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If you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, then is it fair to judge a gay community by its bars? What could a person assume about the South Sound’s gay community when walking into Tacoma’s Club Silverstone or Jakes on 4th in Olympia for the first time?
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Watch out when you’re walking, you might step on the art. It’s all over the place, more often than not hidden in plain sight. Sometimes hidden by virtue of being overly familiar; your eyes just take it in and spit it out without ever processing it through the brain. Like
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Battlefield girth In a recent column, you validated a woman's desire to lose weight solely to meet her husband's needs. Your encouraging her to take off pounds and get plastic surgery for him is an insult to yourself and every woman who reads your disgraceful article. I disagree with your notion
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As much as I should really focus on the present with a band like the Bug Nasties, I can’t help but descend into the past for a moment when writing about them. The drive behind the Nasties comes from frontman James Burdyshaw, who’s something of a Northwest rock artifact even
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In sports and in movies, star quality counts. We may already know the rules of the game and what strategy’s going to be used in each inning, but it can be a joy just watching the pros perform. George Clooney’s Leatherheads goes into overtime for no good reason, and the
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Jennifer Foster, owner of Underground Green Clothier and Country Girl Gardens all natural body products, says her business tripled when she added clothing to her store in Sanford & Son’s Middle Floor Merchants. Foster has a unique philosophy toward creativity and business. She knows her green thinking sets
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Bobble Tiki has heard it from multiple sources, and he knows it to be true. In Tacoma, anyone can be an artist, or at least claim to be an artist without fearing Tacomans will call bull. This isn’t a new revelation. It’s understood to be true. Just this week Bobble
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Lakewood Playhouse is currently staging the Caribbean-themed musical Once On This Island. The acting was solid but not overall stellar. The singing was good, with a few mulligans here and there. The set design was simple but effective. All that totaled up, and I loved it more than the sum
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Stadium Bistro Chef Peter Weikel laughed. He laughed for a long time. Then his business partner and father, Peter (same name) laughed too. They shared a nice family moment as I sat there dumbly waiting for an answer. “No, seriously,” I prodded after a few more seconds. “Describe for me what
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Even last week’s stupid snow couldn’t hold me back from the sweet South Sound escapades that I got myself into. Here’s the lowdown: Monkeying Around Wednesday was the 100th Monkey arts community party where artists and appreciators gathered to nibble on snacks, drink wine and enjoy the Joshua Cain Band, all at
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History has shown us what an incredible force music can be, and I’m here to assert that this powerful form of art is alive and transforming our own humble Tacoma in ways that you might not be putting together. That’s why Tacoma’s music scene is this week’s Scene of the Crime. This
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O hear my words: Poetry is alive! April is National Poetry Month, and all over the South Sound, writers will be rhymin’ and readin’ their swirl of stanzas. From works shared by Washington State’s newly-named Poet Laureate to the Dead Poets poetry reading, there’s a little something poesy for all
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For whom the Sonntag tolls Historically speaking, I’m not a Tim Eyman fan. I’m a lefty, after all, and in the past I’ve often found myself at odds with the controversial former watch salesman turned initiative pusher from Yakima. I was expecting to have my typical skeptical reaction to Eyman’s antics
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For many women fashion is the obvious choice over function. Crunching our toes into narrow boots or developing hypothermia to show off a cute top is completely worth it to look glamorous. Most men have the opposite approach to style. Wearing sweats and old moldy T-shirts that women have begged
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Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light may be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock’n’ roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances on stage. Working with cinematographer Robert Richardson, Scorsese deployed a team of nine other cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners or nominees,
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Minus kind of week Weekly Volcano’s quality of life meter in Pierce County Like Friday’s Nose column in the New sTribune stated: Some of the greatest men in history have been named Don. Knotts, Rickles, Ho, Perignon (what?). Add Don Lloyd to the list. Well, maybe not the greatest in history, but
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A Los Angeles gang will bring a dark element to the Washington Center Friday. One of L.A.’s best gangs, too. The famed Los Angeles theater ensemble The Actors’ Gang, presents another in its series of “re-interpretations” of classic stories. This time, the material is drawn from George Orwell’s novel of
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Food Matters Doyle’s Public House will donates $1 to KUOW’s Spring Pledge Drive for every Guinness downed in their pub between April 7-17. Cielo Blu closed after three years in downtown Olympia. We will miss its delicious fusion fare with Vince Brown live swing. Eat 101 The Bayview School of Cooking in Olympia presents
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Commencement Bay Coffee may not survive through 2008. The celebrated community hub, as well as the livelihoods of its owner Keith Prichard and seven employees, are in jeopardy because of nearly $9,000 in fines levied by Seattle-based Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, which is in charge of enforcing federal clean-air
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I have finally found the greatest and most satisfying dishwashing music in the entire world. I found this out the hard way, but am I happy. Do not let this statement sway you, because Simian Mobile Disco’s latest (and first) release, Attack Decay Sustain Release, is mind-blowing, to say the
