FRIDAY, NOV. 4 2016: South Sound events + craft beer …
G. Donnalson’s + Peaks and Pints = It’s about the music
Broadway Center + Dystopian State Brewing Co. = On with the show!
NORTHWEST BLUES
A Northwest rock legend (“I’m in Love With An Angel”) and Washington Blues Society Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Little Bill can still knock ’em dead. He never wastes a note, whether it’s on ’50s classics such as “Route 66” or one of his originals, “Goin’ Back to Oakland.” Guitarist Rod Cook is known for his stylistic versatility and soulful, melodic playing. He’s most recognized for his work with folk/funk, Americana artist Laura Love in the 1990s and collaborations with Tacoma singer/songwriter Vicci Martinez. Little Bill and Rod Cook will jam from 7:30-10:30 p.m. at G. Donnalson’s in Tacoma’s Proctor District.
PREFUNK: Kill Rock Stars has long been home to some of the boldest voices in independent and underground music, bringing icons such as Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, and Elliott Smith to an international audience. Today, Peaks and Pints pours Fort George Brewery’s Kill Rock Stars, a dark Mexican lager brewed by the KRS staff at the Astoria, Oregon, brewery. Think dark and sweet international pale lager that is full-bodied with malt as the primary flavor element. Peaks and Pints opens at 11 a.m.
LA BOHEME
Tacoma Opera will stage the classic, much-loved opera La Boheme in its original Italian, although there will be English subtitles provided for the unwashed heathens in the audience who don’t know the story of young love with a tragic ending —- as all operas seem to have. Uncultured Gen Xers will better know the story as Rent, a high-quality blockbuster knockoff of the earlier Puccini work. According to Tacoma Opera hype, it’s “set in Paris’ Latin Quarter, where gaiety and pathos live side-by-side, the bittersweet romance of Rodolfo, the poet and Mimi, the seamstress is timeless. Whether this will be your first opera or you’ve seen it many times before, Puccini’s magic never fails to cast its entrancing spell.” Catch the opera at 7:30 p.m. in the Broadway Center’s Rialto Theater.
PREFUNK: “The projector will play into the counterculture theme of the brewery with showings of movies with dystopian landscapes (a la “Soylent Green,” “1984,” “A Clockwork Orange” and the like).” Sue Kidd of TNT Diner wrote those words in her piece on Tacoma’s newest brewery, Dystopian State Brewing Co., which opens at 11 a.m. today. Indeed, the St. Helens neighborhood brewery and taproom carries a sci-fi them, as well as Triple Black IPA, Double IPA, Honey Wheat Ale, Coconut Cream Ale and other craft beer, as well as a selection of ciders.
