Weekend Review: Wine, Tacos and Joe Biden

Friday: Bayside, Valencia and the Status at El Corazón

Shane Henderson sings during Valencia's opening set on Friday night.

Showing up at eight, I wasn't expecting the crowd I found. Even knowing how great first opener The Status is, the fact that a venue was packed at the beginning of the first set says something in itself. Read the full review here.
— Nick Feldman

Saturday: Celine Dion (and white wine shortage) at Tacoma Dome

Alfre's Cafe takes advantage of the concert rush with its Celine "Dijon" (har har) sandwich.

Thousands of worshippers journeyed to see God (aka Celine Dion) perform at the Tacoma Dome Saturday. It was the Canadian diva's first time back in the Seattle area in eight years. Her Taking Chances World Tour has been a whopping success so far—in Montreal she played 11 shows in because tickets sold out so fast. Canadians love them some Celine.

Apparently, so do white wine drinkers. The Tacoma Dome actually ran out of it. Only at a Celine Dion concert would you run out of white wine before red. Even more of a suprise, nobody had any qualms about letting concert goers enter the venue vwith drinks in tow. Read the full review here.
— Erika Hobart

Saturday: Fremont's Burlesque Tacos

A taco sampler plate, whipped up by Angel himself.

When I was first tipped off to a "burlesque taco truck," I wasn't quite sure how to respond. Having grown up in Eastern Washington, I'm no stranger to the taco wagon — but figuring out how to factor burlesque into the equation was a challenge. Bad jokes were in abundance.

After one taste of a taco made by the skilled Angel Aguilar, who co-owns the truck with Johnny Flair, I knew it was more than a gimmick. Read the full review here.
— Nick Feldman

Sunday: Down in Tacoma for the Down-Ticket

I learned a valuable lesson at Barack Obama's February rally/revival at Key Arena—these things do not start on time, do not end on time, and do not have food or drink readily available. After nearly passing out that day, I headed to Tacoma this afternoon prepared—lots of trail mix and water. Local alt-country favorites The Maldives were playing their first orgy of hope and weren't similarly prepared. "I'm really hungry," guitarist and lead singer Jason Dodson tells me. I was happy to share the extra dried fruit, nuts and chocolate drops. Blood sugar back up, he tells me getting invited to play is "pretty awesome."

"These are the candidates," he says. "We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them. This is history, it's like we're history." Read the rest of the story here.
— Laura Onstot

Sunday: Giant HiDef Projector Screen Found Lurking in West Seattle

As we learned last week, your local neighborhood dive can be a great place to catch our unbelievably terrible Seahawks—all you need is pitchers, odd company, and a television. But it's hard to beat watching them throw down (or more aptly, get thrown down) on something the size of a small movie theater screen. Read the rest of the story here.
— Laura Onstot