In the Okkervil River song, "Pop Lie," lead singer Will Sheff calls out an unseen superstar who's the "liar who lied in his pop song," and admonishes the audience that "you're lying if you sing along."
Alright, let me know if you've heard this one before: Tacoma's music scene has a frustrating...
Architecture, memory and nature
"Study of Site and Space" at 950 Gallery is the best theme show around.
As I write this, we've just come out the other side of what felt like a never-ending heat wave....
Stage
South Sound theater lovers love Chris Serface, actor, director and Managing Artistic Director at Tacoma Little Theatre.
Arts
Nicholas Nyland has been showing art around Tacoma for quite some time, and I thought I was familiar with his work, but the raw stoneware and terracotta earthenware in his show "Reliquary" at Feast Arts Center offers some things I've not seen...
Music
This is Three Easy Pieces, the column where I examine a bit of pop culture from its birth to today, hoping to give you just a bit of an edge at your next bar trivia night.
Arts
Jacci Lynn Butler's "Holy Trinity and Other Tales in Abstract" at Browsers Book Shop is this artist's first exhibition.
Music
There are few record labels out there that have come to define an entire country's quality independent music output.
There's just too much to do in the South Sound, and it's annoying. We try to cover everything,...
I recently volunteered to review the new Melvins record, "Hold It In," released, of course, on...
Readers, you don't just like Alma Mater, the new performance-and-dining space between South 13th...
The readers have spoken. Once again, followers of the Weekly Volcano voted their favorite places...