Arts & Events

Tacoma Film Festival Movie Review: Local directors and actors capture important moments of life in short film series

The collection spans several genres and no two films are alike. It starts with “In Search of the Miraculous,” a silent film about a man grappling with some unnamed internal strife and an ominous call to the water as he tries to live an average life. The film depicts the man’s struggle via a series of dream sequences at the beginning of the film where the main character plunges into open bodies of water in various ways, such as falling off a rope swing or riding a bike off the...
Arts & Events

Albums Released: Sept. 25

The Underachievers - Evermore: The Art of Duality Brooklyn rappers and third-eye openers The Underachievers are back spitting verses with a purpose.  The album comes in at a skittery creep, and continues with alternately stark and spacious beats like a serene bubble in a bustling world.  Both lyrically and sonically it sounds a little more down to earth than their last album, but it’s still very much rap on a spiritual mission, interweaving stories about restless youth with the occasional spoken word monologue about the nature of consciousness.  Instead of...