STEPH DEROSA: FAIRE GAME >>> Who in the hell came up with putting green dye in beer? Like St. Patrick’s day isn’t obnoxious enough with all its green-wearing, shamrock-having, pinch-me-if-I’m-not-into-all-this-shit-as-much-as-you-are attitude. Does America even know what St. Patrick r...

STEPH DEROSA: BAR EXAM >>> I never would’ve known that anything cool existed south of Hwy. 512 on Canyon Road if Matt Driscoll had bathed that day. While the Weekly Volcano offices reeked a foul combination of baby poop and sweaty socks, I headed out for cold beers and meaty sandwiches at...

PAUL SCHRAG: PANHANDLING BANS MISS THE MARK >>> French poet, journalist, and novelist Anatole France once said, “It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.� Those words might be worth considering in Puyallup, where city officials have voted to take a stand against aggressive panhandl...

PROF. REEVES: VICTORIAN COUNTRY CHRISTMAS LESSON >>> Although it is de rigueur to deplore the commercialism of Christmas, the holiday, almost by definition, is a celebration of industrialist, capitalist society. Sometime in the mid-A.D.s (that’s after the B.C.s), Europeans combined their ...

RONNIE SWARNER: REMEMBERING "SMOKY MOUNTAIN RAIN" >>> Back when I was swimming what seemed to be 12 hours a day on the Lakes High School swim team, I would drag my partying butt out of bed at 4 a.m. for a bit of breakfast and tube before the pre-school team workout.  It never...

STEPH DEROSA: VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE >>> Even though they don’t serve dinner, Dinner with DeRosa is going to be at A Renaissance Café. Located on Pacific Avenue by hello cupcake (how convenient for us) this café immediately wraps you up in its arms and takes care of you.  The...

BOBBLE TIKI: LIKES IT WET >>> Of all the things Bobble Tiki has seen in his life, an over 50 wet T-shirt contest is not one of them. Perhaps Bobble Tiki has simply never been a the right place at the right time, or perhaps over 50 wet T-shirt contests simply don’t happen that often. While...

MATT DRISCOLL: ONE MONTH DOWN, ETERNITY TO GO >>> For all intents and purposes, we’ve been at it a month now. And by at it I mean producing the big, sexy, Active News and Entertainment packed new Weekly Volcano. It’s been an exciting four weeks, full of highs, a few lows, and even a lea...

BOBBLE TIKI: REPLETION, STARBUCKS, TAB BENOIT >>> THE DAILY WORD Palliate \PAL-ee-ayt\, transitive verb: 1. To reduce in violence (said of diseases, etc.); to lessen or abate. 2. To cover by excuses and apologies; to extenuate. 3. To reduce in severity; to make less intense. USAGE EXAMPLE: ...

BOBBLE TIKI: REPLETION, STARBUCKS, TAB BENOIT >>> THE DAILY WORD Repletion \rih-PLEE-shun\, noun: 1. The condition of being completely filled or supplied. 2. Excessive fullness, as from overeating. USAGE EXAMPLE: Somewhere in between the grande nachos and mozzarella cheese sticks Bobble Tik...