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Here's your chance for a shot at Weekly Volcano writers, or at least their signatures. Weekly Volcano visual arts critic Alec Clayton and features writer Joshua Swainston will join author Titus Burley (awesome name!) for a public ready at Orca Books. These guys love books, bookstores (particularly small and independent
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Who you want to idolize? Celebs? Reese Witherspoon? Tiger Woods? Barry Bonds? James Bond? As if. That British charmer has replaced the winks with a nasty slab of tightly wound violence. So we try to spin it back around, seek out real life superheroes. People who are visionaries. People who
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Local saxophonist Kareem Kandi presents a musical gift to the South Sound Thursday. Get this: Boarding a plane in New York bound for the Puyallup campus of Pierce College are trumpeter Lew Soloff (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Gil Evans, Tito Puente, Manhattan Jazz Quintet), bassist Essiet Essiet (Horizon, Art Blakey,
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The Urban Grace Church, the sold-out seats and glowing candelabras played a lovely backdrop to a night that allowed Amelia Saakian, Jake Hemming and Damien Jurado to shine. The audience embraced every word during last night's Candle Lit show, presented by The Warehouse. And the singers sounded simply glorious: precise,
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Dear Mojito, What exactly are you smiling at? The fact that I forgot my wallet, or that you knocked me on my ass? Laugh it up, salad face. OK, both facts are true. First, I did come to a Friday afternoon meeting at the Matador in downtown Tacoma with my wallet holding down
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