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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 Sunday, Sept. 15. All Ages, 6-9
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The line between mainstream music and indie music has grown so thin that it's often hard to differentiate between the two. Recently, returning popularity of cheesy mainstream music from the '80s and the '90s have enveloped themselves in the output of indie artists, creating a kind of crazy verisimilitude where
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The Oly Funk Fest is an overnight break down to celebrate the end of summer with the proper booty-shaking, beer-drinking, boom-shaka-lakin, finger-snapping, jiving, locking, popping and electric boogalooing that it deserves. Funk Agency, DBST, Polyrythmics, and Eldridge Gravy and the Court Supreme will set the mood for this festival that
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Yes, the comedy scene in Seattle and Bellevue is alive, thriving with national headliners offering marquee-level entertainment to those who want laughs with their prime rib and Cosmopolitan. The South Sound has also been laughing it up for years, thanks to Lacey's own, Nate Jackson. Jackson, an award-winning comedian, has
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Over the last few months, I've reviewed films about homicidal anarchists, arranged marriages, cancer survivors, suicide bombers, Somali pirates, bourgeois paintings and harrowing life-or-death expeditions across the Pacific Ocean. Every once in a while, it's nice to take a break from all of that and review something SERIOUS! In the hallowed
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BEER TASTING North Shore Golf Course (4101 Northshore Blvd. NE, Tacoma) hosts a Sam Adams Beer Tasting Party from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13. Festivities include a buffet of eats, live music and samples of Sam Adams beers for a measly $20. To really make things interesting, the Northwest Tacoma clubhouse
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The Olympia Independent Music Festival (OIMF) has put on one hell of a shindig the past few years, creating a free block party with all the usual perks of Olympia - killer bands, ladies of burlesque, art, vendors, chin-balancing - all in the name of helping the Olympia Film Society. Saturday,
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I suppose it's due time I update you on what's coming up at my favorite all-ages venue in Olympia - Northern. And it is for good reason I am bringing you this information because some fantastic acts are scheduled to be visiting our State Capitol. Thursday, Sept. 12 Portland-based band Hits
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and
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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
