Military Life
Armed with bowls of gooey cookie dough, brownie batter and bread mix, Fisher House volunteer Glenda Smith arrives at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord home each week intent on making the house smell like a home. As the goodies bake in the home's kitchen, the delicious aroma wafts out and permeates the
Military Life
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Operation Family Support
This weekend the Quilts of Valor Foundation will host its third annual See & Sew event at VFW Hall of Post 91, located at 2000 S. Union Ave., in Tacoma. The event - held Sept. 10-12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - is open to the public and will
Veterans
Representatives from more than 30 state and federal agencies came together Wednesday at the Camp Murray Museum to discuss the success of the state's Memorandum of Understanding for Service to the Guard and Reserve. The document, signed in 2006, is an agreement between the Office of the Governor, State of Washington
Focus
Perhaps they were destined to be together from the day they chose - unknowing of each other's intention - the jersey number 13 for their high school soccer careers. Both wanted it because it was "just a lucky number." While varsity players at San Jacinto High School, about 40 miles east of
Focus
Recent changes in the Air Force's fitness standards have put more of a focus on airmen maintaining a healthy body weight and being able to pass a more stringent physical fitness test. And the McChord Field Heath and Wellness Center is playing a key role in helping airmen accomplish their fitness
Focus
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) - The Air Force's ongoing alternative fuels certification efforts reached a new milestone Aug. 27 when a C-17 Globemaster III from here flew on all engines using jet fuel blended with a combination of traditional petroleum-based fuel, or JP-8, biofuel derived in part from
PROMO
(CONTEST CLOSED) For this week's Weekly Volcano Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're giving away a pair of tickets to the third annual Chehalis Valley Fall Wine Tour Sept. 25-26 AND a $25 gift card to Ravenous in downtown Tacoma. You'll get a chance to
Music Features & Columns
I make my way to the 808 House in Tacoma, and I'm pre-funking like you wouldn't believe. As my need to drink in social situations has increased over time, my standards for consumption have drastically lowered, to the point where now I find myself travelling with a $5 pint of
Nightlife It List
Third Friday of the month means it's Beat Boxxx night featuring the best '80s New Wave, funk, hip-hop, freestyle and early house tunes - and righteous videos, too. This Friday, DJs Chris Savenetti and dAb will man the decks. New to the Boxxx are '80s emulated handheld video games broadcasted
Nightlife It List
Bleached hair glows neon green under black lights. Your high-voltage lime tresses make you look like you're wearing a cheap Halloween wig. The Weekly Volcano is not sure if natural blond hair does this. We would have to see. We've heard there is actually such a thing as natural blond
Scene It
My friends all groan when I tell them this week's club is The Vault. This is to be expected. They prefer dimly lit, hole in the wall type places, where we can argue about obscure books and indie films until our hearts are content. Why subject yourself to that leering, that
Stage & Visual Reviews
There's some great stuff in the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation show at Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound. This exhibition of nominees and winners of the Foundation of Art Award includes work by the 25 nominees from 2008 to 2010. It is likely the best selection of art from Tacomans you're
Arts Features
Every newspaper makes mistakes, but how many newspapers make the same mistake - twice - including once in 3-D? We did. For the last two years the Weekly Volcano named Tacoma artist Jerry Managan "Best Visual Artist" in our Best of Tacoma issues, the last Best of Tacoma, of course, in spectacular
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This isn't Hinson's first show at Minnaert Gallery, but then again, he used to teach art history there. (Membership has its privileges.) According to the college website, "Palminteri often paints large, colorful narrative pieces highlighting domestic life, while Hinson works more in abstract painted constructions. ... Born of this relationship
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Bollywood, that colorful and exuberant fusion of classical Indian dance and the Hollywood musical, has gained a following outside of India. And its arrival in Tacoma comes in the form of Sanford & Son Antiques' annual adult prom Saturday loaded with, no doubt, spectacular song-and-dance sequences, joke-shop wigs, ill-fitting body
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It began as a 1988 John Waters film in which Ricki Lake (yes, that Ricki Lake) played Tracy Turnblad, a girl of size in 1962 Baltimore who wants nothing more than to dance on The Corny Collins Show. Drag queen Divine costarred as Tracy's mother. That film was adapted into
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Alright, look: I have no idea what this "mash up" is supposed to be. Apparently, members of Big Wheel Stunt Show, the Legend of Bigfoot and SweetKiss Momma (in addition to "more," evidently) will converge on the New Frontier stage and do ... something. Personally, I'm intrigued already. These are
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Daniel Higgs occupies a space similar to other people who may be categorized as "mad prophets": vocalists like Isaac Brock or Nick Cave - artists who seem to speak only in proclamations and incantations, with fearsome intonation and a seemingly-possessed fervor in their eyes. These are men who seem to
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While rustic Northwestern folk gilded with gorgeous multi-part harmonies is a type of music that may have already peaked in local and national popularity (what with the Fleet Foxes' recent meteoric ascension from Emerald City darlings to Saturday Night Live musical guests), it's also something that'll likely never grow tiresome,
