FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 2012 >>>

1. Hammond organist Joe Doria expands definitions and embraces the musical past as a living thing, not just some retro curiosity frozen into easily marketed poses. Doria and crew put jazz's open-minded complexity beneath a heavy funk that's more real than the real thing. And by crew we mean saxophonist Cliff Colon, guitarist Andy Coe and drummer Tarik Abouzied. The free show hit Doyle's Public House at 9 p.m. You'll have to fight birthday boy Jesse Turcotte for the front row.

2. The Puyallup Home & Garden Show is a show designed for homeowners in all stages of remodeling, landscaping and decorating their homes – well, maybe not the stage where you hammer your thumb after discovering you're $50,000 over budget. Hang at the Puyallup Fairgrounds from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and learn something.

3. Before you get your funky self down at Doyle's, head to King's Books. The Stadium District bookstore will screen the 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala -  which explores the events surrounding the 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that left two FBI agents dead - at 6 p.m.

4. The dance begins in the eyes of a man, searching from chair to chair. Some of the chairs will seem interested for a second, then break it off. Others don't even acknowledge him. But when his eyes land on the right piece of furniture, there's no confusing the look. He locks eyes with that chair; the two move toward the dance floor and meet there halfway in an embrace, the classic start of the tango. The lights are dim overhead, and the bottoms of his dance shoes caress the wooden floor as he leads his chosen chair into the tango song. While dancing a dime falls from underneath the chair's cushion. There's an awkward moment. He picks up the coin and continues the dance. "I am," he said too no one there. And no one heard it at all, except the chair. Possibly this dance but certainly many better ones like it will be performed as part of Tacoma Dance Collective The Furniture Series at 7:30 p.m. inside the Tacoma School of the Arts Theatre. A total of 13 pieces of furniture will be the muse of dancers Robin Jennings Jaecklein, Joel Myers, Hannah Crowley, Mary Tuttle, Danny Boulet, Faith Stevens and students from the Tacoma School of the Arts.

5. Hip-hop artist Sky Pilot will unplug it at 7 p.m. inside the Forza Coffee in University Place. How high can you fly?

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