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Weekly Entertainment Digest

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Sounds of Hawaii: Hapa blends traditional style with folk, rock for magical music
Blue skies. Warm breezes. Hawaiian slack-key guitar. A hula dancer.

Top 5 highest-grossing films in North America
1. "Semi-Pro," $14.9 million

Get involved with Procession
Procession of the Species is having an open house from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Community Art Studio at 311 Capitol Way. You can sign up to teach a workshop or staff th e studio. If you have items to donate, bring them. Large brown paper bags, newspapers and animal-colored fabrics are needed (no Styrofoam please). The studio's grand opening is noon to 4 p.m. March 15. Procession is at 4:30 p.m. April 26.

A cappella competition spans genres
If a cappella music conjures up thoughts of barbershop quartets, you're right - and wrong.

New music on the shelves
Pop

Festival celebrates sacred through spiritual music and dance
This year's Olympia World Sacred Music Festival offers some surprises.

New on DVD
'Into the Wild'

Directors choose style over smarts
Style versus substance is one of the prime debates of the cinema. Is a movie filled with visual stimulation better than one with deep meaning?

Matchbox Twenty takes a match to its old image
Rob Thomas sat down at a computer and typed out a message.

Wine events
Looking for an opportunity to learn more about wine or taste something new? Look no further. Here are upcoming South Sound wine-tasting events where you will be welcome.

Top 5 rap songs, according to Billboard
1. "Low," Flo Rida

Engrossing heist: Cool characters, all kinds of agendas simmer in 'Bank Job'
"The Bank Job" is a solidly built and entertaining British B-movie about a heist that goes wrong and right.

'Project Runway' contestant visits Oly
Kit Pistol might not have lasted long on Bravo TV's "Project Runway" this season, but her design career didn't end there.

Trailer for new 'Indiana Jones' film a smash hit
LOS ANGELES - Times sure have changed in the 19 years since Harrison Ford last donned the signature fedora of thrill-

As Juliet, Elizabeth Mitchell is a winner on 'Lost'
NEW YORK - Dr. Juliet Burke reveals herself to be a complex character on "Lost."

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