Subject:

Puyallup Fair

  • Music

    April 25, 2012

    This Week's Recommended Shows

    From Coldplay to Lambchop.

  • Calendar

    April 25, 2012

    Willie Nelson Tribute Night

    From Coldplay to Lambchop.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Hippies, Hipsters and Rednecks Unite! Willie Nelson's Playing the Puyallup Fair on Sept. 7

    Now here's a Puyallup Fair concert that rivals only The Flaming Lips for sheer appropriateness. Willie Nelson's music will not only be emanating from every carny booth at the Puyallup Fair this year, it will be coming from the main stage, when Nelson brings his band -- and, possibly, his new cover o ... More >>

  • Music

    September 21, 2011

    The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

    From James McMurtry to James Blake.

  • Calendar

    September 21, 2011

    James McMurtry

    From James McMurtry to James Blake.

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    New at the Puyallup Fair: Curried Vegetables

    ​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth checking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. Unless eaters are confin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    New at the Puyallup Fair: Deep-Fried Kool-Aid

    ​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth checking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. The problem with fried b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    10 Reasons the Puyallup Fair Is History's Most Obscenely Appropriate Opening Act for the Flaming Lips

    Jeremy EatonThe Flaming Lips play the Puyallup Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 21.​Anyone familiar with the musical spectacle that is Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips would think the band has seen and done it all. From gummy-fetuses embedded with USB drives (their latest song-delivery invention) to C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    New at the Puyallup Fair: Leavenwurst

    ​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth checking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. Scones may be the signat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    New at the Puyallup Fair: Fried Bubblegum

    ​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth seeking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. The iconic image of fair ... More >>

  • Music

    August 31, 2011

    The Month Ahead: Pop

    Recommended shows from Bon Iver to Carissa's Wierd.

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    The Top 11 Bands We Never Expected to Hit the Road Again in 2011

    ​After Soundgarden closed their reunion tour at the Gorge last Saturday, we thought it'd be fun to take a look at a few more upcoming concerts that made us scratch our heads and wonder if somehow we'd tripped back in time. They've been off the radar for years, but if you still hold a candle fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    She Don't Use... Gummy Bears? The Six Weirdest, Most Unholy Band-Brand Alliances

    ​Last week we learned that the always-amusing Flaming Lips had successfully released three new songs... via a USB drive found inside a gummy fetus. Yes, you read that right. A delicious, edible, gummy fetus. If you haven't been keeping up with the latest antics of the Oklahoma psych-pop mani ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Feel Short-Changed By Flaming Lips' Abbreviated Sasquatch! Set? See Them Do the Puyallup on Sept. 21

    Renee McMahon​The Flaming Lips had a 90-minute time slot at Sasquatch! on Sunday, and with this time they were charged with performing their 1999 album, The Soft Bulletin, in its entirety, and with whatever time was left, dip into a few crowd-pleasers. They didn't get to the latter. In fact, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Randy Montana to Remind Seattle--or at Least Puyallup--That It's a Country Music Hotbed Friday Night

    ​Billy Montana has penned hits for the likes of Garth Brooks, Sara Evans, and Jo Dee Messina. It's safe to say that's helped pave the way for his son, Randy Montana (no relation to Hannah), who spent last year opening for Sugarland and is prepping for several summer dates as Taylor Swift's war ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Best Ride At Puyallup Fair? Hall & Oates Joyride of Hits

    Hall and Oates played the Puyallup Fair on Wednesday, September 22.​Hall & Oates Puyallup Fair Wednesday, September 22, 2010 For a band who have been lugging a majority of their hits around with them for 25 years, Daryl Hall & John Oates didn't look weary or sluggish at all on Wednesday nigh ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2010

    The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

    Hall and Oates played the Puyallup Fair on Wednesday, September 22.​Hall & Oates Puyallup Fair Wednesday, September 22, 2010 For a band who have been lugging a majority of their hits around with them for 25 years, Daryl Hall & John Oates didn't look weary or sluggish at all on Wednesday nigh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Tonight: Kele at Chop Suey, Willie Nelson Does the Puyallup, Verellen Amps Showcase at Neumos

    ​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

  • Music

    September 15, 2010

    The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

    ​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 8, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2010

    The Puyallup Fair

    ​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Tonight: John Roderick Jason Dodson at the Triple Door

    Autumn de Wilde​John Roderick, with Jason Dodson. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 6 p.m. $20. All ages. Usually when a musician announces he'll be talking a lot during a show, it's a dreadful omen--like when Kenny Rogers visited the Puyallup Fair a few years ago. Sure, he played "The Gam ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2010

    John Roderick

    Autumn de Wilde​John Roderick, with Jason Dodson. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 6 p.m. $20. All ages. Usually when a musician announces he'll be talking a lot during a show, it's a dreadful omen--like when Kenny Rogers visited the Puyallup Fair a few years ago. Sure, he played "The Gam ... More >>

  • Music

    July 7, 2010

    The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

    Autumn de Wilde​John Roderick, with Jason Dodson. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 6 p.m. $20. All ages. Usually when a musician announces he'll be talking a lot during a show, it's a dreadful omen--like when Kenny Rogers visited the Puyallup Fair a few years ago. Sure, he played "The Gam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Meet Molly Ringle, the Seattle Writer Who Wrote This Year's Worst Sentence

    ​For the past 28 years, a group of masochists at San Jose State University have sought out submissions for the worst writing in the world. Named after the 19th-century British writer who first penned the now-cliched line "It was a dark and stormy night," this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Conte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Heart Will Rock Puyallup on September 25, Following Release of Red Velvet Car

    Ann and Nancy will play the Puyallup Fair on September 25.​Heart will be doing the Puyallup on Saturday, September 25. Seattle's favorite female rockers join a Fair lineup that includes Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers with the Tacoma Symphony, Hall & Oates, and more. Last month the sisters Wilson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Your Arts & Goats Weekend Planner

    ​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 9, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

    ​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2009

    Puyallup Fair

    ​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2008

    Puyallup Fair

    ​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2008

    Kenny Rogers

    ​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

  • Food

    August 16, 2006

    Food News

    August 16 - 23, 2006.

  • Food

    March 8, 2006
  • Food

    September 8, 2004

    Sept. 8, 2004

    August 16 - 23, 2006.

  • Food

    September 1, 2004

    Royal Forks

    At Salty's weekend buffet, more is more.

  • Food

    September 1, 2004

    Sept. 1, 2004

    At Salty's weekend buffet, more is more.

  • Food

    August 28, 2002

    Hot Dish

    At Salty's weekend buffet, more is more.

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This

Browse Voice Nation
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy