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As you read in the Weekly Volcano, the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival kicked off Thursday. Bands from all over the Northwest and beyond will be stopping in Tacoma to unleash their magic Sept. 12-16. Below is the schedule for Thursday, Sept. 12. All Ages, 6-9 p.m.,
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If you're a dedicated Volcano reader or fan of local literature, you've devoured the Southern-fried fiction of our own Mr. Alec Clayton. His fall 2012 release Return to Freedom, a sequel to 2010's The Backside of Nowhere, finds its Mississippian characters reeling from the aftermath of a deadly hurricane. Also,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Mark Ettinger. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. The Embers at Indian Summer - Olympia. Tarik Bentlemsani. 6 pm. NC. BLUES Lucky
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Continuing this weekend, it's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), back by popular demand at Tacoma Little Theatre. Fellow Volcano theater critic Joann Varnell and I were taken with the original run; this time around, Blake York grabs one of three collections of challenging and thoroughly
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As you read in the Weekly Volcano, the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival kicked off Thursday. Bands from all over the Northwest and beyond will be stopping in Tacoma to unleash their magic Sept. 12-16. Below is the schedule for Friday, Sept. 13. All Ages, 6-9 p.m., $7 Library
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The year was 1938-1939. The minimum wage was first established. Hitler marched into Austria after signing a sketchbook for Indiana Jones. Elliot Gould was born, as were Frank Langella, Tommy Chong ... and the Lakewood Playhouse. Visiting Lakewood Playhouse's current digs, one imagines how lucky the troupe was to find
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Halfway To St. Patrick's Day, with Jeremy Wilson Band. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Tim Connell & Eric Skye. All Ages. 7 pm. $10. BLUES Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Blues Power. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma
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As you read in the Weekly Volcano, the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival kicked off Thursday. Bands from all over the Northwest and beyond will be stopping in Tacoma to unleash their magic Sept. 12-16. Below is the schedule for Saturday, Sept. 14. All Ages, 6-9 p.m. Library at
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I've often heard it said, "I'd run only if something were chasing me," most often while listening to myself at the gym. I submit that a killer app for the Kinect would be a game in which if a player doesn't run in place fast enough, he
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Toscanos Cafe and Wine Bar Puyallup. James Coates. 7 pm. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar
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Latin Americans love to party. From Mexican tamales to pizza from Argentina, food is crucial in the holiday mix, as is dance, whether it's salsa, samba or merengue. The moves and beats differ, but they always create a purely Latin rhythm. Taste, feel and see the action at Fiestas Patrias,
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I've got Georgia on my mind. You see, the road leads back to, er, it. And by Georgia I mean the sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It's this region people dressed as Indiana Jones believe humans made the first wine 7,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence points to
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Neil Simon got his start in TV, where he wrote alongside Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. His material has the familiar exposition, setup, punch line construction of TV comedy. As I watched Olympia Little Theatre's presentation of Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers, I was reminded
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It's my opinion that theater companies in the South Sound, as in most American markets, are not in competition with each other; rather, they're competing with television. TV has become really good these last few years, as fans of Breaking Bad or Modern Family can attest. There's an entire channel
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. Jeanlizabeth. 6 pm. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke-Olympians. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate
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When you have to dig through your couch cushions to gather coins for your weekly mojito fix, it's fair to assume that things are not looking up. Worse is the Travel Channel taunting you in the background with exotic Caribbean locales, Guyanese cricket matches, and never-ending feasts of goat stew
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Kristin Giordano's photographs of Doha, Qatar at Kittredge Gallery on campus at University of Puget Sound are haunting, lonely and disturbingly beautiful. Paul Landacre's wood engravings in the smaller back gallery represent a fine sampling of works by a little known but leading engraver of the early 20th century. Together
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. John Doyle. All Ages. 8 pm. $15-$20. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. Doyle's Public House Tacoma
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Recently crowned Prog God 2013 by Prog Rock Magazine, Ian Anderson is not slowing down; a 2014 Jethro Tull UK tour is already set, highlighting material from his forthcoming 2014 album. According to jethrotull.com, the new concept album is folk-prog-metal, and will feature "heavier, less acoustic guitar sounds and
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When Ian Anderson, the flute-playing frontman of Jethro Tull, is not on tour, he wakes to his farm in southwest England. He usually rises around 6 a.m. for a rotation of breakfasts: crispy bread, oily fish, and poached eggs from his wife's chickens, accompanied with half a glass of orange
