Latest articles posted in Fix Feature http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/feature/38 2008-05-16T23:33:32+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Daniel Blue http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2199 <p>Looking good is harder than it seems. I don&rsquo;t always look good, that&rsquo;s impossible. Having an easy-to-manage yet hard-to-copy haircut helps me quite a bit. It makes me look good to myself, and that is all that really matters. The people ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Daniel Blue http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2172 <p>Last year I opened an account with Venture Bank in downtown Tacoma. Across the street from the Matador on Pacific Avenue, this bitching banking boutique offers free freshly baked cookies and a hot pot of coffee to anyone who comes in the door. The ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Daniel Blue http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2144 <p>Tacoma is the city of Destiny because it is possible to find out right where you fit in.&nbsp; Like a criss cross crust on a cherry pie, Julie Rex has found her destiny as a baker.&nbsp; Walter and Jessica Gaya hired Julie Rex as a baker at their ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Daniel Blue http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2119 <p>Urban Pioneer Tobin Ropes used to be a wine man. He knows all sorts of fancy dumbass words to describe the taste of fermented grapes. He is a snob about it, and you feel good about what you have in your glass because he is somehow making everythin ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Daniel Blue http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2040 <p>&ldquo;Hip&rdquo; is reserved for the young, and the people who are wise enough to encounter the young and learn the new style. I am not as young as I was, but neither is anyone else. When we are shopping for clothes, we wonder what people will th ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Alexandra DeLong http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2010 <p>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. <br /> <br /> Most men have the opposite approach to styl ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Daniel Blue http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2013 <p>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 &amp; Son&rsquo;s Middle Floor Merchants. <br /> <br /> Foster has ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Bill Timnick http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2002 <p>Rebecca Dashow shifted her boutique space to its new location in the Stadium District this week.&nbsp; Dame Lola, a contemporary and &ldquo;fashion forward&rdquo; clothing shop, now sports an open concept main display floor, as well as an upper fl ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jennifer Johnson http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1965 <p>Our lovely lady Dame Lola sank into the depths of a watery grave last year on St. Helens Avenue, but spring abounds with renewed life, and as the grand opening party on Saturday, March 22 will attest, &ldquo;the lady, she is reborn,&rdquo; in the ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Lisa Fruichantie http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1910 <p>Spring has sprung and so has the couture of this season&rsquo;s fashion trends. Variety is the universal flavor of the season. Dresses that feature splashes of lace or long, flowing fabrics are making their annual debut. Expect to see slight varia ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Lisa Fruichantie http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1884 <p>Fess Up! Come on guys, this has nothing to do with sexual orientation, you love to look and feel good just as much as we women do.<br /> <br /> Perhaps the days when men just hopped in and out of the shower, shaved and put on whatever clothes we ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1848 <p>Word around town was Rocky &amp; Coco&rsquo;s sports cool new threads. In true Weekly Volcano form, we had to check it out. This contemporary boutique carries a slew of awesome designers, including my beloved James Perse, the master of the cotton ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1808 <p>Your whole life you&rsquo;ve been forced to make tough decisions: Dasani or Arrowhead? Paper or plastic? Duh, neither. Consider yourself liberated. <br /> <br /> Bottled water is the single largest growth area among all beverages, including alco ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1788 <p>You&rsquo;ve worked hard on those lean legs all year long, so why cover them up during winter? Tights and leggings are a great way to show off your stems during the frigid months, but not just any ol&rsquo; pair will do.<br /> <br /> While shame ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1755 <p>At the airport on a recent trip, I saw a gal dig for her cell phone after asking, &ldquo;What time is it?&rdquo; Everyone around her began to grope their pockets for their own phones, but no one could tell her right away. In a couple of minutes sh ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1739 <p>Victory is mine! I&rsquo;ve waited years, and although it&rsquo;s been a snaillike process, the thong baring, low riding pants have finally gone back to buttcrack hell where they belong. <br /> <br /> A few years ago the high waist reemerged, bu ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1663 <p>What&rsquo;s black, white and chic all over? Everything this season. The combo of black and white has been a fashion statement ever since the days of Coco Chanel and Elisa Schiaparelli, and it&rsquo;s back for 2008. <br /> <br /> This trendy two ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1624 <p>It&rsquo;s official. It&rsquo;s winter, which means five months of trying to make your fave hooded sweatshirt look fashionable. But who&rsquo;s to say you can&rsquo;t wear something irresistibly saucy underneath? I mean, what do the panties you&rs ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Julie Jordan http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1592 <p>Now that the excruciating holiday events have transpired and your bank account has regained consciousness, it&rsquo;s time to splurge on yourself a bit. This winter, fashion is all about ridding ourselves of the redundant trends of seasons past. I ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Bill Timnick http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1531 <p>I have decided that this year is going to be different. I will not try to stretch the rolls of generic Christmas wrap and tidy, single color bows I&rsquo;ve bought over the years at Hallmark and Rite Aid. This year I will break the mold. This year ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Andras Jones http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1489 <p>In July 1999 some were worrying about Y2K and the end of days, but Pat Castaldo and Aaron Tuller, two young veterans of the Northwest music scene, were hatching a plan to create a Web site to sell artwork by their friends in bands. Not the music, ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1446 <p>Ah, the power of an apron.<br /> <br /> It&rsquo;s a nostalgic thing in my world: I remember reruns of &ldquo;Leave it to Beaver,&rdquo; &ldquo;Ozzie and Harriet&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Donna Reed Show&rdquo; where the perfect mom always had a smi ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1421 <p>I received a subscription to Biblical Archaeology Magazine last year for Christmas.<br /> <br /> I knew it was mine, because it said, &ldquo;to Hank&rsquo;s Wife.&rdquo;<br /> <br /> I knew from whom it came because it said, &ldquo;to Hank&rsq ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1397 <p>There&rsquo;s something about the idea of cooking that just brings warm, happy feelings deep into my soul.<br /> <br /> Sure, the act of eating makes me happy, but when I think of the fun part of the process of cooking &mdash; the special gadget ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1345 <p>You know that special geographical locale when you&rsquo;re in it. It might be a snowy mountain lookout, or a winding forest trail. Possibly, there&rsquo;s a patch on a certain beach where the rocks, water and sound of the waves brings you to your ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1317 <p>It&rsquo;s Tuesday night&rsquo;s open mic at the Antique Sandwich Company, and I&rsquo;m sitting next to a storytelling gent.<br /> <br /> He&rsquo;s remembering when KVTI 90.9 began broadcasting the event, and remembers the date well because it ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1285 <p>Olympia&rsquo;s new eco-friendly shop, Whirligig, located at 314 Capitol Way N, opened Saturday. According to owner Christine Philippsen, a steady stream of people flowed through the space, culminating in what Philippsen considers &ldquo;the icing ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1255 <p>A woman was recently accosted outside a small restaurant because of her messenger bag.<br /> <br /> The skull and knitting-needle crossbones on it declared,&nbsp; &ldquo;Knit or Go Home,&rdquo; and in her hipster-oversized sunglasses and Northwe ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1182 <p>My friend sent me an alarmed text message when she went shopping for jeans for her teenage daughter. Seemed she was struck with a bad case of sticker shock by the prices she was seeing in the boutique where they shopped.<br /> <br /> I responded ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Diane de la Paz http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1179 <p>Vicki Le&oacute;n has gotten good at making work fun. <br /> <br /> In her latest paperback tome, &ldquo;Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World&rdquo; (Walker &amp; Co., 313 pages, $16.95 ...