Cup Check
Temperatures are dropping. Rain is pelting the windows. Time to get off work, grab a quick drink and curl up with a nice, fuzzy dodgeball. A dodgeball? That's right. A dodgeball. "Dodgeball is awesome," says Eddie Behringer, co-founder of Comeback Sports. "It's the most social sport we run." Comeback Sports is one of
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Let's tally up the score for Jazzbones Rockaraoke, shall we? A chance to sing onstage with a live band? Yes. Cheap Miller High Life? Yes. A valid excuse to drink on a Monday (repeat, Monday) night? Yes, yes and, oh God, yes. A full house on a
Hip-Toss
Temperatures are dropping. Rain is pelting the windows. Time to get off work, grab a quick drink and curl up with a nice, fuzzy dodgeball. A dodgeball? That's right. A dodgeball. "Dodgeball is awesome," says Eddie Behringer, co-founder of Comeback Sports. "It's the most social sport we run." Comeback Sports is one of
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There's something inherently American about pieces of fried chicken in a salad. It's Jenny Craig meets KFC. It's blatant excess coupled with green modesty. It's iPhones, Simon Cowell's X Factor and economic worries all rolled into a single, delightful meal. Well, maybe not. But this is where my mind wanders as
Arts Feature
Lets see ... are you going with the dapper Grave Groom or the literary Lord Voldermort? Or maybe show some chest hair and settle on the Smokin' Hot Fireman? The only thing that's certain is last year's skimpy King of the Caves costume didn't go over too well with the
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Susan Rohrer, the manager of the State Capital Museum, will lead a walking tour Saturday, Oct. 29 exploring famous deaths, weird occurrences and creepy history around Olympia's South Capitol neighborhood. Rohrer says the tour, which costs $2 and is first come first serve, sticks mostly to the
Features
I assume everybody has heard of the children's book, Everyone Poops. You know, the picture book that alerts children to the fact that every animal, human or otherwise, does indeed defecate. It turns out there should be a second book in the Everyone Poops series. This book, called Everyone in Olympia
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Not much can be said about 1022 South that hasn't already been said. Everyone has sung the bar's praises. I mean, even a writer from New York called 1022, "home to some of the most fascinating apothecary cocktail work on the West Coast." And I agree. Unlike the New York Times
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I pigeonhole bars. I try not to, but it comes with the territory. I visit a bar for one or two nights, and based on what I see I write a review. Do I understand it's possible that Charlie's Chuck Wagon isn't sleazy every night of the week? Sure. But
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Here's the tricky thing about grand openings: They're grand. At any club's grand opening, the bathrooms are clean, the lights flow perfectly and the liquor is stocked. Hoards of pretty ladies and muscled men abuse the dance floor. At grand openings, a noticeable buzz of excitement crams the air. But the buzz can
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Lord knows I'm a patient man. I've waited out plenty of things. Concert ticket lines, girlfriends at the mall, tax-refund checks. I've even waited for the Mariners to have a truly winning season, which - if you follow baseball - you know could take awhile. But waiting for a club to
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My night starts off with the cleanest of intentions. Deciding to stay dry for a weekend, I try to visit Applini's Two Clean and Sober Club in Puyallup. I simply want to grab a virgin daiquiri, surround myself with a sober crowd and clear my head. A weekend without the
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Standing in line for beer atop Cheney Stadium's Tasty Terrace, I listen to a couple of guys discuss the perks of drinking the $2-a-cup beer served every Thursday night at the ballpark. "It's cheaper to drink here than it is to drink at home," says one of the guys. "I mean,
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Arriving to a club after a few shots of whiskey isn't something I normally recommend. I also almost never recommend racking up a $70 bar tab. But what is it the good book says, humble Volcano readers? Judge not lest ye have hit the dance floor hard? Sometimes a man has to
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Sitting in Café Vita, sipping our Americanos, we discussed what we knew. What we knew, what we had heard and what we still needed to find out. We had heard a lot of things about Northern, the prominent all-ages venue and gallery space in Olympia that had rocked the scene for
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As I pull into the Wild Waves parking lot, girls in bikinis bounce toward the park's entrance. A group of shirtless guys chug energy drinks on the hood of a car. The sun breaks through the clouds and Jay-Z can be heard blasting inside the park. From the parking lot, Wild
Food Matters
The new mobile food court at the corner of State Avenue and Adams Street in Olympia opened Tuesday, consisting of four mobile food trucks representing four different businesses: Kell's Kitchen, Barb's BBQ, Ricardo's Wood Fire Pizza Express and The Firehouse Grill's Extreme Burgers. Working under the joint venture Oly Foods,
Guides
Top of Tacoma Bar and Cafe wins Best Bar in Tacoma for the second year in a row as voted on in the Weekly Volcano's annual Best of Tacoma contest. Got it? Didn't think so. How about this: Top of Tacoma is a cool bar. So cool that Weekly Volcano readers have
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Writing for the Meat Market takes me everywhere. From the sweatiest of Puyallup dance floors to the crustiest of Lacey dive bars, I've seen it. Gooey, stinky and wet. I take it all. What I haven't seen - until now - is anything south of exit 99 on Interstate 5.
Afterword
Here we are, people. Late July. Squarely in the middle of the baseball season. The hot dogs are cooking, the peanuts are flying and the beers are being guzzled by the gallon. Only two more months of glorious baseball left. Guzzle, people. Guzzle. So, how have our boys of summer, the
