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Music

Heartache on tape

Rev. Adam McKinney on Jan. 31st, 2019
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In the history of rock music, there exists a certain specific oddity that -- while it doesn't happen very frequently -- is always fascinating to encounter: the meta breakup album being recorded about the breakup that is currently happening...

Stage

A slice of the good life

Alec Clayton on Jan. 31st, 2019
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Saturday's annual Pizza Klatch Gayla is one of Olympia's most eagerly awaited events, with outstanding entertainment, inspirational speeches, and a silent auction -- all to benefit a support and education program for gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

Arts

Silent Salinity: after the dig

Alec Clayton on Jan. 31st, 2019
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Hanging by the entrance to 950 Gallery is a work of art by Mary Coss that appears to be a jumble of words shaped from bent wire and suspended inside what looks like an old window frame. The words, mostly jumbled and unreadable, hang an inch or so...

Stage

A cold wave of anxiety

Rev. Adam McKinney on Jan. 31st, 2019
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Henrik Ibsen's famous and much-examined A Doll's House is a play that announces itself as being about one conflict, but eventually reveals itself to be about something far larger in scope. As produced by Tacoma Little Theatre, adapted by Marilyn...

Stage

Her, too

Christian Carvajal on Jan. 31st, 2019
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We'll state this up front: Benjamin Britten's English-language opera The Rape of Lucretia is about the circumstances preceding and consequences resulting from an act of sexual assault. For that reason it's been a focus of debate since its 1946...