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As part of the Weekly Volcano's new Nosh League, you can meet up with like-minded foodies at locally owned restaurants and businesses and take advantage of special discounts, win restaurant gift certificates, and learn tips from chefs and food producers. Nosh League events will take place on a regular basis
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Last Thursday night during Sax's Ladies Night, DJ Midnight Mike was getting the party krunked up by mixing some soul and R&B cuts that are seriously old school, but are still heard today in the samples and loops of hip-hop songs. Some in the mostly mid-20s crowd recognize the
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Fabulous Tacoman Doug Mackey has retooled his Fab Four-themed variety show - first seen at the City Club of Tacoma's 25th Anniversary Gala last October - and will present it for the general public May 6 at the Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Accompanied by keyboardist Terry O' Hara and a
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(CONTEST CLOSED) For this week's Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're giving away three pairs of tickets to the Tacoma Farmers Market Rodeo Barn Dance, which will be held Saturday, May 8 inside the Freighthouse Square. Each ticket has a value of $25, so we'll be
Arts
The word "environment" has rapidly become an all-encompassing term to reflect the world we live in and the world we create. Pecha Kucha Night Tacoma No. 005 - to be held Tuesday, April 20 in downtown's Bone Dry Shoe Building - will feature speakers sharing their views and reflections of
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The common definition of the word "sport" usually goes something like this: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. This vague definition leaves a lot open for interpretation. A buddy of mine asked me whether or not I thought competitive eating was a sport.
Live & CD Reviews
Last night the Tacoma skies painted the sidewalks with rain and the moon was reluctant to show its face. These conditions are not ideal for most outings, but they made a night of rock music in The Den's warm backspace more appealing than usual. After my wife, the 7-year-old and
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The Weekly Volcano's Tournament of Tacos has swept up the entire nation (read: general Tacoma area) for the last two and a half weeks, providing bracket addicts everywhere with something to fret over besides Butler and St. Mary's. On Monday, all the taco battling will come to a spicy
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Third Thursday Artwalk in Tacoma can be a bitch - because it's almost impossible to walk between Tacoma's arts spots. Never fear: The Art Bus is here. Organized by the Speakeasy Arts Co-op's Angela Jossy, and taking off at 6 p.m., the Art Bus will take ticket holders to Mad
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Butt implants are everywhere. Gone are the more simple times when women perked up their form through torturous straps and pins and clamps and possibly a witch's spell or two. Patricia Cosgrove will be able to shed more light on the suffering women went through with her lecture "Revealing
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Fulcrum Gallery hosts another first Friday party full of hypnotic grooves and righteous visuals, this time wooing trip-hop geniuses The New Law from Seattle. Adam Straney and Justin Neff will create a simmering soundscape of throbbing drum machines, surreal sax, samples, and soaring synths far too ballsy to be
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Synesthesia HEAR THE PAIN: Of course you've seen her. The chem-peeled Botoxed liposuctioned Fembot strolling through the Tacoma Mall brushing off gawkers like dandruff, resplendent in her lovely and increasingly ill-fitting undergarments, hiding from the sunlight beaming through the skylights to avoid complete meltdown and forced to move to Forks. Ah, the modern
Check It Out
Remember back when your mom would drag you to yard sales full of sad stuffed animals with missing eyes and useless junk that smelled vaguely like old ladies? Well, Vixens sale doesn't remotely resemble those musty sales of yore. Nope, Vixens' sale is happy. In the next week or so, the
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Just as turntablism-the art of playing records-has made an instrument out of a medium, the movement's DJs have made the transition from enablers to performers. Friday's The Last Vestiges of Winter, organized by record-player manipulator/artist Oliver Doriss, seeks to put a little stress on that assumption by presenting three
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An artist who works with "found art" is obliged to blur the lines between curator and artiste, which can either diminish the authenticity of his or her exhibitions or broaden his or her capacity for expression, depending on how you look at it. Becky Frehse's solo show Adaptations, which focuses
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International Film Festival Thursday, Feb. 4 As a former subscriber to the Film Movement, an organization dedicated to bringing obscure foreign films to the attention of sloths and the disorganized masses, I appreciate subtitles. (Sometimes I wonder why British sitcoms don't have them, since I typically only caught one in every
Food Matters
DIM SUM IN OLYMPIA Chinese brunch may be the best brunch of all, at least that's what goes through my mind every time I visit Kirin Seafood Restaurant in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Hell, there's at least 25 dim sum joints up there - all with carts full of baskets and
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Synesthesia Art With A Heart: Yes, another Valentine's Day is approaching. Obvious expectations on this "special" day include the following: grumpy singles, unsavory public displays of affection, overly excitable girlfriends, an arsenal of disgruntled Hallmark employees, and, of course, lots and lots of chocolate. But before I go on, let me
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And ... March 7 is the day. Oscar day. The day all those little-golden-statue-grubbers have been losing sleep over. You want to watch, you know you do. Food, raffle, silent auction, cash bar, live broadcast of the show - yep. The Grand Cinema will throw its annual Academy Awards Party Sunday,
