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Fab-5 is ready to give local kids a summer’s worth of skills and fun
Know any kids that have potential but need steering into good choices? Fab-5 is ready for them. The Tacoma non-profit that supports youth and community through hip-hop culture is rolling out its...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Click Flick at the Grand, Gig Harbor Art Fest, chamber music...
Click Flick: “Ice Age” This month’s Click Family Flick at the Grand is “Ice Age,” the animated feature set 20,000 years ago about a mammoth, a sloth and a human baby. Doors open 10 a.m., screening...
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With help from a Puyallup doggie, author discusses effort to rescue strays in...
Scottish author Pen Farthing and a furry four-footed transplant from Afghanistan drew a full house Wednesday night at the Moore Library in Tacoma’s South End. Farthing wrote the recently published,...
View ArticleLearn about explorer David Douglas tonight in Tacoma
The ubiquitous Douglas Fir, the tree that populates our forests and provides the skeleton for many of our homes, owes its name to the Pacific Northwest’s most famous botanical explorer. David Douglas,...
View ArticleSad sign of the times for artists, Tacoma store
News Tribune business writer Kathleen Cooper posted this Wednesday on The Biz Buzz: Downtown art supply store probably will close, owner says Tacoma Art Supply announced an inventory clearing sale...
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Tacoma Weavers Guild celebrates its 75th birthday
The Tacoma Weavers Guild opens a show on Friday, Nov. 12 featuring its members’ textiles in the Handforth Gallery of the Tacoma Public Library. Opening day festivities will include the premiere of a...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Canonici at UPS, Mozart with Northwest Sinfonietta,...
Canonici sings a Renaissance tapestry at UPS The Tacoma-based four-voice consort Canonici will sing “Musica Antiqua” at the University of Puget Sound tonight, featuring Renaissance English and Flemish...
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Blues guitarist Doug MacLeod headlines Blues Vespers
South Sound blues lovers will get a chance to hear blues singer, songwriter and guitarist Doug MacLeod perform this Sunday, March 20, in Tacoma’s North End. MacLeod, is the headline act at the Blues...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Rainier Arts Fest at Ashford, 24-Hour Comics Day in Lakewood,...
Rainier Arts Festival in Ashford The fifth annual Rainier Arts Festival is on again in Ashford, with live music, art, food and activities for all ages at the foot of Mt. Rainier. Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Free....
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Critic’s Picks: Flamenco at Theater on the Square, Shakespeare at University...
TOTS hosts visiting flamenco artists Seattle flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes is joined by Spanish singer Saray Munoz and gypsy guitarist Pedro Cortes in an all-ages show “3 Glorias Flamenco en Vivo”...
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Little Bill plays at Immanuel Presbyterian’s Christmas Blues Vespers this...
This Sunday’s Blues Vespers at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Tacoma, features local blues legend Little Bill and the Blue Notes. Usually a trio, the band will expand to include Brian Kent and Scotty...
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All-girl folk-bluegrass group The Good Lovelies play Fox Island’s Chapel on...
Female folk-bluegrass group The Good Lovelies are making a stop at Fox Island on a U.S. tour that stretches from Minneapolis to Las Vegas. The five-year-old band has garnered a good rep in their native...
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Indie rock trapeze: Tallhouse Arts Consortium and Romanteek collaborate at...
It’s pure Olympia onstage: a grungy, bass-heavy indie rock band with mournful female vocals next to a group of muscly dancers performing on an assortment of aerial hoops, ropes and bars. The...
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Two free jazz evenings at local churches: Jazz Live at Marine View with Danny...
There’s plenty of free jazz this weekend at two Tacoma churches. Jazz Live at Marine View features 23-year-old crooner Danny Quintero, while the Immanuel Presbyterian Blues Vespers this months features...
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Two new shows at the Museum of Glass celebrate an unlikely pairing of events:...
It’s certainly an unlikely combination: glass artist Dale Chihuly and the vintage cars at the new LeMay museum. But each one represents a brand-new exhibition space, and each is celebrated by a glass...
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Fathers Day Blues Vespers features Henry Cooper and Bill Rhoades
Slide guitar master Henry Cooper will be featured at Sunday’s (Fathers Day) Blues Vespers at Immanuel Presbyterian Church at 5 p.m. Joining Henry is Bill Rhoades, the “Northwest’s Master of the Blues.”...
View ArticleFlamenco takes off in Olympia, with Casa Patas Flamenco at the Washington...
Tacoma’s flamenco scene is getting hotter these days with regular gigs at The New Frontier, but Olympia’s warming up too. Next week sees a return visit to the Washington Center by world-renowned group...
View ArticleCritic’s picks: Warhol at TAM, Raymond Turner at Museum of Glass, Tacoma art...
Andy Warhol’s flowers come to TAM In 1982, Tacoma almost became famous – for an Andy Warhol flower mural splashed right across the Tacoma Dome. It didn’t happen, but Warhol’s photographs, paintings and...
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It’s not just carols and classical: Tacoma shows by Cathedrals and Uncle...
Is decking the halls getting you down? Holly not so jolly? You don’t need to be Scrooge to appreciate a musical offering that doesn’t involve yet another rendition of “Away in a Manger” – and luckily...
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Foundation of Art Award highlights past and present winners at B2 Gallery in...
Hard to believe that the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation has been presenting its annual Foundation of Art Award for five years now, but it’s true – and the community-funding non-profit is...
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