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2008-05-16T23:21:54+01:00text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comTammy RobackerPoetry podcast
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<p>If you ask Jay Bates, a local high school English teacher, Harry Potter doesn’t need any more publicity. Neither does J. K. Rowling, for that matter. “It worries me when I see students reading the same works by writers sold by the mill ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonWalk through the park
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<p>Have you ever seen the art in Wright Park? I mean really seen it? Or have you, like me, passed by countless times without noticing it at all. Maybe you haven’t noticed because it is really old-fashioned and grungy — the newest pieces w ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comChristopher WoodFilm Around the Clock
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<p>Tonight 30 teams of filmmakers will converge on The Grand Cinema in Tacoma. They have all anticipated this night for weeks, maybe months. They cram into the theater lobby, receive their instructions, then rush out the door again. Their mission: cr ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickWould you like some art with that?
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<p>At some point during her interview for a server job at Tacoma’s Sea Grill restaurant, Jeannine Sigafoos mentioned that she and her husband owned a glassblowing studio. General manager Mike Neumann made a mental note. Last year, Jeannine got ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comSteve DunkelbergerFinale!
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<p>The upcoming Tacoma Symphony Orchestra concert will be the last TSO concert of its season and it is warming up to be an ender on a high note ... a high C actually. Pardon the musical humor. The concert will be the season capper for its musical dir ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickThe ‘art’ of dentistry
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<p>“We wanted to do something with the extra space,” explains Dr. Jamie Brooks, who, with her husband, Tim, is putting the finishing touches on the Tacoma Theater District’s newest addition — Brooks Dental Studio. Some of that ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickPast imperfect future — again
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<p>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 ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickEnter, stage left
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<p>The Tacoma City Ballet continues its 53rd season with a new collection of works and in a new venue. I<em>t’s Bohemian</em> is a collection of six new dance pieces combining live music provided by members of the Northwest Sinfonietta, origina ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comMichael SwanTurning robotic
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<p>In today’s world it is understood we will all die knowing something about science. We won’t necessarily learn pedestrian concepts like the reproductive cycle of golden-striped salamanders or if Nessiteras rhombopteryx is a real genus a ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickSing a song of Seville
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<p>Tacoma Opera often makes use of Pacific Northwest talent for its productions. For Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville, </em>opening Friday at the Pantages, all of the principal performers have been drawn from Puget Sound country.<br />
<br ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickOlympia’s screen test
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<p>“This has been a huge amount of work,” admits Gavin Dahl, a senior at The Evergreen State College, of planning for “Shot to the Face,” a competition designed to showcase the talents of local filmmakers.<br />
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The c ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonGlass rock star
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<p>The buildup for the Lino Tagliapietra retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Glass has been something on the rock star scale. The anticipation has been excruciating. And now the wait is almost over. The show opens Saturday, Feb. 23.<br />
<br ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickGlimpsing Tacoma
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<p>Tacoma businessman Steven Naccarato recently decided to reinvent himself. The local entrepreneur’s recent projects, with his brother, have been in the restaurant business. The two opened downtown’s Pacific Grill, and until last April, ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonThe maestro at work
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<p>Lino Tagliapietra is a glass maestro from the oldest international glass art capital in the world — and no, I don’t mean the upstart glass capital of Tacoma, Wash. I mean Murano, an island off the coast of Venice, Italy, that was a rec ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickThe prodigal returns
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<p>Does he miss his native Tacoma? <br />
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“Every day,” admits actor David Foubert of New York’s The Acting Company, which is bringing its productions of “Moby Dick ‘Rehearsed’” and William Shakespear ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickNorth Proctor memories
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<p>Two of Tacoma’s Proctor District businesses, Culpepper Books and The Pacific Northwest Shop, are hosting receptions and book signings Friday evening, featuring the authors of a recently published book on the district. The twin events are set ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickRevisiting racism
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<p>“It’s not how you talk, not how you dress, not what kind of music you listen to … but people just don’t get it,” says comedian, author, actor and talk show host Brian Copeland. “They think it’s a show tha ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJamie ForsytheVery personal orchestra
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<p>Andrew Buelow was happy living in Michigan, where he was the head honcho at the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. His family had a summer home in Traverse when he was growing up in Wisconsin, so he jumped at the chance to move there when the director p ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickSweet reads by sweet pea
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<p>Was 2007 a good year for readers? It seems so, according to local bookseller sweet pea Flaherty. <br />
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Flaherty (whose first name, sweet pea, is written in lower case letters) has been selling books at King’s Books, 218 St. H ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickDancing off Center
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<p>Barefoot Studios has closed its Dome District space and moved — a little to the east. Now housed at the former home of Art on Center at 1604 S. Center St., the eclectic teaching and performance enterprise run by husband and wife teaching tea ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comMatt DriscollGet railroaded
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<p>Rarely do kids and grownups agree on entertainment. Usually, activities that make kids squeal with excitement grownups find, at best, irritating. Kids like cartoons and playgrounds. Grownups like John Malkovich movies and the Jim Lehrer News Hour. ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJamie ForsytheHo, ho, no?
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<p>As the holidays inch closer and closer, galleries and museums in Tacoma are ramping up for Third Thursday Art Walk Dec. 20. Since it’s only five days before Christmas, we figured the museums at least, and perhaps a few galleries, would be do ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comBill TimnickBoys' night out
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<p>The Seattle Men’s Chorus is bringing its 300-voice ensemble to the Broadway Center’s Rialto Theater for two performances of its 2007 holiday production, “Home for the Holidays.” The shows, set for Saturday, Dec. 8, at 3 and ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-ButlerArt in the City
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<p>When the bombings of Sept. 11, 2001 left a country reeling, Stella Haioulani was a coffee-shop regular who took it upon herself to be sociologist to her community.<br />
Haioulani, (say, How-a-lahnie) whose first name means “Star” and ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-ButlerHo! Ho! Blow!
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<p>The Museum of Glass is kind of a big deal.<br />
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But you already knew that, right? Just like you already knew about the worldwide reputation our own little inverted ice-cream cone is gaining with renowned artists in the medium of glass.<b ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-ButlerSinfonietta sneak peek
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<p>As he sipped his latte before the Tuesday night’s Northwest Sinfonietta rehearsal, Musical Director Christophe Chagnard explained that he’d researched Beethoven and felt as though he understood the man who’d been so influential i ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-Butler'F' is for feelings
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<p>Think about “entertainment” and the visuals that spring to mind.<br />
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Jazz hands, punk rock, blues guitar, a chamber quartet, lights and action in a dark movie theatre, or possibly even slapstick antics on a stage might have ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-ButlerGood, ribald fun in Hell
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<p>Say “let’s go to the opera” and eyes may glaze with visions of large women in Viking hats breaking beer bottles with their sustained vibrato.<br />
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Say “let’s go to a two-hour romp with dancing and singing, c ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-ButlerBallet Déjà vu, only new
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<p>When the Tacoma City Ballet brings Hallowed Dances to the stage at the Pantages Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, they’ll bring classical Ballet and a mash-up of arts, culture and energy that will feel simultaneously hauntingly familiar ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comJessica Corey-ButlerClassical, Antique Sundays
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<p>These are the standard sounds of the restaurant on this Sunday afternoon: the hiss and rumble of the espresso machine, the metal-on-stoneware “tink” as food is eaten, the indistinct snippets of conversation melding with the rumble of t ...