NOW THIS IS A SUNDAY NIGHT! >>>

The Brotherhood Lounge used to be the spot to rally support and spit at the likeness of management. Now it's the spot to eye cute hipster types. Either way, it's always a great spot to drink booze.

Sunday is movie night at the downtown Olympia watering hole. Tonight at 7 p.m. The Brotherhood Lounge will screen Super 8.

Weekly Volcano scribe Rev. Adam McKinney reviewed Super 8 this past June. Here's what he wrote:

It's a sad position I've been placed in by Super 8: on the one hand, it is a good movie. It has all of the enjoyable elements of a good, summer popcorn flick. On the other hand, I must recognize its goodness comes as such a relief because it exists as a standalone film, and not as part of a franchise.

But, while it is an original film, it is not an original film, if you get my meaning.

The critical shorthand that reviewers use will surely mention the combination of movies like The Goonies and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg being the producer, aliens are bound to be involved). These comparisons will be true - which is not to say this is a bad thing. Sure, Super 8 is compiled from scraps of earlier movies, but this is mostly taken as reverential nods to those classics.

To read Rev. Adam McKinney's full review of Super 8, go to the Movies section at weeklyvolcano.com.

The Reverend awarded the film a whopping three out of four stars. Just add booze.

[The Brotherhood Lounge, Sunday, Marhc 4, 7 p.m., no cover, cash only bar, 119 Capitol Way N., Olympia, 360.352.4153]

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

They Must Have Taken It For A Spin: The Pierce County Council changed its mind and approved spending a whopping $730,000 for a new saltwater patrol and rescue boat for the Sheriff's Department. (News Tribune)

Senate Democratic Budget Plan: They'd like to spare public schools and universities from new spending cuts. (News Tribune)

Sucks To Be The Boss: The athletic director at Tacoma Community College will receive a two-week suspension without pay because his men's basketball coach is a bonehead. (News Tribune)

Moratoriums-O-Plenty: North Korea has agreed to back off at one of its key nuclear facility AND to knock off the long-range missile launches. (CNN)

Go To Your Room!: Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, announced on Wednesday that his son James had stepped down as executive chairman of News International, the British newspaper subsidiary that is under scrutiny amid a phone-hacking scandal at the company's tabloids. (The New York Times)

Charlie Sheen: FX sets premiere date for his Anger Management. (Coming Soon)

Bring It: The Girl Scouts have hooked up with Nestle on a new candy bar. (Huffington Post)

The Lone Ranger Is Riding Again: Johnny Depp is in the saddle. (USA Today)

Lea Thompson Is 50: And the Los Angeles Times chatted with her. (Los Angeles Times)

They Did It! World record for human mattress dominoes shattered. (DVIce)

MAKEUP ARTIST WILL DECORATE YOUR FILM >>>

Tacoma's freelance makeup artist Kari Baumann has her own business, and she calls it Decorate Your Face. I hear that name and immediately a mental movie begins playing of Baumann gleefully chucking handfuls of foundation and glitter (glitter?) at her clients' cheeks, with all the expressionistic exuberance of Jackson Pollock. Don't ask me why.

But Baumann's real-life work, though more subtle than this fantasy, functions equally effective. Since establishing her trade in 2005, local movie productions have mainly called upon Baumann's talents in decorating actors' faces in more naturalistic ways. Yet sometimes the end product can still shock, as it does in director Ron Lagman's short Tapat Sa Pangako (Committed) (which premiered in Tacoma last month and played this past weekend at Seattle's Post Alley Film Festival). Viewers won't easily shake off one of the movie's most striking images: the near-black bruises running across an abused woman's back, which Baumann created.

Baumann has already spent several months on the set of Rose Colored Shades, the debut feature-length drama from filmmaker Randy Sparks. The perk she revels in as a crew member is getting special access to places and spaces (and of course faces) she would never see in other lines of work. She says she loves to visit "all these cool behind-the-scenes locations that you were always curious about, like ‘What's behind that door?'"

Baumann may not have found treasure or even a good old-fashioned monster behind any of those doors she opened, but she's stumbled upon something better: "endless opportunities...(for) using a found space and creating another environment for it, and that's fascinating to me."

Find out more about Baumann on www.decorateyourface.com or her Facebook page.

FABITAT HAS A NEW FAB HOME >>>

As you have no doubt heard, Fab-5 has converted its Spaceworks Tacoma spot on Tacoma's Hilltop into a permanent space. What you might not have heard, or rather seen, is the mini-documentary on Fab-5. Eddie Sumlin of Fab-5 sent us the video with an accompany press release

Now for the first time in 12 years, Fab-5 has found a home. Our Creativity Center FABITAT (located on the 1300 block of MLK), will enable us to serve Pierce County youth year round, but in order to make this happen we need the community's support with all hands on deck. Help us secure our permanent fixture for young people to gather and grow together by joining our team and becoming a supporter of Fab-5.

