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WE SCENE IT >>> Tipsy chicks with press-on mustaches and $2 wells makes for a standard November Rockaraoke night at Jazzbones. Of course, the live house band cranking Sublime, Gwen Stefani and other dorm room-type music for karaoke singers is standard, too. Last week, however, Jazzbones tossed in a twist - adding
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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>> Thanksgiving at my house is a futile exercise in restraint. Which calorie-laden delight should I gorge on first? At my house, we load up on the traditional bread stuffing spiked with country sausage, roast turkey and close to 20 bowels of fixin's. Yes, we're a gluttonous
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CHECKING IN WITH GO LOCAL TACOMA >>> What do they want? Answer: A strong economy. When do they want it? Answer: Now. That was the message Go Local Tacoma posted on its Facebook Oct. 25 to shout out its annual membership meeting happening the same night at Stonegate Pizza. Gathered on the top floor of
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MONDAY MORNING GROUP HUG >>> This morning, Tacoma officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its Pacific Avenue Streetscape Project, a beautification and innovative storm water improvement plan that includes new street paving, sidewalks, bicycle lanes and crosswalks along the Pacific Avenue stretch from Old City Hall at Seventh Street to the
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ADJUST YOUR WEDNESDAY NIGHT >>> The synthesizer is a powerful tool that has suffered much abuse since its entrance into the pop world. Cheese-doodling, lipstick-wearing hairspray bands of the '80s are to blame for the synth's lowly place among "real" instruments like guitars and snare drums. But Stepkid, a.k.a Benjamin Tyler
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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012 >>> 1. How have you aged? Are there wrinkles and scars and flab and sag? Do you have stretch marks, age spots, bone spurs, droopy kneecaps and giant moles? Do you wish you could walk into a giant Photoshop Booth and come out the other side with
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ARTS COVERAGE TO END ALL ARTS COVERAGE >>> While you were trying to bake cookies from Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream, the Weekly Volcano was hot on the trail of local arts stories. Our goal is to consistently provide the best local arts coverage possible to
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THIS WEEK'S VOLCANO MUSIC COVERAGE >>> Sometimes life is hard. An unexpected toothache, or a beloved editor leaves you or the proverbial thorn in the side is just about enough to force you not only to throw in that towel, but to jump under it and cry. That's why the Weekly Volcano
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TACOMA ARTS COMISSION REPRESENT >>> Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Kareem Kandi got an early start playing the saxophone, picking it up at age 11 while attending Washington Hoyt Elementary. In the seventh grade at Mason Middle School, Kandi began a nine-year stint of private lessons with the great saxophonist
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START WORKING ON YOUR EXPRESSIVE DANCE MOVES >>> Do you use SoundCloud more often than Google? Do you enjoy the kind of excitement that feels like if you don't unleash it by dancing outdoors, it might give you an aneurysm? Do you hate normz and feed off of the creative energy
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ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL >>> Thursday night 500 people, some dressed in green, slowly strolled up the wide concrete floor of the new LeMay America's Car Museum as Irish melodies from band Mooncoyne filled the enormous space. A bit of dodging was in order as many stopped to gander at the
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TACOMA REPRESENT! >>> When comedian Adam Norwest, 25, returns to his home by Point Defiance Park he'll be wearing a shiny crown. Yesterday morning he learned he won Country Music Television's Next Big Comic title. Norwest began his comic career at age 13. In a few short years he was the
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STAND-UP COMEDY CAN BE BRUTAL >>> There's nothing worse than a person who wants to be funny but isn't. It's painful to watch. There's a difference between having a good sense of humor and possessing the ability to be funny in front of a crowd, knowing timing, tone and body language. I've
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BENEFIT SHOW FOR REED RILEY >>> National darling Vicci Martinez returns to her hometown of Tacoma Sunday to play a benefit show for her former manager, Reed Riley. Apparently, Riley needs triple bypass surgery and it's not a cheap procedure. Tickets are $25 and go on sale at 5 p.m. Wednesday,
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TONIGHT! >>> Two girls sidle up to the bar inside Magoo's Annex in Tacoma's northend. Ordering a round of PBRs, they knock the bottoms of the cans together and loudly toast each other for surviving the first day of the workweek. Behind them, a cascade of Monday night revelers washes past
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During college, I studied in Denmark for a semester and then traveled through Europe with a ragtag group of ramblers from the university I'd attended. The trip included a lot of walking, train riding, museum/church exploring and experiencing the different cultures of Europe (e.g., drinking beer in bars). We kept
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VIVA LAS VEGAS-LIKE >>> Breakfast is my favorite meal in Mexico, especially when I'm sitting on some beach, drinking cinnamon-laced hot chocolate while eating ripe papayas and platters of huevos rancheros - fried eggs with salsa on top of crisp corn tortillas. Breakfast is also my favorite meal at the new Taqueria
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SO YUM! >>> It's president's Day, and President's Day means caramel. Why? Because Morgan Alexander at Amocat Café is giving away free samples of his homemade caramels. And they're quite delicious. "Every since I was a kid I dreamed of owning a candy factory," Says Alexander. Morgan Wonka is on his way. While he claims he's
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BAKING IN A BIGGER SPACE >>> Tacoma's beloved Corina Bakery is closed. It's a good thing. The bakery is moving down to the corner and into the space once occupied by Mavi Contemporary Art and Minoela. Yes, both spaces. If inspections go well, Corina will open this Wednesday at 8 p.m. Right
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ONE GIANT HUG >>> Coffeehouse audiences aren't known for their exuberance. And coffeehouses aren't typically known as rock venues. At best, the dimly lit textbook folkie with a guitar earns a smattering of applause over the din of cappuccino steam and chatter. Yet when Kurt Lindsay and Daniel Blue took to their
