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Arts reporter and critic Rosemary Ponnekanti keeps you in touch with the arts and culture scene with the help of other News Tribune writers, critics and editors.

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, April 3rd, 2009
Posted by Rosemary Ponnekanti @ 06:00:00 am
Pacific Northwest Ballet corps de ballet dancers Kara Zimmerman and Leanne Duge, soloists Rachel Foster and Chalnessa Eames in Kent Stowell's Swan Lake. Photo: Angela Sterling

Pacific Northwest Ballet does “Swan Lake”
For all you romantics, this is the ballet for you: dying lovers, misty ghosts, enchantment, and lots of white tutus. 7:30 p.m. April 9-11 and 16-18, 1 p.m. April 11, 18, 19; 7 p.m. April 19. $25-$160. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle Center, Seattle. 206-441-2424, www.pnb.org

Altar Boyz gets the Pantages some holy rock
Award-winning musical spoof about a fictitious Christian boy-band that starts to ask hard questions. Family-friendly. 7:30 p.m. April 7. $39-$72. Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org

Tacoma’s secrets explored in letterpress collaboration
Letterpress artist Jessica Spring created an art book out of glass negatives discovered in her attic; librarian Brian Kamens identified the images in them. Together, they tell the stories at the University of Puget Sound’s library. 2 p.m. April 5. Free. Room 202, Collins Memorial Library, North 17th and North Warner Streets, Tacoma. www.ups.edu

William Turner at the library
The Northwest landscape artist shows a current series of vivid semi-abstracts in the Handforth Gallery. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, through April 11. Free. Tacoma Public Library main branch, 1102 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma. 253-591-5666, www.tacomapubliclibrary.org, www.williamturnerart.com

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