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A NEW SPIN ON HANUKKAH'S FAVORITE GAME<<< Today kicks off the second day of Hanukkah, and with it Judaism's newest (perhaps only) sporting event -- the Major League Dreidel Championships. Tonight in Brooklyn hundreds will compete to see who can throw down the longest spinning dreidel. Competitors using names like Spindiana Jones,
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DAY TWO OF TURKEY >>> Skip the gym. Eat a lot. Buy this shirt.
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CITIZENS OF TACOMA: THE WHITE STUFF FALLING FROM THE SKY IS CALLED "SNOW" - HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO WHILE IT'S HERE...>>> 1. Snowball fight in Wright Park. 2. Make delicious things out of snow. Click here for a snow ice cream recipe. 3. Sit inside and stare with melancholy out
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THE INTERN IS SCREWING AROUND ON THE INTERNET AGAIN >>> I was thinking I should post this on President's Day, but it's just too f***ing awesome to wait until February.
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YOU CAN STILL GET TRASHED THE TRASHY WAY!!>>> Many were blind sided by the recent and sudden ban on Four Loko, that classy, canned cocktail sold at 7-Eleven and other fine establishments. Well, if you can't live without the toxic drink, put your Schlitz Malt Liquor down and listen up, because
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HUMAN FLESH WITHOUT THE HASSLE OF RUFIES AND A KILL-KIT>>> Apparently a company called HUFU has been offering a "healthy human flesh alternative" since 2005. This was news to me. The human tofu is shaped like curled up sausages and according to HUFU CEO Mark Nuckols, it tastes a lot like
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ART AT WORK MONTH >>> Last weekend several dozen Tacoma artists opened their studio doors to the public as a part of Art at Work: Tacoma Arts Month. I called upon my "artistic" friends to get some recommendations and out of the dozen or so studios I visited – two artists
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The rain is whipping down. It's like the inside of a carwash out there, so you and your date decide to keep it inside for the night. You could watch It's the great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for the 22nd time, but I suggest you snuggle up on the couch with
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ZOMBIE PREPAREDNESS The stench of rotting flesh is in the air.. Oh wait, it's just that pumpkin decomposing on my front porch. Either way, it reminds me that it's only a matter of time before mobs of decaying corpses roam the streets searching for live bodies to feast on. The zombie apocalypse is inevitable,
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The Weekly Volcano's trusty intern, Julie Holt, finds out one of Tacoma's primo vintage clothing stores likes its new view. Yet another business has up and left Tacoma's downtown district for greener - it's all about the Benjamins - pastures. Primo vintage clothing shop, Orange, has vacated its original location
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FRIGHT-HOUSE SQUARE >>> When editor Matt Driscoll asked me to walk through and report on a haunted house in Freighthouse Square last weekend, I nodded enthusiastically and maybe even saluted (gung-ho intern on the job!). What I didn't have the nerve to tell my editor was that I shut down the
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MAIDEN VOYAGE >>> Last Sunday, I threw on my Zelda T-shirt and headed out to attend Comic Book Ink's 24 Hour Comic Book Day. The event, which is in its second year, was organized by C.L.A.W. (the Cartoonists' League of Absurd Washingtonians) in order to raise money for their student scholarship