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In a Friday full of musical options, it's going to be hard for Tacoma to deny one very worthy cause strapping up tight for a good time at Hell's Kitchen. As part of a fundraiser for the beloved roller derby force known as the Dockyard Derby Dames (who, by no
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Clinton "Basie" Fearon is counted among Jamaica's most talented musicians by peers and professionals in the realm of reggae. He was a house musician for Coxsonne Dodd's Studio One and Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark Studio. He recorded many of Perry's best-known songs, including "Roast Fish" and "Cornbread," which features
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Young Seattle band Heatwarmer have an interesting vibe and clearly, there's a lot of talent going around between its four members, who gig from time to time at Seattle's jazz and progressive-friendly college-area bars. There's a "School of Music" approach evident in their sound, but also a real adult contemporary
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Malaikat dan Singa is the love-drunk project of Old Tim Relijun's Arrington de Dionyso, who - after falling hard with someone he knew would be spending months overseas in Indonesia - actually learnt Indonesian and started writing love songs in the language in anticipation of their return. The resultant material
Arts
This year's faculty and staff art exhibition is one of the better shows they've had in quite some time and the best faculty exhibition since I've been reviewing them. The first thing to strike the eye when entering the gallery is Joe Batt's installation, "Oculus." It is a dramatic, inventive and
Scene It
The town of Roy is out there. Way out there. Leaving from Olympia, I drive past a tribal casino, multiple taverns, the unincorporated community of McKenna and a number of barbeque joints before I roll into Roy. The trip takes almost an hour. Nineteen miles from Tacoma my ass. Roy
Stage
"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." This is a sentence that was stuck in comedian Lewis Black's head, and has thereafter been stuck in my head. What resonated so infuriatingly in Lewis Black's head, as a bit of overheard nonsense at an IHOP,
Ragnet
In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job - we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle,
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Humming yet? Northern and the Olympia Film Society are hosting a screening of Deborah Stratman's 2009 documentary, O'er the Land, which is ostensibly about a whole host of big-picture issues - freedom, technology and manifest destiny. The screening is Tuesday, Feb. 8, kicking off at 8 p.m.
Bars & Clubs
Nothing says autumn like a hop-tastic microbrew. While breweries craft seasonal beers all year round, great ones often come with the fall - bitter fresh-hopped pale ales, roasty porters, pumpkin stouts and creative concoctions designed to help ease you into the chilly Northwest winter. And nothing says beer like local brew
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Everyone knows about world-class rock guitarist and top hat enthusiast Saul "Slash" Hudson's axe-slinging exploits with Guns N‘ Roses, Velvet Revolver and as a lone, hard-rocking wolf (when he opens for Ozzy Osbourne on Saturday, it will be a sans-"snakepit" solo performance), but seldom is Slash
Reviews
Already well known in North Tacoma for its great Irish beer and the loud soccer fans that gather for matches televised on one of the multiple TV's around the bar, Doyle's Public House has much more to offer than beer and soccer. Items such as Irish soda bread, Irish Tatchos
Music
Everyone knows about world-class rock guitarist and top hat enthusiast Saul "Slash" Hudson's axe-slinging exploits with Guns N‘ Roses, Velvet Revolver and as a lone, hard-rocking wolf (when he opens for Ozzy Osbourne on Saturday, it will be a sans-"snakepit" solo performance), but seldom is Slash the Actor discussed. The
Nightlife It List
The mere mention of the word ‘Valentine' sends shudders down the spines of many Northwesterners. Questions like what to buy, what to write in the card and where to go to dinner peck at the mind. Thank God Jake's Bar and Bistro in Steilacoom makes the dinner part easy. Jake's
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Tacomans carry on about their lives as if nothing were amiss, but all the while two artists plan our demise in the month of February with the Zombie Tacomapocalypse. While stores stock up on chocolates in heart-shaped boxes, Kendra Breeden and Stuart M. Dempster of Treefish Studio in Tacoma plot
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This Friday and Saturday, in proceedings sure to feature much pomp and circumstance, the WIAA Girls State Bowling Championships will go down in our very backyard. Some of the best young female rollers from around Washington will converge on the 10-pin Mecca that is University Place and Narrows Plaza to
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The Weekly Volcano likes to say, "Everything is jazz," but, in truth, we don't really believe it. Only SOME things are actually jazz, and the way Ryan Shea Smith tickles the ivories definitely qualifies. The highly regarded Seattle native will visit Tacoma Community College Friday and drop a concert sure
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Feeling cozy in your life? Does your car have heated seats? Well, prepare to be shaken Friday at The M11 and Sunday at the Capitol Theater during the special screening of END:CIV, followed by what's sure to be an insightful and poignant question and answer period with Director Franklin Lopez.
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Herman Boone has had such a powerful and inspirational life they had to get goddamn Denzel Washington to play him in the movie - Remember the Titans. Here at the Weekly Volcano, we'd be lucky to draw the guy who played Arnold Horshack in Welcome Back Kotter. Monday, Boone will
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Remember that time you won two Olympic gold medals? Or, that time you won, like, a gazillion medals at the X Games? No? Oh, well, Shaun White does - which is probably why MultiCare Health System is bringing White (not you) to Tacoma next Tuesday to speak to kids about
