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,...
Hooray! Susan Christian returns to Salon Refu (now the studio of artist Lucy Gentry and renamed...
In radio pop, there's frequently an atmosphere of worshipping the young and pristine, and...
Early in the lives of many a burgeoning music nerd, there occurs a watershed moment where you're...
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...
South Sound Cinema
Can't-miss Tacoma Film Festival offerings
While our usual advice, when confronted with an overwhelming festival, of any sort, is to take your chances on any random entertainment you may not have heard of, throwing a dart at a board isn't always enough. After all, we're also opinionated...
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...
Music
Humans have the capacity for doing a great many things -- good, bad and indifferent. We've all been inundated in our lives with moments of cruelty, both on a large scale, and on a smaller, more insidious one. Our instincts for conflict,...
Arts
A once in a lifetime opportunity
The Broadway Center presents Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition in the Tacoma Armory. The late Renaissance master's famous fresco on the Sistine ceiling and its accompanying "Last Judgement" painting on the back wall of the chapel have...
April 17-18: Live music in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area
Open just over a month, Souper Pho in Tacoma's Westgate Center is designed with family in mind....
Hooray! Susan Christian returns to Salon Refu (now the studio of artist Lucy Gentry and renamed...
For this alternately operatic and intimate moon-mission film, director Damien Chazelle gives the...
