Food Matters
Holiday Food and Gift Festival Cooking Classes The 31st annual Tacoma Holiday Food and Gift Festival includes South Sound chefs performing cooking demonstrations. See the likes of Adriatic Grills Chef Trudnowski, Chef Dircks of Stanley and Seafort's, Chef Geoffrey Yahn of Dirty Oscar's and many others. The program runs through Sunday,
Show And Tell
In today's economically tumultuous world, there are three main pecuniary/societal systems at play: capitalism, socialism and communism. Each of these economic models promises financial stability and prosperity, but none of them entirely deliver. Communism and socialism look great on paper, unless that paper happens to be the pages of a
Viva South Sound
Federal Way is a factor. The home of award-winning writer/artist Clemm Rishad (Grammy Award winner for writing Nicki Minaj songs) and city of residence to former legendary hot spot Cafe Arizona, somehow Fed Way gets lost in the mix of destinations for leisure and gallivanting. Well, the city has, once again, is
Music
If you've read The Rockford Files frequently, you've read several times about local record company Maurice the Fish Records. Founded in 2007, Maurice the Fish Records has a variety of goals, including providing its artists with, as its hype proclaims, "a platform in which they can maintain creative control of
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Rapper Ang P has been grinding for a more then a minute in Olympia. If you follow the local hip-hop scene and haven't heard his name come up in the past, then you probably don't follow closely. This weekend, Ang will be releasing his new seven-track Chronic and Patron EP
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On the surface, Posole bear many of the telltale signs of a surf-rock band, but the San Francisco band folds in elements of mariachi and Latin rhythms. Sometimes, they approach the sort of desert rock of groups like Los Lobos, with horns adorning their cinematic narratives. All the while, the
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Before folk and bluegrass became a vigorously polished commodity with acts like Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers rising to take over the world, these were genres of lowly real people. These were songs of the masses, honest to a fault, and raggedly charming. Ex-Cowboy is a band that lets
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"For an event that pretty much takes the worst elements you could possibly combine together," says Craig Egan, "we've had surprisingly little amount of trouble." Egan is speaking about his annual take on Oktoberfest, called Maltoberfest. It doesn't take much detective work to figure out that Maltoberfest celebrates that most dubious
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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Oh Kylesa, how you reek of sludge and doom, yet co-mingle with the heaven of drums, riffs and vocals hammering down a mighty force of pleasure. How your psychedelia and metal create a blistering twist of emotion on the soul. This is why tens of thousands of people flock to
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, with Ethan Tucker Band. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude.
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The Plastards have been a staple of the local bar scene, pounding out frantic sets of rowdiness, for around 13 years. Bill Schlanbusch, Rich Bundy and the boys churn out punk 'n' roll with doses of swirling fuzzy garage and a savage beat. Besides wildly grandiloquent stage antics and volume,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Jo Elless. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Sarah McQuaid. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Junkyard Jane. 8 pm. $10. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian
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They danced before mammoth floating neon dragons and grand desert sculptures and hissing Mad Max-ish art cars shooting flames 396 feet into the air, and every single thing around them smelled like some combination of body odor and sand and bud and urine and fire and rum and glue. And
