Weekly Volcano
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| Weekly Volcano | |
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 The 2007-02-22 front page of the Weekly Volcano |
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| Type | Alternative weekly |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Independent |
| Editor | Ken Swarner |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Tacoma, WA United States |
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| Website: weeklyvolcano.com | |
Weekly Volcano is a weekly entertainment newspaper in the South Puget Sound, based in Tacoma, Washington. Noted for its combination of spunky columnists, vivid profiles and sassy commentary on the culture scene that keeps the South Sound percolating, the Weekly Volcano lives as a kind of collective urban diary. The Weekly Volcano reports on film, theater, food, art and music in the South Sound as well as the area's most comprehensive arts and music calendars. The weekly entertainment newspaper has 650 distribution points from Federal Way to Tumwater, reaching more than 80,000 readers every Thursday. Founded by editor/art director Ron Swarner, its first issue came out on November 1, 2001. As of September 2005, the paper's editor is Ken Swarner with Ron Swarner taking the creative director position. The paper's staff includes music columnist Matt Driscoll, art critic Alec Calyton, theater critic Steve Dunkelberger, food critic Jason de Paul, music critics Jennifer Johnson [1] and Angela Jossy [2], and city scene columnists Ginger Knoxx and Natasha. The Weekly Volcano is the main chronicler of the South Sound music scene. It publishes a blog, Spew.
