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Amidst the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, family traditions are comforting. A link to the past acted out in the present, they can be a way to measure the moments and years of our lives together. Impacted by economic fluctuations, family size changes and logistics, family traditions evolve
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No one will deny that police and firefighter layoffs are going to hurt. As Tacoma city officials work with union and department leaders to iron out the details of what has become the most contentious aspect of closing a projected $31 million budget shortfall - the loss of what could
Military Life
Last week, President Barack Obama and other senior officials welcomed the final group of U.S. troops home from Iraq - just in time for the holidays. But thousands of other service members - deployed in Afghanistan or other locations around the world - won't be so fortunate. They'll be
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE FRIDAY 10 AM Gary Clark Jr.
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It’s a new week, which means it’s time for another installment of Bobble Tiki’s South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let’s get rolling … As you may have noticed, Bobble Tiki was on vacation last week. He spent five and a half days sitting in
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As a fan of music, what attracts you to a band? Don’t be afraid; it’s just you and me here. Well, if you ask me (which you didn’t) it boils down to two criteria: exuberance and innovation. We’ll get to exuberance in a second, but first I want to talk
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Last week Lynn Di Nino and a group of Tacomans staged a mega-scale chess game at Tollefson Plaza. Chess pieces made from recycled 5-gallon buckets and discarded household appliances were spray-painted day-glow pink and green and pushed around a human-scale chessboard that had been chalked over the plaza floor. Color
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Last week, I spent some time sipping on a fancy beer at Le Voyeur in glorious downtown Olympia, soaking in the scent and bullshiting with my Alaskan cohort and White Boss frontman, Jean Nagai. If there are two permanent things in this wonderful little seaport, one will be the lingering
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Much of the time, the phone calls I get here at Weekly Volcano World Headquarters are ones to avoid. It usually means I’ve written something that pissed someone off, or it’s just Robert “the Traveller” Hill calling to fill me in on his latest bizarre escapade. However, sometimes the phone
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Take the modern alt-country blues sound of Drive By Truckers, throw in the fun loving attitude and riff-blues-rock of ZZ Top, mix them all together and you get close to the vibe of Too Slim and the Taildraggers. This is real, down and dirty rock and roll — a delightful
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Let’s consider, for a moment, all the odd bands that seem to come from nowhere and, inexplicably, become a sensation. These anomalies get a lot more play than the bands that were destined for stardom from the very beginning, but they’re equally weird to me. Example: New Faces, a band
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Roger Ebert’s review of Cold Souls ran in the print version of the Weekly Volcano. Ebert’s peeps will now allow us to run the review online. To read his review online, visit Ebert’s Web site. Cold Souls Score: Three out of four stars Starring: Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn and Dina Korzun Director:
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Our story begins a long, long time ago in a land far, far away. It was November 2008 when Puyallup citizens approved an “annexation” of the City of Puyallup’s fire department into Central Pierce Fire & Rescue. So what was to become of all the old used Puyallup Fire Department
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BRIGHT STAR: Minireview: Jane Campion’s beautiful and wistful film shows John Keats and Fanny Brawne submerged blissfully in a love that exists almost entirely of their idealism. The great young poet and the younger girl who found his poetry difficult live in two halves of a tiny cottage in Hampstead
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On Friday night the sidewalk outside Doyle’s Public house will fill with bicycles. Many of them will be unusual bicycles. On Friday night the tables inside Doyle’s Public House will fill with people. Many of them will be unusual people. One of them will be TW (T-dub to
