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Danii Blackwell shows off her style at the Nordstrom fashion show at the Museum of Glass, though she is, in point of fact, not wearing anything from Nordstrom. Her wool knickers, old-school type that I can remember wearing in the mid-eighties, though never with that much confident élan, came from Chinatown. The
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A lesser person would think that a play named “Amadeus” would be about that composer dude who wrote “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” before he had his first blemish and hammered out the score of some of the world’s best musical works before he had the obligation to shave his face.
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Rachel Corrie “My Name is Rachel Corrie” is a telling play about a Olympia native who traveled to the Gaza Strip to aid Palestinians in 2003 only to die at a protest when a bulldozer crushed her. Her story became headline news around the world and shed light on the struggles
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Can a sandwich hold a grudge? Are its feelings hurt if you get it special ordered? Do sandwiches feel jealousy? Do they ever worry that you'rre thinking of another sandwich while you'rre eating it? Sandwich-lovers feel all these things. They feel passionately about all things mashed between bread; they feel
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Let’s be honest. Nothing says cheap eating like pizza, Chinese food, or – specifically to the South Sound - a burger at Frisko Freeze. Since this is a “guide,” here are a few of The Weekly Volcano’s favorite places in no particular order. You can find much more at weeklyvolcano.com. PIZZA ABELLA
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The 1973 Buick Century parked outside my house is a relic, a dinosaur, a horse that has been put out to pasture. Last week that Buick was also my only form of transportation. The Buick Century is, as it is appropriately named, an old person’s car. If you were to
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Even though Halloween is dead, you can still get your ghoul on. Those creepy folks at the Olympia Film Festival offer All Freakin’ Night, a late night mini-fest of mind-numbing unadulterated films sure to cause at least one of your major organs to fail. Beginning at midnight Saturday, Nov. 14
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I can't believe I've gone this long without writing about local hip-hop on the radio. I probably will miss some hip-hop radio shows in this run-down, so please hit me up and tell me what I'm missing. I'll update local hip-hop radio in a future column. As far as I know,
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Hot Buttered Rum's released their most recent studio effort, Limbs Akimbo, on Sept. 9 under the guidance of producer Tim Bluhm of the Mother Hips. This is drummer Matt Butter's of Everyone Orchestra first official release with HBR following the departure of mandolin player and vocalist Zac Matthews
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208 Garfield is a hit with Pacific Lutheran University students for its value minded menu pricing and a hit in general for the tasty dishes (served small plate style), locally made beers and wine and organic products. Now offering brunch on the weekend, the value minded pricing at 208 Garfield
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The 253 has more metal bands than I have room to mention, but one band has been bashing out the most evil, blackest metal longer than the rest - Infernal Legion. This Saturday the band will release its newest full-length record on Moribund Records. The Spear of Longinus features nine
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It's always a bit of an event when local boy Eliot Lipp returns to Tacoma, an occurrence that now seems to be setting nicely into a roughly six-month cycle. Six months ago, I wrote of the delightful dustiness that seems to adorn Lipp's electronic music - referring to how he
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Baby Gramps looks just like he sounds. His appearance is a more or less spot-on indication of the noises that soon follow when he picks up an old gee-tar and starts a-singing. A long, scraggly white beard, some spectacles, a low-brimmed hat, and when he opens his mouth, the strangest
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Christmas in Tacoma is synonymous with a number of things. Half-racks of Pabst adorned with bows. Eternal darkness. Mediocre gift exchanges. Heavy drinking. Loneliness. Depression. They all have their place on the Tacoma holiday mantel. Luckily, T-Town also has the annual (or somewhat annual) Girl Trouble Countdown to Christmas show,
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The goth is strong in this one. Charlie Drown is the kind of group/artist/performer/whatever that's totally comfortable throwing around lyrics about beds made of skin and "48 dead in my head," all while drum machines and synths pulse in the background. Lead vocals are not so much singing as they
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QUESTION: I'm starting to have feelings for this guy friend I've been fooling around with, but I'm worried he isn't feeling the same way. He's stopped short of having full-blown intercourse with me, which I find odd, although I don't want to have sex yet because I have genital herpes
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Last year we wondered (in print) whether a person could, in theory, get laid somehow by attending the annual holiday classic that is Rich Wetzel's Groovin Higher Big Band Christmas? We deduced that by mixing the bravado (and snappy suits) of Wetzel, the always on point Groovin' Higher Jazz Orchestra,
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Anarchy is once again coming to Tacoma, and it's wearing a Santa suit. Well, hopefully hundreds of Santa suits. The pan-continental holiday riot known as Santarchy could easily be denounced as just another excuse to get s***faced - like wedding receptions or a visit to Sea World. But it's more.
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Now in its ninth year, there's there's no doubt that the annual Beautiful Angle Holiday Party and Poster Sale is an event Tacoma has come to know and love. Going down this Saturday at King's Books and kicking off at 7 p.m., the event will be a, well, beautiful exposition
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DEC. 9: ANNE MCNAMEE CORBETT'S POLITICS OF THE POSSIBLE We admit it - there are lots of reasons floating around to be depressed and hopeless. At the most important of times it's not hard to feel like our national political dialogue is fucked beyond repair. And with every wing of government
