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Henna-influenced art is on its way up from the underground, and it's powerhouses like Jada-Moon who are helping take it there. Jada-Moon's henna art will be included in The INK Show - an unveiling of new work by artists that dabble in ink like Zachary Marvick, Maria Jost, Adam Jackson,
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Riding a wave of positive vibes, the Third Thursday ArtWalk ART BUS is back this month with more art venue stops, professionally designed promotional materials and a sponsor - the Weekly Volcano. The bus will make two tours featuring the same stops: Speakeasy Arts Cooperative, Two Vaults Gallery, Brick House,
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While there's at least one UWT professor with a mustache - who happens to be on the New York Times Bestseller List - that might not appreciate Howard Zinn, you have to respect what the man stood for. Zinn looked at history like few people were willing and revealed real
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The first time I moved away from Southern California I was 7 years old. It was the middle of second-grade, Christmas break 1975. Up until then I was a resident of Huntington Beach, Calif. Ed Reading was an editor, and when the cushy gig at Road & Track evaporated, the next gig
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You like the blues and you don't mind rain. I know this because you're not in the process of moving to Tahiti. Saturday, directly following the Daffodil Parade, the Gray Sky Blues Music Festival will kick off at venues all over Tacoma, like the Swiss, Stonegate Pizza, Indochine, the Harmon
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Sure, Christian Carvajal expertly reviews theater for the Weekly Volcano - but he's got some really impressive stuff on his resume too. He's a math teacher, for one. Even better, he's a math teachin' sci-fi author who just wrapped up a book tour supporting his latest effort, Lightfall. Carv (as
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I can't count the number of times I've written stories like this about Bob's Java Jive - the Tacoma legend. I've urged readers to save the Jive, honor the Jive, pay tribute to the Jive, and come spill cheap beer and be mildly grossed out by the bathrooms at the Jive. I've
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Just when you thought “The Reaping” was the most convoluted and overwrought flashback-riddled thriller starring an Academy Award-winning actress in theaters, along comes “Perfect Stranger.” With her Oscar for “Monster’s Ball” fading fast in the rearview mirror, Halle Berry continues her string of earnest but mostly sub-par performances in mostly bad
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Aqua Teen Hunder Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters The creators of the television comedy use the big screen to reveal the secret origins of characters Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. Rated R for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language. – Bill White The Host A horror thriller, a political satire,
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Friday ROCK dirty bird A short visit to urbandictionary.com’s definitions of “dirty bird” tells me that this simple phrase means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. One thing is for sure, it’s a popular band name. A quick Google pulled up six bands with the same or
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It has to be rough to be the sibling of a legend, and may very well be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, musicians such as Sean Lennon, Jakob Dylan and Jason Bonham might have found it easy to get a recording contract, but the ever-looming comparisons with their
Stage
If you've ever acted, directed or "teched" for a play (or even wanted to do any of those things), Tacoma Little Theatre's production of Noises Off is the play to see. In three acts that seem to take far less time than their two hours, the audience watches as the
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Believe it or not, it's been a year already. Rev. Colin Sannes' Cult Movie Club will celebrate its first birthday Sunday at the Acme Grub Cage - the movie club's ultra-appropriate home. Led by the bizarreness of Sannes (of which there is plenty) the Tacoma Cult Movie Club may be
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Newly nominated for the 2010 Hugo Award - among the top honors in the sci-fi/fantasy industry - Cherie Priest's novel, Boneshaker, takes on a Washington trapped in territorial limbo as the government deals with a war that will not end, a Pacific Northwest cut off by the decision to route
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Imagine it's 1879, and the American Civil War refuses to end. Imagine the technological advancement that comes from protracted wartime, the same thing that produced the first iron-plated battleships, stretching 15 years longer than our own history allowed. Imagine an industrial mining experiment gone terribly awry, releasing a mysterious undead
Food Matters
After more than two weeks of voting Weekly Volcano readers have picked the most popular taco in the greater Tacoma area. The Tournament of Tacos Championship match pitted two longtime Pierce County Mexican restaurants against each other: Moctezuma's Mexican Restaurant in Tacoma vs. Tijuana Taco in Lakewood. Moctezuma's was a narrow
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Renown MC/poet and T-Town representative Josh Rizeberg hosts an all-ages Aries Party for yo' ass at The Viaduct in Tacoma Sunday. Rizeberg will bring to the stage performances by: $krilla, Illizm, TKO, Bounce, Wicked Sixx, Darxiide, Business As Usual, Young Swag and L.O.P. A thick lineup of 253 talent by
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If there's one thing Tim Reynolds (of the appropriately named Tim Reynolds Trio) can do it's jam on it. Dude is like best buds from way back with Dave Matthews, after all, which means he's no fan of the two and a half minute pop song. Nope, this guitarist is
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James and the Express is a twee-pop band that seems to be obsessed with tomatoes. That's as good a place to start as any, I suppose. Bouncy, impossibly sunny melodies carry the songs on Are Your Tomatoes Safe?, the band's debut album. Band leader James Mackison's voice is humble and
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Correct me if I'm wrong: Valis is a band made up of leather-clad, rock ‘n' roll Satan worshippers who live together in a giant interstellar vessel powered only by pure, gutturally wailing psychedelic metal and capable of leaping across time and space. Is that right? How goddamn awesome are these
