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[DJ] + FRI, JAN. 2 Happy New Year! Enjoy your resolutions while they last. ... Here's a resolution: kick off the year with a party Friday at Obsidian. Formerly Jezebels, this classy, sexy and dim-lit downtown Olympia party place kicks off 2015 with a dope. Lucifine Presents hosts a DJ extravaganza featuring DJs
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We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience Olympia. Feb. 13 7:30 pm. $14.50-$39 (Washington center, 360.753.8586) Leroy Bell
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HALF-OFF WINE There are no less than three Tacoma establishments who celebrate boozy fermented grape juices each week by knocking half off bottles on certain nights. So, for those who enjoy a reduced-price bottle of vino to share (or not to share) with dinner, visit Pacific Grill (1502 Pacific Ave.) on
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Yeah, right, like you need the Weekly Volcano Wednesday tonight. However, there's that thing you told yourself you were going to investigate or learn about or take a class to study further, and yet you've never really gotten around to it. Oh sure, you bought that book two years ago
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COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Jay Hollingsworth. 8 pm. $15. KARAOKE The Mix Tacoma - Downtown. Gay-friendly karaoke. Featuring double-shot Sundays. 9 pm. NC. China Clipper Club Cafe Olympia - Downtown. Late Night Karaoke. 9 pm. NC.
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Just so you know, you might miss the train Thursday - seeing as how it's scaled down to one and a half inches. Get it? At the 19th Annual Model Train Festival, every floor of the Washington State History Museum features model trains of all sizes and eras, landscapes, train
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It's winter (duh!) and Green Thumbs have a bad case of Seasonal Affective Disorder. For these folks, artificial won't do; it's just a countdown to spring. Ah, but there are a few plants that flourish indoors during the cold months to keep Green Thumbs smiling - and they're not plastic. Green
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Club hopping can be overrated, especially when the weather is a snarling blast of rain and cold that makes one think twice about even leaving the couch. Some nights we like to stake out a place at a venue and hang out for a while, maybe have a meal, a
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How was your holiday? (This is the part where you say, "How was your holiday, Weekly Volcano?") Awesome, thanks. So, we're staring 2015 right in the face. Some of us have proclaimed we'll take better care of ourselves in 2015. Some of us are anticipating a new year of wellness.
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Give 19-year-old Mary Shelley credit for dreaming up a world-altering idea and single-handedly concocting the genre of science fiction. Frankenstein was regarded as Gothic sensationalism when first published - a lurid tale of a scientist driven mad by his obsession to animate the dead. It has earned the status of
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[BLUEGRASS] + FRI, DEC. 26 It's a final hoedown of sorts as the year draws to a close. The Rusty Cleavers and The Cottonwood Cutups takeover the Half Pint Pizza Pub the night after Christmas. Sadly, the Riverbottom Gang - a motley crew of rich kids with bad attitudes lead by
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We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Chris Minh Doky's Nomads featuring Dave Weekl Seattle. Jan. 13-14 7:30 pm. $28.50 (Jazz Alley, jazzalley.com) Peter
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XMAS CHEER Maybe you're away from family for the holidays, perhaps you just desperately want to avoid family drama, whatever the case there are a few joints in Tacoma open on Christmas Day to fuel your holiday cheer including Top of Tacoma Bar and Cafe, Eleven Eleven and Doyle's Public House.
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For Christians the world over, Christmas Eve means being trapped for endless hours with the family while listening to Hall and Oates sing Christmas carols. But for everyone else, Christmas Eve is a pony of an entirely different hue. People of all faiths and no faith are invited to celebrate Christmas
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You know you're already humming "If I Were a Rich Man" in your head. If you aren't, we are. Once again, Olympia's Capitol Theater screens the classic musical film Fiddler on the Roof Christmas day. But beyond simply watching, you will be immersed in the total If-I-Were-A-Rich-Man experience - you
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For 12 freakin' years in a row - never wavering - the Randy Oxford Band has encouraged (hell, inspired!) you to get out of the house the night after Christmas and shake some of the tinsel and stuffing off. It's known as the "Night After Christmas Dance Party." The gist
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Does Stickshift Annie and The Fugitives really need an introduction? Is there a more professional band? Is there a more respected one? Are you really going to pretend that you don't enjoy hearing America's sweetheart Stickshift Annie on vocals? Let alone watching her front the band with charisma few have,
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It's been awhile since we last stumbled into Rhythm and Rye for its Monday night Jazz Lounge Series, mainly because we're leading a lifestyle that discourages partying on days that don't begin with an F or an S. There are, however, many folks whose responsibilities don't begin until late in
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SANTA BREAKFAST Metro Parks Tacoma presents Breakfast with Santa from 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. Enjoy hands-on crafts, breakfast and an opportunity to meet Santa at the Portland Avenue Community Center (3513 E. Portland Ave., Tacoma). Tickets are $25 for the family, or $7 per person plus $3 for photo opp
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[ACOUSTIC INDIE POP] + SAT, DEC. 20 Olympia's Wauby usually play plugged-in, sunshiny indie pop, but this Saturday they'll be going acoustic. Still, as much as the vibrancy of their synths will be absent from their Le Voyeur set, there isn't much that can dampen the enthusiasm that Wauby bring to