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Brad Allen on December 31st, 2008
This species is one of the best kept secrets on Ruston Way. Great views, stiff drinks, fine dining in massive portions, and the lounge is home to the Purse Fumbler. She’ll slide next to you as your drink is winding down its brilliant and oh-too-brief appearance. After striking up a
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Brad Allen on December 31st, 2008
This species is one of the best kept secrets on Ruston Way. Great views, stiff drinks, fine dining in massive portions, and the lounge is home to the Purse Fumbler. She’ll slide next to you as your drink is winding down its brilliant and oh-too-brief appearance. After striking up a
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Brad Allen on February 21st, 2008
Before Brent Amaker and the Rodeo spread their old-style country music in Europe for three weeks they will drop by The Royal Saturday to show Olympia what five black-clad cowboys can do musically. I caught up with Amaker before the show. WEEKLY VOLCANO: What’s the most unusual thing you’ve done for
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Brad Allen on February 21st, 2008
Before Brent Amaker and the Rodeo spread their old-style country music in Europe for three weeks they will drop by The Royal Saturday to show Olympia what five black-clad cowboys can do musically. I caught up with Amaker before the show. WEEKLY VOLCANO: What’s the most unusual thing you’ve done for
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Brad Allen on January 24th, 2008
While it’s great to have brothers to give me wedgies, teach me about heavy metal and take slapshots at my face when they play street hockey, I’m especially thankful that I have sisters. Everything I know about girls I learned from them (and from watching “The Facts of Life”). My
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Brad Allen on January 24th, 2008
While it’s great to have brothers to give me wedgies, teach me about heavy metal and take slapshots at my face when they play street hockey, I’m especially thankful that I have sisters. Everything I know about girls I learned from them (and from watching “The Facts of Life”). My
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Brad Allen on January 17th, 2008
Ah, the mystique of a well-made martini. To hear connoisseurs tell it, you’d think it contained the clear-liquid keys to immortality, sexual prowess, and immeasurable wealth — in order of individual preference, no less. But don’t you believe it. You want to know a martini’s big secret? It’s made entirely
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Brad Allen on January 17th, 2008
Ah, the mystique of a well-made martini. To hear connoisseurs tell it, you’d think it contained the clear-liquid keys to immortality, sexual prowess, and immeasurable wealth — in order of individual preference, no less. But don’t you believe it. You want to know a martini’s big secret? It’s made entirely
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Brad Allen on January 10th, 2008
After a year-and-a-half of commanding a corner of downtown DuPont as the Harbor Rock Bar & Grill, the owners decided to scrap the semi-successful venture, remodel it with mining items bought off eBay, and reopened two weeks ago as Dynamite Jacks. I dashed in from the rain last Friday night and
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Brad Allen on January 10th, 2008
After a year-and-a-half of commanding a corner of downtown DuPont as the Harbor Rock Bar & Grill, the owners decided to scrap the semi-successful venture, remodel it with mining items bought off eBay, and reopened two weeks ago as Dynamite Jacks. I dashed in from the rain last Friday night and
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Brad Allen on March 24th, 2011
THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND >>> WEATHER REPORT Friday: Rain, hi 54, lo 41 Saturday: Rain, hi 52, lo 40 Sunday: Rain (seriously, iPhone?), hi 49, lo 39 >>> MARCH 25-26: Bob Rivers Live Sadly, not everyone reads the Volcano's blog, Spew. If they did, they'd know the Tacoma Comedy Club
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Brad Allen on January 22nd, 2007
Unwanted Refugeez will perform an all-acoustic show every Thursday at Golden West Restaurant and Lounge on South Tacoma Way beginning Jan. 25. Come on, guys, Unwanted? Is the fact that the universe is rapidly suffering entropy freakin' you out? You have thrown it all away and - Oh, you are changing
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Brad Allen on December 16th, 2006
It looks like we might have ourselves a show, people. Hanging at the opening of the Sound Sound Garage, where the crowd outnumbered the security until 10 p.m., I was pleasantly surprised to find the lounge free of senior citizens and schoolchildren. Everyone dressed for comfort over jeans drank in the
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Brad Allen on September 23rd, 2006
As the Weekly Volcano Music Awards blare inside Jazzbones right now, I, being the top-notch reporter, left my drink and now sit across the street at Starbucks reporting on said show. This Starbucks on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue has always been a wonderful spot to grab a pastry and a cuppa
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Brad Allen on April 2nd, 2006
Sometimes the best way to pass the day is by drinking - and when the sun is shining, nothing goes down smoother than a good, old-fashioned screwdriver. Knapp's Restaurant, in the heart of the Proctor Business District, is a tiny neighborhood bar, just the sort of place to spend a
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Brad Allen on March 30th, 2006
Bubble Room's Ginger Ale-plusI broke down. I couldn't bring myself to ask for the bartender's special - the inevitable, fruity tropical multi-booze laden drink decorated with a spear of day old fruit. I went with a new standard of whiskey and ginger ale. Most bars don't have ginger ale on
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Brad Allen on March 28th, 2006
NPR's "Morning Edition" profiles Tacoma-bred singer-songwriter Neko Case. Case's new album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, has just been released.
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Brad Allen on March 25th, 2006
If you enjoy claustrophobic crowds, sweaty people, and fast punk rock, don't miss this event. The Mexican Blackbirds last show ever is sure to be a packed house of folks ready to hear the band's signature bratty punk sound. The Tacoma-based band is calling it quits after the show. Poppa
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