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The Gray Sky Blues Music Festival promises that, "Though the skies may be gray ... Great music will brighten your day!" The annual Tacoma event, started in 2008 when the Daffodil Parade organizers approached the Tacoma Events Commission, asking for help to get more people to attend the long running parade.
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Sweat pouring down faces and heart beats racing. Bright colored signs and smiling faces. Children running around with dogs following closely behind. Laughter, hugs, and smiles can be heard from far away. This is a site all too common at the "Walk to
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This Saturday, KAOS 89.3 FM celebrates their big 4-0 at the Olympia Ballroom with AfroMassive and Kasata Sound, two groups that will get into your bones with their funk, jazz and rhythm. KAOS has been long been know for their fun, and continue to bring new and refreshing topics to
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It was 1973 when student Dean Katz applied for the call letters KESC and opened the commercial-free, independent broadcast radio station on the campus of The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Katz quickly turned around and claimed the letters KAOS, a seemingly more appropriate metaphor for the cross-cultures that inhabited
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For music fans whose album collection can be found meticulously alphabetized in milk crates, carefully stowed in their car's center console, or maybe just piled up next to the stereo from incessant listening - rather than digitally stored on their hard drive - one of the most important days of
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Many blogs and websites will let ya know who are the hottest MCs in the game. I give kudos to those spots. I frequent them often. These sites have a plethora of trendy, hipster, white guy, frat-hop and cool guy fashionista hip-hop. One thing these online entities usually lack is
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It's often we hear tales of corporate giants bullying our small town heroes. It's a common enough occurrence nowadays, though not so often do you hear of small to moderate sized businesses seeking victims in other small to moderate sized businesses in entirely different regions of the nation. During your morning routine, when snagging that cup of
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From leopards and ladybugs to whales and wild flowers, Mother Earth and all her species will be celebrated in the Procession of the Species - Olympia's beloved 19th annual tribute to natural selection, human creativity, and the flora and fauna of the planet. The afternoon of Saturday, April 27, about
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Count yourself blessed, Tacoma, because you get to see something few people in the world have seen. Throughout his career Eric Carle, famous for children's books such as Brown Bear - Brown Bear, What Do You See? And The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more than 70 other picture books -
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When Quentin Tarantino's first directing effort, Reservoir Dogs, landed in 1992, I'd never seen anything like it. That's not to say there'd never been anything like it. No, Tarantino came of age as a video clerk, and as I dug deeper into Netflix, I found similarities to any number of
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Last "Beauty" It\'s the last weekend for South Sound audiences to see “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast" at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. The show runs 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; Narrows Theatre, 7116 Sixth Ave., Tacoma; $16-$23; 253-565-6867, www.tmp.org. "Twelfth Night" Works by William Shakespeare are in full steam these
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The evening of July 28, smack dab in between summer and fall, brought a bevy of beauties, cuties, and booties to the artists’ live/workspace known as the warehouse. And the Midsummer Soiree, thrown by many of the female masterminds who brought Tacoma Eyefull last winter and the reason behind the assemblage
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ESPRESSO ART The Children's Museum of Tacoma (1501 Pacific Ave., Tacoma) isn't just for the kiddos. Cafe Play includes lovely caffeinated goodness brought to you by Stumptown Coffee. From 6-7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 Café Play will showcase their baristas' talents creating art out of espresso drinks. It's an art demonstration
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With all of these new bands turning their eyes backward in time, it becomes something of a wash to find unique voices amongst the nostalgia. For Sadie and the Blue-Eyed Devils - an act that specializes in reviving the sounds of Dust Bowl-era music - the charm comes from the
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The formula of "loud-quiet-loud," as formalized by the Pixies and popularized by bands like Nirvana, is a deceptively simple, yet frequently engrossing, way of assembling songs. These frantic bursts of noise that encapsulate stretches of gentle reflection - it's a hell of a way to demand attention from a listener.
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Have you ever listened to the radio while visiting Hawaii? There's usually one classic rock station and the other dozen or so stations are "Island" music. Soulful, groovy and lyrically lovely, with songs of sunsets and lovers, Hawaiian radio stations compliment and create the vibe of the tropics. You can bet
