Reviews
Though Tacoma is brimming with a diverse selection of dining options, some international fare is seemingly void from the culinary scene. One such country whose culinary reputation boasts some of the most well known chefs and sought after flavors may still be underrepresented but not missing all together thanks to
Critics' Picks
[VINYL] + SAT, MAY 24 A bevy of vinylists will descend upon The O to dig through the crates and study album covers, remixes and the oh-so-sought-after UK 12-inch mix - you know the one, with the 2:27-length intro using sounds that never made it into the original track. With dealers
Music
Here's how I first knew the Strypes reunion show was an important piece to write about: Ron Swarner, our fine, fedora-wearing publisher/editor at Weekly Volcano, sent me an email pitching me the story. "Please, please, please!" he pleaded. It is not often the man begs. Here's how I next knew the
Music
Kevin Seconds has never been a slave to expectations, even as his immensely influential band, 7 Seconds, helped to foster the West Coast hardcore scene in the early '80s. Never one to rest on his laurels, Kevin Seconds led his band beyond the confines of straight-edge hardcore and into more
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national
Food Matters
BREWER'S NIGHT 7 Seas Brewing is taking over Paesan's Kitchen and Bars' taps beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22. Festivities include brew tasting flights and growlers to take home. A perfect hops loving sea adventure is pairing 7 Seas brews with wood fired pizza pies. (1701 Dock St., Tacoma) COMMUNITY MEAL Trinity
Show And Tell
You're going to leave your homeland. A hostile nation invaded. There's a potato famine. Your government's corrupt. An insane dictator runs the show. Whatever your reasons, you're in luck. Far across the sea, there's a fabled land of freedom and opportunity called America. The whole world's tired, poor and huddled
Arts
Whether you have kids, house guests or nostalgia, now is the perfect time to gather up the gang and head for the exhibit, "Route 66: Dream of the Mother Road," at LeMay - America's Car Museum (ACM) in Tacoma. For almost 60 years, America got its kicks on Route 66,
Stage
Erin Dengerink's installation "The Hole in Your Heart is a Portal to Another Dimension" is a mixed media installation of small, whimsical arrangements comprising a surreal landscape that delivers a message of hope to the heartbroken. That's what the description on the Artscapes website says. To me it is a delightful
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Alice DiMicele. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Carl Tosten. 5:30 pm. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown.
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Ayron Jones. 7 pm. Pig Bar at Southbay Dickerson's BBQ Olympia - Downtown. Michael Coucoules and John Croarkin. 8 pm. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. James King & The South Siders. 8 pm. $7. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma -
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. The Front. 7 pm. BLUES B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. The Boneyard Preachers. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Dax Jordan. 8:30 and 10:30 pm. $15. Dave's of Milton Milton. Comedy Night, featuring
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. CD Woodbury. 7 pm. NC. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday Blues Jam Night.
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Monday Music, featuring James Coates. 7 pm. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Cash prizes. 6-8 pm. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. The Telephone Projects, Witch Prayer, Follies & Vices, Apollo Reid Sygmund. All Ages. 7 pm. A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve & Kristi Nebel. All Ages. 7 pm. Ted Brown Music Company
Stage
"queen noun \'kw?"n\ 1a: the wife or widow of a king....3b: a goddess or a thing personified as a female and having supremacy in a specified realm...8 often disparaging: a male homosexual; especially: an effeminate one"-Merriam-Webster.com I mean no disparagement whatsoever when I say La Cage aux Folles is a musical
Travel
During the Pleistocene epoch 25,000 years ago, a massive glacier - one of the outlet glaciers of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet - advanced down the Strait of Georgia and graced the shores of eastern Vancouver Island with a soft, rich sweep of sand. The embayments stretching from Deep Bay to Parksville acted
Features
The Tacoma Farmers Market runs not one, but three market locations throughout the city - Broadway Market downtown on Thursdays (opened May 1); 6th Avenue Market on Tuesdays (opened May 6); and the South Tacoma Market on Sundays, which opens June 1. The South Tacoma Market is perhaps one of
Arts
When I brought it up to Spud Goodman that his talk show has existed, in one way or another, for almost 30 years, he seemed genuinely shocked. In February of 1985, The Spud Goodman Show premiered on local public access television. "Gosh, I'm not joking, here, but nobody's ever said a