Since we are in the process of our first individual donor campaign, to celebrate the occasion, our good friends @ JAB-LAB have created an amazing mini-documentary that captures the essence of what we do.

Afterwards, please consider a monthly (or one time) gift to our program. All details can be found @ fab-5.org/give - where you can view a photo gallery of our current Fab-5 supporters, as well as get a full breakdown of how your resources benefit our students, and the greater Pierce County community.

Also, please feel free to share this video campaign to others who have a passion for supporting youth, community arts, and an organization dedicated to positive community change. Without you, none of our work could happen.

Thank you for all of your continued support.

LINK: Origins of Fabitat

Fab-5.org/Give (2012) from The Original Fab-5 on Vimeo.

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Snow: It's possible. (News Tribune)

Stamped: Plan to shift Tacoma postal operations is official, cutting 139 jobs. (Bellingham Herald)

School Shootings: Why is U.S. No. 1. (CNN)

Your Phone: Why are they becoming uncontrollable monsters. (CNN)

Presidential Primary: A defeat today for Mitt Romney could send the nominating fight onto an unpredictable path and reset the Republican race. (The New York Times)

Sean Young Back In the News: The weird chick was arrested in post-Oscar fight. (USA Today)

Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah: Here comes the Griswolds and a National Lampoon's Vacation remake. (Den of Geek)

Mad Men: It's oh so close. (Coming Soon)

Drew Barrymore Wine: Her Pinot Grigio is crispy and fresh, so they say. (Huffington Post)

Cook Like Batgirl: Geektastic superhero aprons. (Geeks Are Sexy)

Fake Happy Faces: Giant set of gifs created from Oscar loser reaction shots. (Four Four)

Awesome Chemistry Experiment Of The Day

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Puyallup School District's Next Superintendent: Let's look at the candidates. (News Tribune)

Occupy Tacoma: In like a lion, out like a lamb. (News Tribune)

President Barack Obama's New Budget: It includes no new money for the Puyallup River study in 2013. (News Tribune)

Live Blog: Four students shot at Ohio high school. (CNN)

Afghanistan: Administration officials described growing concern about a drawdown by the United States that hinges on the close training of Afghan army and police forces. (The New York Times)

Oscars 2012: Live coverage of the Academy Awards ceremony. (The Guardian)

Oscars 2012: Complete list of winners. (USA Today)

Oscars 2012: The breakout star at the Academy Awards was Angelina Jolie's right leg. (BuzzFeed)

Golden Raspberry Awards 2012: Adam Sandler has received a record number of them. (Den Of Geek)

Run For Your Lives 5K: Runners will be chased by zombies. (The Mary Sue)

MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2012 >>>

The system that we've designed for students to pay for college is out of whack. Many college students emerge from their schooling these days with thousands and thousands of dollars in debt, without the job prospects to justify it. According to promotion for tonight's lecture from 7-9 p.m. at The Evergreen State College's Seminar Building 2 with Professor of Economics at Seattle University and Seattle Central Community College Kshama Sawant, "Student debt has exploded in the US and globally, with the average college senior graduating with more than $25,000 in student loans." Sawant will discuss this alarming statistic as well as the low wage job prospects and youth unemployment rate as part of a presentation titled, "The Student Debt Explosion: The New Indentured Servitude?"

The Olympia Monthly Community Arts Roundtable will host a Pecha Kucha in which presenters share 20 slides - 20 seconds each slide - centered on an arts-related topic. The event begins at 6 p.m. inside the Olympia Timberland Library.

The Tacoma Cult Movie Club hosts a night of free movies, shorts, trailers and wackiness under the theme "Before They Had Oscars: You Gotta Start Somewhere" at 7 p.m. inside The Acme Tavern.

3RP, Island Trybe, PO Boxx, J-Lei and D'Rocc perform at 8 p.m. inside Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma.

Vocalist Dennis Hastings joins The Joe Baque Trio for a night of jazz beginning at 9:30 p.m. inside the Waterstreet Café in downtown Olympia.

LINK: More arts and entertainment events in the South Sound

LINK: Live music tonight in the South Sound

LINK: South Sound Happy Hours

SUNDAY, FEB. 26, 2012 >>>

1. If you're bored with watching the Academy Awards from the couch, or your space is too small to host your own soiree, consider joining the fun at the live Oscar broadcast parties in Tacoma, Puyallup and Olympia.

