Music
Last week I said we were lucky to have a live weekly hip-hop night. I lied. We have two! While the weekly hip-hop night I mentioned last week happens at El Perron every Wednesday night, there's also an all-ages cipher/freestyle session every Sunday at the Graffiti Garages on South Ninth and Broadway
Arts
The Lula Washington Dance Theatre - instrumental in creating the mesmerizing movements of the blue-skinned Na'vi tribe in the film Avatar - performs Thursday in Olympia at The Evergreen State College. Choreographer Lula Washington of Los Angeles developed the tribe's signature movements, and she and members of the company wore motion
Food Matters
WEEKLY VOLCANO HAPPY HOUR MOBILE APP LAUNCH PARTY: The Weekly Volcano has developed a bitchin' happy hour app. We're flipping the switch from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in a party atmosphere during the kick ass happy hour at Pacific Grill (1502 Pacific Ave., Tacoma). Bartender Carol Reutercrona has created
Features
Thing: Everything Buffalo Place: Bruceski's Buffalo Wings and Pizza City: DuPont Opened: 2005 Seats: 20 Owner: Yon Kim Obvious specialty: Buffalo wings and pizza Buffalo meat present: No Buffalo, NY correspondent: Eric Curley With delivery available to all of DuPont and Fort Lewis, Bruceski's Buffalo Wings and Pizza stays plenty busy. And from what owner Yon Kim tells me,
Music
Last week, Bobble Tiki intended to publish an interview with The Artichoke Project prior to the band's show at Stonegate Pizza Saturday night. Long story short: that didn't happen. This tragedy may or may not have had something to do with food poisoning, and wild, projectile anguish spurting from both ends of
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Charleston Bremerton. Acoustic Jam Night. All Ages. 8 pm. Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Dave Roberts. 7-9 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Gina Belliveau. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino Rockin' Blues Jam, with David Dickerson, Glenn Hummel. 8:30 pm. NC. Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. The Mix Tacoma - Downtown. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 9 pm. NC. Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Beer Pong. 9 pm. $15 for 2 person team. Northern Olympia - Downtown. Northern Flickers: Animation
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Benefit For Japan, with Joe Baque, Michael Olsen, Steve Luceno, Scott Cossu, The Straw Hat String Band, Steve Munger Quintet. All Ages. 2 pm. Donations. Open Shape Note Singing Group. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. David
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. "I'm Mad As Hell And I'm Not Going To Take It" Song Contest. All Ages. 7 pm. Gruv Lounge and Nightclub Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Saturday Night live unplugged entertainment. 8-10 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Eleanor Fye. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. BLUES O'Callahan's Pub & Grill
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Nicole Mitchell. All Ages. 6 pm. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key Peninsula. Blues Attitude. 8 pm. Imperial Dragon Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Loose Gravel & The Quarry. 9 pm. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. An Evening Of Keys, with Naomi Korchonnoff, Raymond Hayden, Doug Skoog. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. The Spar Olympia. The Burren Boys. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy
Music
After three weeks of voting the Weekly Volcano readers have picked the most popular pizza joint in the South Sound. The Tournament of Pizza Championship match pitted longtime Tacoma favorite Katie Downs Waterfront Restaurant against the Westside Olympia powerhouse Apollo's Pizza & Pasta. Yesterday's championship battle saw the most online
Reviews
Windmill Bistro Where: 16009 60th St. E., Sumner, 253.826.7897Hours: Lunch Monday-Tuesday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday-Friday11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday & Sunday brunch 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.Cuisine: Simple Northwest fare with emphasis on locally sourced products - pasta, sandwiches, burgers, soups, salads, desserts.Scene: Casual, relaxed dining surrounded by beautiful
Music
There's a cliché in popular music about a band member getting too big for his britches and dramatically and huffily announcing that he's "going solo!" It's become a running gag, this idea that a musician would be so cocky as to quit a successful band to go and do his
Music
There are so many things going on with 253 hip-hop that I'm actually having to choose what goes in here every week. These are tough decisions, but it's a good sign that we have lots of things bubbling. Probably the most fun thing to do this week would be for you
Music
GUN OUTFIT >>> Thursday, March 31 There's nothing funny about Gun Outfit's music - they're a melodically gifted, rightfully acclaimed band with a flair for melding the clean guitars and drawling vocals of post-punk and '90s slacker rock with the aching, whiskey-soaked world-weariness of country music classics. Dylan Sharp and bandmate Carrie
Food Matters
How do we learn? Better yet, how do we teach? The easiest answer to both is by example and exposure. Owners of Tacoma's Caffe Dei stand behind their belief that nutritional education should be made available to everyone. Co-owner Shuanna Holt, a raw foods lifestyle coach and raw foodist, has
Music
Just before 6 a.m. on Feb. 24, King Solomon's Reef in downtown Olympia caught fire. Again. Emergency vehicles and a news helicopter responded immediately - a stark contrast to the quiet, snowy morning. "It was disbelief and panic at first," says Lindy McIntyre, co-owner of the Reef. "I remember wanting to
Stage
If you missed Preston Singletary's big mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Glass last year, or if you saw the show and would like to see more of Singletary's works, this is your chance. The William Traver Gallery in Tacoma now has an exhibition of new works by Singletary called