MATT DRISCOLL: IT'S LIKE CRAIGSLIST WITHOUT HOOKERS >>>

It’s a fairly basic setup. Once a Pierce County resident registers, they can list a reusable item for free or for sale on the site for up to 90 days. The maximum price allowed is $199, though much of the stuff listed can be had for much less â€" even free. 

“We consistently receive positive feedback from residents about how 2good2toss.com is a great resource,” said Tom Voigt, Tacoma/Pierce County site administrator in the distributed press release.

Who knew? I certainly didn’t. Maybe next time I’m looking for a slightly worn foosball table I’ll give 2good2toss a shot. It couldn’t hurt, and if it does, indeed, keep something out of the landfill â€" that’s even better.

MATT DRISCOLL: WHERE WILL SHE SPEND TIME IN TACOMA? >>>

Britney Spears is, in fact, in Tacoma today. She’ll be bringing her train wreck of silicone and broken dreams â€" known as the Circus Tour â€" to the Tacoma Dome tonight.

Knowing no paper in town â€" not even a rag with the righteous ethical standards of the Weekly Volcano â€" could pass up an opportunity to put Spears’ celebrity stained mug on its cover, we decided to seize the moment and offer you, our reader, a Britney Spears Issue like no other. This way, like the others, we can help you get your Britney Spears fill and, if we’re lucky, down the road serve as masturbatory fodder for 13-year-old boys.

It’s a win/win.

Since Spears is in Tacoma and surely needs something to occupy her time besides constant runs to Starbucks for 36-ounce iced coffee drinks, I asked the esteemed Weekly Volcano staff to offer the Southern Pop Meltdown Machine a few suggestions about ways she could spend her time while in the City of Destiny.

What should Spears do in Tacoma? How would it go down? We offer our thoughts on the subject on the Weekly Volcano’s Web site.

PAUL SCHRAG: CLEANER AND SLIGHTLY SAFE, MAYBE >>>

It’s been almost a year since city officials announced their intention to clean up Tacoma neighborhoods and cut crime within the city by 50 percent under an aggressive new program called Safe & Clean. Let’s just say it. They didn’t hit 50 percent crime reduction. But they did manage to mobilize dozens of citizen/city staff teams, who have cleaned up nearly 250 tons of trash in Tacoma neighborhoods. And prostitution is down 77 percent. Car theft is down more than 20 percent. But overall, crime is either down 5 percent, or up 1.5 percent, depending on which data set you’re looking at.

Read my Safe & Clean report on the Weekly Volcano Web site.

ANNOUNCER: A quick call was made to Meconi’s earlier this month.

“Hello, Meconi’s? What’s the name of the restaurant next to you?”

“No, not Matador. The new one right next to you, by the park.”

“No, it’s not Capers anymore and yes, I’m serious.” There was a pause and silence. “Oh, you didn’t notice anything had changed? OK, thank you.”

And that sums up the visual impact of the sale of Capers and subsequent birth of Seven-Oh-One. This new bistro has slipped hermit crab-like into the space at 701 Pacific Ave. in downtown Tacoma. Owner Patti Iseman is new to Tacoma’s dicey sustenance game having formerly owned a very casual dining spot in Gig Harbor, the Hy-Iu-Hee-Hee. A bistro in Tacoma is a different animal entirely. Hopes are high.

Read Jake and Jason de Paul's review of Seven-Oh-One on the Weekly Volcano Web site.

Photo: J.M. Simpson

MATT DRISCOLL: HAD TOO MUCH TO THINK LAST NIGHT >>>

What the fuck is going on in the world?

With the rampant string of heinous crimes that have recently gone down in Tacoma and Pierce County, it’s enough to make you wonder. Kids being executed by their dad. Cabbies getting killed. 50-year-old women being gunned down.

This is the world we live in.

In this week’s issue of the Weekly Volcano I took a moment to wonder aloud whether the economic crisis is playing into the pain and despair we’re all feeling â€" and seeing on a nearly nightly basis on local news broadcasts.

And if it is, as a community, what can we do to help?

To read this week’s Volcano editorial, click here.

CHUCK DULA: KISS TRIBUTE TONIGHT AT HELL'S KITCHEN >>>

Gods of Thunder make a living pretending to be KISS. They wear all of the appropriate makeup, play all of the appropriate riffs, and make all of the inappropriate jokes. I wonder if they even have a Vinnie Vincent look-a-like that stands in for the drunken Frehley look-a-like three fourths of the way through the show? Will they play any of the songs from the album Dynasty in which Anton Fry, a session drummer, played all of the drum tracks for a violently inadequate Peter Criss? Is their tour bus lined with posters of other tribute bands like Rain, KISSexy (a five-piece all-female KISS tribute band), or the only band that makes it hard for me to hold food down â€" KRY? You won’t know unless you go see them tonight at Hell's Kitchen.

[Hell’s Kitchen, with Atomic Outlaws, Divide the Day, 8 p.m., $10, 3829 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003]

MARK THOMAS DEMING: TONIGHT AT THE NEW FRONTIER >>>

Is it just me or is alt-country dead? Dead in a good way, I mean. Dead the way postmodernism is dead. Not because the art failed, but because it outlived its name. Because it was a name built for failure, a name coined obsolete. When the alternative rescues that which it supposedly alternates from, it becomes it. So don’t call Indian Valley Line alt-country. Or roots rock. Or Americana. Throw away the affixes and go see their show at The New Frontier tonight. Listen to the syrup-sweet guitar of Ryan Lynch, the gunshot drums of Emo Ben, and Bubba’s (I refuse to say honest and heartfelt) honest and heartfelt vocals. (Bubba’s from Seattle, the other two from Sonoma, Calif.) And don’t leave without their new full-length, Peggy, Sonoma and a Boxcar.

[The New Frontier Lounge, with Goldfinch and Molly Rose, 9 p.m., 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]

NEWS TEAM: GOOD MORNING SOUTH SOUND >>>

Northwest Detention Center in the news again.

Sales tax increase to restore health care programs cuts might be on fall ballot.

Moratorium on Tacoma's multifamily housing tax incentive to developers who want to build near Tacoma Mall was extended.

Pirates of the Indian Ocean update

Nom nom nom nom: Yay! Studies show adults have a calorie-burning fat in their bodies.

Amazon vs. iTunes wars benefits record labels.

Britney Spears knows how to go viral.