Art doesn’t have to mean paid museum admission. Galleries and studio tours are always free, offering art you might not see elsewhere; outdoor murals are always on view; and the third Thursday ArtWalks in Tacoma offer free entry to its museums.
South Sound filmmakers compete for the honor, glory and sheer challenge of making a four-minute film in three days. Those films will be screened Friday at Tacoma's Rialto Theater.
Remember that announcement back in January about the first ever Gig Harbor beer festival? Well, it’s here already. The festival featuring South Sound taps will be this Saturday at Uptown Gig Harbor. On tap will be:
Make a trip to Seattle for music and theater:
Expect to see two shiny new Ford Escapes on area streets soon. That’s because Drew and Derek Konzelman won NBC’s and Ford Motor Company’s “Escape Routes” Saturday night, earning them $100,000 and their own Ford Escapes.
• Learn about hearing loss, its causes, its impact at the free Mystery of Hearing Loss presentation. Find out the resources available today that can help people cope and remain active and involved. It’s from 12:10 to 12:50 today at the Pierce County Annex, 2401 S. 35th St., Tacoma. 253-798-4600, PierceADRC.org.
Expect to see two shiny new Ford Escapes on the streets of Puyallup soon. Drew and Derek Konzelman won NBC’s and Ford Motor Company’s “Escape Routes” tonight, earning them a $100,000 award and their own Ford Escapes.
Goodbye, Wisteria Lane.
LOS ANGELES – CBS is hoping a legal warning shot shatters rival network ABC’s plans for its reality show “The Glass House.”
• Bring your family to explore the beach during some of the lowest tides of the year at the Tiptoe Through the Tidepools nature event today from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Titlow Lodge, 8425 Sixth Ave., Tacoma. Free. 253-591-6439, TacomaNatureCenter.org.
• As you’ve been working in your garden, do you have extra plants or want some different ones? Check out the Annual Free Plant Exchange going on from 9 a.m.-noon at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 901 N. J St., Tacoma; ipctacoma.org.
There aren’t many songs that raise the pulse of an entire room – from teens to grandmothers. But Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration” is one of them. Doubtful? You’ll just have to see for yourself when the Gang hits the Tacoma Dome on Saturday. The band is opening for Van Halen – one of the 52 stops on that band’s reunion tour with David Lee Roth.
Reporter Sean Robinson may be driving to see Van Halen in his minivan this weekend, but he'll be reliving the rebellious glory days when David Lee Roth's howl was saving his sanity in an Alaska salmon cannery.
• Join Bells of the Sound for a journey through the history of the American jazz art form as they perform jazz standards tonight in its “All That Jazz” concert. It at 8 p.m. at the Marine View Presbyterian Church, 8469 Eastside Drive N.E., Tacoma. There is a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $8 for seniors/youth. 206-931-7669, bellsofthesound.org.
“A classroom is a place of friendship, of work, of courtesy, a place of life,” says the hero of the deeply pleasurable French Canadian drama “Monsieur Lazhar.”
All of us have known an Alex Libby.
Superhero success: Director Joss Whedon pulls together stellar characters, amazing special effects, delicious humor in Marvel Comics adventure.
Want a free comic book? Comic book stores around the country want to give you one this Saturday, which is national Free Comic Book Day, and local store Comic Book Ink in Lakewood is an enthusiastic participant, with more than 37 free titles available and a guest appearance by Marvel comic artist Clayton Crain.
Van Halen will rock the Tacoma Dome on Saturday night, but anyone whose attended a concert at the Dome knows parking can be a challenge.
Tacoma’s Old City Hall became a film studio Wednesday when an independent film crew went to work on a movie about an outlaw hobo. “You Can’t Win” features Michael Pitt, one of the stars of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” and Hannah Marks of this year’s “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
A film about a hobo starring Hollywood actor Michael Pitt is being filmed in Tacoma through Thursday.
• Discover excellent backpacking destinations around the state from the Olympic Peninsula to the Blue Mountains at the free “Backpacking with Craig Romano” presentation tonight from 5:30-6:30 at the Tumwater Timberland Library, 7023 New Market St. S.W., Tumwater.
The superhero saga “The Avengers” lived up to its blockbuster buzz with $178.4 million in overseas ticket sales days before it opens in U.S. theaters.
