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YOUR VOTE WILL HELP PIERCE COUNTY FAMILIES >>> Laugh all you want, but on Election Day the Weekly Volcano likes to be near the SeaTac International Airport. If a military coup breaks out, we want to be the first to take off to another land. But, security being what it is
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NOW OPEN >>> Jack Noble has his head so wrapped around the opening of his new retail kitchen store in Tacoma's Triangle District he didn't notice I was taking hits off his soy latte. Noble, along with business partner Kris Blondin, have opened Füdie next door to their über deli, STINK
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DROPPING ON A WEDNESDAY >>> Having a smooth rich flow; filled with something (as honey) that sweetens. That sounds about right. The Breaklites shelved the full-length and dropped an EP just in time for its December tour. Titled RAPFACE, I wouldn't be surprised if this Tacoma trio had a MC Solaar
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RAISING THE ROOF FOR ROOFS >>> Considering I might have been the oldest person in the room, and certainly one of maybe six donning a tux, I still had a blast at Project: U's Get Involved Gala Saturday night at the Tacoma Art Museum. The United Way's 20- to 30-something gang
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ART AT WORK MONTH >>> Last night during the Art at Work Opening Party at the Museum of Glass, the Tacoma Arts Commission Board of Commissioners Chair Sarah Idstrom and Vice Chair Traci Kelly spent several minutes listing all the accomplishments of the 2011 AMOCAT Arts Award for "Community Outreach by
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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>> I didn't expect to talk jazz last night during the Harmon's Pray For Snow Party. Sitting under snowflake decorations, jazz enthusiast Jerry and I discussed the jazz scenes of New York and San Francisco during the '50s. As we were jostled by hordes donning ski jackets
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AND DRINK BEER ... >>> As in many things, our dear state is divided on the subject of snow sports. Those who don't ski or board resent those who do for getting excited about the cold and showing up for work after a "sick day" with goggle tan lines. Those who
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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>> Great news for those who loved Roger Waters's The Wall concert last December at the Tacoma Dome. It's just been announced that Waters will be bringing his live recreation back to the Puget Sound, this time Thursday, May 24, 2012 at KeyArena. The 2012 tour will
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GO LOCAL GROUP HUG >>> 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 event will feature seminars, food
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SHOULD BE AN EXPERIENCE >>> No single artist in the field of American music has been so pivotal a force for change and growth, no other such a willful authority of musical evolution, as Miles Davis. Among the most famous of jazz musicians, he's perhaps the closest thing the idiom has
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ROCK A BYE DEAD MAN >>> Over the years, I have seen countless versions of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, from student productions to community theater to national tour companies. I have never seen a film noir rock opera about a detective and a police officer who are summoned to an old
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ART AT WORK: TACOMA ARTS MONTH >>> Broadway Center for the Performing Arts Executive Director David Fischer is so awesome the Tacoma Arts Commission created an award for him. Fischer will be the first recipient of the Arts Leadership award, which recognizes exceptional vision, dedication and leadership in the arts in Tacoma. The
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SCARY GOOD SHOW >>> Although Peter Wolf Crier could be described as what it might sound like if a Midwestern Chris Martin and the Animal Collective were to get in a bar skirmish, the Minneapolis duo of vocalist/guitarist Peter Pisano and drummer Brian Moen owe as much to those two as
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BECAUSE TOP TEN LISTS ARE SO LAST MONTH >>> Four years after a dozen people calling themselves the Olympia Film Society gathered to watch a few flicks at the old Washington School in Olympia, the OFS launched the Olympia Film Society at the State Theater in 1984. Twenty-eight years later, and
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BIDDING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW >>> The conversation at Saturday's Cross District Association Auction will undoubtedly center on which Tacoma neighborhood business district might emerge as the next cool place. Or, as real estate agents like to say, an "up-and-coming location." People whom self-identify as urbanites spend a lot of time
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YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO THE 2011 TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL >>> This afternoon inside the Pacific Grill Events Center awards for best films at the Tacoma Film Festival were handed out in front of a full room. Well, technically, they handed out only one award. Kate Connor, director of the feature film Fort
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SEEK THEM OUT >>> Last night after the Tacoma Film Festival Opening Party my wife Kate and I dashed to the debut of Mike Coucoules' Thursday night acoustic open mic at Medi's Pizza & Pasta. I was thrilled to see it well attended. I was more thrilled to have caught The
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YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO THE 2011 TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL >>> It seems like a dream a Tacoman would have about a Hollywood party: Photographers ask to take red carpet photos of you on your entrance; you're given complimentary drinks, including, if you choose, Pabst cans wrapped in napkins; burlesque dancers dance in
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EAT A TON OF PIZZA ALL DAY AND NIGHT >>> When it comes right down to it, just about everything rests in a name. Case in point - the fundraiser today being held for breast cancer research by pizzerias around the nation. What did its inspired organizers call it? SLICE FOR
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Q & A WITH MIKE COUCOULES >>> For some reason, society expects people under 21 to attend horrible, melodramatic poetry readings and open-mic nights where people dwell on their pathetic lives by reading their journal entries to an audience that doesn't care. And like it. While this phenomenon can't be explained,
