Frost Park: Red Hot Luck
Check out the art and find out the winner from this Frost Park Chalk-Off at...
Check out the art and find out the winner from this Frost Park Chalk-Off at...
The Frost Park Chalk-Off kicks off it’s fifth year with a packed park and a...
Four years after the Frost Park Chalk-Offs began, the Tacoma City Council issued a proclamation...
Last year, the Tacoma community and The Weekly Volcano awarded me with the title of...
I'm not sure when I first heard about the bleak, dystopian future brought to life by Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games, but I know I haven't stopped hearing about it since.
The Hunger Games follows the story of Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl living in the nation of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of what was once North America. When the book opens, Katniss has spent most of her life filling her dead father's shoes as the head of the family. She is hardened by years of caring and providing for her mother and little sister, Prim, as they struggle to survive in the Seam, the poor side of coal-mining District 12.
The book is filled with vivid descriptions of starvation, Orwellian politics and - though it's never mentioned outright - a deep sense of post-traumatic stress disorder afflicting both individual characters and the beaten-down society as a whole. The name of the book itself comes from a horrific event that would not be out of place in a Roman arena. Two children from each district, chosen at random once a year, are forced to fight each other to the death on live television.
In late November of 2010, I woke up in severe pain. A hospital visit told...
Tired Zombie Adam winds down after a thrilling day zombifying Tacoma for the second annual...
With all the different end-of-the-world scenarios lately – we had two Raptures last year alone...
“This is our opportunity to make his dream a reality.” Those words were spoken by...
First Night is easily my favorite event out of the entire year. Tacoma’s way of...