STEPH DEROSA: CELEBRATES AT MASA SUNDAY, EMBELLISH IN APRIL >>> How do you review a coffee bar? Or rather, why would you? Although the level of coffee connoisseurship in Tacoma is on the rise, even the most exacting bean fiend might find the process futile. A barista either knows what he’...

STEPH DEROSA: GRRRRRRR >>> Cookies ‘n’ MILF of Tacoma’s Dockyard Derby Dames hates me. I’m most certain.  Every opportunity she gets to rub in my face the fact that she is having fun with roller derby and I’m not, she takes it.  This time she sends an e-mail listing ou...

STEPH DEROSA: GRILLED SALMON SALAD >>> Over the Moon Café Grilled Salmon Salad Price: $12.95 Rating: Three and a half out of four croutons I beat Tacomachickadee to our lunch date destination, Over the Moon Café, by about 15 minutes. That was just enough time to grab the perfect corner ch...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson avoids placement in the Weekly Volcano's Numbered Spaces column. He's the best. A 32-year-old Alfonso Ibanez Martinez has been convicted in Tacoma of heroin trafficking charges after more than 46 pounds of...

STEPH DEROSA: SLOW BURN >>> Reyna's Mexican Restaurant Price: $8.95-$10.95 Burn Factor: One out of four Molotov cocktails Family owned by Reyna and Felix Guzman, Reyna’s Mexican Restaurant holds true to what a family restaurant should be.  Reyna herself greets you at the door an...

JOE MALIK: BORED AS HELL, AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE >>> So I’m bored as hell. One of the best parts, and the worst, of being unemployed is having lots and of time on your hands. Being broke really limits your daytime activities. So I’ve compiled a short list of things you can do ...

BOBBLE TIKI: BRUNCH WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tuesday marks the day for school bond and levy voting. It’s a all-mail election requiring ballots to be postmarked by midnight March 10. However, express voting booths are open today to deliver your vote in person. Vote yes because we need to fix t...

BOBBLE TIKI: BRUNCH WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma city officials want to bust down your apartment door to rid you of yellow teeth and reeking clothes and ashtray tongue and shallow breaths and bad skin and 50 bucks a month that you could instead spend on sushi and wine and good porn. Most imp...

LAUREN NAPIER: AT THE NEW FRONTIER TONIGHT >>> A folk band that never set out to write folk music. A solo act whose chosen nomenclature comes from the simplicity of his birth certificate. The first week of March is heralding a show of enchantment to the New Frontier. Barton Carroll, in his ...

PAUL SCHRAG: CITY OF TACOMA IS GOING JOHNNY APPLESEED ON OUR ASSES >>> City of Tacoma is set to get all gung-ho on going green. I mean really green. Like tree green. City officials in charge of Tacoma’s Urban Forestry program recently presented to Tacoma’s Environment and Public Works C...