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Friday night in Olympia is going to be crazy. It's a full moon, Friday the 13th and Evergreen State College graduation all rolled into one. It's a good thing this rock show is going to be at the 4th Ave Tav. The powerhouse bill will need the room to accommodate
Stage
Ellen Hochberg's installations "Boxes" and "Educating Girls" in the Woolworth windows are identity art. They put out there for your contemplation questions of how girls see themselves and how they are seen by others. As conceptual art they are interesting if not earth shattering; aesthetically they are like well-conceived minimalist
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Frank Sinatra always swung in his own fawning way - he would never have made it with bands such as Dorsey's or Harry James' if he hadn't. He frequently improvised, both music and words. Musically it was essentially embellishing the line with a few notes or a phrase, always right
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Every year, more than 30 street bands from around the nation converge in Seattle for Honk! Fest West. Olympia's Rhythm and Rye will be hosting a rowdy Pre-Honk! primer with two of its favorite Honk! bands: The Bucharest Drinking Team and Artesian Rumble Arkestra June 16. The Bucharest Drinking Team,
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Two Boys Kissing by Scholastic editorial director David Levithan follows the interlocking stories of seven gay teenagers who are in various stages of coming to terms with being gay. They are all in different situations. Harry and Craig want to set the world record for the longest kiss to make
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With the recent D-Day 70th anniversary celebration, and the Fourth of July just around the corner, we want to do our bit for the patriotic frenzy pulsing though America. The best thing the Weekly Volcano can do is to preach the gospel of barbecue. It is, after all, the only
Family
This summer, families can head south and see what goes in the Capital City outside of the rotunda and under the trees. "I believe that fellow military families could really benefit from some of our larger recreation events," explained Christie Lamour, a military spouse and program specialist with the Park Stewardship
News
Just five days after Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs amid a growing scandal, U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, met with 25 military veterans Wednesday to hear their stories of frustration in getting health care. Kilmer began the 90-minute gathering at the VFW Post in northern Tacoma with
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[METAL] + SAT, JUNE 7 Taking a smoke break with my co-worker in the alley behind the bar, we de-stressed from our shift and speculated the amount of tips we may have made. Just as we were about to go back in and finish our busy Olympia Arts Walk shift, we
Music
Music culture has a way of building upon itself, of establishing groups of talented individuals that branch out into new and interesting projects. Just a couple weeks ago, Spencer Kelley of Basemint came out of hiding to debut his new project, Deep Kink, featuring local and ex-local musicians like Ben
Viva South Sound
Over the past week, without quite intending to do so, I spent perhaps too much time researching this article on day drinking. In short, my results: day drinking is like walking the sloppiest of tightropes, and it takes a deft hand and more than a little bit of intestinal fortitude
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April showers bring May flowers, and by June, gardens are flourishing and ripe with the fruits of love and hard labor. And while green thumbs let out a collective sigh at the sight of their lush green plant babies, I've got one thing on the noggin': How will the lovely
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Illegal Tender Wanda De Jesus stars in a strong performance as a smart South Bronx girl whose boyfriend is shot dead the day she gives birth. She wisely invested his profits, 20 years later is wealthy, and tries to hide herself and her family in the suburbs, but the past comes
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ARCTIC TALE: A fable in documentary style about the hard lives of polar bears and walruses in the Arctic. Using footage shot over 10 years but edited together to seem to be about the same animals, the film follows Nanu, a polar bear cub, and Seela, a newborn walrus. They
Food Matters
SMOKE + CEDAR + OFFICIAL Friday, June 6, Smoke + Cedar (2013 South Cedar, Tacoma) will celebrate being in business all official like with a Tacoma Chanber ribbon cutting ceremony from 2-5 p.m. Attendees may partake in delectable appetizers and tasty refreshments as well as enter a gift card drawing. STONE
Show And Tell
We all have to make difficult decisions in life where it's not a matter of making the right choice so much as it's a matter of making the least horrible choice. Buy a new roof or repair the old one? Clean the basement or the attic? Little Caesars or DiGiorno? In
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Deep Creep is a band that unites at the populated intersection of the Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, the Cave Singers and Cute Lepers. Deep Creep favor the stompy rock of the '70s, while also branching out into unique areas of their own devising. "Derek (Fudesco) and I were
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No Regerts, the recent (and hilariously titled) album from Chastity Belt, is a quietly brilliant and important document of feminism and sexual insight, disguised as remarkably surefooted indie rock. With lyrics that vacillate from the winking to the serious - though always trenchantly well-observed - Chastity Belt build solid, simple
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For the most part, Canadian indie music that makes its way across the border has come in the form of bombastic choral rock (Arcade Fire) or hook-driven power-pop (Wolf Parade). While I acknowledge that this is an entirely reductive way to look at things, it was still something of a
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Saturday, you might want to "slide, slide, slippity slide" to Sixth Avenue as hip-hop luminary Coolio makes the party go sideways. "New booties" will call him a one-hit wonder, which is false and, as Chris Rock would say, "IGNINT." Coolio's hip-hop heritage is rooted in authentic LA hip-hop with the likes of
