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The songs on Princest’s EP are foreboding, lo-fi post-hardcore rock that hint at fearsome live performances just out of range of the recording equipment’s ability to capture. Slinking bass lines provide a wobbly platform upon which all of the songs shakily stand. Frontman Ben Farr’s vocals are pitched halfway between
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Some performers, like Jarvis Cocker or Prince, are able to make their music purely, simply, uncomfortably about sex without it being embarrassing or seeming insincere. Their songs are chicken fights, bold stare-downs, at the end of which we always blink. There’s always going to be something pretty thrilling about a
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The Evergreen Science Carnival promises breathtaking sideshows and unbelievable phenomena. Don't go to the carnival expecting bearded ladies, strongmen or magic shows. Think more along the lines of a chance to view solar flares or learn how to extract catnip-or see a student set his hand on fire, says Peter Robinson, who
Food Matters
Gibson's Frozen Yogurt Shoppe had its official grand opening party Saturday, May 14. You better believe this sweets-lover was there to cheer loudly. An adorable girl in a penguin costume helped folks spin a prize wheel and Stadium High School's jazz band performed. The weather even cooperated so the fro
Nightlife It List
We here at the Weekly Volcano love to call Wednesdays hump day. There's something so titillating, so promising in the name. And since Jazzbones has free live music every Wednesday night starting at 9 p.m., there's even more reason to feel the grand promise of hump day. Along with free
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It sucks to cruise to the bar with only a pocketful of quarters. It also sucks to make a beer selection based on, "whatever's the cheapest." Luckily, White Horse Tavern in Yelm has a solution for those who are a little short on the dough. Every Tuesday night, White Horse
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Offering a 21+ dance club inside a bowling alley is an intriguing idea. It's about time we combine bowling, the most drinking conducive of the pseudo-sports (fishing and golf a close second), with the glamour and class of clubbing. At Paradise Village Bowl in Parkland, you can roll a few
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How many typos can you count in the title above? The answer is none. That's the correct title for the new show at Fulcrum Gallery, complete with the threes in place of E's and weird capitalization. And the title is about as weird as the art, which is to typical
Food Matters
WINE TASTING Morso wine bar (9014 Peacock Gill Ave., Gig Harbor) hosts Basel Cellars for a wine tasting from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, May 26. OFF THE VINE El Gaucho (2119 Pacific Ave., Tacoma) hosts a wine tasting/retail event from 4-6 p.m. Friday, May 27. The cost is $15 per person. Reservations are not
Sipping Out
Thursday, May 26 Basel Cellars wine tasting, 5-7 p.m., Morso, 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, 253.530.3463. Medicine Creek Winemakers Dinner, 7 p.m., Dockside Bistro & Wine Bar, 501 Columbia NW, Olympia, 360.956.1928. Half-price bottle wine night for wines less than $100, Maxwell's Speakeasy, 454 St. Helens, Tacoma, 253.683.4115. Half-price wine, all night, Harmon
Military Life
For guys still in the military, playing football for the Pierce County Bengals is simply a chance to continue to play football. "It's for the love of the game," said Ron Baines, the Bengals longtime coach. Baines points out another reason for turning out. The dream of playing college football. Every year,
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For all the writing we do about indie rock acts and folky, sad-bastard music in this fine rag, there's a fairly vibrant jazz, funk, blues and big band scene that has remained strong in these parts for years. Saturday is a day to take a dip in those brassy waters-perhaps,
Military Life
Allen Patty believes that leading by example is a way to motivate and inspire young people. "Kids need to be stimulated," said Patty, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) advisor at Lakes High School. "When they do their physical training, I do it
News Front
Education never smelled so good. The new Evergreen Elementary School at Joint Base Lewis-McChord smells new. It should, as students and staff returned from the holiday break to begin 2017 in a brand new school Jan. 3. The school is the sixth and final Clover Park School District elementary school to be built
Features
Thing: Faux cupcakes Where: Feeling Smitten Serving: Ice cream cones And: Cupcakes They look: Delicious! They taste: Awful Soft & Warm: No Gooey & Sweet: Not at all Taste disappointment: 100% Skin softness & relaxation: 100% Through the front doors of Feeling Smitten, located on Sixth Avenue in Tacoma, I see beautiful cupcakes, cakes, cake-pops and ice cream cones. They
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QUESTION: I'm 25, a singer in a band, and extremely motivated to make a career out of my music. In fact, I'm moving to LA this week for that purpose. I've been casually dating - speedily dumping men who've gotten attached (not my fault, I make my intentions super-clear). I
Attractions
Anyone who works all week at either of Pierce County's military installations isn't likely to want to spend the weekend at another military installation. A trip north to Sinclair Inlet - home to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - may change your mind. Almost 50 years after Lewis and Clark mapped
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"Camp Lewis built at lowest cost," read the Sept. 12, 1917 headline in the Tacoma Daily Ledger. Capt. David Stone, a West Point graduate, was assigned as Quartermaster for the cantonment to be built on land at the south end of American Lake. Total cost was $6,517,488 - or $142
People Rule
Growing up at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is one reason Friends of the Fort Lewis Army Military Museum volunteer Joseph Koczur, Jr. enjoys spending time at the Lewis Army Museum. Taking over where his late father, longtime Friends of the Fort Lewis Army Military Museum volunteer Joseph
