Arts Features
You could whip out your wee digital camera if you want to capture your image, but, let's face it, digital cameras are a flash in the pan. The real way to record the essence of you is one that kings and queens of old recognized - sit your booty down
Music Features & Columns
RED QUEEN THEORY >>> Thursday, Feb. 17 Red Queen Theory takes its name from a hopelessly complex evolutionary hypothesis that finds its inspiration in the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass - the queen who had to run as fast as she could just to stay in the same place. To
Afterword
This summer I watched a woman do over 30 military push-ups at the Weekly Volcano's Best of Tacoma party. Impressed with her abilities and form, I wanted that strength for myself. I contacted Kjersten Salzman, owner and lead trainer at Elev8 Fitness, and enlisted in a month-long boot camp session.
Music Features & Columns
Ladies, it's time to break out that sexy piece of clothing you've had sitting in your closet for a very special occasion, because Justin Bieber - I mean Macklemore - is coming to The Royal Lounge in Olympia Thursday, Feb. 24 - fulfilling every 16-year-old girl's dreams. If you've been
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Macklemore makes incredible music that represents our area well - that much is obvious. But this guy is a true class act. Ever heard about a baby being saved from getting hit by a car or train? It was Macklemore that came to the rescue. True story.
Scene It
Since starting this column, I've been careful to pay attention whenever I overhear the phrase "meat market." Like, when I heard a skinny brunette say, "The Swiss was fun. It was a total meat market." Or, "The Royal can be cool, but it's the biggest meat market in town." When
Food Matters
EXCELLENT FARE WITH A SURPRISING SOURCE >>> A rising trend in the Tacoma area seems to be pseudo-gourmet food being offered in unlikely places. The standard hangover-helper breakfast menu gets a makeover at Dirty Oscar Annex, a bar that also features live rock bands and an open mic.
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This expo promises to introduce prospective brides, grooms, wedding attendants and their families and friends to the Gritty City as a one-stop shopping destination for the Big Day. They'll be treated to top-notch food and beverages while touring the city's most beautiful places to get married. Over 60 vendors will
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JoAnn Parks is making "Max" available for an evening of public viewing and private meditation sessions. The skull is said to be thousands of years old and one of 13 artifacts with mystical properties, including the ability to generate iffy action sequels. It's been featured in documentaries the world over,
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These six-time Grammy winners pride themselves on preaching the wonders of traditional Irish music to the world. Not only have they uncovered a wealth of traditional Irish music from centuries past, but they make it their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive. Their home
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This stage adaptation of Chaim Potok's 1972 classic makes its Pacific Northwest debut in a collaboration between Lakewood Playhouse and the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Marcus Walker, Lakewood Playhouse's managing artistic director, it's the story of a gifted young artist torn between his Hasidic Jewish faith
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Paid admission to the Museum of Glass buys each visitor a new hands-on arts experience each month, designed to entertain and inform people of all ages. For 12 bucks more, the museum offers a noon Hot Lunch, at which a box lunch from Gallucci's Glass Café fills your belly while
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Nate Jackson organizes a super funny collection of super comedians weekly, which is super. He's a super funny comic himself, so much so that he reigned supreme at the same Bay Area Black Comedy Competition won previously by Mark Curry and Jamie Foxx. Super! He promises nationally known headliners every
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Time to break your wizard bong out of storage: Wednesday's show at Northern promises to be intensely psychedelic. Arbouretum are set to perform with Oregonian jammers Eternal Tapestry, their comrades on a brief West Coast tour that's bringing both bands' gargantuan riffing and hypnotic arrangements to eager ears from SoCal
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On "She's a Babe," you can barely make out Ben Funkhouser singing "I miss my mom and my cats," a line that's as painfully earnest as it is deeply ironic - at least when you consider Hausu's namesake: a gruesome, impossibly over-the-top Japanese horror classic in which a fluffy white
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Cosmonauts may just be the one-millionth psychedelic garage band that I've written about in my time at the Weekly Volcano, and I tell you it's the funniest thing: Though they hail from California, they sound like they could have just as easily been born out in our fair, gritty city.
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Red Queen Theory takes its name from a hopelessly complex evolutionary hypothesis that finds its inspiration in the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass - the queen who had to run as fast as she could just to stay in the same place. To get anywhere, she said, you'd
Nightlife It List
Sigh. Football season is over. No more weekends filled with high ankle sprains, knee injuries and dislocated shoulders. No more disappointing finishes, missed extra points and dropped passes. No more Seattle Seahawks. No more shots of Tom Brady's hair. Thank God the sports bars like Lakewood's Fan Club are here
Nightlife It List
The Bridge nightclub in the Emerald Queen Casino might be the best nightclub in town to meet a love interest. Why? Because the Bridge has live bands every Friday and Saturday night. Tacoma favorites like Idol Eyez and Raeanns Groove will finish out the month of February. That's two straight
Nightlife It List
What's not to love about The Mix? Fine beers, all-day happy hours and arguably the best gay and lesbian scene in Tacoma. We here at the Weekly Volcano are big fans. And with the edition of Wii game night every Wednesday, we're even more likely to blow off responsibilities and
