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Being a mother is rough. From wiping bottoms and runny noses to shelling out the credit card for another school expense, the demands of a mom never stop. We at the Weekly Volcano understand. That's why I suggest a night of comedic relief and live music. Saturday, May 11
Stage
My admiration for Lisa Sweet is growing. I was impressed with the pieces she had in the recent "Finish" show at The Evergreen State College and even more impressed with her work in the current show at Childhood's End Gallery - "Printmakers: The Art of the Hand Pulled Print." It
Features
As I groggily blink away the sleep from my eyes this morning, yawning and stretching, I'm hit by the feeling that something is not quite right. My room smells like my mom, Jackie, has been in here again: faint lavender and chamomile aromas linger. And as I stretch my gangly adolescent limbs, I
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Oh dear reader. I swear that last weekend you all turned Ruston Way into material for the next Macklemore hit. You were poppin' tags and on the prowl. I enjoy watching y'all strut your stuff as much as anybody but if hoards and traffic aren't your thing there is a
Arts
Tacoma Art Group - or TAG to the cool kids - is a conglomeration of Tacoma's museums, galleries, artists and other artsy goodness that has set out to support Tacoma's arts scene. Its latest artsy razzmatazz sees TAG highlighting a mural/public art artist monthly and his or her contributions to the
People Rule
Terry Leonard has been the editor of Stars and Stripes for the past 5 1/2 years. Prior, he spent 28 years with the Associated Press - 20 of that overseas in places as diverse as Rome, Rwanda, Romania, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. We caught Leonard for a few minutes and
Military Policy
Former Army Spc. Christina Jones swallowed 30 morphine pills and slumped against her bedpost. "Maybe this time, I'll get it right," she whispered, referring to her second suicide attempt in a week. The voices in her head grew distant and Polaroid images of terror blurred. Jones was sexually assaulted three times
Benefits & Deals
Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce's Veteran and Business Specialist Greg Mowat is on the road virtually non-stop these days. He doesn't mind it one bit. Since the Chamber's Veteran and Business Service Program in partnership with Workforce Central launched late last year, Mowat has made a number of business and community connections in
Style
Tacoma's Proctor District personifies what makes a charming business district hip with its community events, walkability and variety of services available. Surrounding the intersection of North 26th and Proctor streets, the Proctor District is within a short trip from the Ruston Way waterfront, downtown Tacoma and Point Defiance Park. Within a
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Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl, USMC (Ret.) kept a journal of his time on a ship traveling around the western Pacific, when he was in Desert Storm, and the third was serving as the military escort in charge of accompanying the remains of 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps - who was
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Appropriate. One meaning, multiple nuances. Uno: It is not appropriate to use outside voices inside. Dos: It is very appropriate to yell "Yeehaw!" every time you agree with film reviewer Robert Horton at the Olympia Timberland Library. Horton will pull up a bale of hay Thursday and explain how the
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Those who tour the Tacoma art galleries, museum and businesses every Third Thursday - whether it was during the former Third Thursday Artwalk or its replacement, the Tacoma Art Mingle - have had that Moment. The Moment you know you will look back on six months (or a year, or
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You wake up. Your knees ache, your back pops - maybe you feel like a totally different person. That's essentially what has happened to the J.C. Todd home - a "free classic" Victorian style home built in 1901 by general contractor Edward C. Hill for newlyweds J.C. and Gladys Todd.
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The Mac is back! Well, kind of. The Mac - that's Fleetwood Mac, for those of you who weren't around in the late '70s/early '80s and/or don't have parents - is back in name, at least, Monday, May 20 at the Tacoma Dome. Drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, guitarist/vocalist
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The Northwest Pastel Society's 27th Annual International Open Exhibition at American Art Company features works from 58 artists from across the United States and Canada. Almost half the gallery is taken up with nice little landscapes that are amazingly similar to one another, and about a quarter of the gallery
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Get your Gilligan on Saturday when the Port of Olympia resurrects the Swantown Boatswap and Chowder Challenge. Boat connoisseurs will be able to peruse boats listed for sale, pick up parts and accessories all while enjoying a little bit of live music and chowder from Thurston County eateries. The chowder
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Ernest Hemingway was a megalomaniac. We know this from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris flick. Hemingway was also suffered from depression, and ultimately committed suicide at the age of 61. There has been much written about this great American writer, but not through the sensibility of his wife or lover
