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From the first, striding chords and skittering drums on album opener, "It Was Disco and It's Over," the West succeed in evoking a dozen beloved influences - from newly deified type like LCD Soundsystem to time-tested gods like New Order. Clearly, the members of the West have an ear for
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On sale now Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Tacoma. Feb. 24 3 pm. $24-$44 (Pantages Theater, 253.591.5894). Every Time I Die, From First To Last, The Bled, August Burns Red, The Human Abstract Seattle. Feb. 24 7 pm. $18-$20 (El Corazon, TW). MSTRKRFT, LA Riots, Lazaro Casanova Seattle. Feb. 26 9 pm. $13-$15
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Brave New World founder Shyan Selah and his band The Republic of Sound make their way back to Tacoma for a show with a talented supporting cast. Selah, born in Kentucky, raised in Federal Way, sports a big personality, and it follows him on stage, where he belts out rap,
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"You might say that we are classic elegant swing meets surf guitar," says Jessica Blinn, vocalist and violinist for The Jessica Blinn Quintet that will play Olympia's Urban Onion Friday. The event kicks off a new jazz series for the venue. "We are excited to be playing at a new
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ART + WINE You know what's better than sipping Abeja 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon with its flavors of plums, blackberries and umami mushroom/soy nuances? Sipping it while looking at awesome art. Morso Wine Bar (9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor) will host a reception and meet and greet for featured artist Christina Hella
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The Expert Infantryman Badge was awarded to 159 infantrymen from the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, for successfully completing the brigade's week-long EIB testing, during a ceremony April 26, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. "It's for infantry and special operators. It trains and tests
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You can tell the moment you walk into the new Pinwheel Catering’s Herban Cafe this is a place where people linger, where they come with newspapers and laptops in the morning, and drink coffee and eat sandwiches or scones until well into the afternoon. Today, the second day of business
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You can tell the moment you walk into the new Pinwheel Catering’s Herban Cafe this is a place where people linger, where they come with newspapers and laptops in the morning, and drink coffee and eat sandwiches or scones until well into the afternoon. Today, the second day of business
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I don’t normally find myself out in the sticks, since I’m more of a city boy when it comes to beer drinking. Yeah, I find myself at the local watering hole while I walk my dog through the neighborhood, and that isn’t all that urban. But that’s an exception. When it
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I don’t normally find myself out in the sticks, since I’m more of a city boy when it comes to beer drinking. Yeah, I find myself at the local watering hole while I walk my dog through the neighborhood, and that isn’t all that urban. But that’s an exception. When it
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In this business you can’t help but make friends with some of your customers. Many customers see you more during the week than the closest of your immediate family. You tell them your secrets; they tell you theirs. On occasion you slide them a drink on the house and ask
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In this business you can’t help but make friends with some of your customers. Many customers see you more during the week than the closest of your immediate family. You tell them your secrets; they tell you theirs. On occasion you slide them a drink on the house and ask
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Interesting show: Jason Greene, Molly Wolfe and Jeremy Bert at Black Front Gallery in Olympia. Wolfe and Bert complement one another nicely. Wolfe works with glass and found objects, Bert with recycled neon signs. Both are showing objects that are iconic and that seem to combine an early industrial look
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Interesting show: Jason Greene, Molly Wolfe and Jeremy Bert at Black Front Gallery in Olympia. Wolfe and Bert complement one another nicely. Wolfe works with glass and found objects, Bert with recycled neon signs. Both are showing objects that are iconic and that seem to combine an early industrial look
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It seems only fitting that Lakewood Playhouse is staging How the Other Half Lives around Valentine’s Day — and I’m sure the theater planned it at a time that I’m marking my 10th year with my wife. All things revolve around me don’t they? Anyway, the theater is putting on the
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It seems only fitting that Lakewood Playhouse is staging How the Other Half Lives around Valentine’s Day — and I’m sure the theater planned it at a time that I’m marking my 10th year with my wife. All things revolve around me don’t they? Anyway, the theater is putting on the
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Tacoma businessman Steven Naccarato recently decided to reinvent himself. The local entrepreneur’s recent projects, with his brother, have been in the restaurant business. The two opened downtown’s Pacific Grill, and until last April, also operated the Beach House restaurant (the former Pearl’s by the Sea) in Purdy. But Steven Naccarato’s
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Tacoma businessman Steven Naccarato recently decided to reinvent himself. The local entrepreneur’s recent projects, with his brother, have been in the restaurant business. The two opened downtown’s Pacific Grill, and until last April, also operated the Beach House restaurant (the former Pearl’s by the Sea) in Purdy. But Steven Naccarato’s
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As I’ve proven time and time again here at the Weekly Volcano, I’m not above a cheap but entertaining angle. I have no qualms about reporting on something of debatable merit if I think it’ll make for humorous copy. It’s one of my patented moves, and probably one of the
