The last time most of us thought about the harp -- and chances are that opportunity wasn't recent -- our most likely associations were uptight chamber music or supplies from Saint Peter to the newly inorganic....
Catch Me If You Can at Tacoma Musical Playhouse is simply a lot of fun, from the opening song,...
Hart James is fairly new to the Olympia art scene. I first saw her work in 2013, at which time...
It will never stop fascinating me to track how music fans' perceptions and preconceived notions...
South Sound Cinema
Another month, another edition of Three Easy Pieces, where I explore a pocket of pop culture from its birth through where it sits today.
Music
It's one of the many odd ways we have of processing music that we arrive at comparing the sounds we're hearing to the relatively ineffable feeling we get from the various seasons.
Stage
The Pajama Game has a long and storied history, beginning with its debut on Broadway in 1954 featuring the choreography of the great Bob Fosse, with Shirley McClain as an unnamed dancer, and through two Broadway revivals and a film.
Arts
Having the kind of mid-sized venues that cities like Seattle and Portland enjoy has typically been something that's eluded Tacoma.
Arts
For a short period of time during her long life, Seattle photographer Ella E. McBride was revered internationally, but after her death in 1965, at the age of 102, much of her work was lost, and today she is little known.
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...
Hart James is fairly new to the Olympia art scene. I first saw her work in 2013, at which time...
A blow to the head deludes a cosmetics company staffer (Amy Schumer) into thinking she's...
It will never stop fascinating me to track how music fans' perceptions and preconceived notions...