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9 A.M.-2 P.M.: It’s Family Day at the Tacoma Farmers Market at Ninth and Broadway. Yippee! Kids running about like maniacs while you try to squeeze fruit. On the docket today: Blackberry Pie Festival, music by Luke Breton Van Grol, and the Chef in the Market demonstration is Matt Colony from Maxwell’s Speakeasy. Start shopping here.
6-9 P.M.: Mindy Barker’s Slice at Fulcrum Gallery is a series of five paintings on glass that hang from the gallery ceiling, two more paintings done directly on the gallery windows, five separate and slightly different paintings in the front gallery, and four smaller paintings and a series of 25 painted compact discs in the small back gallery. Check it out, part by part, here.
8 P.M.: Robots vs. Humans — the band — will inject a little pubescent emo rock into Bob’s Java Jive tonight. Formerly Garvey Switch, Robots vs. Humans, judging by the band’s MySpace page centers around brothers Tyrus and Rusty Trusky, who sing and play guitar, respectively. Check them out with Skull Kid tonight at 2102 S Tacoma Way.
8 P.M.: Harlequin Productions has created a name for itself as a thinking person's theater. Its shows are often deep in cultural references and plays on words. Its latest offering fits right into that reputation. The show Psychopathia Sexualis is a comedy that is not only accessible because of its surface level dialogue and storyline, but it also has clever cultural puns and, dare I say, highbrow humor that would fit right into the repertoire of the conversations of National Public Radio or Public Broadcasting Service listeners. Study it tonight at the State Theater in Olympia.
9:30 P.M.: Not neo-soul, not urban, and not contemporary R&B, the Next Movement is authentic R&B akin to such legendary Motown units as the Temptations and the Four Tops. Chock-full of tight arrangements, fat horns and flawless harmonies, the group is a live act not to be missed. Groove to them tonight at the Muckleshoot Casino.
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