This is the year Olympia Film Society's annual film festival hit the big time. It was named one of the coolest festivals in the world by MovieMaker magazine, which noted, "The audiences are real movie lovers."...
The Nutcracker is one of those stories that seems destined to never truly leave the public...
What happens when Tiny Tim grows up?
What really happened to make Ebenezer Scrooge change his mind about Christmas, or did he really...
The exhibition Familiar Faces & New Voices: Surveying Northwest Art has been on display since...
Music
There's a band called Greta Van Fleet that's currently experiencing a bit of a moment in the sun. With the release of their debut album, they've been topping Billboard's rock charts and continuing to gain a sizable fan base. Good for them!...
Music
So much of rock and roll boils down to one simple goal: shaking off the oppressive stress and browbeating aggressors of everyday life. If you make it through the exhausting marathon that makes up just one average, unremarkable weekday in this...
Music
It's a curious trait we have of striving to summarize eras in easily quantifiable terms, regardless of whether or not those designations hold up to scrutiny. An easy place to look for this behavior is in the repeated, exhausting attempts to...
Arts
The Abstract Expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb is most famous for his many variations on a single image: a nebulous circular form floating above a rough burst of energetic paint. The similarities between Gottlieb's "Burst" paintings and...
Showtimes
Even with the A-list cast including Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth and Dakota Johnson, this thriller and occasional musical about a faded hipster hotel in 1969 is a B-movie - a lurid, darkly funny, period piece that feels like a Quentin Tarantino...
A guide to honoring all who served in times of war -- in times of peace.
April 17-18: Live music in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area
I recently volunteered to review the new Melvins record, "Hold It In," released, of course, on...
Tacoma residents be on the lookout: one of your neighborhoods is changing and you're going to...