Music
The first song I ever heard from TV Girl was the title track from their 2011 EP, Benny and the Jetts. I didn't know, at the time, what an appropriate song it was to get introduced to this band. As the story of the song goes, a man is in
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[INDIE POP] + FRI, JULY 18 Lately, I've been spending too much time thinking about the preponderance of math rock influences in local indie rock. I think I first noticed it during the last batch of Makeup Monster shows. Something changed in the SOTA music scene, and - as near as
Food Matters
SMOKIN' HOT RIBFEST LeMay - America's Car Museum (2702 E. D St., Tacoma) is hosting an exclusive summer event for lovers of the grill, both the one that adorns your wheels and the ones you cook over fire with in their Smokin' Hot RibFest 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July
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It's hard work being a foodie scribe. On the one hand, you have the barrage of demands to indulge in delectable cuisine; on the other, you have the need to investigate the local culinary culture. I mean, seriously, what's a girl to do? Most recently, my civic duty required me
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"With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort and worry; the first instinct is to abolish these painful sensations. First principle: any explanation is better than none. The question "Why?" is not pursued for its own sake but to find a certain kind of answer - an answer
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Lately, I've been spending too much time thinking about the preponderance of math rock influences in local indie rock. I think I first noticed it during the last batch of Makeup Monster shows. Something changed in the SOTA music scene, and - as near as I can tell - it
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What might have come across as a bit of cheeky, gimmickry with the Cave Singers, has coalesced into an easy and natural product. Combining members of punk bands like Pretty Girls Make Graves and Murder City Devils into a folk-rock band (right at the apex of Seattle's neo-folk inundation, mind
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For the past couple of years, Olympia has doubled its role as a capitol, not only housing the state's government affairs, but also the capitol of hip-hop battles. From The Go Hard Or Go Home series, to the We Out Here Showcases and, in the past year, For MCs By
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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 Hockey Seattle June 3
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MAY 7: HELL ON WHEELS Roller derby has come full-tilt. It's on like Donkey Kong, as they say; but this wasn't always the case. Way back when (2001), in Austin, a group of tough-ass women with a passion resurrected the past, with added badass attitude, and created the roller-skating beast
People Rule
People look forward to retirement for a variety of reasons. "Starting on Aug. 12, I have no intentions to ever run again," said Col. Bruce A. Bowers, Jr., 446th Airlift Wing commander. "Unless I am being chased." Bowers, who has been with the 446th at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, McChord Field for three
Food Matters
A blessing A&W Burger Drive-In on Pacific Avenue South became Blessing Burger in late 2009. I fondly remember A&W; there was one in Logan, Utah where I was born. It had a round, interior fireplace and it was here that I discovered dunking fries (and later my burger) directly into
Arts
This is a woman with presence. Her mere smile or scowl can send a shockwave through a room of people; her voice carries like a kite that hits the wind just right, and her words can swell an emotion as good as any full moon. Her name - Elizabeth Lord
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Hot fun in the springtime The Tacoma Urban League Guild is hosting the “World’s Largest Traveling Fashion Show,” the 49th Annual Ebony Fashion Fair presentation, Stylishly Hot. The Ebony Fashion Fair is a show known for its daring, body-baring style — if the name alludes to anything, the evening promises to
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Tommy Carson, Weekly Volcano promoter extraordinaire, flashed his duds at Saturday’s Head to Toe Hair and Fashion Extravaganza at the Tacoma Elks Lodge, explaining that he purchased the whole thing at Mr. Mac’s on Martin Luther King Way. “I saw it, I liked it, I put it together,” he explains of
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This past week I went to the Tacoma Invite for track at Mt. Tacoma High School. The kids in the crowd dressed for the event, especially the guys. Many wore the classic original silver chain that connects to their wallet, just in case it fell out. However, some of them
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I found a 2112 cassette tape in my P.E. locker midway through seventh-grade. I got home and put it in my mom's shoebox-sized player recorder - the kind with the little toggle switch. Just play, stop and forward. The tape was already rewound to the beginning of side one. "Overture/Temple of
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Aliens often invade my brainwaves, sending subtle subliminal signals that force me to crave certain restaurants. These are different than normal cravings in the fact I have cravings not for certain foods, but the actual restaurants. I yearn for a certain atmosphere, a favorite bartender, or an establishment's basic menu
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72 hours is not a long time. The teams competing in this year's Grand Cinema 72 Hour Film Festival - a yearly Tacoma institution - know this all too well. Last weekend, frenzied packs of Tacoma filmmakers dashed around T-town, hurriedly capturing on film all the entries that will
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Guitarist David Lester and singer Jean Smith are the underground musical duo Mecca Normal. They are also visual artists, and they have curated and are featured in a month-long exhibition at the all-ages club Northern in Olympia. The show is called The Black Dot Museum: Political Artists from Vancouver, and
