Edible Books at the UPS Collins Library
Go on, get into the library and eat those books! No, seriously, the Edible Books Festival is back next week at the Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound. Edible books? You bet....
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Romantic strings at UPS Jacobsen concert Dvorak, Schumann and Shostakovich are on the menu for romance for the first Jacobsen Series concert at the University of Puget Sound. Featuring Maria Sampen...
View ArticleCritic's Picks: Quartet at Old Town Tuesdays, Tacoma Opera's "The Elixir of...
(((all names and contacts CQ))) Classical Tuesdays The Classical Tuesdays in Old Town series this month features a UPS faculty-based string quartet playing Gabriela Frank’s “Legends,” a composition...
View ArticleArtemesia Gentileschi on film, for free
Screening free next Thursday at University of Puget Sound is “A Woman Like That,” a new documentary by Ellen Weissbrod on the 17th-century female painter Artemisia Gentileschi. While the filmmaker is...
View ArticleCritic's Picks: Click Flick "Ghostbusters," "Asher Lev" at TOTS, Liszt at UPS...
Click Flick: “Ghostbusters” This month’s Click Flick at the Grand Cinema is the classic 1980s comedy “Ghostbusters” – just try not to sing along. Doors open 10 a.m., screening 10:30 a.m. Free to first...
View ArticleEat Your Books at the Edible Book Festival at UPS
Eat those books! No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke – the University of Puget Sound really is encouraging book-eating at their annual Edible Book Festival this Friday. Part of an 11-year-old world-wide...
View ArticleCritic's Picks: University of Puget Sound symphony/choir, Regency Quartet at...
Free UPS symphony/choir concert University of Puget Sound’s symphony orchestra and three choirs will give a free concert tonight, featuring Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto no. 1 and Chopin’s Piano...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Felt art at Bellevue Arts Museum, Stadium pottery sale,...
Felt artist Janice Arnold at BAM The newest show at Bellevue Arts Museum, “Travellers: Objects of Dreams and Revelations,” features new work by Olympia felt artist Janice Arnold: a 20-foot-high,...
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Critic’s Picks: Flamenco at Theater on the Square, Shakespeare at University...
TOTS hosts visiting flamenco artists Seattle flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes is joined by Spanish singer Saray Munoz and gypsy guitarist Pedro Cortes in an all-ages show “3 Glorias Flamenco en Vivo”...
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Critic’s picks: Cantus at Urban Grace, Vashon studio tour, UPS holiday...
Cantus sings a World War I Christmas All-male a cappella vocal ensemble Cantus recreates Christmas of 1914, when a young German soldier initiated a one-night truce of music and peace by singing “Stille...
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UPS professor and writer Hans Ostrom sees his novel “Three To Get Ready” go...
It sounds like every writer’s dream: Have a book published, have a Hollywood director pick it up and turn it to film, and even get a role yourself. That’s what’s happening to Hans Ostrom, professor of...
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Critic’s picks: PLU play festival, UPS cello concert, Gig Harbor museum...
PLU’s annual One Act Festival Three one-act plays combine education and entertainment at Pacific Lutheran University’s annual APO One Act Festival “Loss…and Found,” beginning next Wednesday night....
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Critic’s Picks: “Pirates of Penzance” at UPS, Flying Karamazov Brothers in...
Last week for Kittredge tempera show It’s the last week to see works in tempera by Nathan DiPietro at UPS’ Kittredge Gallery. DiPietro paints a bleak Northwest where lush native forests are replaced...
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University of Puget Sound Tacoma’s “Pirates of Penzance” is a riot – in the...
There’s a lot on in Tacoma theaters this weekend – Tacoma Opera, the Northwest Sinfonietta, Les Ballets Trockadero – but if you want laughs, great singing and sheer value for money all in one show then...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: “Metamorphoses” at UPS, Seattle Symphony’s “Celebrate Asia,”...
Metamorphoses at UPS You don’t have to have studied Latin to appreciate “Metamorphoses.” The play by Mary Zimmerman, based on Ovid’s writings of ancient Roman myths, hinges on an eternal truth – that...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Schubert at UPS, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Chorus sing Fauré,...
UPS Schubertiade Just listed by New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini as history’s fourth most influential composer, Schubert gets a shout-out at a Schubertiade evening performed by University...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Flamenco at UPS, DASH “Cinderella,” Tacoma Concert Band at...
Flamenco at UPS See world flamenco master Teo Morca with Tacoma dancer Marisela Fleites in a crackling duo show at UPS tonight, alongside singer Vicento Griego and guitarist Gerardo Alcala. 7:30 p.m....
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Marriage equality theater: Found Space Productions gives staged reading of...
It’s all over the headlines and now it’s on stage too: gay marriage rights, coming this Saturday to the Norton Clapp Theatre at the University of Puget Sound. A staged reading of docudrama “8” by...
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Digital and physical mesh in the mystical Nakamura-Campbell exhibit “Kukai”...
Inside Kittredge Gallery it’s very, very dark. Eerie blips and taps punctuate the stillness. And in the center of the room is a kind of temple created by light, inhabited by seven inscrutable ceramic...
View ArticleCritic’s Picks: Two celli at UPS, Seattle Symphony celebrates Asia, mosaics...
“A Due Celli” at University of Puget Sound You don’t often get to hear two world-class cellists play duets, but at UPS tonight artist-in-residence David Requiro and guest artist Meta Weiss will play a...
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