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Monday July 6, 2009 - Tacoma, WA

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Art on the Ave mixes fashion, dance, music

Published July 6th, 2009 - 12:05AM

What: Art on the Ave arts festival

MetalUrge festival kicks off in Tacoma

Published July 5th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Shiny Tacoma’s got metal – lots of it. Metal art, that is: For the next three months, the city-wide, multivenue festival MetalUrge will dominate the local art scene. Involving 23 venues, more than 100 artists and one major national exhibit, MetalUrge does more than just celebrate art made of metal. It takes a big step, organizers say, toward making Tacoma the regional hub for metal art.

TACOMA: Art Museum narrows list of plaza designers

Published June 30th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The call to redesign the Tacoma Art Museum’s plaza and perimeter garnered 95 submissions. And now TAM has winnowed those down to six design firms, it announced Monday.

Review: Southern Gothic tale pours on the odd charm

Published June 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM

I really enjoyed the first act of “The Miss Firecracker Contest” at Paradise Theatre in Gig Harbor. Director Jeff Richards’ set, the costumes by Vicki Richards and the cast were outstanding. The principal actors nailed the quirkiness and the Southern accents of their eccentric characters.

Tacoma hosts the best of community theater

Published June 22nd, 2009 - 12:05AM

Wit enlivens play for sophisticated viewers only

Published June 19th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Olympia Little Theatre ends every season with an envelope-pushing production as part of their “Director’s Series.” This year they push that envelope with an adult-only show that includes sexual situations, brief nudity and adult language, not to mention a huge helping of cynicism. The show is Douglas Carter Beane’s 2007 Tony and GLAAD award-nominated play “The Little Dog Laughed.”

Wintergrass seeks better pickings in Bellevue

Published June 17th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Wintergrass is leaving Tacoma.

1930s-era play charms with controlled chaos at Lakewood Playhouse

Published June 12th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The rollicking comedy “Once in a Lifetime” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman was a harsh satirical send-up of Hollywood when first produced in 1930. Today it has lost some of its satirical bite, but it’s still funny – not to mention a huge challenge to directors and actors because it has big sets, lots of set changes, and a huge cast of outlandish characters who enter and exit the stage in controlled chaos.

SiteWorks dance festival: Sway and smile

Published June 9th, 2009 - 12:10AM

When you’re dancing in fishermen’s waders, it’s hard to keep a smile off your face.

‘Water Forest’ stands tall again

Published June 8th, 2009 - 12:05AM

All it took was an errant kid bumping into a “Water Forest” tube, and the sculpture was down for nearly seven years. With the publicly owned work just reinstalled last week, the City of Tacoma says its long-awaited modifications have hopefully made the sculpture’s 20 tall tubes vandal- and accident-proof.

The mountain and movies

Published June 7th, 2009 - 12:05AM

When New York filmmaker Ryan Sands came to Ashford last year for the Rainier Independent Film Festival, he had had writer’s block for a year. But in the cool mountain air and quiet green forests beneath Mount Rainier, in between screenings of his and other indie films, he found he could write – and write, and write.

A rabbi, a Muslim and a Baptist preacher perform in Tacoma

Published June 5th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Comedy trio: Rabbi, Muslim, Baptist preacher teach unity through jokes at Tacoma show Even the description sounds like a joke: A rabbi, a Muslim and a Baptist preacher walk onto a stage. But the mixed-faith comedy trio coming to Urban Grace Church in Tacoma this weekend isn’t just about laughs – it’s also about teaching and bringing people together.

Actors honor playwright August Wilson

Published June 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM

What: Reading of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” by August Wilson

Tacoma Little Theatre: ‘The roots go deep’

Published May 31st, 2009 - 12:05AM

In 1918, Tacoma was bustling. Streetcars shuttled commuters, Alexander Pantages had just opened his glamorous vaudeville theater downtown, and under President Woodrow Wilson the post-World War II American economy was booming.

Get to know art deco

Published May 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The style

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