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They say there are four great American exports: blues, jazz, capitalism and cocktails. And if there is one category the Weekly Volcano has a love for it is the most liquid one. It's hard work to be experts in this field, but somebody's got to do it. And in Tacoma,
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The Intermittent Health And Fitness Club, or IHAF, combines their gym-class glory days with a night of exercise. Titled "Recess," IHAF offers up Double Dutch, four square and hopscotch - or as they call it "our ridiculous way to get fit" - inside King's Books. These minimally challenging games
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Mountain life does strange things to people. Isolated from the hustle and bustle of the city, surrounded by pine trees and reclusive coots, the mind can begin to play tricks on folks, causing them to see shadows in the forest when they're out walking alone or hear voices in
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The Telephone Room Gallery opens Drunk Dialing Friday, Feb. 5. Seattle artist Kristen Ramirez created "an installation of inscribed liquor bottles, each retelling a sordid tale of alcohol-fueled communication. The tales on the bottles are gleaned from friends and strangers via an Internet open call for drunk dialing anecdotes," the
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Nick, a young man living in New York, is torn: Since his parents moved to Florida, he is the only remaining relative of his maternal and paternal grandparents. Every week they all get together for a big Sunday Italian dinner ... but this particular Sunday, Nick has an announcement. Nick
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Does your cash flow feel perpetually dammed? (Or is it damned?) Sometimes one’s inner accountant needs a little assistance, especially for artists whose lives paint a more complicated and expensive existence in a burgeoning arts town. Get help this weekend at the Tacoma Arts Commission’s free, two-day Arts Symposium,
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It’s an artist who fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City’s Holland Tunnel where he winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser. It’s an out of work computer programmer on a
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Even though Halloween is dead, you can still get your ghoul on. Those creepy folks at the Olympia Film Festival offer All Freakin’ Night, a late night mini-fest of mind-numbing unadulterated films sure to cause at least one of your major organs to fail. Beginning at midnight Saturday, Nov. 14
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"Rhapsody in Blue" is much more than a jingle for United Airlines. George Gershwin’s piece of music screams American optimism. If you close your eyes as it’s performed you can kind of see the Chrysler Building. OK, try again. Hear that American style of crossover between jazz and
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Quick question for you: What’s the poetry scene like in Tacoma? If you said, “Wait a minute! What poetry scene?” — you’re exactly the type of person I’m looking for. (Unless, I suppose, your idea of poetry is the stuff scrawled on the walls of Honeybuckets.) Fact
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“If you knew what you were eating, you might not want to eat.” That sums up both the message of Robert Kenner’s documentary about the food industry and your likely reaction to it. Food, Inc. — a 90-minute ride through what we eat and how it’s produced — will open at
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The Neddies are here again. The Neddy Fellowships are among the most prestigious art awards in the state and are granted each year to two worthy Washington state artists in honor of longtime Seattle painter Robert “Ned” Behnke, who died in 1989. The Fellowship is awarded to Northwest artists who demonstrate
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If it seems like it has been far too long since you sported your beret, parked the SUV and pulled the stret-cred ‘66 Bonneville out of the garage and did a downtown Tacoma art crawl, you would be right: The gap between Third Thursdays has been a lengthy five weeks,
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If it seems like it has been far too long since you sported your beret, parked the SUV and pulled the stret-cred ‘66 Bonneville out of the garage and did a downtown Tacoma art crawl, you would be right: The gap between Third Thursdays has been a lengthy five weeks,
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When it comes to handling uninvited party guests, you have to give it up to King Florestan the XIV of Marius Petipa’s and Peter Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Sleeping Beauty. What’s that you say, evil fairy Carabosse? You weren’t on the guest list for my daughter’s christening ceremony? Oh, what a terrible mistake.
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When it comes to handling uninvited party guests, you have to give it up to King Florestan the XIV of Marius Petipa’s and Peter Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Sleeping Beauty. What’s that you say, evil fairy Carabosse? You weren’t on the guest list for my daughter’s christening ceremony? Oh, what a terrible mistake.
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A San Francisco native, Leon Fleisher became a star of the piano only to discover that he lost movement in two of the fingers of his right hand. Slam. There goes the virtuoso career, right? But Fleisher never gave up. He started to teach, conduct, and even play whatever repertoire
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A San Francisco native, Leon Fleisher became a star of the piano only to discover that he lost movement in two of the fingers of his right hand. Slam. There goes the virtuoso career, right? But Fleisher never gave up. He started to teach, conduct, and even play whatever repertoire
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I don’t know about you, but I think what’s happening to the economy is great. Let me demonstrate with one simple statement: Gas is less expensive now. These days it costs me just $18 to fill up my car — a “plum” 1993 Saturn to be specific, which means I
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I don’t know about you, but I think what’s happening to the economy is great. Let me demonstrate with one simple statement: Gas is less expensive now. These days it costs me just $18 to fill up my car — a “plum” 1993 Saturn to be specific, which means I
