The new Weekly Volcano benefits from having Angela Jossy, former writer and Associate Editor for the Weekly Volcano (2003-2008) as the current owner of the publication.

Angela Jossy is a passionate, creative, innovative thinker and is known for “making things happen.” Her tenacity and ability to lead and organize events, staff and resources has made her an invaluable asset to the companies and organizations she has served.

Angela has years of demonstrated advocacy in the arts scene and brings local knowledge of the music and arts scene, and was the director of Art on the Ave for years, creator of the Speakeasy Arts Cooperative (Top 5 Best Art Galleries in Western Washington), and the Tacoma ARTBUS was also her brainchild.

Other accolades include:

2004 Exceptional Print Journalism (3rd place) from the Department of the Airforce


2010 Business Examiner’s 40 Under 40 award


2011 Best Creative Type - Weekly Volcano Audience Choice


2013 - 2019 Metro Parks Advisory Council Award for serving on the Cultural and Heritage Advisory Board

2014 Best Art Scene MVP - Weekly Volcano Audience Choice

Sherrie has been a fixture in the Tacoma art and music scene since her relocation to Tacoma in 2007.

You probably know her as “Voxxy”, which is her performance name based on ‘Vox’ being short slang for vocals. And if you have ever seen her perform, you’ll understand why her stage name is all about her powerful voice.

Voxxy came to Tacoma from Phoenix specifically to inject herself into what she perceived as a thriving live music culture. She co-founded her first band, a bluesy southern rock band, and immediately started performing around Tacoma and surrounding areas.

She remembers The Weekly Volcano as an integral part being able to start networking her very first week in Tacoma. She was able to find open mics stages, and access which clubs were booking and what types of bands were being booked. She understands firsthand how vital a paper like The Volcano is to the local community and the Arts, Entertainment, and Small Business sectors of our beloved Tacoma and Puget Sound.

She went on to front other local original bands, including her current rock band ‘Polly Slanderous’ and also formed her very successful tribute to Janis Joplin, called ‘Janis Lives’ that performs internationally.

Voxxy was a founding member and participant of Tacoma's Speakeasy Art Cooperative that was voted a top 5 Art Gallery in Seattle's King 5 Evening Magazine Best In Western Washington, and readers choice for Best Art Parties in Tacoma's Weekly Volcano in 2009/10.

She was co-host on the award winning "The Northwest Convergence Zone" podcast from 2010-2015 which featured weekly interviews with local artists, musicians, and community members.

In 2014 Sherrie created the very popular Janis Joplin Tribute Band and musical production called "Janis Lives" where she performed locally and internationally for 10 years.

In 2023 Sherrie is still creating art and music, and performing on stages from Tacoma to the Virgin Islands. She brings a vast array of experience in Visual Content, Graphic Design and Layout, Marketing, Merchandising, and her insider knowledge of what our art and music scenes need from The Volcano.

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Content Creator: Rev. Adam McKinney has been writing about music, movies, theatre, and all of his pop culture preoccupations since 2009. In that time, he created the world's worst dating column; flew to Texas to cover the insanity of South By Southwest, and to New York to interview the Tacoma musicians who escaped to the big city; saw Fifty Shades of Grey in the theater, for Valentine's Day, with his mom; concocted homemade Four Loko to celebrate the end of the world; and spilled untold amounts of ink about just about every type of band you might see coming through the South Sound -- all for the pages of the Weekly Volcano. These days, he's up to much of the same, only slower.

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Content Creator - Matt Kite cut his teeth as a journalist at the now-defunct South County Journal, where he covered everything from sports to budget travel. He has since gone on to freelance for local, regional, and national publications of every stripe. A Grit City resident since the aughts, he enjoys writing about hot yoga, misplaced modifiers, and the best donut shops in town, among other subjects. He prefers Dockside, by the way.

Associate Editor and Food Writer - Born and raised in Seattle, Meg van Huygen fell in love with a Tacoman many years ago and ended up in the South Sound, and she couldn't be more pleased about it. She's written professionally about food, travel, and PNW history since 2001, and her work has appeared in The Seattle Times, The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Met, Eater Seattle, Atlas Obscura, and many other publications. She joined the Weekly Volcano staff as associate editor and food writer in late 2023. She's also a veteran copy editor, a public transit wonk, an avid karaoker, a cat lady, a lapsed classical pianist, and a self described lush. You can listen to her cohost The Seattle Restaurant Podcast every Monday.

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Doug Mackey has contributed to the Weekly Volcano in both its previous iteration—as a columnist and feature writer—and since its glorious rebirth in 2023. In addition to writing, Mackey is active in the arts, fronting one local band and playing drums in another, all the while operating Moon Yard Recording Studio. Born and bred in T-town, he lives with his wife, Lynn and cat,  Larry (she, her).

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Content Creator - Chas has completely bought into Angela Jossy’s renaissance of The Weekly Volcano and seeks to contribute in his humble capacity as writer and distribution.  He is ‘Our Man in South Metro Pierce’ and is bound in an eternal search for a cup of Irish Cream coffee.  His turn-ons include improv and his turn-offs are world hunger.

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