Guides
Just as I love the variety of buffets, I'm a sucker for a sampler platter. Load me up. Ranch House BBQ & Steakhouse off Highway 8 West does not disappoint, with an enormous platter filled both vertically and horizontally. I'm talking meat, baby. There was moist pulled pork piled against
Guides
A creation of Executive Chef Billy Roberson, Cicada's sweet potato gratin packs about 20 layers of delectably thin sweet potatoes and layered ricotta cheese. One bite of the orange and white layered dish inspires your fork to go in for more. The taste is phenomenal and encompasses a range of
Guides
Babblin' Babs Bistro, the tiny Proctor District restaurant, dishes out huge flavors the likes of which Tacoma has never seen. Chef William and his better half, Shannon, have just added new gourmet creations to their breakfast menu, including Babs Bodacious Biscuits. Arriving in a bowl, Babs Bodacious Biscuits takes the
Guides
When I dine on El Gaucho's New York steak with hash browns, my taste buds are transported to the Big Apple, where I'm relaxing after a Broadway show at Sardi's, waving to the Rat Pack while waiting for the train to return me to my home upstate. This classic late
Concert Alert
New band Stag is making some serious noise in the Pacific Northwest by way of their energetic live shows. The quintet of Steve Mack (vox), Ben London (guitar/vox), Lincoln Barr (guitar), Rob Dent (drums) and Pete Nordstrom (bass) successfully break down the barriers of power pop and interject a unique
Music
It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling... The thing is, Bobble Tiki doesn't need any more examples of how goddamn old he's getting. But they're everywhere. For instance, when Bobble
Food Matters
Thursday, Oct. 7 $3 Thursdays: $3 beer, $3 wells, $3 for two hot dogs, 4 p.m. to close, Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, 253.858.3982. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E.
Food Matters
Get formal for farms A wild salmon barbecue, provided by Wilson Fish, will be the featured dish. The produce, naturally, will be fresh from Left Foot Organics. And it'll all be part of the Fun Farm Formal at South Puget Sound Community College, Saturday, Oct. 9, in the Student Union building. That's
Music
OLYMPIA LIVE! >>> Friday, Oct. 8 What an eclectic bill has been gathered together for Olympia Live! - a benefit show for young breast cancer survivors. You've got a little bit of everything here, from the country-fried rock of Rodeo Kill, to the jazz swing of the Jessica Blinn Quartet, to the
Music
This is a big one... big. For one, Nicatine and his Homeland Security team are bringing LuckyIAm of The Living Legends/Mystik Journeymen, Mestizo, Rollin' Rockers, Cadalack Ron, Afrok and your own El Goonie (contributor with the Weekly Volcano and DJ extraordinaire) to Olympia Thursday Oct 14. But it doesn't stop
Stage
"We are obligated by law to inform you that this play contains adult language and themes," director Scott Campbell warns before the opening of the world premiere of Under the Circumstances, a play with the purpose of exploring "the relationship between words, friendship, and our own sense of self." Written by
Arts
The Musée National Picasso in Paris is closed for renovations and their huge collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso is going on a world tour - first stop, Seattle Art Museum. Never before have so many works by the master been on display in America, and we
Music
Joell Ortiz, a longtime indie-rap darling, is quickly garnering a reputation as one of the best emcees in hip-hop. Tacoma's best rap group (as deemed recently by the Weekly Volcano), City Hall (Todd Sykes and EvergreenOne), is buzzing in the Northwest and beyond after the recent release of their first
Stage
There are elements I've come to expect from Olympia Family Theater: technical polish, figurative costumes, jokes for adults and, above all, an auditorium full of gleeful kids hopping in their seats. OFT and director Jenny Greenlee continue that reliable tradition with a reprise of A Year with Frog and Toad.
Music
The musical connection had been there from the very start. At the conclusion of our first jam session, Duff called around the city to find an available recording studio. A new online music store had approached him to contribute a song to their catalog. The rock had gone so well that
Stage
I reviewed an exhibition of Joe Penrod's intriguing blue-tape shadows three years ago at the now defunct Black Front Gallery in Olympia. The works he's showing at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma are exactly the same only more sophisticated. The idea is as profound as it is simple. He traces the cast
Features
So, Oktoberfest isn't official over until the end of this weekend, but it's really quite over for me. I needed to shake-off the sauerkraut and gut busting brats for something that reminded me of vacation. I haven't been on a real vacation in over two years, and at this rate,
Music
Oh, nothing feels better to me than those rare instances when I get to act like a DJ. It happened recently at a friend of a friend's birthday party. Plugging my iPod into the speakers, carefully choosing what song to play next, my heart racing as the end of the
Music
A minute into "Finger," the opening track on Melted, the fourth solo record by Ty Segall, an amplifier obliterates the song's initial mellowness with an ungodly squeal, and an enormous wall of distortion swallows everything whole. In headphones, it's a tinnitus-tempting tidal surge - both ears are flooded with riotous
Food Matters
DEAL Johnny's Dock (1900 E. D St., Tacoma) offers a $16.95 dinner and $18.95 seafood dinner from 4-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. CLAM BOIL Salty's at Redondo Beach (28201 Redondo Beach Dr. S., Des Moines) hosts an old-fashioned clam boil at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 for $24.99. Reserve your spot at 253.946.0636. COOKING CLASS The Bayview