• Head out for a free book talk and signing with Daniel H. Wilson, author of “Robopocalypse,” at 7 tonight. He will be at the Tacoma Public Library Main Branch, Olympic Room, 1102 Tacoma Ave. South, Tacoma. 253-272-8801, kingsbookstore.com.
Talking to Edgar Meyer, two things stand out – his slow Tennessee drawl and his extraordinarily humble attitude. The 51-year-old double bass player has been hailed as many things: an inventive composer, a catalyst for bluegrass-classical-folk crossover and simply “the best bassist alive,” according to San Diego Magazine.
You might as well just pitch a tent and never leave Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery this summer. An amazing amount of big name talent will be performing in Woodinville, starting June 16.
• Learn all of the tricks of vacation planning at the free Computer Class: Online Travel Planning today from 2-4 p.m. at the Gig Harbor Pierce County Library, 4424 Point Fosdick Drive N.W., Gig Harbor; 253-548-3305, piercecountylibrary.org.
This event could be the most talked-about news at a South Tacoma shopping center since Lowe’s closed its store in the middle of the night.
• Get started on a bead project, get help with finishing one or repair some old jewelry at the Choose-a-Project Bead Lab tonight from 6-8 at Ben Franklin Crafts & Frame Shop, 21121 Highway 410, Bonney Lake. The class costs $10. 253-862-6822.
Fox is marking its 25th anniversary tonight with a two-hour special that celebrates the network’s general awesomeness over the years. It probably won’t spend much time talking about “Temptation Island” and “When Animals Attack”
• It’s a great day to explore Mount Rainier National Park with Free Entrance Day. Check out the newly remodeled Paradise Inn and the trails at the park located at 55210 238th Ave. E., Ashford. Fee waiver includes entrance fees, commercial tour fees and transportation entrance fees
A humorous self-help relationship book becomes an amusing and often biting take on the war between the sexes with “Think Like a Man,” based on comic polymath Steve Harvey’s “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.”
Music-making and NASCAR are the themes of two new attractions at this weekend’s vernal version of the Puyallup Fair.
Director David Domkoski created Assemblage Theater specifically to produce a single play: Mark O’Rowe’s gritty and poetic “Terminus,” winner of a “Fringe First” award in the Edinburgh Festival. It is so dark and graphic that few American theaters are willing to produce it, but Domkoski said as soon as he read it, he knew he had to.
Spring repertory programs are traditionally tough sells for dance companies. Unlike big story ballets such as “Swan Lake” or “The Nutcracker,” they feature shorter, more contemporary works the audience might not know. Yet they’re the lifeblood of ballet, the creativity that keeps the art form alive.
Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys, whom they sometimes eat.
“The Lucky One” is the edgiest-ever film adaptation of the writings of Nicholas Sparks. Which isn’t saying much.
If true art is achieving profound results with economy of means, there may be no finer artists in film than brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Their beautifully observed, scrupulously realistic dramas distill the lives of working-class Belgians into experiences that are moving and universal.
Since Earth Day began 42 years ago, billions of people have been using April 22 (and the days around it) as a catalyst for change and appreciation of our natural environment. This Earth Day, you can join that effort with events in South Sound to explore, help and clean up our Earth. For more details on Earth Day, go to earthday.org.
• It’s opening day for the annual four-day Spring Fair at the Puyallup Fair & Events Center, 110 Ninth Ave. S.W., Puyallup. Hours are 2-10 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $9 adults, $7 students (6-18), free for kids younger than 5. 253-841-5045, thefair.com/spring-fair/.
The Puyallup Fair announced today that Train will perform there on the fair’s final night, Sept. 23. Tickets go on sale on Saturday, April 28 at 10 a.m.
Music-making and NASCAR are the themes of two new attractions at this weekend’s vernal version of the Puyallup Fair which swings open its gates at 2 p.m. Thursday.
• If you haven’t been to the Washington State History Museum lately there are a couple exhibits you might want to check out. The “Hope in Hard Times: Washington During the Great Depression” explores life in the Tacoma area during the depressions with photos, artifacts, personal histories and more. “Intertwined: Requiem for the Trees” is about the laminated root rot problems at Kopachuck State Park, with local artists creating artworks to remember the diseased trees. The museum, located at 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. with admission $6-$8. 253-272-9747, washingtonhistory.org.
Two local teens are going to dance into America’s living rooms Wednesday night on MTV’s reality competition show “America’s Best Dance Crew.”
The Lakewood Historical Society will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair with a special program tonight, April 17.
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