Columns
A medium-rare and wonderful thing I'm 32, and deeply in love with this 24-year-old girl. I've never had trouble attracting women, but there was chemistry between us I didn't know was possible. There was a complication: She's engaged to and lives with a disabled man. She said she didn't love him
Archives
The text message came in frantic, and at first I didn’t understand it. “Dude, sit down. Billy Ray Cyrus has a womb broom,” it read. A day later when I got to work, the sender — Weekly Volcano staff writer Michael Swan — cleared things up. “Billy Ray Cyrus has a womb broom,
Archives
Roger Ebert’s review of Star Trek ran in the print version of the Weekly Volcano. Ebert’s peeps will now allow us to run the review online. To read his review online, visit Ebert’s Web site. Star Trek Score: Two and a half out of four stars Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Leonard
Archives
Most of what I know about the word “Cabaret” comes from a memory: Me, in my babysitter, Mrs. Hathaway’s teal-blue, shag-carpeted living room with a wall-sized photomural of a madrona tree and built-in benches, watching TV as a song, “bye-bye, mein liebe herr” etches itself into my brain. The lady
Archives
If I followed my mother’s adage of not saying anything if I can’t say something nice, this would be a short column. Well actually, there were some high points in Harlequin Productions’ The American Pilot. But not many. Scott C. Brown, Elliot Weiner and Amy Hill delivered solid performances. No surprise
Archives
Last week — as I’m sure you’ll recall from media reports — we all died of swine flu. It was pure, raging, apocalyptic madness. Babies ate babies and no one was safe. Every time another person coughed, and angel turned to bacon. It was the scariest thing ever. Sure am
Archives
There’s a lot of talk about hope and change these days. And let’s be honest, things are changing faster than most of us can follow. Alvin Toffler called it future shock — the inability to cope with the pace of change that’s emerged in response to technological and social evolution.
Archives
The current show at Childhood’s End Gallery is one of the better shows they’ve had in a long time. Featured artists are Robin and John Gumaelius, ceramic and mixed media, and Marilyn Frasca, pastel on monotype. Frasca’s drawings are wonderful. They picture fantasy people (some borrowed from Renaissance and medieval art)
Archives
BENEFIT A wine tasting to benefit the Fred Oldfield Western Heritage & Art Center featuring 12 Washington wineries will be held Saturday, May 9 beginning at noon, at the Heritage & Art Center on the north side of the Puyallup Fairgrounds. The entry fee is $5. Taste tickets are $1. For
Archives
As my phone rang and a number with a 666 area code popped up, I wasn’t surprised when it turned out to be my conference call with Victory Records’ artist Aiden. A post-hardcore band with strong goth tones — vampires, death, and anything slightly macabre are often associated with Aiden
Archives
The gulf between middle class American life and life on the streets is closing. Tacomans who have taken comforts for granted are losing their jobs, their homes, their medical care and their carefully cultivated security. Many of them are ending up on the streets, says Diane Powers, Homeless and Housing
Archives
Singer, songwriter, storyteller Steve Schalchlin is a little bit gospel, a little bit rock and roll, and all theatrical entertainer. And he played John Lennon’s piano. Right here in Olympia. He’s coming back to Olympia Sunday, May 10 for a very special Mother’s Day PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians
Archives
It’s been an ongoing deliberation over whether or not lounges in Mexican restaurants could be considered “dives.” The deliberation has mainly taken place in my own head, between my right brain and my left brain. I argue with myself every time I pass by any sort of La Palma, El
Archives
Travel. Romance. Solitude. Rest. While, as a former hotel employee (I lasted seven months until I quit that shit, yo!), I can professionally attest the above semi-slogan sounds like a marketing department-created mantra you’d see on a pillow placard at the Holiday Inn, for Hotels — a hype-propelled Seattle band scheduled
Archives
Roger Ebert’s review of Next Day Air ran in the print version of the Weekly Volcano. Ebert’s peeps will now allow us to run the review online. To read his review online, visit Ebert’s Web site. Next Day Air Score: Three out of four stars Stars: onald Faison, Mike Epps, Wood Harris and
Archives
ANGELS & DEMONS: Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard return to Da Vinci Code territory with this adaptation of author Dan Brown's first book, a prequel of sorts to Da Vinci. This one's aimed squarely at a more mature audience. (PG-13) – Michael Swan Century Federal Way:
Archives
Hot tipper Ken L. knows food. I go to him often for the good word — especially barbecue. Therefore, since Ken L. has given the thumbs up to Papa Eddie’s Corner Café & Ribs — even after only being open for a week — I rushed over to the infamous
Archives
When it comes to handling uninvited party guests, you have to give it up to King Florestan the XIV of Marius Petipa’s and Peter Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Sleeping Beauty. What’s that you say, evil fairy Carabosse? You weren’t on the guest list for my daughter’s christening ceremony? Oh, what a terrible mistake.
Archives
THE VILE RED FALCONS Thursday, May 7 Do you have a goatee, or perhaps a pair of those hybrid muttonchop sideburns shaved into sharp points heading toward your mouth? Are you the guy that drove past me the other day in that Honda Civic with a busted-out back window blasting STP’s “Plush”
Archives
It’s like a 15 round fight, and we’ve got to be getting near round 11 or 12. For what seems like forever, Olympia and its impassioned residents have been going back and forth over the fight for the “isthmus” — which in reality is just the small patch of land
