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It's a story most South Sounders know well: on the afternoon of March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old Olympian peace activist, planted herself in front of an armored Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip city of Rafah. She was in Rafah to aid the International Solidarity Movement, a nonviolent
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We were on our way to Lakewood when my wife suddenly turned down the radio and murmured, "I think I'm finally getting old." "What do you mean?" I asked with due caution. In my head, Admiral Ackbar was barking, "It's a trap!" "I hate everything on the radio today," she explained. It
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Making point five past lightspeed, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. J.J. Abrams revealed last week that among the
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"I live in Tacoma, and I'm proud to say it's my hometown!" Quick, can you name the band who sang that? Chances are, the answer is no; and that, my friends, is a crying shame. Would your angsty curiosity be aroused further if we told you that song, "My Hometown,"
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Deleting its iCloud account, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. THURSDAY, SEPT. 11 Thursday's screenings offer a last round of
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Reaching out and grabbing ya, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. We aren't exactly bombarded with story suggestions for
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Getting your ass to Mars, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. THURSDAY, AUG. 14 I hope you've been watching The
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Tacoma has a poet laureate! Smiraldo, Lucas, is our wordsmith's name. His Laureate Listening Project-what of it? It seeks to bring our local verse acclaim. Smiraldo gathers verse from Northwest pens, Each ode about a neighborhood locale. We'll see Tacoma through poetic lens; A "sense of place" is Lucas' rationale. Each poem will be read in spoken word, Then
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Still incensed for Tatiana Maslany, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. FRIDAY, AUG. 1 I admit it: I resisted the
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Every so often here at the Volcano, we receive a press release so goshdarn well-crafted that we're tempted to reprint it verbatim and call it a day. Matt Schwartz's email for an upcoming event featuring the band Quasar Wut-Wut is just such a document; but unfortunately for us, we also
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Thanks to a vacation and last-minute commitments, it was well after sundown before I could set up a phone interview with David Caulfield, director and co-creator of web series Olympia in Obscura. Perhaps that's as it should be. It's a series that evokes darkened alleys and,
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Thanking Morgan Freeman our old (VHS) sex tapes predated the Cloud, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. Dawn of
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It should be a measure of my love for theater that when I take a break from reviewing South Sound plays, I head to Ashland's Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see a few of theirs. I've had my vacation booked for months, so of course this is the weekend several local
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A decade ago, when the dawn of the digital era produced better, more affordable video cameras, and when over-the-counter VFX software introduced tornadoes and T. rexes to laptop computers, it seemed possible for any old schmo to make a movie. And, to some extent, that was true. Ask Christian Doyle,
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Till all are one, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. FRIDAY, JULY 4 The Fourth of July arrives on a
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Suff'ring very midsummer madness, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. So Punxsutawney Tom kept repeating the day, right? Till
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Refighting its battle each Monday, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. After bluffin' with her muffin last Wednesday, Lady
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BAMF! (And no, not the acronym.) This is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. THURSDAY, MAY 8 Thursday night brings the TV
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Taunting you a second time, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. As I write this, The Olympian's Jeremy Pawloski
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Feeling stupid and contagious, this is Nerd Alert, the Weekly Volcano's recurring events calendar devoted to all things nerdy. I myself am a Star Wars fan, mathlete, and spelling bee champion of long standing, so trust me: I grok whereof I speak. FRIDAY, APRIL 25 As you may have gathered by now,