Tacoma residents be on the lookout: one of your neighborhoods is changing and you're going to like the outcome. We're talking about Stadium District, a small and charming pocket of Tacoma located between the...
The Abstract Expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb is most famous for his many variations on a...
It's a curious trait we have of striving to summarize eras in easily quantifiable terms,...
A bewitching love story for Halloween
Bell, Book and Candle is probably best remembered from the 1958 romantic comedy starring Kim...
Arts
Hooray! Susan Christian returns to Salon Refu (now the studio of artist Lucy Gentry and renamed LGM Studios) with an exhibition of new paintings and constructions called Take a Break.
Music
In radio pop, there's frequently an atmosphere of worshipping the young and pristine, and eschewing the unique and experienced. Talent shows like American Idol and The Voice rendered this subtext overt, sacrificing...
South Sound Cinema
It's the spookiest month, and thus the spookiest Three Easy Pieces, where I examine a corner of pop culture from its birth to today. I'm thinking, now, of horror movies. While horror has classically been shrugged off by the snooty gatekeepers of...
Stage
Dry Powder is billed as a comedy, and yes, there is a lot of humor in this tale of high-finance shenanigans. But there's a lot of searing drama as well, as Jenny (the versatile Helen Harvester), Jeff (the comedic Ryan Holmberg), Seth (film actor...
Stage
There are men and then there are men -- and then there was Sam Shepard. He was the kind of stolid, square-jawed Midwesterner who seemed born to play Captain America, the Marlboro Man or, if realism is preferred, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager....
April 17-18: Live music in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area
Being frugal can be a good trait, it helps you save money for life's necessities, or if you're...
With the holiday season rapidly approaching, this is a great time of year to make a quick...
Bell, Book and Candle is probably best remembered from the 1958 romantic comedy starring Kim...
