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Volcano Staff on August 30th, 2019
Tacoma Restaurant Week is back and serving up the best darn dining deal around town! Dates: October 20-24 & 27-31. Local restaurants will be serving three-course dinners for $30 and two-course lunches for $15. Keep checking back as more restaurants and menus are added. And prepare yourself
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Volcano Staff on July 25th, 2019
Click here to view our interactive 2019 Best of Tacoma guide.
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Volcano Staff on February 28th, 2019
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Volcano Staff on December 31st, 2018
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Volcano Staff on December 13th, 2018
A guide on local holiday shopping, events and more! Come back each week for more holiday ideas.
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Volcano Staff on December 6th, 2018
A guide on local holiday shopping, events and more! Come back each week for more holiday ideas.
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Volcano Staff on November 29th, 2018
A guide on local holiday shopping, events and more! Come back each week for more holiday ideas.
Click here to view our interactive 2018 Holiday Guide #3.
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Volcano Staff on November 21st, 2018
A guide on local holiday shopping, events and more! Come back each week for more holiday ideas.
Click here to view our interactive 2018 Holiday Guide #2.
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Volcano Staff on November 15th, 2018
A guide on local holiday shopping, events and more! Come back each week for more holiday ideas.
Click here to view our interactive 2018 Holiday Guide #1.
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Volcano Staff on July 26th, 2018
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Volcano Staff on April 14th, 2015
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 2015 >>>
1. Los Angeles duo Haunted Summer bring a dimensionality and range to dream pop that's as refreshing as it is intriguing. Without sacrificing the gauzy serenity that typifies the genre, they bring inflections of '50s pop (as on the swaying "Ain't One" and
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Volcano Staff on April 13th, 2015
MONDAY, APRIL 13 2015 >>>
1. This isn't the first time I've received a press release that referred to an artist as "legendary." It's an adjective I've employed myself, to describe Smokey Robinson and other members of the pop music pantheon, but I can honestly say it's not
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Volcano Staff on April 11th, 2015
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015 >>>
1. Remember in high school, how your best friend had the coolest sister? You know, the one who loaned you her smokes and bought you beer with her fake ID and laughed at dirty jokes? She's still cool as hell, and now she's skating
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Volcano Staff on April 10th, 2015
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 2015 >>>
1. The great Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town, Tanzania (then the Sultanate of Zanzibar) and was raised Zoroastrian near Mumbai. At age 24, he joined guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, formerly of the band Smile, and named
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Volcano Staff on April 9th, 2015
THURSDAY, APRIL 9 2015 >>>
1. Charles Cross captained The Rocket, Seattle's monthly rock newspaper, during the era when Nirvana played Seattle Vogue club before a handful of people and you could eat breakfast next to Eddie Vedder at the original Cyclopes Café up the street from the
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Volcano Staff on April 8th, 2015
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 2015 >>>
1. Like lots of college grads, Daniel Seddiqui was having a hard time finding a job. But in spite of more than 40 rejections, he knew opportunities had to exist. He then set out on an extraordinary quest: to work 50 jobs in
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Volcano Staff on April 7th, 2015
TUESDAY, APRIL 7 2015 >>>
1. While four-piece Pile from Massachusetts named themselves a single, indistinct word, there are thousands of pages to be written with that one little word. Standing out amongst the English language, "pile" is a word that rarely denotes something good. I guess you
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Volcano Staff on April 6th, 2015
MONDAY, APRIL 6 2015 >>>
1. Chicago quartet The Boxers start out their most recent LP, The Blue Pool, with washed-out snippets from Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet," distorted and sinister, before segueing into a sort of anthemic, melancholy rock. It's reminiscent of the days when the Flaming Lips
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Volcano Staff on April 4th, 2015
SATURDAY, APRIL 4 2015 >>>
1. We rolled our eyes when Portland band Fruition described itself as "three-part-harmony-infused, melody-rich rock, country, folk and soul." That's like characterizing a chef as an expert in "soul food, artisanal pizza, Carolina barbecue and Tex-Mex." It's too far all over the map.
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Volcano Staff on April 3rd, 2015
FRIDAY, APRIL 3 2015 >>>
1. Olympia producer Smoke M2D6 raided the archives of legendary alternative record label K Records to put out an album of Pacific Northwest MCs rapping over K Records artists. The resulting compilation, All Your Friend's Friends, is selling like hotcakes.
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Recently Reviewed Movies
Volcano Staff on April 4th, 2013
Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic, died today, his long-time employer, The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
R.I.P. Roger Ebert. We sure are going to miss you.
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
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Recently Reviewed Restaurants
10117 South Tacoma Way
Lakewood, WA 98499-4614
(253) 396-1700
Cuisine: Italian, Steakhouse
406 Washington Street Southeast
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 359-4285
Cuisine: Coffeehouse/tea
2112 North 30th Street
Tacoma, WA 98403-3363
(253) 779-4226
Cuisine: Bistro, Wine bar
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