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There are few things the Weekly Volcano loves more than two cauliflower-eared, unincorporated Pierce County street tough looking knuckle-draggers beating the living shit out of each other for the small time glory and applause only a crowd of blood thirsty, alcohol lubed, community college dropouts and union electricians can bestow.
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"The Northwest is a fertile breeding ground," Austin based director Bob Ray once told us about our area and roller derby. He was right. Tacoma's Dockyard Derby Dames and Olympia's Oly Rollers prove it. Tuesday, Ray's Hell On Wheels, the story how a group of passionate and driven woman created
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For 10 years strong Stonewall Youth has been providing support and empowerment to the Olympia area's gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans-gender, questioning, intersex, and asexual community - through programs and support groups that serve a valuable need. Saturday, the 10th annual Stonewall Youth Drag Show Extravaganza will up
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It's time again for Ethnic Fest, an annual event that's brought Pierce County's diversity together in celebration since 1986. Some of the best festival feeding you'll find - sorry Taste of Tacoma - Ethnic Fest also packs visual arts, performing arts, dance, crafts and fun into two days of multi-cultural,
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Chances are you've got a couple dumb friends. It's the law of averages. Well, Hamlet was no different; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may not have been the sharpest, but they were his buddies - even obliviously escorting him to banishment. Friday, the Outfit Theatre Project's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead officially
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Pierce County Prosecutor and author Mark Lindquist has a lot of famous friends. Dude dated Molly Ringwald, for god sake. I mean c'mon. Not only does he know a lot of famous people, he's not above using their names to raise a little dough - as evident by the fact
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Thursday, July 22 Gordon Brothers Winery tasting, 5:30-8:30 p.m., complimentary, Pour At Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, 253.858.3982. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, July
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NOSH LEAGUE Beer likes company, so the Nosh League will hold its next nosh pit inside the Engine House No. 9 for a beer and cheese tasting Thursday, Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. Weekly Volcano Grocery Stories columnist Kris Blondin will sift through her knowledge of cheese to find a few
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Barbara Ehrenreich's 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is about her cross-country odyssey as a voluntary member of the working poor. Ehrenreich believes that even as poverty rates - and income inequality - climb, it's only getting harder to be poor. Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland
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B2 Fine art Gallery offers "The Black Aesthetic," with more works by notable African-American artists including Milt Simmons, Thelma J. Streat, Paul Dusenbury, Richard Mayhew, Humbert Howard, Norman Lewis and the great Romare Bearden. Simmons' paintings dominate this exhibition. His "Introspection" at six-by-eight feet is a dramatic,
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As a military journalist, I have the opportunity to visit and meet people from all walks of life. During one particular assignment, I was given the chance to interact with some of the elite forces of the military, the 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and Navy Special Boat
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In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average household spent 33 percent of its income or $16,887 per year on housing. Jenn Kliese of Olympia, who lives in a tiny house, spends less than one-quarter of that. But although greater financial freedom was her main motivation, Kliese is finding
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Beer likes company, so the Nosh League will hold its next nosh pit inside the Engine House No. 9 for a beer and cheese tasting Thursday, Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. Weekly Volcano Grocery Stories columnist Kris Blondin will sift through her knowledge of cheese to find a few
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They walk among you, shaded beneath hooded vestments. You may not even know they're there. A hollow-eyed, pallid tribe, they watch from the darkness, listening to your every word. Then, like invisible vampires, they feed on your deepest thoughts and emotions before regurgitating them into the street. Sunlight drains them.
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About a dozen local restaurant chefs will prepare mushroom-based delectables and compete for bragging rights and your attention and patronage. How much will it cost you to sample this orgy of fungal sensuality? Five bucks. Five bucks! Good luck scoring a mushroom high for less, even
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A Croatian proverb says, "All mushrooms are edible, but some only once." Thankfully, only about five percent of North American mushrooms are poisonous, with another five percent edible and tasty. (The other 90 percent taste like ... well, what they grow on.) And of course there's our good friend
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cafe Luna Vashon. Julia Hanowell, Kiki Means. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Pantages Theater Rehearsal Hall. Tacoma - Downtown. The Tacoma Round #11, featuring Pearly Gate Music, Troubletown, Colin Reynolds. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $8. Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Trevalyan Duo. 21+. 8
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night, featuring Mark Growden. All Ages. 7 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Westwood & Willow. All Ages. 7 pm.
