Weekend Preview: sounds, sights and smells
Tacoma is a fun town. For realsies. It is thus because of its sensory overload when it comes to entertainment.
In the sound block for this weekend is a double-bill at the Swiss tonight with Matt Coughlin and the Growlers and Phunkatron and the Double Deuce Horns. The night will be a match of acid country mixed with Irish folk and thunder. The band is sort of a Cobb salad of music. It is everything left in the fridge that mixes into a delicious bowl of goodness, with a honey-mustard dressing.
Also set for tonight is the Harmon Tap Room’s first anniversary. The St. Helens landmark will be filled with various hand-crafted sweet nectars from the Gods and a barrage of smells from pizzas and baked goodness from the kitchen.
The sight explosion this weekend will be Tacoma Little Theatre’s staging of “Proof.” The show follows the story of a young woman named Catherine. Her father, Robert, is a brilliant mathematician, who has misplaced both his brilliance and his sanity in his later years. Catherine, a budding mathematician herself, must give up her schooling and her most creatively productive years to take care of her father, who has become convinced that alien civilizations are communicating with him directly through the local library’s Dewey decimal system. This show is one for the books in terms of solid casting up and down the playbill.
And of course, Sunday is Father’s Day, so honor thy father by letting him sleep.
23 comments
L low bar June 19, 2011
proof wasn’t even good as a movie. what the hell is going on in that photo steve? for one there isn’t any smushing. plaid+standing bass+mascara+dude in the background with absolutely no understanding of color= WTF?
L low bar June 20, 2011
the fucking gold fish racing was one thing, but this ivan thing has me convinced tacoma is a hell hole for troglodytes. i mean, this is psychopathy at it’s most apparent. you guys fucked over the local native americans, you fucked over the chinese, and when they were gone you just start to fuck over anything else you can. and then you have the fucking audacity to pep rally yourselves to the outside world with stupid area codes and highway exit numbers and other forms of idiotic labeling. I mean, what other groups did so well by using labels and symbols? oh yeah! SIEG HEIL TACOMA! I’m done. You’re all disturbed.
V Volcano Boycotting RR Anderson June 21, 2011
Lowbar, you’re slumming the comment threads at the weekly volcano now? That’s low even for you.
L low bar June 22, 2011
I’m done dude. When the fucking Harmon, a central part of Tacoma’s identity, is more concerned about business than what it feels like to get fucking carried around in plastic cups and have some drunk ass loser from Tacoma spray you up the ass so you’ll swim faster down a fucking trough of shame, you know it’s time to admit something is wrong with the people of that area. New slogan: “Tacoma: be a psychopath or leave it”. Fuck the volcano. Fuck Tacoma.
L low bar June 22, 2011
#motophony
S Slim Jim June 23, 2011
This entire threat is surreal… but I guess if you leave a dull post up long enough, it’ll eventually attract some comments.
Whatever happened to covering City Council meetings? Come on.
V Volcano Boycotting RR Anderson June 23, 2011
Anarchy… the great wasteland…
why not zip to feedtacoma.com start your own blog? Why be a passive receptacle waiting for exit133 table scraps ?
V Volcano Boycotting RR Anderson June 23, 2011
so long!
L low bar June 23, 2011
i don’t understand why people are whining about city council coverage because even when you get coverage, there is no fucking turn out at the meetings and zero power in the hands of the people simply because you spineless creatures don’t turn out. at least not in numbers that matter. and that’s a clear message that, in the back of your heads, you know tacoma is a d-list city not really worth getting all political about. the great thing about tacoma is it’s a place where d-listers can be a-listers. but you take an a-list tacoman and put them in an a-list city and pooof, they’re back on the d-list again. a band like the one in said article above would get zero feedback in an a-list city. hence why they are panhandling about in the tacoma bar scene.
D Daniel June 24, 2011
threads like these are why i never feel bad taking a break from writing.
L low bar June 24, 2011
have fun on your writer’s block i mean break in spain, daniel
V Volcano Boycotting RR Anderson June 24, 2011
what a bunch of negative nellies in here. DOYOUEVEN realize that this blog was selected by South Sound Magazine as best blog in 2011? Maybe SSM laid off writers and just reused a best-of list from a few years ago… or maybe folks truly just vote on name recognition? One thing is for sure, there truly is no god…We are alone in the universe… and exit133 is the best.
L low bar June 25, 2011
Yeah! and you know what else? I think that baby clouded leopard doc is holding rather peculiarly is a she. And with out the godforsaken best blog in the south sound, I would have never seen that.
F fairdog June 25, 2011
And yet, here you are lowbar, an a-list poster on a d-list blog. Or is that d-list poster on an a-list blog? You’ve gone from mild amusing to shrill and trite.
L low bar June 25, 2011
The A list/D list thing I coined. Please be original if you are going to try to ad hominem my ass. Thanks:)
S slim jim June 25, 2011
Oh my good god, can we please get another story posted so we can escape from these comments?
R RR Anderson June 25, 2011
Things really went down hill when Halley jumped ship for KOMO4. The admins aren’t even bothering to de-vowel lowbar anymore. What does that tell you? Game over man! game over!
R RR Anderson June 25, 2011
Remember when Whitney used to delete comments that “weren’t on topic” ?
suggest Derek sign up exit133 with tacoma spaceworks program. Let some artist decorate this empty store front with some paper magazine cut outs.
L low bar June 25, 2011
Who cares about Halley? Or Komo4? Last I saw her was in a volcano weekly with a spray bottle about to spray a gold fish for not swimming fast enough down a trough at the Harmon. If she’s your shining example of a great human being capable of great writing for a great blog, please think again:) And if you think not being on topic is the same as not being valid, well, then you are right, game over.
L low bar June 25, 2011
And while we are at it with the name dropping for who’d be fit to write for or what should this blog focus on, I’ve got a name to drop and a focus to suggest. Not sure if she is up to the task but I guarantee you, this person knows everything about everything and not only would be an entertaining read, but would bring shit to the table, I mean real community bonding and motivational information, along the lines of your last tweet about the recycled bags. You have my email Derek. You want the contact. I will set it up. I mean this person is a jewel of the North West. Tacoma raised, UWT educated.
C crenshaw sepulveda June 25, 2011
Almost two weeks since a new article on Exit133? What is going on here? Is this domain about to expire? I guess if there is no real estate industry to shill for there is no point in keeping this thing alive. I make note of the “About Exit 133” section:
Exit133.com is about Tacoma, Washington. It’s about Real Estate, Politics, the Arts, Urban Development, and the interests of our readers.
Surprised Exit133 has lasted as long as it has.
R RR Anderson June 27, 2011
yep. also yeah, fish thing was lame, but Halley used to write up the city council meetings which was the last important thing this blog used to do.
You’re a veteran for god sakes, the volcano should be publishing your comments.
L low bar June 27, 2011
no. q status is more important then free speech. q status pays the rent at posh condominiums.