I had a very entertaining conversation with comedian Joan Rivers recently. We talked plastic surgery, Melissa, Louis CK, “Celebrity Apprentice” and casting couches. Read my interview here.

JOAN RIVERS
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma
Tickets: $42-74
Information: 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org

Two documentary films exploring military service in Iraq from the in-country and survivors’ perspectives will show at the Rialto Theater in Tacoma Saturday.

The main feature begins with a church (and I use that term loosely) in Kansas that has become notorious for picketing the funerals of service members killed in action.

The logic of the members of the Westboro Baptist Church is so twisted that it would seem to be the ravings of a mad man.

That man is named Fred Phelps.
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