mean, we're baring our breasts and baring our souls." These are the words of Ginger
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Soldiers from across the country migrated to Joint Base Lewis-McChord to compete for the title of I Corp's Best Soldier and Best Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, June 10-13. Representatives from Colorado, California, Kansas and JBLM came here ready to see who was going to be the best and move on
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. COMEDY/GAMES
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Heidi Vladyka, Gina Belliveau and Heidi Stoermer. All Ages. 8 pm. $4. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Steve Cooley & The Dangerfields. 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Jake Sharon. 9 pm. $15.
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If you're a celluloid lovin' madman and you needed a sendoff film before jumping on your zombie horse and riding off to Austin, Texas, the late Lucio Fulci's flick The Beyond would do the trick. The Italian director upped the gore quotient in this blood-soaked, surrealistic nightmare of hell on