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WHEN SPECIALS ARE SPECIAL >>> I have found a delicious way to wage caloric battle against our winter: the Loco Leches Banana Bread Pudding ($6) at The Social Bar and Grill. Crazy, indeed. Crazy good. It's a healthy chunk of glorious mélange of old bread, eggs, cream, sugar and banana. And when I
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CAMPED OUT >>> It's 10:30 p.m. last night, and I'm leaning against a piano watching the attractive crowd mingle at the inaugural Tacoma Social, one of the many organized social gatherings the collaborative movement Camp 6 has planned on its way to world domination - or, at the every least, melding
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NEW RESTAURANT ALERT >>> The first time I made macaroni and cheese, I followed the official CIA (Culinary Institute of America) recipe. It took me approximately four hours, utilized two French "Mother" sauces, cost about $10, and tasted mediocre. I won't be doing that again soon. These days I leave it
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SPECIAL TEAMS >>> It's time to start planning the biggest event of the year, your Super Bowl party. I don't get as riled up about the game as I used to - I think it's because players now change teams as often as they change their jockstraps - but I do
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OVER THE WEEKEND >>> I ran into red Saturday night in downtown Tacoma. The Mix Dungeon Science at Hell's Kitchen
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WE SCENE IT >>> The Big Wheel Stunt Show, the Tacoma rock band Weekly Volcano Editor Matt Driscoll interviewed in this week's issue, rocked a medium-sized crowd last night at Hell's Kitchen. If you have seen the band perform before, you no doubt had to elbow your way to the front.
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HELLO BEST OF TACOMA 2012! >>> Tirami sù ("pick me up"), far from being an Italian dessert of ancient vintage, was actually invented at El Toula restaurant in Treviso, just north of Venice, in the '60s. It spread across the ocean like the Beatles, with such startling rapidity that by the
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FEELING GROOVY ON NORTH 36TH >>> The original downhill pioneers damn near strapped entire tree trunks to their feet, doggedly steering them like great monoliths. Back then, men were men, and people had to ski uphill, both ways, in the snow. And you know what? Those manly men laughed and laughed -
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For the second year, The Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center will be home to an event aiming to help businesses, individuals and communities discover ways to aid sustainability and promote healthy LOCAL business practices. Go Local Tacoma's Shift Happens daylong extravaganza will feature seminars, food
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THIS JUST IN >>> The University of Puget Sound just sent this to the Weekly Volcano World Headquarters: Due to inclement weather, we regret that the Martin Luther King Jnr. 7 p.m. evening celebration in Kilworth Memorial Chapel and 5 p.m. afternoon reception in the Rotunda at University of Puget Sound have
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CINEMATOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE IN TACOMA >>> Photographer and Clearance Cuisine blogger Benjamin Toombs periodically sends me shots he has snapped around Tacoma and the Pacific Northwest. My jaw not only hits the floor, it runs around the room in circles after viewing his magnificent work, such as the fisheye/panoramic he took above. Restaurant
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A TOUCH OF FRANCE ON ITS WAY >>> Their women are loose. They don't bathe. Their cooking is the best in the world. These and other choice stereotypes about the French have been flying about for a long time, carried to a level of absurdity when the French government challenged the American
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FILLING YOUR DREAMS TO THE BRIM WITH FRIGHT >>> Time to give them something fun they'll talk about for years to come, let's have a cheer from everyone. It's time to party. Making Christmas. Making Christmas. Snakes and mice get wrapped up so nice with spider legs and pretty bows. It's
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THURSDAY NIGHT RELEASE PARTY >>> It may be winter, but the cherry kriek will be flowing at Engine House No. 9 where it will be celebrated tomorrow night. That's right, it's going to get fruity inside Tacoma's beloved E-9. But not too fruity. Fruit beer doesn't get much respect because most of it
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ON THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS >>> For a few of you, on the second day of Christmas your true love will give you two turtledoves. Nice. You can put them in the back bedroom with the awesome partridge and the pear tree you scored this morning. The Weekly Volcano would never discount turtledoves,
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CARVING A DELICIOUS BREAKFAST >>> If you go rushing through life you're going to miss out on a lot of good things. Of course, the smell of roses is the classic example, but if you're always in a hurry you're also going to miss letting a piece of maple sugar candy
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AMERICIANA MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS ANOTHER AWESOME SHOW >>> Americana music is as much a melting pot as the country it takes its name from. The music genre cuts a wide swath these days, encircling just about anything that involves singing and songwriting by, well, an American. Bill Monroe, the Carter Family
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LOTS OF FIRE >>> Rammstein's motto is, "Do your own thing, and overdo it." And that "thing" begins and ends with fire. Weekly Volcano scribe Ernest A. Jasmin was 30 yards from the stage for most of the band's show at the Tacoma Dome this past May. Jasmin says.
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Temporal Terminus: Marking the Line - an awesome temporary public art exhibit that celebrates the important transformation of the Prairie Line Trail from rail to linear park - opened Saturday, Nov. 12 in downtown Tacoma. On the rainy opening afternoon, the Tacoma Arts Commission, staff from the University of Washington-Tacoma
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IT'S ABOUT THE MUSIC >>> In a career spanning five decades and including more than 40 films, documentary filmmaker Les Blank shines a yielding but revealing light on people and cultures far outside the American mainstream, contrasting sharply with the heavily staged, agenda-driven documentaries popular today. Blank will attend tonight's screenings of
