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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 2013 >>> 1. Derde Verde continues the grand journey set forth by bands such as Radiohead and Hawkwind. The LA-based band's new EP, Let Me Be A Light, glows with the organic warmth of the band's indie-electronica, while possessing the mechanical propulsion of Krautrock bands like
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 26 >>> Favorites or underdogs, fancy restaurants or dive bars, it's all the same. In the end, they all have one chance to put some tasty morsels between two slices of bread that can take the prize. Sixty-four South Sound sandwiches were selected and seeded
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TUESDAY, MARCH 26 2013 >>> 1. The village of Bakhtia sits on the Yenisei River in the Siberian taiga, a vast sub-Arctic ecosystem larger than the continental United States. No roads or train lines traverse the region. Bakhtia, a community of 300, is reachable only by helicopter or boat, and is
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CRITICAL MASS >>> Spew sifts through the Internets for local arts stories so you don't have to. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame's children's classic about the adventures of four animal friends was hit the stage at the South Puget Sound Community College, as part of the Olympia Family Theater
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR MONDAY, MARCH 25 2013 >>> Sixty-four South Sound sandwiches were selected and seeded by readers throughout February for the Tournament of Sandwiches, which is now five days into the competition. Brackets don refrigerators, break rooms, restaurant hallways and birdcages. Birthday parties have been moved to delis. Everyone
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MONDAY, MARCH 25 2013 >>> 1. The film Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship takes viewers on an inspiring voyage to seaports and watersheds across the country where an intermingling of unlikely allies, of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig farmers and wetland ecologists, sport and
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For ambiance, it's hard to beat Swing in Olympia. It's located in a cute bungalow perched above Capitol Lake. The wine list includes a balance of local choices with international ones, and the menu is large with a definite ritzy air to it. Entrees
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SUNDAY, MARCH 24 2013: FOUR SANDWICH BATTLES ON THE DOCKET >>> Sure, most of us look at lunch as an excuse to escape the desk for an hour (or two), unwind with friends and talk smack about everyone else at the office. But to many South Sounders, lunch is the most
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SUNDAY, MARCH 24 2013 >>> 1. Rich Ridenour, a 54-year-old Michigan native, has been playing the piano most of his life. He wasn't old enough to drive when he joined his first rock band. He met his future wife, Stacy, who is in the front office at the
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LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> 4th Ave Ale House Olympia - Downtown. Halcion Halo, Blacstahl, Deborah Page. 9 pm. Bob's Java Jive Tacoma - Central. SleepyPilot, Psycho 78 & Devil On A Leash. 9 pm. $. C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. KC Brakes presents pop folk rock night. All Ages.
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Most people desire food prepared at a locally owned restaurant where the proprietors had some role in creating what they're hawking. At a barbecue place, you should be able to smell the smoke and picture the manager toiling over the coals in a sweaty, stained wife-beater. At
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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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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 23 >>> For the past four months the Weekly Volcano has been hanging out in delis gathering intel for our Tournament of Sandwiches. Besides smelling like meat and cheese, we have learned a couple things. You don't hear fake orgasms followed by the phrase, "I'll
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SATURDAY, MARCH 23 2013 >>> 1. Copenhagen's young punkers Iceage will bring its Polaroid-picture-fuzzy punk - that draws from Fugazi's neo-classicism and Gang of Four's bounce - to Olympia's Capitol Theater at 9 p.m. If you want to know what the next round of American punk bands will sound like,
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South Sound Sidekick series offers advice from experts living in the, well, South Sound. It posts every Friday. Today, Kevin Smyth has advice on how to raise a rock star. Smyth teaches history and English at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup. He knows a
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THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND >>> WEATHER REPORT Friday: Partly cloudy, hi 47, lo 32 Saturday: Mostly cloudy, hi 50, lo 33 Sunday: Sunny, hi 57, lo 37 >>> SATURDAY, MARCH 23: UPS FLEA MARKET You spend hours wandering around consignment stores, yard sales, and nothing. Break the cycle. Rethink
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<<< VOTED CLOSED FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 22 >>> The Weekly Volcano loves sandwiches. Let us say that again: We LOVE sandwiches. We still get giddy over a food item designed almost specifically for children. And we're not really all that picky. A good P, B and J is perfectly awesome. We
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 >>> 1. Tommy Castro is Delbert McClinton's more talented kid brother. We have been waiting for this San Francisco rockin' blues guitarist to put another one in the ditches. Finally, this past November the blistering "Greedy" / "That's All I Got" (Alligator Records)
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There's something appealing about viewing the cut of meat before it arrives on your plate, especially when you're dealing with prime cuts of Wagyu beef and dry-aged, marbled slabs of steak. Ricardo's Restaurant in Lacey, which underwent a transformation a few years ago when they started
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>>> VOTING CLOSED FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 21>>> Three years ago, the Weekly Volcano challenged 64 taco slingers to enter tournament-style culinary combat, shell versus shell, with Moctezuma's crowned best taco. The next year, pizza took center-stage in our quest for gustatory greatness, with Katie Downs' pie reigning supreme.
