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The chances are good Airman 1st Class Joshua Henry will never forget his first deployment. Nebaa, a 10-year-old Iraqi girl, certainly won't. That's because the two are forever linked in life, as the 21-year-old airman from the 62nd Security Forces Squadron at JBLM-McChord Field performed emergency care on Nebaa after she stepped
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For this week's Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're giving away three pairs of tickets to the Puyallup Spring Fair, which runs today through Sunday. To enter the contest for the pair of tickets, send an email to feedback@weeklyvolcano.com. We'll randomly
Music
It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling... Bobble Tiki is an adaptor, not an innovator. While Bobble Tiki's wife often looks at a situation and identifies ways things could be
Listings
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.
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 NOW Sharon Jones and The
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Wed night Irish Session. 7:00- 930. Free. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community Center
Archives
If you’re jonesing for some swing, Maia Santell and House Blend have the fix. For the past 20 years, House Blend has been injecting a potent, almost lethal, mix of jazz, blues and jump-jive into hardcore swing addict’s veins, and now Maia and company are peddling their remedy to swinging
Veterans
A mix of civilians and veterans gathered at Lakewood City Hall Monday to honor all veterans of the Vietnam War and celebrate the month of April as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Month" for the city of Lakewood. Lakewood City Council Members Mary Moss, Jason Whalen and Mike Brandstetter, Lakewood City Clerk
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I have a new favorite thing: The Tacoma Rainiers. Last Friday, New Friend Geoff hooked me up with a couple of tickets to the season opener, and I was stoked to go because I’d never been before. I swear to you, dear readers, I’m the girliest of girls, but I also happen
Arts
Aaron J. Schmookler wants Tacoma to be a theater town. "Tacoma, I think, is having trouble in the theater realm. It always seems to be teetering on the brink of success or failure, as a place to do and see theater," he tells me. "I have this deep-seated sense, that I feel
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I confess: I play favorites. I review my favorite galleries over and over again while ignoring many others. That’s because I’m old and jaded. I’ve been around too long to subject myself to reworked Americana and calendar art and amateurish offerings of whatever stripe. This week I revisited one of my
Features
Bernie Garcia followed the action, so when we walked through the big front doors of Moctezuma's Mexican Restaurant, Tournament of Tacos championship plaque in hand, he wasn't terribly surprised - though he was happy to see us. "It was great. We had customers asking us all the time if we'd won,
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You have four weeks to party in a dance club with $4 Jägerbombs, smokin’ hot cage dancers, and crazies juggling fire balls, and then the DJ/freak show will disappear. It’s been ages since I’ve gotten my groove on, but back in the day my weekends were spent swinging between dance
Archives
If they had to remake “Rear Window” — and it was inevitable — this is the way to do it: with an appealingly sullen teen hero, lots of nifty surveillance gadgets in place of James Stewart’s telephoto lens, and a romantic interest who looks like Gisele Bundchen’s younger sister. This
Music
He sits on a stage - a stage that looks more like a wilting Southern front porch than the focal point of one of Tacoma's local music venues - playing a beaten acoustic guitar. It kind of sounds like the blues, but it's not. It kind of feels like you
Stage
What is community theater, and exactly what is it supposed to accomplish? Can it offer professional quality, or should we resign ourselves to watching Joe the Pharmacist and Mary the Bank Teller stumble through A Streetcar Named Desire? In other words, should it be entry level for adorably inept actors
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Pillow Army is a band all about opposing elements. Acoustic guitar and a string section make up the body of most of the songs, but - more times than not - that calm is stabbed by raucous intrusions from loud electric guitars, working as a counterpoint to the loveliness of
Music
Roxy Music taught us love can be a drug, but I don't think I've ever heard a song that depicts love and drugs coexisting together, and more or less equally helpful. "I couldn't make it without you-without you and codeine." So goes the chorus of "Codeine," one of six songs on the
Music
Simon Calcavecchia is one of the endearing forces that makes Olympia so damn awesome. You know Simon - that good-looking man who cruises around Olympia in his wheelchair with his signature Hello Kitty backpack strapped to the back. Simon, with his dapper attire and plethora of beautiful women and tight
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Do the mid-workweek doldrums have you down? Sounds like dance-party time to us. Head over to Jazzbones Wednesday night for "Return To Eden." Vinyl Tribe DJs DefCon1 and Bennienugs will spin the gritty South London-style street rhythms known as dubstep, as well as house music. A special live hip-hop appearance
