Connect to Community: 4 Ways this Week

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Another weekend and week of Tacoma community opportunities is coming your way. If your way right now is a bit more like layer cake under layers of blankets without layers of makeup but with layers of cozy tracks, go ahead and ignore this list. But, if you’re starting to feel like you need a REASON TO GO OUT, go ahead and take a look. You’ll find treasure hunts of the vintage and monkeyshines variety, an encouragement to eat pizza (as if that’s necessary), and a Gal/Pal/Valentine charcuterie order form. We’ll be back with more next week!

P.S. Are you relieved to see the smallest blooms beginning to open? Primroses, grape hyacinths, crocus shoots, quince buds, that strangely early pink cherry in the Central Co-op parking lot. Keep your eyes open.

Connect to Tacoma with Events & Gatherings

Image from All Star Vintage

Image from All Star Vintage

1. Lincoln District Vintage Walk

Saturday & Sunday
February 6th - 7th
11 am - 5 pm

Get this self-paced hunt for vintage in Tacoma’s Lincoln District on your calendar for the 1st weekend of every month. That’s good news!

Visit All Star Vintage, Casita, and any Lincoln District business you already love or want to know.

2. National Pizza Day - Support a Tacoma Pizza Maker!

Tuesday, February 9th

It’s really important to celebrate made-up holidays you didn’t know existed when they involve an excuse to eat pizza. No one is saying you need an excuse to eat pizza, because you don’t. You’re in charge of your pizza intake. But if you do need a nudge, want an invitation, require permission consider yourself gently pushed, invited, and granted your hall pass to the pizza corridor. It’s National Pizza day, so get thyself to thy favorite Tacoma pizza pie establishment and order up. If you have several favorites, consider a multi-course meal consisting of pizza at every course. If you don’t know where to buy pizza (consider exploring your life and how it’s really going), pick one from the list below.

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Connect to Tacoma with Ongoing Opportunities

Image from Grit City Magazine

Image from Grit City Magazine

3. It’s Treasure Hunt Time: Tacoma Monkeyshines

Ready for some whimsy? If you’re in Tacoma, you’re in the right place. Or are you? You never know where in the city the Monkeyshines might show up. Lunar New Year is Friday, February 12th, but Monkeyshines aren’t necessarily predictable treasures. They might be hiding days before the Lunar New Year, and they may continue to hide for quite some time after. Read more about the history and continuing story of Tacoma Monkeyshines at Grit City Magazine!

Image from Molly’s Tamales

Image from Molly’s Tamales

4. Celebrate & Support a Local, Woman-Owned Small Business!

Charcuterie Boxes
Pick-up Sunday, February 14th
4 - 7 pm

Molly’s Tamales is a local, small business owned by Molly Alvarado - community advocate, chef, teacher, and creative person! Order a charcuterie box from Molly to enjoy on your own, with a friend/partner/lover/companion, or with your family. She’s offering 3 sizes of charcuterie boxes, and you can even select vegetarian or vegan on the order form. Who cares if Valentine’s Day isn’t your thing? That doesn’t mean you can’t have a fabulous treat on a Sunday that happens to be that day. We’re including this on the week before of the order pick-up day so you can make your order now, and give Molly time to prepare for your pick-up.

Keep in touch about Tacoma life, community, events, homes, and a bit about us.

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10 Ways to Give Local Love - 2024
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This year we’re back with a list of 10 ways to give love in December. You’ll find our guide for local gift giving with holiday markets and some of our favorite small shops included, and 5 suggestions for giving to unknown neighbors outside your circle of friends. All 10 ways of giving put love into the Tacoma community! Read on for the magic of a musical play given by kids, a list of local cafes for coffee lovers, a gift card drive to support clients at the YWCA, a nostalgic holiday movie marathon, a way to support health and care for folks who can’t afford insurance, a chance to transform $1 into 2 meals, and the best local spots to shop for little ones.

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What's New, Tacoma? 17 New Businesses + 3 Coming Soon

There’s change in the air across Tacoma, the return of things once lost, the reopening of places once closed, the transformation of one restaurant into another, the creation of brand new places to gather, shop, eat, and drink. We’ve been experiencing this change across the city and wanted to pull some of it together in one place. What follows is a list of 17 new, renewed, and returned businesses along with 3 coming soon. See if you can enjoy and support something new this month; if you do, we’d love to hear about it!

Tacoma Community: 15 Things to Do in October
Tacoma Community: 15 Things to Do in October

We’ve rounded-up and narrowed-down 15 ways to get out into community this October. Don your most intellectual scarf and hat combination for a literary night, dance and eat with the Greeks, step into a candlelit tour our 1855, get psyched up about cycling (and bicycle fashion), try forest bathing, don your most eccentric scarf and hat combination for the film festival, write letters for fun, tour art studios, hear from Latinas who experience being The Firsts in so many ways, take a local art walk, and celebrate Día de los Muertos. We’ve got some ways to volunteer in here too—lend a hand with Habitat for Humanity, pick up litter, or pull weeds and plant seeds at a favorite park to keep Tacoma green.

Get Out of Town: Puget Sound Day Trips
Get Out of Town: Puget Sound Day Trips

Once in a while, we all need to get out of town. This month we’re sharing about Port Townsend and Vashon Island, two places we go again and again when a change of scene is calling. They’re places where the beach is always near, where parking is easy, where woods and trails beckon us away from the sidewalks. Places where small, local bakeries, coffee roasters, independent bookstores, and one of a kind shops outnumber chains by far. We’ll share some of the ways we pass the time and how we fill our stomachs (never a problem). Don’t worry too much about planning; these destinations are so close to Tacoma, you can show up again and try what you missed. Wake up one morning and just decide to go!

Tacoma Outdoor Dining Guide
Tacoma Outdoor Dining Guide

Want to go out and really be out—out in the open air, beneath a colorful umbrella, on a shaded patio, beside a bustling sidewalk, seated on a deck overlooking the water, pulled up to a bar counter by the street? We’ve gathered over 60 of Tacoma’s outdoor dining spots by neighborhood to get you started. Take a look at our list of restaurants, cafes, and bars with outdoor seating, then get yourself away from the screen, out the door, and into the life of Tacoma’s summer. See you out there!

Out on the Town 2024: Tacoma Tuesdays
Out on the Town 2024: Tacoma Tuesdays

Tacoma, Tuesdays, Trivia, Tacos, Talent. It’s the truth, there’s stuff to do. We have 19 of those things listed right here (twenty would have sounded so good) and not all of them start with “t.” There’s ballet and book club, wine and film, story time and bingo. So dust off your dancing shoes, clean your spectacles, strap the baby in a stroller, study up on random facts, warm up your vocal chords, and work up an appetite; it’s Tuesday in Tacoma!

Tacoma Love: 5 Good Things—Vol. 4
Tacoma Love: 5 Good Things—Vol. 4

This is not an ultimate, all time, best of the best, win or go home, top 5 list. No, we aren’t really bringing that kind of energy to life. This is the 4th edition of 5 things we like in Tacoma from a list of way more things we like in Tacoma. Sound good? An annual rogue art treasure hunt, a tiny slip of sandy beach, an old place to watch new and cult classic films, a weekly opportunity for repairing your stuff, and a spot where the noodles and broth fill you up in a good way. Some of it’s free. All of it’s good. We’re not making any other claims (who needs all that best-stress anyway?).

The Sunset Side: Tacoma's Other Waterfront
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