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One of the most awaited holiday traditions is taking to the stage of Harlequin Productions. The Olympia theater is staging its holiday offering, the latest in its original serial about a troupe of New York nightclubbers doing their part for the war effort by singing their way to the hearts
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Something about this time of year — it makes plaid cool. It makes fiddles cool, too. The Celtic Music’s Voyage to Appalachia: Highland Health and Holler, featuring Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, and Bruce Molsky, arrives at the Pantages Theater Thursday. Cool. Having been recognized
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Is it possible for a bar to save your life? The Weekly Volcano thinks so. Whether you’re looking for cocktails and conversation or a place to brood, your favorite bar, tavern or lounge can be a home away from home. These are the places you go to commiserate, to communicate,
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Turkey Day (the time honored tradition of stuffing bread up a turkey’s ass and eating it) is by far my favorite holiday. I like it even more than Christmas. Thanksgiving has all that Christmas has to offer: great food and drink, family and friends, and crisp weather that lures us
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Claiming to be the largest conveyor belt or Kaiten sushi restaurant in the Northwest, Sushi Revolution is an inexpensive way to sample your way through sashimi (raw slices of fish laid on top of rice), sushi rolls, and tempura (panko battered and deep fried veggies and various seafood). Upon entering
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Saturdays: Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101. Saturdays and Sundays: Rockridge Orchards wine and cider tasting, 1-4 p.m., 41127 212th Ave. S.E., Enumclaw, 360.825.1962. Sunday, Nov. 25: Fall Wine Tasting Gala, 2-5 p.m., $50, Al Lago Ristorante Italiano, 3110 Sumner Tapps Hwy. E., Lake Tapps,
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In keeping with the bird theme for the Weekly Volcano’s Thanksgiving issue, there is this little bird-brain item in the works this weekend, The Northwest Winter Pigeon Classic. It runs Nov. 23 to 25 at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. This event, fully sanctioned and endorsed by the Puget Sound Pigeon Club,
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The significant one is into Nike shoes. Which is interesting to me, a person who needs the stability received from what I fondly refer to as “Franken-boots” — New Balance running sneaks I get at South Sound Running on Pacific Avenue. The two of us, on a rare weekend in Seattle,
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There’s something about the idea of cooking that just brings warm, happy feelings deep into my soul. Sure, the act of eating makes me happy, but when I think of the fun part of the process of cooking — the special gadgets, the flavorful combinations, the time-proven methods and bizarre rituals
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It’s not easy to engage a live audience in an age where people channel surf while text messaging, talking on the phone, eating dinner, checking e-mail and updating their MySpace pages. Spending an hour or two watching a singer/songwriter is great if you are already a big fan or if
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In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not for this blasted infirmity that the Fates have
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Mr. Magorium is 243 years old, he informs us. He has possibly survived so long by being incapable of boredom. Life for him is a daily adventure, which he shares with the children who pack into his magical toy store. And let’s talk about the toy store first. If the
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30 DAYS OF NIGHT: Barlow, Alaska, said to be the northernmost town in America, undergoes 30 days without sun every winter, which makes it an ideal holiday haven for vampires. The townsfolk, led by Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, do battle against ravenous vampire hordes led by Danny Huston, in
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“Bella” tells the story of two people who fall in love because of an unborn child. Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto 2006, it is a heart-tugger with the confidence not to tug too hard. It stars an actor named Eduardo Verastegui, whom I would describe as the next
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Bobble Tiki is a has been. There’s no denying it. When it comes to the journey of life, Bobble Tiki has already seen his best years slip by, and now lives day-to-day under the realization that he’ll never be as fit, as spry, or as youthful as he was 20
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I like to support unorthodox music venues — if for no other reason than strange music venues provide writers like me an instant lead-in. I’m lazy like that. When the Pasties recently played under the Fourth Avenue bridge in Olympia, and Bobble Tiki mentioned the show on the Weekly Volcano’s Spew, I
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What exactly does it mean to be “punk rock?” While I’ve offered my opinion on the matter a number of times here in the Weekly Volcano, in truth, what the hell do I know? I’m about as punk rock as Bette Midler. (And for those playing at home, Ms. Midler
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As he sipped his latte before the Tuesday night’s Northwest Sinfonietta rehearsal, Musical Director Christophe Chagnard explained that he’d researched Beethoven and felt as though he understood the man who’d been so influential in pushing the future of classical music. Beethoven’s childhood at the hands of a drunken father left him
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“visiting mr. green” Olympia Little Theatre is staging a comedy worth a look. “Visiting Mr. Green” follows the story of, well, Mr. Green as he wanders into New York City traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, an ambitious and hard-working corporate executive. What starts as
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I have to be brutally honest here for a minute. I didn’t have high hopes for Tacoma Little Theatre’s production of “Sleeping Beauty.” I just didn’t. But I played the role of the dutiful father and took my daughter to see the show so I would have something to write about. Apparently,
