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Best breakfast if you're feeling relaxed SAGE'S BRUNCH HOUSE We have waited at Sage's Brunch House for hours. Literally. To be fair, though, that was on the day of The Evergreen State College graduation. The service is often very good, but there are times when it, too, demands that the customer have
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Bearded Lady Food Co. is not your typical eatery: It's open only three days a week, and its evening menu has just one section: desserts. People like it that way: Our readers again chose the restaurant Olympia's best place for desserts. You can get such staples as cupcakes, ice cream and cookies
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The Weekly Volcano would like to thank all those who took the time to vote in the best of Olympia 2014 Readers' Poll. You are the best. Best restaurant: Quality Burrito Best restaurant server (waiter/waitress): Jess at King Solomon's Reef Best bartender: Whitney Lee at 4th Ave Tavern Best happy hour: The Brotherhood Lounge Best
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Best action scene FERRARI JOYRIDE Readers of a certain age (mine) will remember the arcade game Spy Hunter, in which an operative driving a "G-6155 Interceptor," a fictitious sports car that looked an awful lot like a Ferrari, careened down a road at insanely high speeds to the tune of Henry Mancini's
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The Weekly Volcano would like to thank all those who took the time to vote in the best of Olympia 2014 Readers' Poll. You are the best. Best politician: Darren Mills Best politician you love to hate: Karen Rogers Best Thurston County nonprofit organization: GRuB Best local hero: Rob Richards Best Thurston County based website:
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The Weekly Volcano would like to thank all those who took the time to vote in the best of Olympia 2014 Readers' Poll. You are the best. Best shoe store: Hot Toddy Best record store: Rainy Day Records Best grocery store: Olympia Food Co-op Best tattoo shop: Lit Fuse Best hair salon: Jamie Lee &
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"Our role isn't to create popular bands," says Johnson, "we're just here to document them." The founder of K Records, Calvin Johnson, who dug into hearts with his bands Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System, who played records on Evergreen's independent radio station, KAOS, when he was just
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The Alpine Experience is dead; long live Centro. The longtime outfitter, which again was our readers' pick for best outdoor gear store, is being born again, evolving into something that's not exactly an outdoor gear store. Rather, think of it as an urban adventure marketplace, including The Bike Stand, Olympia Footwear Co.,
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Best retail combo PSYCHIC SISTER Just as restaurants offer you fries with your burger or rice with your curry, retail shops tend to offer combinations of goods: Gift shops have cards; shoe stores have socks. But those classic combinations are nothing compared to the offerings at Psychic Sister. Sure, the vintage clothing
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[BEDROOM POP] + FRI, MARCH 7 Near as I can tell from what little music is available of Coma Figura, one might describe them as a sort of Foxygen or Titus Andronicus for the bedroom pop set. These are bands that mash together influences and jumble them up into something that
Music
If the punk movement was about tearing down the bloated, cliched foundation of popular music, then post-punk was the beginning of the steady rebuilding process. Like all manner of nebulous music terms, post-punk has come to mean a variety of different things to different people. Bands grouped into the post-punk
Arts
"Live, from our studios somewhere in cyberspace - it's "Beats and Eats" - a happy hour for your mind," says the announcer, in the style of early radio and TV broadcasting, voice booming over a catchy background jingle. "The virtual lounge is open. So come inside, grab a stool and
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Sometimes, when I'm drunk in the early morning hours, I'll find myself falling down a rabbit hole of accidentally important live albums - documents of moments in time that are impossible to replicate. I've Never Seen a Straight Banana, for instance, captures a private performance Tiny Tim gave for three
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“Accomplice” Harlequin Productions gets a little saucy with “Accomplice” by Rupert Holmes. The show is set in an isolated English country house on a dark and stormy night. This twisting story of murder, lies, love, and lust contains violence, partial nudity and sexual innuendoes. [State Theater, through Sept. 15, 8 p.m.
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THE T-SHIRTS Las Vegas style party Self-conscious disclaimer: I am a horndog. That, of course, puts me in league with every other Y-chromosome-carrying primate in the world. But being a horndog doesn’t mean I’m a chauvinist. I don’t consider men inherently superior intellectually or more capable physically, despite our God-given ability to
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this
Food Matters
WINE AND CHOCOLATE Treos in Old Town (2312 N. 30th, Tacoma) will host a Wine and Chocolate pairing featuring delectable artisan bon bons handcrafted by two sisters of Wow Chocolates at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 6. For those who wish to forgo the vino, the roasted bean also pairs well with
