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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR MONDAY, MARCH 25 2013 >>> Sixty-four South Sound sandwiches were selected and seeded by readers throughout February for the Tournament of Sandwiches, which is now five days into the competition. Brackets don refrigerators, break rooms, restaurant hallways and birdcages. Birthday parties have been moved to delis. Everyone
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MONDAY, MARCH 25 2013 >>> 1. The film Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship takes viewers on an inspiring voyage to seaports and watersheds across the country where an intermingling of unlikely allies, of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig farmers and wetland ecologists, sport and
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SUNDAY, MARCH 24 2013: FOUR SANDWICH BATTLES ON THE DOCKET >>> Sure, most of us look at lunch as an excuse to escape the desk for an hour (or two), unwind with friends and talk smack about everyone else at the office. But to many South Sounders, lunch is the most
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SUNDAY, MARCH 24 2013 >>> 1. Rich Ridenour, a 54-year-old Michigan native, has been playing the piano most of his life. He wasn't old enough to drive when he joined his first rock band. He met his future wife, Stacy, who is in the front office at the
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LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> 4th Ave Ale House Olympia - Downtown. Halcion Halo, Blacstahl, Deborah Page. 9 pm. Bob's Java Jive Tacoma - Central. SleepyPilot, Psycho 78 & Devil On A Leash. 9 pm. $. C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. KC Brakes presents pop folk rock night. All Ages.
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HOW TWEET IT IS >>> Whether you've been on Twitter since its beginnings in 2006 or you're a Twitter neophyte, you know keeping up on important tweets can be
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<<< VOTING CLOSED FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 23 >>> For the past four months the Weekly Volcano has been hanging out in delis gathering intel for our Tournament of Sandwiches. Besides smelling like meat and cheese, we have learned a couple things. You don't hear fake orgasms followed by the phrase, "I'll
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SATURDAY, MARCH 23 2013 >>> 1. Copenhagen's young punkers Iceage will bring its Polaroid-picture-fuzzy punk - that draws from Fugazi's neo-classicism and Gang of Four's bounce - to Olympia's Capitol Theater at 9 p.m. If you want to know what the next round of American punk bands will sound like,
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South Sound Sidekick series offers advice from experts living in the, well, South Sound. It posts every Friday. Today, Kevin Smyth has advice on how to raise a rock star. Smyth teaches history and English at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup. He knows a
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THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND >>> WEATHER REPORT Friday: Partly cloudy, hi 47, lo 32 Saturday: Mostly cloudy, hi 50, lo 33 Sunday: Sunny, hi 57, lo 37 >>> SATURDAY, MARCH 23: UPS FLEA MARKET You spend hours wandering around consignment stores, yard sales, and nothing. Break the cycle. Rethink
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<<< VOTED CLOSED FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 22 >>> The Weekly Volcano loves sandwiches. Let us say that again: We LOVE sandwiches. We still get giddy over a food item designed almost specifically for children. And we're not really all that picky. A good P, B and J is perfectly awesome. We
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 >>> 1. Tommy Castro is Delbert McClinton's more talented kid brother. We have been waiting for this San Francisco rockin' blues guitarist to put another one in the ditches. Finally, this past November the blistering "Greedy" / "That's All I Got" (Alligator Records)
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>>> VOTING CLOSED FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 21>>> Three years ago, the Weekly Volcano challenged 64 taco slingers to enter tournament-style culinary combat, shell versus shell, with Moctezuma's crowned best taco. The next year, pizza took center-stage in our quest for gustatory greatness, with Katie Downs' pie reigning supreme.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 21 2013 >>> 1. Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live has returned, at least for the time being. The Olympia hardcore punk band, often considered at the forefront of the noise queercore movement, toured the country multiple times in the mid-1990s, while releasing material on
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL HAPPINESS DAY! >>> The United Nations has declared today International Happiness Day. What a lovely United Nations. It has taken a break from the heavy drinking and comfortable airline seats to take a deep breath, look up at the sky and be grateful for the wonderful gift of
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 2013 >>> 1. British prog-rockers Wishbone Ash's harmony-laden dual-guitar attack predated Thin Lizzy, the group often credited with inventing it. Of course, Wishbone Ash also perfected the slow beginning/fast ending rock anthem. Only guitarist Andy Powell remains from the group's '70s heyday, but
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TUESDAY, MARCH 19 2013 >>> 1. Jewish actor/comedian Stephen Fry explores the dubious associations between Richard Wagner, one of his favorite classical composers, and Adolf Hitler, the 20th century dictator who cited Wagner's music as a motivating factor in waging genocide against the Jews during World War II in the
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SAD NEWS >>> Yesterday, The News Tribune reported Affairs Cafe and Bakery in University Place has closed. Sad news, indeed. The Weekly Volcano would like to thank co-owner Gay Landry and crew for all the good times, for supporting our rag, for hosting our Nosh League and for serving one tasty Monte
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SOUTH SOUND DINING NEWS, NIBBLES AND BITS >>> Happy Birthday Ivar: You'll be hard-pressed to find a meal for $1.08. You can't even buy freakin' coffee for $1.08. Tuesday, March 19 would have been Ivar Haglund's 108th birthday, he of Ivar's restaurant fame. Wait for it ... wait ... for
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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>> Country's reigning diva next door - the one who made a first impression by way of American Idol and "Jesus Take the Wheel" - Carrie Underwood will perform Friday, Sept. 13 at the Washington State Fair. Are her songs about sassy takedowns of not-to-be-trusted guys, a