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The Weekly Volcano strives to give you solid advice, a plethora of awesome entertainment suggestions and alerts to cool new opportunities. It's our life mission. Because we have dined at every restaurant in the South Sound, we know the best tables. Therefore, it's always a race at the Weekly Volcano
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Are you ready for some football?! Super Bowl is Sunday, and the Weekly Volcano has to confess to feeling a tad bipolar about the whole thing: glad to see the 49ers in it again, but also bored to distraction at the thought of subjecting ourselves to a four-hour advertising blitz interrupted
Food Matters
WINTER WINE CRAWL We've established that some of the finest fundraisers revolve around libations. You get the warm and fuzzies for good deeds done and the booze. Northwest Mountain Winery (2825 Marvin Road NE, Olympia) will host a Cheers for Children Winter Wine Crawl noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2. For
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill Bonney Lake.
Music
All too often do I encounter snobby, adolescent bands that spend more time gelling hair than playing instruments. It's a common plague: buy a mediocre instrument, take music lessons at Ted Brown, then write some generic self-loathing sounding music and you're golden. Fans and females will come in droves. You'll
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Oly Songwriter Circle. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times.
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedy Open Mic.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. City Hall Saloon and Eatery Enumclaw. Rockin' Blues Jam Session. Hosted by Max Renshaw. 6 pm. Uncle
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Mike Horn, Chey Soul. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Fort Nisqually Living History Museum Tacoma - Northend. Pacific Northwest Sacred Harp Singers. All Ages. 2 pm. $5-$20. COMEDY/GAMES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Comedian Brad Upton. 8:30 pm. Grit City Comedy Club
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Song Circle Open Mic. All Ages. 7 pm. $2. BLUES Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center Kent. Blues Guitarist Matt Andersen. All Ages. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Kyle Ploof. 8:30 pm. $15. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Oppenheimer Café at University of Puget Sound Tacoma - Northend. An Evening of Songwriters featuring Barna Howard from Missouri, Vikesh Kapoor from Pennsylvania and Hip Hatchet from Portland, Ore. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Donations. Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Matrix
Stage
Everyone likes a good joke and being in on the joke is certainly better than BEING the joke. Well, usually. Certainly, people that take themselves too seriously are a drag and theater people who take themselves too seriously are often insufferable. Thankfully, Tacoma Musical Playhouse not only likes a good
Stage
There are words we use all the time without ever contemplating definitions, and one of those words is cute. When a woman (cute seems to be a predominantly feminine word) describes a movie as cute, you know it's a comedy, most likely a romantic comedy. If it makes her laugh
Stage
I am honored to be in the "Azul" exhibition with five excellent artists at B2 Gallery. I will not write about my own paintings, but will comment on the other artists. There are some astonishing works to be seen, starting with the all-blue figurative sculpture by Francisco Salgado featured on the
Music
Tacoma MC Motamouth Jones has been spearheading a fast-growing, grass-roots, community hip-hop, movement - K.O.E. If you have been keeping your ear to the Tacoma hip-hop scene, then you're aware of the K.O.E. moniker, which stands for Klowns Over Everything. The name reflects the unity its members feel toward each
Music
>>> Friday, Jan. 25 ZOE KEATING AND THE PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT The gimmick of looping one's instrument to create an orchestra of one has been done many times, but the novelty of this tactic can only go so far. People like Andrew Bird or Reggie Watts have boiled down the practice to
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"Hello, I know you guys are busy blowing minds and rocking souls, but just wanted to let you know my deadline is this Thursday, so if you can tuck it in your minds I need a response by then, I'd super appreciate it. - Nikki" This is the message I sent
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Usually when you hear "shift happens" in the culinary business, it means a change in the front room service detail or the night-shift line cooks trudge in. On Monday, Jan. 28 at the Tacoma Convention Center, Shift Happens means the community celebrates the local economy over food samples and a
Food Matters
BEER DINNER Salty's at Redondo Beach (28201 Redondo Beach Dr. S., Des Moines) chef Gabe Cabrera is collaborating with Widmer brewmaster Rob Mcfadden to pair culinary delights with hops at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. Featuring a four-course dining experience pairing prime rib chili with a Russian stout, Cobb salad with a
Arts
Since its introduction in 1894, the motorcycle has spawned a variety of cultures and uses. As basic transportation, as leisure activity or as a die-hard lifestyle, millions of people have a love affair with Choppers, Crotch Rockets, Thumpers and all things two-wheeled. This Saturday marks the opening of the action-packed exhibit "Let's