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THE FILM 72-Hour Film Competition You know how sometimes you watch a particularly crappy movie and you think to yourself, “Even I could make a better film than that!”? Apparently, the people at Tacoma’s Grand Cinema agree with you, and that is why they gave folks with a video camera and $50
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Tacoma deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist will debut his latest masterwork, “The King of Methlehem,” Thursday, May 17, 6 p.m. at the downtown Tacoma Public Library. Let’s not get confused by the fact that Lindquist is a lawyer. The man is a literary genius – especially true for those of us
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Even though you don't live in one of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, dining at King's Landing is a bucket list item for any die-hard Game of Thrones fan. While you won't exactly get the chance to "do what queens do," fans of the show will get the chance to dine on
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Vince Brown is no stranger to string swing fans in the Northwest. He plays western swing style take-off guitar with Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers; strums guitar and tenor banjo with the gypsy swing band Hot Club Sandwich; he's half of Red and Ruby - a swing duo project
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The Brotherhood lounge used to be the spot to rally support and spit at the likeness of management. Now it's the spot to eye cute hipster types. Either way, it's always a great spot to drink booze. Sunday movie nights start at 7 p.m. [The Brotherhood Lounge, 4 p.m. to 2
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With all the fit bodies strutting around Last Call, it's hard to stay focused. Cool cats sip on whiskey and watch Lakewood's finest groove their way to the dance floor. Under DJ C-Luv's tutelage, everyone has a fine time, moving and shaking until that fateful last call. Ladies wearing dresses
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Tall-walking transgender looking for crop-haired beauty queen? No problem. Bleached blonde raver in need of glowstick-swinging city girl? Definitely. Whatever your desire, Club Silverstone has you covered. For over 12 years Club Silverstone has served the gay community, sating the hookup needs of downtown Tacoma's wildest, kookiest, most eccentrically dressed
Music
Before I had even heard Prince, I heard the lo-fi, gonzo appropriation of Prince's sound in Ween. Here were a duo of weirdos that loved progressive rock and early '80s funk, but who filtered that love through tape machines and more than a little bit of huffed Scotchgard. Even after
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[SOFT ROCK] + FRI, FEB. 13 In 1983, I was a high school sophomore who spent many a weekend traveling to Oklahoma colleges for interscholastic speech tournaments. I was usually in vans full of neurotic drama geek girls, the only kind of girls to whom I knew how to talk. And
Food Matters
WINE AND CHOCOLATE Join Metro Parks Tacoma for their annual pre-V Day Wine and Chocolate event at the W. W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory (316 S. G St., Tacoma) at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. A $30 ticket includes an opportunity to sip on wine and champagne paired with chocolate covered strawberries
Stage
The strength of a play cannot rely on a good script alone. Likewise, good actors cannot make up for terrible writing. Thankfully, eleemosynary, currently on stage at Tacoma Little Theatre, features a great script with a trio of delightfully talented actors bringing it to life. Written by Lee Blessing, eleemosynary
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Curren$y, Nipsey Hussle Seattle Dec.
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Holy North American Motor Highway (also known as Holy Motors, if you're into the whole brevity thing) make experimental chamber rock that comes steeped in an intangible feeling of dread. Their only release, Live at Paper Street, contains two epic-length songs recorded in a kitchen in Olympia. In the liner
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After a brief respite from holidays that are improved by the consumption of mass quantities of alcohol, we have arrived at another doozy: Fat Tuesday, and the kickoff of Mardi Gras. It is always my suggestion to avoid the crowds during amateur nights like St. Patrick's Day and New Year's
Music
Olympia Film Society is a precious commodity in the Olympia community. OFS and The Capitol Theater have hosted a variety of awesome events, many of them annually. Night of the Living Tribute Bands is one such fine event, and this year's Olympia Halloween tradition comes shortly after OFS' purchase of
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Early in my Volcano career, and in the history of Olympia's TUSH! Burlesque, I wrote a promotional article about the troupe in lieu of a review. Simply put, I bungled the job. I've learned much over the last few years - perhaps TUSH! has as well -
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You can stick your American Horror Story, stuff your Walking Dead and ram your Grimm where the sun don't shine. There is one monster that has begun to stalk us daily - the chittering, flea-infested, nut-clutching, buck-toothed, beady-eyed demon-beast of the increasingly denuded urban treetop: our satanic friend the squirrel.
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What really gets OLT's Harvey off to its endearing start is Marsha Guilfoyle's nuanced work as Elwood's tortured sister, Veta. The program says this is Guilfoyle's third play after years away from the boards, but aspiring actors would do well to study her adroit marriage of 1940s-style acting with naturalistic
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"BARE: A Boudoir Exhibition" is a show of nudes in drawing, sculpture, painting and photography. The gallery warns that children younger than 18 should be accompanied by an adult. When taking notes for this review I was struck with how often I noted similarities to works
