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TUESDAY, APRIL 9: WE HAVE A WINNER >>> After three weeks of voting the Weekly Volcano readers have picked the most popular sandwich in the South Sound. The Tournament of Sandwiches Championship match pitted Milton's darling Oliver's Sandwiches against Tacoma's über deli STINK — more specifically, the Lobster Sandwich vs. the Stinker,
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TUESDAY, APRIL 9 2013 >>> 1. When fine-art photographer Eric Schwartz set out to photograph people with tattoos, he didn't expect to find a detailed history underneath the artwork. After a chance meeting with California tattoo legend Edward "Chuco" Caballero at a national tattoo show, the story for Schwartz's first film,
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 8 >>> The titanic sandwich throwdown finale in on! Voting for the 2013 Weekly Volcano Tournament of Sandwiches Readers' Poll Championship game is live right now. After three weeks of voting, you have picked the two most popular sandwiches in the South Sound area. What began
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MONDAY, APRIL 8 2013 >>> 1. Cosmonauts share time equally in mind-melting squalls of Doors-esque acid rock and bursts of sweet, jumpy garage pop confection. It would be more than advisable to bring some earplugs for the band's show with The Garden Of Burgers at 9 p.m. inside
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SUNDAY, APRIL 7 2013 >>> South Sounders: Get ready to celebrate Thurston County's unique fine dining scene. Following in suit with its neighbors to the north, the inaugural Olympia Restaurant Week launches today and runs through April 18, Sundays-Thursdays. Ten Thurston County restaurants will be
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WILL THE "HARLEM SHAKE" BE INCLUDED? >>> You know how sometimes you watch a particularly crappy movie and you think to yourself, "Even I could make a better film than that." The brain trust at Tacoma's Grand Cinema agrees with you, and that is why they are giving anyone with a
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HOW TWEET IT IS >>> Whether you've been on Twitter since its beginnings in 2006 or you're a Twitter neophyte, you know keeping up on important tweets can be
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SATURDAY, APRIL 6: IT'S DOWN TO TWO >>> Over the past three weeks, the Weekly Volcano challenged 64 of the South Sound's best sandwiches to go bread-to-bread in a showdown of culinary combat. Some fell easily by the wayside, either due to inferior condiments or simply because they faced a superior
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SATURDAY, APRIL 6 2013 >>> 1. Doors for Dockyard Derby Dames' season 7, bout 2 open at 5 p.m. at the Pierce College Health Ed Center. Tonight's roller derby bout will feature The Trampires and Femme Fianna squaring off, followed by the Hellbound Homewreckers and Marauding Mollys battling. Throughout the action
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South Sound Sidekick series offers advice from experts living in the, well, South Sound. It posts every Friday. Today, hair stylist and blogger Allison Stewart has some advice on hair styles for Spring 2013. Allison Stewart writes, With the onset of spring and summer, you
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Some of Thurston County's best restaurants, establishments that define the art of the county's cuisine, are participating in the inaugural Olympia Restaurant Week. Ten unique Thurston County eateries will offer special prix-fixe menus with dishes sure to impress all types of palates. The special menus will dinner options - and
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THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND >>> WEATHER REPORT Friday: Rain, hi 57, lo 48 Saturday: Rain, hi 55, lo 45 Sunday: Rain, hi 54, lo 45 >>> FRIDAY, APRIL 5: K RECORDS POP-UP SHOP Friday, K Records is having an exclusive Pop-Up Shop with local favorite Kendl Winter performing live during
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 5 2013 >>> And then there were four. ... Believe it or not, fine readers, there have been days during the Tournament of Sandwiches when, by noon or so, it was already obvious which sandwich would be moving on and which would be going home. There
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FRIDAY, APRIL 5 2013 >>> 1. In the days before adulthood consumed Steve Stefanowicz, the "Human Jukebox" would perform seven days a week. Blind at birth, proficient on the guitar at 15, performing solo and in his band Blind Ambition, Stefanowicz could be seen nightly through the '80s
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BIG NEWS IN OLYMPIA >>> Opened in 1985, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts has played host to thousands of events, with more than two million people crossing its threshold. However, its history did not start in 1985. The Washington Center is really the grandchild of the
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 4 2013 >>> For the last two weeks the Weekly Volcano presented you with a compelling question: What is the best sandwich in the South Sound? Well, we're closer than we've ever been to finding out - at least based on the voice of you, the
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THURSDAY, APRIL 4 2013 >>> 1. EMA, aka Erika Anderson of defunct psych-folk outfit Gowns, is all about contradictions. She's lo-fi and blown-out, folk-minded but tentatively danceable, ethereal and explosively percussive. The reductive way to describe her music would be to say that it's
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GO GRAB IDEAS >>> In a manner of speaking, Lakewood was made for getaways, beginning with the founding of a number of country estates in the 19th-century by Tacoma area business leaders. And although the then-bedroom community has since grown up, some of those estates remain, clustered around the local lakeshores.
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 2013 >>> Everyone eats it. Everyone has a favorite. Loyalty? It can inspire the rabid fandom of a true sandwich devotee. Maybe your obsession is with the deli with the effed up reader board - or perhaps you drive across town for ginormous portions.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 2013 >>> 1. Mayor Marilyn Strickland. It just flows off the lips. The likelihood of that very thing being on the lips of everyone in Tacoma for a few more years just increased dramatically, as Mayor Strickland has formally announced her reelection campaign and will hold a
