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SO ESOTERIC >>> Have you ever fallen asleep while listening to someone tell you about his or her dream from last night? Apparently it's quite common. Put your sleeping cap on ... Here are my three dreams from last night. Mason Bates' Sirens My first dream followed a vocal ensemble and I as we
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LET HIS SPIRIT BE UNCHAINED >>> UPDATE: Tickets for Van Halen and openers Kool & the Gang (natch!) go one sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 through Ticketmaster, LiveNation.com and or charge by phone 1.800.745.3000. Ticket prices haven't been released. As KZOK FM and Tacoma KOMO reported yesterday, Van Halen will
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WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE >>> When I was a wee one, my heroes were not Roger Staubach, James Bond or even H. R. Puffinstuff. No, I looked up to Ted Simmons, a science professor from Orlando, Florida, and Milly Cornwall, a "stewardess" from Wichita, Kansas. I knew little about them; Ted
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YO CLARK GRISWOLD! >>> For many Americans, the holiday season could be better-called "The Consumption Season." Corporate America has seasoned our perception of a year's end into an annual rite of buying on credit, looking anxiously for parking spaces and slipping unconsciously into a "Buy! Buy! Buy!" mind frame. The seasonal celebration
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WINTER BEERS >>> Thanksgiving - cruelly sandwiched in between two much cooler holidays - has always been a bit of a letdown for me. Maybe I just had to draw one too many handprint turkeys and write too many lists of things to be thankful for when I was a kid. I
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LOCAL LECTURE >>> I was introduced to rock climbing in the mid-'80s. David Lee Roth was singing and swinging from a rock during one of his lame MTV videos. I had the hair; all I needed was the skills. However, TV sports broadcasts portrayed climbers as unbalanced rock-hermits who feasted on
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LET'S GET WEIRD TONIGHT >>> As a roommate, I have done some horrible things in my day. But the worst thing, without a doubt, was when I was in a hurry to tape a movie on TV - surely you remember videotape - and I taped over 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Note to self: Don't show up late to a Varsity Grill beer tasting. My 15 minute tardiness tonight forced me out of the packed bar area, past THREE reserved sections for parties, past another long table full of partiers and into a back corner next to the kitchen. Where the
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BRILLIANT! >>> Ever noticed how tiresome co-workers can sour Hump Day drinks? Skip the bar and head instead to Uncorked Canvas's Wednesday night wine and painting get-together. Beginning at 6 p.m., you'll complete a simple painting project with an instructor while tasting wines and munching on food. Awesome, huh? As a change of
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JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED >>> After a month of changes, a couple special sections and a design intricate Tacoma Film Festival program, all I want to do is kick back with some sweet-ass music. No jostling. Certainly no shoe-gaze or cry in my beer melodies. I want sit sink into
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TAKE ME BACK HOME YEAH >>> I grew up in a small Oregon rural town reared among an extended family of Bularian immigrants who fished for a living, who drank Oly out of cans and drove Chevy pickups that were bashed in from sideswiping trees. I lost my virginity by walking
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HAPPY NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY! >>> Many a 9-year-old has read Homer Price, a 1943 book by Robert McCloskey. The most memorable of Homer's adventures is set in his uncle's coffee shop, where a unique machine cranks out doughnuts in full view of the hungry diners. Of course, the customers gobble down
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COO COO CA CHOO >>> Peninsula School District radio station KGHP needs to raise funds to stay on air. As we see it, they can do one of two things. First option, capture the upscale, educated market that loves pledge drives by converting the station to an all pledge drive format.
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HISTORY! >>> Metro Parks Tacoma is throwing a big birthday party today for Queen Victoria at the Fort Nisqually Living History Museum. Ah, that's nice. Hey, wait a minute. Victoria, daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24, 1819.
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YEE-HAW! >>> In our weekly editorial meeting at the Weekly Volcano World Headquarters, it was brought to us bloggers' attention that evidence has been found of a hidden genome, somewhere in the phalanges, that causes forefingers to click a mouse whenever the words "First Peek" or "Bra" appear. It's bizarre, but
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HALL SCORES A HORN >>> Last Saturday the Weekly Volcano reported that a bunch of kids refused to leave Ted Brown Music in Tacoma until they were given a free instrument. For the report, click here. We're happy to report all the kids eventually did leave, but not until Amelia Hall of
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TACOMA REPRESENT >>> Though born and raised in Tacoma, Don Wilson was living in Seattle when The Ventures were formed in the late '50s. He had just returned form an Army stint in Germany, where he played the trombone in the regimental band. Once in Seattle, Wilson landed a job as
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WHAT KIDS WILL DO TO ROCK OUT >>> Ted Brown Music 5th annual "Hands on Contest" began yesterday at 6 p.m. at its Tacoma store just off Interstate 5 at Tacoma Mall Boulevard. Fifty-six kids showed up for the contest. The rules: Keep both hands on a trumpet case. The person
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SCREW BUY ONE, GET ANOTHER FOR $5 >>> Things you learn while waiting in the motor line at Starbucks. ... Attention pie fans. Every Wednesday at the Shari's Restaurant at 72nd and Interstate 5, next to the Red Lobster, which is next to Dairy Queen, which is next to Applebee's, which is
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PIZZA INFOGRAPHIC >> For those night (tonight?) when you're drunk enough to eat anything on a cold pizza, Daily Infographic slaps you in the face with a weird global pizza toppings infographic. As you may already know, Japan has a large fishing community and is famous for its sushi. However, the
