''Weekly Volcano'' is a weekly entertainment newspaper in based in

Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, southwest of Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue, northeast of the state capital, Olympia ...

, United States. It serves the southern Puget Sound region and reports on

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communi ...

food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for Nutrient, nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or Fungus, fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, protein (nutrient), proteins, vitamins, ...

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

and

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

. It ceased publishing after a 2013 merger but re-emerged under new ownership in 2023. At its peak in its previous incarnation, the Weekly Volcano had 670 distribution points from Federal Way to Tumwater, reaching more than 92,000 readers every Thursday. It began publication on November 1, 2001, and was founded by publisher Ron Swarner. Swarner's brother Ken later took over as publisher. ''Weekly Volcano'' also published ''Northwest Military'', which serves military families. The newspaper organized the annual Tacoma Restaurant Week from 2008 onward. The ''Weekly Volcano'' was merged into the ''Ranger'' and ''Northwest Airlifter'' as an entertainment supplement in April 2013. Its last article through the merger was published in 2021. The ''Weekly Volcano'' was purchased and re-launched in February 2023 by a long time writer for the publication, Angela Jossy.

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