BOBBLE TIKI: MUSTACHE ROCK AT THE JIVE TONIGHT >>>

There are too many genres. Emo, screamo, twee pop and crunk. Who really knows what any of these classifications mean anymore? Bobble Tiki certainly doesn’t. Awash in brands, genres these days mean next to nothing.

Mustache rock, however, now there’s a musical classification Bobble Tiki can get behind â€" all prickly and coarse and full of pieces of lunch. Of course, he’s not entirely sure what “mustache rock” means, either â€" but he likes the sound of it.

The band that epitomizes mustache rock â€" in fact, the band that coined the term specifically for themselves â€" is We Wrote the Book on Connectors. The ultra quirky, ultra catchy, ultra pop-rocky foursome from Seattle will find their way to Bob’s Java Jive in Tacoma tonight.

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JAKE DE PAUL: NOSHING AND SIPPING AROUND THE SOUND >>>

Here are a few restaurants the Weekly Volcano has reviewed lately â€" in no particular order â€" to whet your appetite.

Drooling on the display cases
Mandolin Cafe rocks

Merende
Small plates, big taste

El Gaucho
An evening you’ll always cherish

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

Photo: The braised lamb shank was awesomely gargantuan.

RON SWARNER: GOES UP APRIL 24 >>>

Edward Hoffman’s photographic exhibit, BURNINGMAN, will open Friday, April 24 at Art House Designs in Olympia. It will be a large portfolio, comprising of 50 color prints taken with Rolleiflex medium format camera at the Burning Man festival, which is held annually in the Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno. 

Hoffman's show opens in conjunction with the Olympia Arts Walk.

[Art House Designs, 420 Franklin St., Olympia, 360.943.3377]

RON SWARNER: CANNED FOOD DRIVE THROUGH MARCH 31 >>>

In a partnership with The Grand Cinema, the Weekly Volcano is sponsoring a non-perishable food drive benefiting My Sister’s Pantry that will coincide with the film, Wendy and Lucy at The Grand Cinema. The film and food drive continues through March 31. More details here.

Wendy and Lucy screens today at 3, 5, 7 and 9:15 p.m. at The Grand Cinema. The Grand will give you a free small soda when you bring in two cans of food.

[The Grand Cinema, 606 Fawcett Ave., Tacoma, 253.593.4474]

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>>

Kids will take time off from their most painful and gawky and self-exploratory years of their short little lives to take a test â€" for the last time?

The Tacoma Police will chase bad guys in girly little hybrids.

Red Cross says torture took place at secret C.I.A. prisons.

Hmm, where did Bobble Tiki hear this before? White House says the fundamentals of the economy are “sound.”…

Perhaps you already know. Perhaps you're already one of the converts. Perhaps you have had one since you were 4 and got your first domain name at 10 and you can't even spell Led Zeppelin properly, but for those who don't know, iPhone 3.0 software will be unveiled tomorrow.

Auditions for America’s Next Top Model 13 in New York City were closed after models stampeded and injured each other, freaking out over a smoking car they thought was a bomb. Besides those treated at the scene, two people were hospitalized, three were arrested for inciting a riot and one is believed to have passed out due to starvation.