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WEED DIAMOND>>>Friday, July 16With the weather finally shaping up in the Pacific Northwest, there’s no better time for Weed Diamond’s balmy, golden-hued beach pop. The band excels in a specific (and very indebted) sub-genre, one that threatens to seal its own fate through blog-o-sphere over saturation. The band, however, (who
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Forgive Tacoma for looking due south, getting a little jealous and finding something to strive for. It's almost unavoidable at this point. Portland, Ore., with its bike lanes, mass transit, plethora of hipster coffee shops and - most important to this story - abundance of food carts, has obviously done
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Overall I'm less than impressed with the quality of public art in Olympia. OK, yeah, The Kiss by Richard Beyer at the Percival Landing boardwalk (Fourth Avenue and Water Street) is kind of fun. People love to get their picture taken with the kissing couple. But it's really silly and not
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All Shook Up is currently running at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. It's a play inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley, with a book by Joe DiPietro. The play is also based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which does a much better job with the formulaic plot
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All Shook Up is currently running at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. It's a play inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley, with a book by Joe DiPietro. The play is also based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which does a much better job with the formulaic plot line: boy wants
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Art and drugs was a hit in last week's column. Apparently Layne Staley was banging all the way through Mad Season, and people like drugs. And apparently I totally missed the point of a recent request to write about art and drugs. The request, which came from a reader, was
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Gluten-free pizza dough Celiac disease, also known as gluten-intolerance, is one of the most common chronic health disorders in the Western world. As more Americans are finding out they can't tolerate gluten - a very small protein found in wheat, barley and rye - the demand for gluten-free foods is increasing exponentially. Farrelli's
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Kris Blondin, the Weekly Volcano's "Grocery Stories" scribe, has got to be white wine's number one fan. If white wine had a fan club, Kris would be president. Hell, maybe there is a white wine fan club I don't know about yet, and Kris is already the president. Did I
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Thursday's "Team Natalie" benefit concert at the Loft on Cherry - featuring Kill Rock Stars alumni Bangs and The Need, with C Average and doom metal solo project Thrones - is bookended by two more shows boasting the same stellar line-up (The Team hits up Portland on July 23, and
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The Northwest music scene knows how to take care of its own. Our woodsy, insular corner of the country has nurtured some remarkably supportive and artsy communities - a minor empire of wide-eyed, open-hearted creatives, stretching from Bellingham's coven of enthusiastic house-show crust-punks, to as far South as the legendary
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Times are - once again - tough for all-ages venues in Tacoma. Of course, it seems like there's never much of a break between those times in this town, but this feels especially dire. At the end of the month the mostly hardcore all-ages joint, the Viaduct, will bite the
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Conventional wisdom dictates that you'd rather spend Tuesday morning watching TLC TV and sharing a big bowl of prune whip with your great Aunt Zelda than venturing out to hear harp music. But in this case, conventional wisdom would be wrong. The melodic sounds of the harp will be featured
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As we all know, these days it's all about local, and Tacomans are incredibly fortunate to have four farmers markets spread-out through out the week to make our shopping accessible. What I would like to see is a year-round market in a permanent structure like Olympia. Why do they
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Sitting in his hotel room overlooking the land of the mighty Lummi Nation, Anthony Fernandes, aka Block Savage of Savage Family, is thinking about his future and his people. Teaching at a music mentor academy at the Lummi Nation Reservation just north of Bellingham has refreshed Fernandes, and recharged the
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According to PETCO, reptiles are often misunderstood. For instance, many people think owning a reptile would be fucking gross, and probably require throwing live baby mice into the mouth of something that looks like a cold-blooded, mini dinosaur. Not true, says PETCO, and the mega-corporation aim to prove just that
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While it's easy to quantify Oly as just a hippie, college town - that's only partially true. A large portion of the population is proudly blue-collar. The most amazing part of all of this is the two demographics - shoeless hippies and hardworking grunts - come together every year for
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Tacoma musician Forest Beutel is a rough looking dude. He looks kind of like a cross between Lemmy Kilmister and Sabretooth from the X-Men - but way more redneck. Many peoples' first impression of him is that he seems like he can beat the shit out of anyone at whatever
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Oh, the Carnage Found on floor, dead: One BCBG Girls shoe, two Children’s Place flip-flops, one super comfy slipper, two socks, one dog bed, one disemboweled stuffed bunny, one tiger with an eye chewed out, three Fairytopia Barbies, one beach Barbie, one beach Barbie swimming pool and all its accessories, two
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It was the Wonder Woman tattoo on her wrist that immediately drew me to liking Jennifer Elliott, new kid on the Jade’s Salon block. Once upon a time, I was an over-achiever, and my friends took to calling me Wonder Woman. I have since taken up a “life triage” approach that
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Deb Hamilton recently sported a sweater-dress confection made by her friend Megan Stein. Stein crafted the dress from two sweaters, very similar to how Pretty in Pink’s Andie Walsh created her own prom dress, which is an apropos connection, as Hamilton is wearing the dress to an ‘80s theme party. Hamilton and
