Features
Enough with the praise, it's time for some tough love. Today, I feel like bitching and you're the only one who's paying attention to me right now, so you're going to get an earful. Or an eyeful. Whatever. I could give a shit if they fire me from the Weekly Volcano.
Features
It's always a good day when you discover something new that involves wine. While Water to Wine retail wine shop of Gig Harbor has been around for a while, they haven't just been sitting around sipping on inventory and enjoying their lovely harbor view. They have been planning, plotting and
Food Matters
MATADOR AND WILDFIRES Matador Restaurant and Tequila Bar has partnered with local organization Band of Brothers Northwest to help raise funds to assist victims of the Eastern Washington wildfires. Thursday, August 7 from 11 a.m. to close, Matador restaurants - including the downtown Tacoma location - will be donating 100 percent
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Halie Loren Seattle. Aug. 26-27 7:30 pm. $20.50 (Jazz Alley, jazzalley.com) Keiko Matsui Seattle.
Show And Tell
Richard Linklater spent 12 years making this week's movie. He filmed a small piece of the film each year to allow the cast to age naturally onscreen. He isn't the first director to do something like this. In 1994, Danish director Lars von Trier started filming Dimension, shooting a three-minute
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The Gregarious Oranges may have a name that calls to mind the psychedelia of the late '60s, but their sound recalls a period in music that came almost a decade earlier. Drawing from the Merseybeat sound of the early '60s - which included early Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and
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It is always a treat to be part of a movement - to catch an artist during their incline rather than having to vomit your way through a decline (see: Ja Rule, that was a hard one to sit through). Saturday, you may see a young, up-and-coming rapper before he
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The duo of Francisco y Madero is comprised of two dudes who met through MySpace and collaborated from hundreds of miles apart - Jesse Sylvester in San Francisco and Carlos Pesina in Guadalajara, Mexico. Despite the piecemeal approach they had to forming their band, their music resonates with a form
News Front
The more things change, the more they stay the same ... but for the soldiers of the 555th Engineer Brigade on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the changes will be piling up in the coming months as companies redeploy, a battalion is transferred to another brigade and other companies are inactivated as
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That Coyote describe themselves as hard rock, and while that's intermittently true, they devote a substantial amount of their time to exploring different moods and textures. Two songs off of their most recent LP add up to almost half an hour, which would fall in line with the format of
Listings
BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Charley's Pub Fircrest. Chicago Blues Thursdays. Real Chicago blues with Richard Molina. 8-11 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES The Ram Restaurant and Brewery Tacoma. Geeks Who Drink pub quiz. 8:30 pm. NC. Tacoma
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Knoxville's the Black Lillies have done a nice job uniting varying strands of the country spectrum. They're an indie-label band that plies its trade at rock bars, but, in addition to making a big impact on the Americana charts and year-end lists as the case with their 2011 album, 100
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BLUES Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Nigel Egg. All Ages. 8 pm. $10. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Collin Moulton. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. The Forum Tacoma - Downtown. You Think You Know Tacoma? Trivia Night, hosted by Dr. Bill Baarsma. 6 pm. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Red Bicycle Bistro and
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Don't know much about history; don't know much about biology, who cares? What matters is how much you know about Tacoma. Here's your chance to strut your Tacoma stuff: a trivia game where your local knowledge feeds your ego and your sense of belonging. Dr. Bill Baarsma, former mayor of
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BLUES Broadway Between 9th & 11th - Tacoma - Downtown. Brew Five Three Beer & Blues Festival, with Stephanie Anne Johnson, The West Coast Women's Blues Revue, The Mark Riley Trio, Junkyard Jane. 1-8 pm. $30, $10 Designated Driver. B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. The Mark Riley
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This Saturday, starting at 4 p.m., the Stadium District Art & Wine Walk will celebrate its six-year anniversary. If you have walked the Walk before, then you'll all ready be there; if you have no idea what we're talking about, you might want to visit this colorful event. Technically, the
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 loves few things in life as much as inventing new words - especially words created out of two words
Music
My son was born in Santa Monica, California. It was a sunny February day. Three months later, to the day, I packed all of our belongings into eight cubic feet of IBF moving tractor trailer - dropped it off in front of our apartment on E Kensington. Joe Bass and I
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. J. W. McClure. All Ages. 7:30 pm. C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Olympia Timberland Library Olympia. Scott Cossu, John Croarkin. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC.
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For those who haven't caught the buzz, Ten Tiny Dances is a stripped down format where 10 dance artists demonstrate astonishing inventiveness and variety on a 4-foot-by-4-foot stage - or about the size of a coffee table. Based out of Portland, the contemporary dance series has been adopted by many
