Product placement in television reaches a new level on Saturday when NBC and the Ford Motor Company team up for a reality show. And a brother team from Puyallup are among the cast members.

“Escape Routes” is an hour-long point-based competitive reality series which has teams visiting six cities in their 2013 Ford Escapes.

Drew and Derek Konzelman make up one of six teams hoping to reap a $100,000 award and their own Ford Escapes by winning a series of challenges and tasks. At the end of the six episodes the team with the most points wins. It’s …

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Christian Music Performer TobyMac will play the Puyallup Fair on September 13. Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m.

Now a solo artist, TobyMac’s career first took off as one of three founding members of dc Talk. His hit songs include “City On Our Knees,” “Made to Love,” “Lose My Soul,” and “Gone.”

TobyMac will perform in a 7:30 p.m. show. Tickets can be found on the Fair website, www.thefair.com/concerts or by phone 888-559-FAIR (3247) daily, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. To save the convenience charges, purchase tickets in person at the Puyallup Fair & Events Center box office at 9th Avenue SW and Meridian Street on Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Ticket prices are $50 for Golden Circle, $40, $30 and $25. All seats are reserved and include Fair gate admission.
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Gospel music will fill the Tacoma Elks Lodge on Saturday for a Combined Community Choir event.

Organizer Centell Jackson said choirs include Mt. Calvary COGIC Church Choir and Praise Dancers, IPAW Ministries (International Praise and Worship), Turning Point Youth Ministry and opening performers Tyreasha Willis and Treonna Simmons.

The event is titled, “Taking Back What the Enemy Has Stolen.” Jackson said the enemy is divisiveness and this event promotes solidarity and unity. “We can be closer as a people and have a better relationship,” he told me.

Any funds left over will help defray the expenses of the annual gospel …

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Winter Jam comes to the Tacoma Dome Saturday featuring Christian music groups Newsboys, Kutless, Matthew West, RED, Fireflight, KJ-52 and guest speaker Tony Nolan. All those bands for only $10.

Winter Jam
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Tacoma Dome, 2727 East D St., Tacoma
Info: 253-272-3663 or www.tacomadome.org or www.jamtour.com
Tickets: $10 Door only

The final act has been booked for September’s Puyallup Fair. Sammy Hagar, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Selena Gomez, Amy Grant, Miranda Lambert, Big & Rich, Flaming Lips and much more are on the schedule.

There really is something for everyone here from Christian to comedy, Latino to rodeo. Teen to classic. Click on “more” to see the full schedule, times and prices.

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