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We hate to say it, but this was most likely the last Third Thursday that art lovers could walk the streets hitting gallery after gallery without umbrellas, boots and coats in blowing rain. Helm Gallery opening night was heavily attended. Crowds turned out to see the much-anticipated first viewing of
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>>> BEST PLACE TO BE A GROOVY GAL Purple Peacock I'm surprised they haven't called The Man on me or brought in a bonafide Smokey to shoo me away. Call me the funky jewelry junky, candle fiend, and jive talkin' shopper of all things groovy and great, downtown Tacoma's Purple Peacock, jewelry,
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Thank you to all who took the time to vote in our Best of Tacoma 2013 Readers' Poll. You are the Best. Best Local Filmmaker: Ronald Lagman Best Movie Theater: The Grand Cinema Most Creative Person: Jeremy Silas Best Theater Company: Tacoma Little Theatre Best Dance Company: MLKBallet Best Performance Space: Pantages Theater Best Local Actor: Steve
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I'll be honest: there are times when Volcano readers and I do not see eye to eye. (Say what?! Yeah, c'est la vie.) Is every "Best of" issue something of a popularity contest? You bet. This year, however, I couldn't agree with your theater picks more. Best Company was a
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Everyone wants to show support for the troops but most aren't sure how to go about it. What if it were as easy as showing up to a concert in Tacoma and sipping a beverage in the beer garden? The first weekend in August it is just that simple. Saturday, Aug.
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>>>BEST SPOOK HOUSEThe Woman in Black at Lakewood PlayhouseLive theater can evoke almost any emotional state, but it seems to have special difficulty conjuring goose bumps. Lacking post-production visual effects or the months it takes to produce a battery of terrifying sound effects, stage horror tends to languish behind its
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Thank you to all who took the time to vote in our Best of Tacoma 2013 Readers' Poll. You are the Best. Best Band: SweetKiss Momma Best New Band: The Fame Riot Best Indie Rock Band: A Leaf Best Metal Band: Lozen Best Punk Band: Klondike Kate Best Jazz Band: Kareem Kandi Band Best DJ: Mr. Melanin Best
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We are just getting a taste of the fall season, and what better way to express our fashion sense than with some very cute cardigans. I’m the new cashier at the WalMart in Yelm. I see everything. I can tell you the cardigans are flying off the shelves. In beautiful fall
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We are just getting a taste of the fall season, and what better way to express our fashion sense than with some very cute cardigans. I’m the new cashier at the WalMart in Yelm. I see everything. I can tell you the cardigans are flying off the shelves. In beautiful fall
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Bonney Lake is a compelling combination of a blissful retreat-like environment and thriving business community. When driving through, you can spy heavily wooded serenity, take in the view and still find modern societal necessities like an Applebee's, Target and Wal-Mart surrounded by idyllic residential communities. And though many of the
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The first thing I do, after reaching Jeff Hamel on the phone, is to congratulate him and his band, SweetKiss Momma, for being voted best band in Tacoma by readers of the Weekly Volcano. "Thanks you very much," says Hamel. "The Best of Puyallup issue is what we were hoping for,
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THE 11TH HOUR: A dire warning about the demise of planet Earth, presented in a deadening format of talking heads and what often looks like stock nature footage. The doc has a lot of valuable information, but fails to convey it in an effective, involving way. Rent Al Gore’s “An
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THE 11TH HOUR: A dire warning about the demise of planet Earth, presented in a deadening format of talking heads and what often looks like stock nature footage. The doc has a lot of valuable information, but fails to convey it in an effective, involving way. Rent Al Gore’s “An
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>>> BEST UNWIELDY STAGE SETUP People Under the Sun The first thing you'll notice about Tacoma three-piece People Under the Sun is just how many goddamn gadgets they have with them onstage. Conservative estimates place the amount of instrumentation at roughly two metric tons. In order to facilitate the execution of People
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With travel come all the wonderful stories of rats in Paris, cats in Greece, and roaches in Spain. Does anyone else track their trips through the vermin they encounter along the way? Thursday at the University Place Library you can hear even more fabulous stories about travel. That's because Jared
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“We thought, let’s do something at the very beginning that’s going to bring us all together … and from there we would reflect the entire community event by event,” says David Fischer, executive director at Tacoma’s Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, which launches its most ambitious season ever with
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“We thought, let’s do something at the very beginning that’s going to bring us all together … and from there we would reflect the entire community event by event,” says David Fischer, executive director at Tacoma’s Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, which launches its most ambitious season ever with
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Eastern Promises David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises” opens with a throat-slashing and a young woman collapsing in blood in a drugstore, and connects these events with a descent into an underground of Russians who have immigrated to London and brought their crime family with them. Like the Corleone family but with a
