It's wild to step back and consider that the Gray Sky Blues Music Festival has been alive and kicking in Tacoma for 12 years. This Saturday will mark the event's entry into the dozen-timers' club, and that...
The South Sound theater community is populated with a cavalcade of intensely passionate...
The art of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's In the Footsteps of My Ancestors at Tacoma Art Museum is a knockout...
Collaboration transforms 950 Gallery
Elise Richman and Nicholas Nyland are ubiquitous presences in Tacoma art spaces, but what...
Arts
It’s all about the art (books)
What better way to welcome the sun back into our lives this April than by heading to the park with a good book ... or two ... or three ... or four ... okay, you get the point! There's something magical about cracking open a new book while...
Stage
Salon is the French word for room. It sounds much the same in la langue francaise as it did in Latin (sala) or Italian (salone) in days past, but leave it to the Italians and French to elevate it into the realm of the intellectual....
Music
April marks my 10th anniversary writing for the Weekly Volcano. In that time, the vast majority of my coverage has centered around music in the South Sound, and it's been a real roller coaster ride to see how the scene has shifted and developed....
Music
Another edition of Three Easy Pieces, another time for me to tell you about a corner of pop culture, from how it started, to how it looks today. This month: comedy podcasts. Podcasts have only existed for about 15 years, but in that time, have...
Stage
Charlie Brown is still a good man
That's the way to do it, Centerstage. This is the way "Peanuts" should be produced on stage. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is based on the comics by Charles M. Schulz, adapted for the stage with book and music by Clark Gesner, and directed at...
It doesn't take much to get Jackie and Dutch to take a trip south to Olympia to try out a new...
April 17-18: Live music in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's In the Footsteps of My Ancestors at Tacoma Art Museum is a knockout...
There's just too much to do in the South Sound, and it's annoying. We try to cover everything,...