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Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.

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What's new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound.
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Posted by Rosemary Ponnekanti @ 06:00:00 am

Who’s afraid of “Dracula”?
Not Tacoma City Ballet. The company is performing this original ballet tonight and tomorrow, to live orchestral music of Elgar and Smetana. Bring the family and wear costume. 7:30 p.m. tonight, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1. $25. Theatre on the Square, 915 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org

Party with the Dead
Dia de los Muertos is this Sunday. Make sugar skulls and papel picado, and see a tapete and ofrendas at Tacoma Art Museum, then join with life-size skeletons in the 6th Avenue parade, with hot drinks after. 12-6 p.m. free community festival at Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma. 253-272-4258, www.tacomaartmuseum.org; 6 p.m. parade convenes at Masa, 2811 6th Ave., Tacoma. www.on6thave.com

Midwest Reflections at The Gallery at TCC
Pastel artist Melinda Liebers Cox and photographer Linda Staats teamed up for two road trips through the American Midwest: “Heartland Intersections” is the result. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays through Dec. 19. Free. The Gallery at Tacoma Community College, enter off S. 12th and Mildred Streets, Tacoma. 253-460-4306, www.tacomacc.edu/thegallery

“Beautiful Angle” at PLU
You’ve seen the posters around town: hand-printed, hand-pasted, original poetry, off-beat design. Now you can meet the guys behind them: Lance Kagey and Tom Llewellyn, a.k.a. Beautiful Angle, at the opening of their PLU gallery show. 5-7 p.m. Nov.5. Free. Ingram Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, 121st St. S. and Wheeler St. South, Tacoma. 253-535-7150, www.plu.edu/~artd/events.html

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