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Jason Harsin has been busy making handbills and flyers, throwing parties and touring the circuit. While this all perfectly natural to the former DIY rocker, this time it isn't about promoting his music, it's about promoting his yummy-smelling, all natural hair and body care products. Former band
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This is not a bumper sticker. This is not a silicone bracelet. This won’t fit on a T-shirt or a lanyard. This isn’t a prescription or a sermon either. Asking what Jesus would do, literally, in relation to everyday, 21st-century human affairs is a silly path to take. The great
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This is not a bumper sticker. This is not a silicone bracelet. This won’t fit on a T-shirt or a lanyard. This isn’t a prescription or a sermon either. Asking what Jesus would do, literally, in relation to everyday, 21st-century human affairs is a silly path to take. The great
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In the modern domesticated world, animal companions are a phenomenon that often boggles me with complex riddles of evolution and human psychology. No other species has evolved the need for interspecies companionship, (excluding parasites) and it is fascinating if we see the types of species that have evolved to meet
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In the modern domesticated world, animal companions are a phenomenon that often boggles me with complex riddles of evolution and human psychology. No other species has evolved the need for interspecies companionship, (excluding parasites) and it is fascinating if we see the types of species that have evolved to meet
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When did comedies get so mean? Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left I felt a little unclean. The plot: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play Brennan and Dale, two never-employed 40ish sons who still live at
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When did comedies get so mean? Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left I felt a little unclean. The plot: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play Brennan and Dale, two never-employed 40ish sons who still live at
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ANNOUNCER: A tagline used to run under the boys’ column that pointed out that all meals for their reviews are paid by the Weekly Volcano and that each week the boys slip the receipts under the publisher’s door and run. The boys certainly enjoy their share of inexpensive dive and
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ANNOUNCER: A tagline used to run under the boys’ column that pointed out that all meals for their reviews are paid by the Weekly Volcano and that each week the boys slip the receipts under the publisher’s door and run. The boys certainly enjoy their share of inexpensive dive and
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Chef Gordon Naccarato recently received a complaint from a diner frustrated with Naccarato’s potato pancake. “(The customer) grumbled that it was like a McDonald’s hash brown,” Naccarato, chef and owner of Tacoma’s Pacific Grill, says. No sooner did Naccarato finish the statement then a smile spread across his
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Chef Gordon Naccarato recently received a complaint from a diner frustrated with Naccarato’s potato pancake. “(The customer) grumbled that it was like a McDonald’s hash brown,” Naccarato, chef and owner of Tacoma’s Pacific Grill, says. No sooner did Naccarato finish the statement then a smile spread across his
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It is hard to believe, but another year has passed and we are once again blind sided by Zoobilee. I say “blind sided” because of the way I usually feel the next day. You see after all the party over-indulgence, my vision is slightly blurred, not exactly blind, but I
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It is hard to believe, but another year has passed and we are once again blind sided by Zoobilee. I say “blind sided” because of the way I usually feel the next day. You see after all the party over-indulgence, my vision is slightly blurred, not exactly blind, but I
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Fried chicken Several blocks north of the hub of what is known as the Proctor District, Terry’s Office Tavern is like most watering holes you will visit that aren’t trying to get $8 a margarita from your yuppie uncle Muffy. Dark, slightly humid, and decorated with sports television and cheap beer
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Fried chicken Several blocks north of the hub of what is known as the Proctor District, Terry’s Office Tavern is like most watering holes you will visit that aren’t trying to get $8 a margarita from your yuppie uncle Muffy. Dark, slightly humid, and decorated with sports television and cheap beer
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Anyone who has ever been to more than one bar in their life has seen a patron or two who just doesn’t fit the whole vibe of the joint — whose character doesn’t fit that of the watering hole. That might be man in a cowboy hat at a sushi
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Anyone who has ever been to more than one bar in their life has seen a patron or two who just doesn’t fit the whole vibe of the joint — whose character doesn’t fit that of the watering hole. That might be man in a cowboy hat at a sushi
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For a good selection of artworks that teeter between “real” art and home décor — i.e., that caters to a mass market without being too banal — go to Childhood’s End Gallery in Olympia. The latest show centers on a travel theme with paintings by Sandy Hurd, serigraphs by Sherry
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For a good selection of artworks that teeter between “real” art and home décor — i.e., that caters to a mass market without being too banal — go to Childhood’s End Gallery in Olympia. The latest show centers on a travel theme with paintings by Sandy Hurd, serigraphs by Sherry
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Parks Commissioner Victoria Woodard gets choked up when she talks about Ethnic Fest. She talks about performers such as Samoan dance crew Teine Tama Samoa, she literally gets teary. Groups such as Teine Tama, and the experiences of their audience, epitomize what Ethnic Fest is all about — all the
