Arts
Works from three major installations by Geraldine Ondrizek come together in the show "Tracing Genetic Inheritance: Recent Work by Geraldine Ondrizek" at the art gallery at The Evergreen State College. This is a highly unusual, beautiful and intelligent exhibition that combines science and art in ways that should open the mind
Stage
Tacoma Little Theatre's rendition of Dracula is creepy, funny, horrifying, and hauntingly beautiful. A highly stylized presentation as directed by Pug Bujeaud with outstanding sets (Blake R. York), lighting (Niclas R. Olson) and costumes (Michele Graves); this production is the epitome of theatricality. Often throughout there are overlapping and widely spaced
Health
While only some of us like massages, we all can admit that we like a good bargain. Whether you are shopping around for a decent price, or would like to get a gift certificate to a spa for a loved one, here are some places that will be will be
Business News
For Denise Dhane there are two types of people in the world: those who ‘get it' and those who don't. It's a phrase she uses freely when someone understands the sacrifices of the military or bestows generosity and goodwill to any of the servicemembers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Quite simply,
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Every time you worry that If Bears Were Bees are becoming a little too precious, they go and do something fucked up, like on "I Don't Know What I Expected," which ends with a rousing chorus of people singing, "I've been making jokes about my dead friends!" This subverting of
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Bobble Tiki once said of Seattle's rockabilly phenomenon the Dusty 45s, "Not only has this band perfected the art of rockabilly blues, enough so to make the artists of the '50s and '60s proud, but frontman Billy Joel Huels has a pyrotechnic side that Bobble Tiki can relate to." These
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Chicago's All Eyes West make radio-ready pop-punk - an odd change of pace for a Tacoma show, I know. They seem to draw from the same well as bands like Rise Against. It's all about pummeling, yet tuneful, riffs and snarling vocals. The punk edges have been smoothed over on
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What's rad? The movie Rad, of course. What's also pretty cool? Pierce County's Bike Month, which we're currently smack-dab in the middle of. But you knew that - it's why you rode your bike to work today. It's why you have a streak of street water splayed up your back.
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We've gushed all over Olympia's Northern all-ages arts and music space more than is probably becoming. In all likelihood, it's starting to come off to those unacquainted with the venue's awesomeness as something of an unhealthy infatuation. But fuck it. We don't care. Screw the haters. Northern celebrates its two-year
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The folks over at Freighthouse Square tell us, and we quote, "a bazillion" model train aficionados will converge on Tacoma's Dome District this weekend for the TNW Model Train Show - packing the beloved long building with kids of all ages. Expect train layouts and vendors on three floors of
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Years from now, the story of OAFF's humble birth might make its way into the annals of cinematic legend, but the memory still burns clearly for those who witnessed its inception. Members of the small film collective Mutually Assured Productions gathered at a bar last summer. The conversation turned to
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Saul Tannenbaum is back with Girls Ahoy! Although Tannenbaum has his own Facebook page, he's a fictional character, played by actor-pianist-director-composer Josh Anderson. Girls Ahoy! features songs "by ladies and about ladies and for ladies," Anderson says in Tannenbaum's voice. "You know sometimes when you listen to a song, you
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The goal of the 15th annual Evergreen Tacoma Spring Fair, Saturday at the Evergreen Tacoma campus, is to provide useful information regarding social justice and culture to the Tacoma community. This year the Spring Fair planning committee chose "Food and Culture" as a theme, meaning things that factor into both
Nightlife It List
Not every meat market needs to include booze. There are plenty of other vices to entice bodies into the club. Venus & Mars Lounge is a hookah lover's paradise, with enough flavors to keep you puffing for hours. [Venus & Mars Lounge, hours vary, 3010 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.301.0546]
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We here at the Volcano often glamorize the college life. Tight bodies and evening keggers, we say. Rarely do we mention how college usually goes. The weird roommate who smells. Cramming for an exam. The utter lack of Benjamins. Luckily, the Office Bar and Grill offers a $4 all-you-can eat
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"Medical authorities in Cumberland have concluded that in all cases, the killers are eating the flesh of the people they kill. And so this incredible story becomes more ghastly with each report." -Night of the Living Dead Snippets of dialogue from George Romero's seminal 1968 film Night of the Living
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Bikers are hot. Think Peter Fonda from Easy Rider. That flowing brown hair and chiseled jaw. That devil-may-care attitude. That leather. Now if only we could find someplace where a bunch of Fondas get together, drink beer and eat good food. Oh wait, we already have. Uncle Sam's American Bar
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In my review of Harlequin's pyrotechnic April show, boom, I said I enjoyed the script but wasn't sure who else would. Now director Scot Whitney brings us what has been described as the reverse of that prediction, by no less vested an observer than the playwright himself. In his notes