2. The Tacoma Public Library downtown branch deserves some props. Not only does it perform all the requisite library duties while also making sure vagrants don't shit and piss all over the bathroom, but the powers that be also line up some pretty solid events - like the 1:30 p.m. screening of Miss Representation: A Documentary. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, according to hype posted to the Tacoma Public Library's website, Miss Representation "exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America." A panel discussion directly follows the afternoon screening.

3. You love television. You always have. It's part of being American, like processed cheese and alarming obesity statistics. Most of all, you love the really old TV shows you grew up on (or at the very least grew up smoking weed out of a Mountain Dew can to on Nick at Nite). For all of these reasons and more today's Big Shoe VI-The Golden Age of Television, heading to the Washington Center for the Performing Arts at 2 p.m., is the show for you, offering a glitz and glitter homage to TV of yesteryear.  According to the Washington Center's website, The Golden Age of Television, which focuses on 1948-70, is a "variety show with reminders of anything from Amateur Hour to Zorro with stops at Petticoat Junction, Bonanza and Laugh-In."

4. Tacoma Children's Musical Theater at Tacoma Musical Playhouse has the golden ticket for a musical for all ages. The stage version of Willy Wonka hits the stage at 2 p.m., formatted for children. At an hour and a half (including intermission), it's the perfect length for young children. The play is recommended for ages four and up. Based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl this adaptation also includes songs from the classic film with Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Read Joann Varnell's full review of Willy Wonka in the Arts & Entertainment section at weeklyvolcano.com.

5. The T-Town Aces will fill The Spar in Old Town Tacoma with blues beginning at 8 p.m.

LINK: More arts and entertainment events in the South Sound

LINK: Live music and DJs tonight

LINK: South Sound Happy Hours

DRESS AS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE STAR OR MOVIE THEME >>>

We knew indie hotspot The Grand Cinema wouldn't leave Tacoma without an Academy Awards shindig of its own. In recent years, staff has opted for the nearby Theatre on the Square's more intimate space to hold its annual event, and this year's Grand Oscar part is no different. The Grand has plenty to entice guests, including a $100 award for the most creative costume, a raffle, silent auction and host Mitch Robinson, president of The Grand Cinema board.

All costume contest participants need to meet in the Theatre on the Square lobby at 5:10 p.m. to be separated into two groups. Three rounds of audience voting will choose the best movie themed costume.

But best of all, the "Golden Ticket" (a year's supply of free movies at The Grand) awaits the person who correctly guesses the most Oscar winners.

[Theatre on the Square, Grand Cinema's Academy Awards Party, Sunday, Feb. 26, doors at 4 p.m., red carpet coverage begins at 5 p.m., $20 for Grand Cinema members, $25 for non-members, dinner and dessert included in ticket price, 915 Broadway, Tacoma 253.572.6062, grandcinema.com]

Ideas ...

TACOMA FILMMAKER IS OFF AND RUNNING WITH PHOENIX RUN WEB SERIES >>>

I love some of the conversations I get into with filmmakers. Like one last week I had with Tacoma's TJ Walker - when I erroneously labeled his current project, Phoenix Run, a "zombie" Web series. He quickly reclaimed it as a work dealing with infected people. We then delved into theories on how the two groups differ.

While I went the overblown, cerebral route (as a writer I gots to), positing that zombies belong to the stuff of fantasy while infected peoples have their origins in science, I much prefer Walker's more elegant distinction: "Basically, zombies are the ones that walk; infected are the ones that run."

Now why didn't I think of that?

The man knows something about this subject. As a lifelong devourer of comics and graphic novels, for a long time Walker has wanted to make his own chronicle of the undead. But the jump from page to screen came when Walker's writing partner, Will Strode, transformed his idea into a potential screenplay. Strode's words, shall we say, infected Walker's brain with filmmaking visions.

"I was blown away," recalls Walker. "Once I started reading the script I just pictured scene after scene."

Run's first episode rolled off the post-production line only last week; from there it makes its way to the Seattle International Film Festival's review committee with hopes of a place at this year's show. Its creator sees acceptance into the prestigious SIFF as "a really big goal, especially for my first time directing and coming out with something."

No one likes playing the waiting game, but at least Walker has his mind on other matters. Besides getting the Phoenix Run website online, in March he'll direct Episodes 2 and 3 back-to-back alongside 1^st AD and co-producer Rick Walters. Oh, springtime - the season of rebirth, renewal, and reanimated corpses (un)dying for just a nibble of your intestines. Ready to Run?

Check out some creepy promotional posters on the Phoenix Run Facebook page.