Without further ado, you are welcome to stop in for a meal at the Mandolin Cafe. They have done what few others have – the simple, the obvious, the lacking-in-Tacoma – free wi-fi, big tables, good coffee AND GOOD FOOD. Why is it so hard for restaurateurs to figure this one out? Hopefully, Mandolin Cafe […]
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Wednesday on the Water
It is going to be a great night down on the Ruston Way waterfront. The temperature is perfect, sun is out, sailboats should be everywhere.. Wednesday on the Water is just one of many reasons why summers in Tacoma are as good as anywhere. Kayaks, rafts, paddle boards and power boats are all great fun […]
Wintergrass leaves Tacoma
The blues festival formerly known as Tacoma’s Wintergrass has left the building. It gets worse. Wintergrass will now be in Bellevue. Here’s another giant step backward for the City of Density. Gracious me, what is going on in this town? We just lost a cool music festival to BELLEVUE! That is disgusting. Bellevue sucks. They […]
Volcano Spew temporarily dormant?
Is the Weekly Volcano downsizing? Reorganizing? Shape-shifting? Dieting? As I regularly browse the Volcano over coffee and breakfast, I hope for an as-close-to-full-strength-as-possible Weekly Volcano to continue entertaining me for the foreseeable future. I would like to start the unofficial “Keep the Volcano Active!” club, as of this writing. There are other perspectives, however. A […]
Dave’s Meat & Produce
Dave’s Meat & Produce is unique. Small market stores generally have a difficult time providing enough variety to draw a consistent shopper base away from the big grocery stores. In this case, the big competition combo of Safeway and Metropolitan Market lurks just 3 stoplights west in the heart of the Proctor District. Times are […]