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MICHAEL SWAN: THE HOLIDAZE - ONE PANEL AT A TIME >>> No matter where you go each year around the holidays, the holiday spirit bombards you from all sides - comic book stores are no different. For years comic book writers and artists have deviated from the normal story lines
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MICHAEL SWAN: DEPARTMENT OF COOL >>>The 2009 Art Slam, which featured 58 South Sound visual and performing artists and 14 spoken word performance inside the Rialto Theater Nov. 18, is now available for free public viewing on Click! ON Demand. Click here for Click!Small print: You must have a Click!
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RON SWARNER: GO LOCAL >>> If you have a superb eye and a high tolerance for dust mites, vintage-store shopping can be a great experience. What's not to love about discovering hidden gems and one-of-a-kind pieces and creating a look that's completely your own? Also, there's just something about vintage
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: ART INSTITUTES BEST TEEN CHEF IN AMERICA COMPETITION >>>If you think you're the country's best teen chef, it's time to enter the Art Institute's Best Teen Chef Competition. The contest is open to high schoolers graduating in 2010 with a GPA of 2.0 or better; applicants must sign
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: BECAUSE “SERIES†IS OUR MIDDLE NAME >>>We're posting a South Sound store window daily through Christmas to give you a quick jolt of holiday spirit. Ho, ho, ho! On the 21st day of Christmas we drove by: Lick's Antiques.LINK: Drive-by Holiday history
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MICHAEL SWAN: MONDAY, DEC. 21, 2009 >>> 1. The Mandolin Café hosts a Winter Solstice Celebration featuring Too Many Cooks with Steve Stefanowicz beginning at 7 p.m.2. Tim Kapler's Incomplete show hangs on the walls of The Swiss.3. Bundle up and stroll Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium as it comes
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: BECAUSE “SERIES†IS OUR MIDDLE NAME >>>We're posting a South Sound store window daily through Christmas to give you a quick jolt of holiday spirit. Ho, ho, ho! On the 20th day of Christmas we drove by: Pioneer Bakery.LINK: Drive-by Holiday history
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: MUSIC IN THE SOUTH SOUND TONIGHT >>>Don’t know what to do tonight? Don’t worry, we have you covered. Bands like Oh Dear! represent a sort of subtle, shapeless sound that, for some reason, is impossible to describe. What exactly differentiates indie pop/rock from any other kind of rock?
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: BECAUSE “SERIES†IS OUR MIDDLE NAME >>>We're posting a South Sound store window daily through Christmas to give you a quick jolt of holiday spirit. Ho, ho, ho! On the 19th day of Christmas we drove by: What?LINK: Drive-by Holiday history
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MICHAEL SWAN: SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 2009 >>> 1. The Folksingers In Hell perform at 3 p.m. inside Funkoma Vintage along Tacoma's Antique Row.2. Santa Runs Tacoma - featuring Frosty's 5K Run/Walk, The Grinch 10K Relay and Tiny Tim's 1K Kids Run - begins at 9 a.m. on Dock Street.3. The
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GEOFF READING: STILL IN MOURNING >>> The 253 is still in mourning. As more and more of the nuts and bolts of what, how, why and where come to light, it gets more and more frightening. It could have been any of us. The four officers were sitting in a Forza Coffee shop.
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MATT DRISCOLL: BRING ON THE WEEKEND >>> Do you feel it? Do you sense it? Do you smell the Nag Champa? That's right, ladies and gentleman, it's time - yet again - for The Prefunk: A weekly primer designed to get you and your liver ready for the weekend in the
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MATT DRISCOLL: TWO IS STILL BETTER THAN ONE >>> Tonight and tomorrow night Colonies will celebrate the release of a debut full-length album, Thirty Thousand, with two record release shows in Tacoma. Tonight the band will strap it on for those of us with iron livers, playing a show with Canon Canyon,
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RON SWARNER: THIRD THURSDAY ARTWALK GEM >>> We always get uneasy when musicians attempt to cross over to stage and screen. John Bon Jovi on Ally McBeal? No amount of chest waxing could make him tolerable. Britney Spears in Crossroads? No longer a girl, not yet an actress. Madonna in
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RON SWARNER: NEVER TOO EARLY TO DISCUSS BOOZE >>> Face it: the Great Martini Revival is over, although those splendid silver bullets remain deliciously potent. Then there are cosmopolitans. Sure, they are wildly popular and pretty and tasty, but essentially we're talking girlie libation. Now that the damp is back
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: BECAUSE “SERIES†IS OUR MIDDLE NAME >>>We're posting a South Sound store window daily through Christmas to give you a quick jolt of holiday spirit. Ho, ho, ho! On the 18th day of Christmas we drove by: Victoria Sells Antiques.LINK: Drive-by Holiday history
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MICHAEL SWAN: FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 2009 >>> 1.If you’re also seeking refuge from the early holiday avalanche, duck into Tacoma Symphony Orchestra’s annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah featuring the TSO Chorus and four soloists at 7:30 p.m. inside St. Charles Borromeo.2. Magical Strings celebrates 31st joyous year of Celtic yuletide
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MATT DRISCOLL: TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE >>> Later this week, Friday and Saturday, to be exact - Colonies will celebrate the release of a debut full-length album, Thirty Thousand, with two record release shows in Tacoma. On Friday, the band will strap it on for those of us
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MICHAEL SWAN: CONCERT ALERT >>> Yes, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has a serious Thom Yorke/Jeff Buckley jones, and the British rock trio cops enough Radiohead affectations to make Coldplay and Starsailor seem like Motorhead devotees, but so what? Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006) and The Resistance (2009) are
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: BECAUSE “SERIES†IS OUR MIDDLE NAME >>>We're posting a South Sound store window daily through Christmas to give you a quick jolt of holiday spirit. Ho, ho, ho! On the 17th day of Christmas we drove by: Goldenrod Jewelers.LINK: Drive-by Holiday history
