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The staff at the Weekly Volcano has a very strict exercise regime. Find an old, beaten-up chair. Slouch in it for several hours. At around 3 p.m., begin to get stressed out about the 5 p.m. deadlines. Walk - slowly - to the honor candy box, and steal something bad
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"DUN DUN." You already know what's happening. "DUN DUN." A cavalcade of snares and cymbals rupture. A whale of a drummer pounds. Two fair-haired boys and a skinny guitar wizard feel the rush of thousands cheering as the quartet launches in "Good Times Bad Times." Sorry, Led Zeppelin fans, but
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It's a quiet autumn Monday in Tacoma, but inside The New Frontier Lounge, the night is cooking. Pianist Nate D., bassist Cameron and drummer Peter T. have launch the city's newest jazz jam inviting talent to sit in as the house trio explores straight ahead, funk and
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Also on the 28th, as on the second and fourth Saturday of every month, the Blue Mouse Theatre presents a late-night screening of 1975's The Rocky Horror Picture Show complete with audience cosplay and commentary. If you're a Rocky Horror virgin, you owe it to yourself to raid your
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. The Cantrells. All Ages. 7 pm. Donations. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. The Rod Cook Band. 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant
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National Alpaca Farm Days is Sept. 28-29. Oh, did you not hear that? You've never heard of an alpaca? Alpacas resemble little Wookie-horses or miniature llamas. Unlike llamas, though, alpacas are not for carrying things; specifically, they are bred for their hair, which is a lot like sheep's wool. Alpaca
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Back To Beale Street Blues 2014 Fundraiser, with The Rafael Tranquilino Band, Blues County Sheriff, Blenis/Ehly Band with Thai Barker, Mark Riley
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The concept ranks alongside The Grand Cinema's popular 72-Hour Film Competition in the Too-Busy-for-Culture-Give-It-to-Me-in-a-Hurry Hall of Fame. Returning to Tacoma, the Double Shot Festival takes playwrights, directors and actors, then gives them a mere 24 hours to write, rehearse, and stage original plays. Not even George Bernard Shaw worked this
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Kurt Lindsay. 8 pm. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Oktoberfest bands. All Ages. 11 am. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Rebecca Corry. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma -
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There are hundreds of opportunities for the amateur and the professional photogs to get some incredible shots at the annual Oceanic Lumins Festivus Saturday in downtown Tacoma. Flex your photojournalism muscle as costumed folks march a winding path through the Theater District, try your hand at an abstract camera toss
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Zombies are taking over T-town - and no - not the bath salt eating kind, but the kind that in real life are fun-loving people who want to get gory for a good cause. The Tacoma Zombie Festival and Preparedness Expo is back, with a new name - QZ-CON -
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Rialto Theater Tacoma - Downtown. Tacoma Free For All: Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC with registration. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Sonny Landreth, Cindy Cashdollar. 8 pm. $20-$27.50. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Rebecca Corry. 8 and 10:30
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude. 8 pm. Eagle's Hall
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The gallery at downtown Olympia's Olyphant Art Supply seems to attract artists who are new to Olympia. Case in point: Hart James, who is certainly not new to art but is new to Olympia. Her first Olympia show at Olyphant features 20 small assemblage/collages with surrealistic images, lots of gilded
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Finding local music is a process. You might stumble across a show, maybe it's recommended by a friend, or perhaps you read it in the Volcano. However you discover your music; whichever bands stick in your memory, whose songs you'll actually download, whose shows you'll really go see, whose music
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The International Blues Challenge hosted in Memphis, Tenn., is a - you guessed it - international competition where blues bands and solo/duo acts compete for a variety of prizes and recognition in the music industry. In its 30th year, competition will take place Jan. 21-25 - and will once again
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When it comes to the truly great horror films of Irish cinema, everyone knows the classics: Leprechaun, Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun 5: In the Hood. ... What you may not know, is that there are scary movies hailing from the Emerald Isle that don't feature Warwick Davis as a
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Their latest album, Green Light Go, is a nonstop exercise in full-on dance-rock combustion. The Redwood Plan is not fond of giving you a moment to breathe. From the first track, "Panic On," the album just does not rest. The style of dance-rock perpetuated by the Redwood Plan tends to defer
