Music
In my mid-teenage years, I picked up my first vinyl album from the discount bin at Rocket Records. It was a weather-worn copy of Harry Nilsson's underrated Son of Schmilsson, the tongue-in-cheek quasi-sequel to his breakthrough Nilsson Schmilsson, and it was filled with tossed-off goofs ("I'd Rather Be Dead"), surging
Stage
If you're a Broadway fan, it's easy to look back on shows you experienced as sea changes in the art form, thereby concluding American-style musical comedy evolves in fits and starts. We study Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, for example, the acclaimed musical that featured an all-black cast, but not Clorindy:
Music
Nationally renowned musician Randal Bays, along with the Bays Family Band and pianist Suzanne Taylor, will present an evening of traditional Irish music, Saturday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. The concert, which according to Bays will feature "the grassroots, rural dance music that's nurtured and passed on in families and
Attractions
You know what a hotel looks and feels like, but Salish Lodge is so much more than that. It's a self-contained resort, perched over glorious Snoqualmie Falls and loaded with amenities for getaway travelers. Military guests get more than they pay for, as they're rewarded with 15 percent discounts on
Jobs & Education
Madigan Army Medical Center is once again expanding its reach into Pierce County school districts by adding a seventh adolescent school-based health clinic that will serve military dependents. On Jan. 22, Madigan opened its seventh satellite clinic at Rogers High School in the Puyallup School District. Its other six satellite clinics
News Front
About 150 meters to the right side of the special action vessel, or SAV, a Chinook helicopter slowly moved forward as it maintained an altitude of about 10 feet off the cold water between Ketron Island and Solo Point. The sound and fury of the Chinook's powerful, 3,750 horsepower driven tandem
Archives
Portland, Ore., by way of Cleveland indie-pop band The Newspapers will land at Le Voyeur’s doorstep Saturday night. They read like a quartet well versed in idyllic melodies and catchy riffs with synthesizer quotes sprinkled about. The Weekly Volcano caught up with The Newspapers’ bassist, Billy Webb, before the show. WEEKLY VOLCANO:
Archives
A group of Tacoma musicians who sheepishly refer to themselves as the “old farts club” get together once every month for lunch to tell stories and talk over old times. One day, one of these musicians, Bud Schultz, said it would be neat for everyone to pose together for a
News Front
The goal of all soldiers from the moment they begin their training is to reach the highest possible level of tactical and technical proficiency they can. Every year a handful of soldiers around the globe get the opportunity to compete, to push, and to challenge one another in soldier of
Jobs & Education
For Kelly Hudson, helping the veterans and military children of Joint Base Lewis-McChord is more than just her personal business ... it's her mission. Her past is deeply rooted in the military, having served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Bahrain and Iraq. With a total of 26 years in the Army and
Jobs & Education
There comes a time when one's military career comes to an end, and it is time to return to civilian life. There are often questions about how a military career will translate into a job in the outside world and about how to transition smoothly into the workforce. The Goodwill
Jobs & Education
For the past 40 years, the University of Phoenix has existed "to provide working adults with higher education at times convenient to them" (www.phoenix.edu) through both online and campus-based classes, including classes held on the campus of Clover Park Technical College (CPTC) located at 4500 Steilacoom Boulevard SW in Lakewood. "CPTC's
News Front
On Jan. 15, 104 people attended a special breakfast at the McChord Co-located Club; the 62nd Airlift Wing 2015 Annual Awards Breakfast. The crowd, consisting of primarily airmen and officers with a smattering of civilians, assembled with all the reverent silence one would expect of a military awards banquet, and
Music
In the days since David Bowie passed, an overabundance of think-pieces were published about the effect that he had on generations of weirdos, experimenters, LGBT kids and astronautic explorers. Bowie gave permission to so many people to live out their wildest ambitions and their most taboo desires. I've spent a
Stage
Watching TMP Family Theater's Junie B. Jones was a joyful experience. This upbeat musical is based on the popular children's book series by Barbara Park. And it's not just for children. My wife and I don't have any young children, and we enjoyed it as much as many musical comedies
Arts
Is it kosher for an art critic to say he doesn't know what he thinks about an exhibition he's reviewing? Somehow it doesn't seem right, and yet we're human. Sometimes it takes us more time than we have to study an artist's work and mull it over before coming to
Travel
In movies, the second a guy walks into a Russian spa, he gets whacked by some goon from the Organizatsiya. That violent fantasy couldn't be farther from the truth. This is the first in a series of Volcano articles about winter getaways within reasonable driving distance of the South Sound. For
South Sound Cinema
It's remarkable to think about how new the art form of motion pictures is. To this day, some people don't even consider films to be an art because of how new they are. A little over a century ago, the Lumiere brothers began filming things as simple as someone doing
