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MICHAEL SWAN: SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 2009 >>> 1. Beautiful Angle Holiday Party Benefit Sale featuring live music, good food and drink, great company, and a bunch of lovingly-created letterpress broadsides kicks off at 7 p.m. inside King’s Books. This year's poster proceeds and donations benefit the programs of Trinity Learning
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MATT DRISCOLL: BRING ON THE WEEKEND >>> Ah, the prefunk - a calm before the storm and a time to prime yourself for the coming party. Whether you specifically refer to it as a "prefunk" or not, nearly everyone - or everyone the Weekly Volcano rolls with, that
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GEOFF READING: ROBBERY AND MURDER IN THE 253 >>> This Tuesday past, as I was perfecting my coffee mixture and watching the boy spell out wooden words on the table with a jigsaw type letter board toy he always chooses first when we're waiting for our food to show
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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 fourth day of Christmas we drove by: Learning Sprout.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. For a fresh-faced, rosy cheeked chap, Ian McFeron and his band have been around the block more than most - probably driving some vegetable oil powered, hippie smelling, jam
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MICHAEL SWAN: FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 2009 >>> 1. Ethnomusicology visiting artist Bora Ju performs works from the Korean sanjo tradition as well as contemporary works on the gayageum at 7 p.m. inside Carwein Auditorium at the University of Washington-Tacoma.2. Bundle up and stroll Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium as it comes
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MATT DRISCOLL: BUSY LITTLE BLUES BUGGER >>> Billy Stoops, of Junkyard Jane fame, not to mention Billy Roy Danger and The Rectifiers, is quite possibly the busiest little musician this side of the Mississippi - or at the very least the Columbia. It seems like Stoops and his bandmates from
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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.Jonathan Richman will make us and many other audience members cry and swoon and feel like we’re falling in love with everything. Ice cream, mosquitoes, the Velvet Underground, the Abominable
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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 third day of Christmas we drove by: Key Antiques.LINK: Drive-by Holiday history
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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 third day of Christmas we drove by: BlahLINK: Drive-by Holiday history
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MICHAEL SWAN: THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 2009 >>> 1. Tacoma artist Tim Kapler shows 19 original sketchbook works at The Swiss through December.2. The BareFoot Collective will perform excerpts from its FootFalls show at 7 and 8 p.m. inside the Mandolin Cafe.3. The Tacoma Public Library downtown branch will host a
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GEOFF READING: LIKE RIDING A BIKE, ONLY WITH POOP AND THE CULT >>> The first time I was able to control my functions after having all but the most essential nub of my rectum yanked out as a result of a bout with col-rectal cancer was at a show the Cult played at the
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MATT DRISCOLL: YOUR PRESCRIPTION IS FILLED >>> Like indie rock migrants, unshaven and unforgiving, the Pharmacy bumble about this country of ours prescribing messy amounts of psych-pop-punk like doctors slinging elixirs out of the back of a horse drawn cart to wide eye and hopeful pioneers. Having originated in the
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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 second day of Christmas we drove by: Vanity Fashion Boutique.
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RON SWARNER: FOOD MATTERS >>>Food Trends: Charlie McManus, co-owner of Primo Grill and the Crown Bar, will lecture on the changing culture of food Wednesday, Dec. 2 in the University of Puget Sound Wheelock Rotunda. The City Club of Tacoma event begins with a 6 p.m. wine social followed by
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MICHAEL SWAN: WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 2007 >>> 1. Robert Horner, David Curry, Antonio Edwards, Lawrence Houston, Thorax Toole, Elliot Trotter, Madera Architectural Elements, Kate Burnham and Albert Desantis will each show 20 slides (20 seconds each) on the theme "Working" during Tacoma's Pechu Kucha Vol. 003 at 5:30 p.m. inside
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: THE INTERNETS CURATOR >>> Spew scans the local online art world so you don’t have to.There are some holiday traditions you just don’t mess with. Then there are those you mess with, screw with, change, alter, add stuff, cut stuff. The News Tribune art critic Rosemary Ponnekanti previews
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WEEKLY VOLCANO: BECAUSE "SERIES" IS OUR MIDDLE NAME >>>The holiday season has hit the South Puget Sound. Stores are stocked, the tree in front of the Pantages is lit, and you're getting your über-wholesome, sweater-clad Johnny Mathis on - right? And while you're making your wish list, we will visit
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JAKE DE PAUL: ANOTHER COOL THING COMES TO SIXTH AVENUE >>> You no longer have to wait to enjoy empanadas from Pampeana, which currently are available through an online ordering process here. Beginning Wednesday, Dec. 9, Nancy and Alexis Oltman’s impossibly puffy and lighter than air pockets of goodness will
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MICHAEL SWAN: THE COLLEGE RADIO STATION IS NOW ON FLICKR >>> The hip kids that write CD reviews on our Web site have launched a Flickr site. The DJs and crew of KUPS 90.1 FM “The Sound†loaded photographs surrounding their mtvU Woodie award announcement and New York City trip
