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What: Art on the Ave arts festival
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.
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.
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.
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 is leaving Tacoma.
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.
When you’re dancing in fishermen’s waders, it’s hard to keep a smile off your face.
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.
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.
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.
What: Reading of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” by August Wilson
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.
The style
AIDS Housing Association of Tacoma
American Memorial
Amtrak Cascades
Away We Go
B&I Coin Shop
Banner Bank
Bergman Draper & Frockt
Big 5 Sporting Goods
Blue Mouse Theatre
Cadillac
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington
Chambers Creek Pet Memorial Park at New Tecoma Cemetery
City of Tacoma
Classy Chassis
Click!
Comcast
Dejà Vu
Dell
Destiny Harbor Tours
EB5 Facial Cream
Emerald Queen Hotel & Casino
Frank Tobey Jones Senior University
Galaxy Theatres
Gene Pankey Motor Company
GMC
Got Gold
Harbor Audiology & Hearing Services, Inc.
HomeStreet Bank
Honda Power Equipment
Hooters
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ideal Home Furnishings
Johnny's Dock Restaurant & Marina
JointFlex
Juvenescence MD Laser & Skin Care
Kantor Diamond Company
Katherine E. Crabill D.D.S.
Kenneth P. Ring, DDS
Little Creek Casino & Resort
Lost Lake Resort
Macy's
Mary's Burgo Bistro
Mattress Depot USA
Memory Wellness Program
Moe's Home Collection
Muckleshoot Casino
MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
Narrows Glen
New Life Clinics
New Tacoma Cemeteries & Funeral Home
Win Mariners Tickets
McClatchy's Newspapers Commemorative Book
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