Features
"We've got nothing to hide. We've worked that all out," Jeff Angell tells me. Of course, old school Tacomans know him as Junior, and they probably wouldn't be surprised to see him sitting in the back of a bar discussing rock ‘n roll as high art with me. Kyong Kim
Features
The South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival held yearly in Austin, Texas is an absurd orgy. Every March a mind-boggling and ever-growing mob converges on SXSW: bands, managers, members of the press, record labels, PR people, booking agents, groupies, and even a few average music fans all cram
Features
Tristan Marcum and I met the way friendships are usually formed: He started dating my ex-girlfriend. Shouts were exchanged over unwise telephone calls, and I slowly sunk into a bottomless pit of self-loathing and despair. In the months after he and my ex parted ways, I suddenly found myself warming
Features
"There are hints of ‘it's all fucked up.' But it's not. There's hope." They tell you in journalism school never to start an article with a quote. Without context, quotes lack meaning. It takes the punch out of the punch line. What they also don't tell you, but probably should have told
Features
Jeff Southard Jeff Southard is one of those people who, without much recognition, quietly holds major influence on the scene around him. An avid member of the Tacoma music scene, Southard has contributed on a number of occasions by helping to record and mix albums by Makeup Monsters, the Nightgowns and
Columns
I agreed to be in a friend's wedding, and unfortunately, she had to change the date to the day my boyfriend and I were going to Burning Man. When I told him I'd have to go to her wedding instead, he erupted in anger. He wants me to ask her
Restaurant Reviews
O-bok Restaurant Where: 8600 South Tacoma Way, Lakewood, 253.582.6713 Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday,11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday Cuisine: Traditional home style Korean Scene: Casual, cozy, and family friendly with tabletop barbecue Drinkies: Beer and wine, tea, soda Prices: $7.95-$27.95. Most dishes over $20 serve two. ANNOUNCER: A bit
Bar Exam
What the hell is an "imbibery"? Google, my third best friend ever, tells me to "imbibe" is to either drink something, or to absorb moisture, gas, light or heat. Thank you, Google - but doesn't one form of imbibing lead to another? I know for sure after I've had
Columns
Colin Sannes has definitely made a name for himself in the karaoke scene. Finding more than a handful of people at any given time in Tacoma who have never heard of Colin is nearly impossible. With only two nights off a week, karaoke hounds can find Colin lining up
Live Reviews
The first concert I ever attended was blues guitarists Johnny Lang and Buddy Guy at the Pier in Seattle. The second was The Who, on their final three-member tour-bassist Jon Entwistle passed a few days before their next attempt to play the Gorge on the band's subsequent jaunt. The third concert
CD Reviews
Only 30 minutes in length, Angelo Spencer's all-instrumental effort Et les Hauts Sommets floats happily between surf, afro-pop and noise rock. Spencer's MySpace declares, it "sounds like a soundtrack." Sure enough, the album's pulsing character pieces define an exotic tone that could have great cinematic effect. If this well-defined tone is
Promotions
Slip on your Cleopatra Jones afro or your grandpa's toupee and slide on over to The China Clipper for a funk-soul-electro-eclectic mix with DJ El Goonie and his homies every Saturday night, sponsored by the Weekly Volcano. His new Saturday night dance party series will be full of rubbery
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Ah, the wedding singer. Every wedding has one (well, almost). Whether it's during the ceremony or the reception, and whether it's a live person or even a CD, weddings almost always include music of some sort. Tacoma Musical Playhouse brings music of the ‘80s to the stage with the musical
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The puns, oh god, the puns. If you can think of a pun that involves marine life, courtroom procedure, or marine life enacting courtroom procedure, you can bet it will be found somewhere in the Bryan Willis script of The Incredible Undersea Trial of Joseph P. Lawnboy - the tale of
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Charles Willyard's paintings of roads at night now showing at Caffé Vita in Olympia look a lot like calendar art or postcard art, or maybe like story illustrations out of a 1950s Saturday Evening Post. Willyard's painting technique and his sense of design, color and - most notably -
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I wonder what it's all about? No, that's not a question; that's the name of the Mike Capp exhibit at Mineral. His paintings "don't really mean anything dangerous, angst-y or irksome. There's no mewling social commentary," he says. Nor are they "meant to provoke the unarticulated terrors of childhood.
Features
I have, in my possession, rare video footage just waiting for the perfect blackmail opportunity. It involves Weekly Volcano co-publisher Ron Swarner and his oddly profound karaoke rendition of the B-52's "Love Shack." It's a scene many of you are probably quite familiar with, I'm sure: A group of friends
Arts Feature
So, free money part two. Grant applications. If you've got your artist resume and general shit together, you're ready to apply for a grant or two. First, you need a well-planned idea. That means a series or project that requires the kind of money you'll be asking for. If you have a
Promotions
(((THIS PROMOTION IS OVER))) For this week's Weekly Volcano Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're giving away a pair of tickets to see the rock band Post Stardom Depression March 20 at Hell's Kitchen. The band is on the cover of our MUSIC ISSUE inside today's Weekly Volcano. The first person who
Food Matters
Thursday, March 11 Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215. Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum