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SiteWorks 2009 will not be the type of dance recital your grandma might envision. She might imagine herself nestled in a comfy theater seat with lights dimming as a group of 4-year-olds in tutus bumbles out from the wings. What she’s more likely to see in Siteworks are dancers of
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In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit to some confusion upon receiving this week’s Metal-Urge story assignment. Doesn’t my editor realize there are far better people than I to write about music? And doesn’t he realize that I am a bit more disposed toward classical music — despite
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Sunday, June 7 the Brick City Project will teem with kids. But don’t even think they’re up to no good: these youths, part of the Fab 5 urban arts program L.I.F.E., are putting on a show that will mix up a slew of hip-hop art and culture into a great
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Sure, I knew about King’s Books’ Graphic Novel Book Club held every second Monday at the 1022 South lounge, and I knew, vaguely, that there was this whole, huge genre of literature that combined comic-book frame-by-frame action (and art) with all the literary finesse of the all-words/no-pictures books I felt
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When you attend the book talk about untamed women of the Olympic wilderness at the Washington State History Museum on Thursday, May 21, you might be tempted to think, “But we have our very own untamed women here in the wilds of Tacoma!” And, of course, you’d be right to think
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Most of what I know about the word “Cabaret” comes from a memory: Me, in my babysitter, Mrs. Hathaway’s teal-blue, shag-carpeted living room with a wall-sized photomural of a madrona tree and built-in benches, watching TV as a song, “bye-bye, mein liebe herr” etches itself into my brain. The lady
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Just add wine Tacoma has always delighted me with its uncanny ability to present The Random. And when The Random mixes it up with wine, I become positively giddy. One longtime random wine haunt of mine has been the Chevron gas station off Pearl Street near Point Defiance Park. While I loved
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As stated on our blog Spew a few weeks ago, Kate Monthy, creative director and principal teacher at MLKBallet, made an announcement that she’ll be moving to San Francisco. The move is tentatively scheduled for the fall but could be delayed as a gig dancing for the 5th Avenue Theatre
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Once upon a time, the chalk and cement combo meant a whole lot of scribbling, stick figures, and occasionally a few badly spaced hopscotch squares. But every Friday in downtown Tacoma, from spring to early autumn, that all changes. Professional artists and art students, Web developers and kids, stay-at-home moms and
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It could be the term that describes the entity: multiform. Barefoot Studios has never been about a singular approach. Sure, at its inception owners Paul and Josephine Zmolek presented movement as an art, but movement wasn’t the only art form represented. As it’s progressed to become the BareFoot Collective (the Zmoleks
