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Rose Garden Virtual Tour at Point Defiance Park

Surf Local in Tacoma and Pierce County

By Matt Wakefield on Mar. 31, 2020

We’ve all found that one Wikipedia page that leads to another, that leads to another, and pretty soon you’ve learned that some plants can do math and you hate that you know that. Try a more local…

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Tacoma Virtually

Tacoma is virtually a beautiful place

By Matt Wakefield on Mar. 24, 2020

Travel is an immersive experience, and while we can't visit a place in person for a while, we can still explore virtually. Google has been slowly and steadily encouraging people to take 360-degree…

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Cannibal Hot Tub at Paradise Valley Lodge in Ashford

The truth about the new Cannibal Hot Tub at Mount Rainier

By Matt Wakefield on Jan. 07, 2020

My first thought is that this can't be real. I'm watching this from the side, not sure how first-person I want this account to be. Yes, it's a hot tub, but only in the most primal sense. Your bathtub…

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Winter at Paradise at Mount Rainier

Winter hours at Mount Rainier start this weekend

By Matt Wakefield on Dec. 19, 2019

That beautiful, quiet fragment of a season after the end of the wildflower watching and before the skiing and snowshoeing is just about over. This weekend, on Saturday, Dec. 21, winter hours at Mount…

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Seventy48

We Believe - Platt Canyon High School & SEVENTY48

By Matt Wakefield on Dec. 12, 2019

SEVENTY48 is a 48-hour, seventy-mile, human-powered race from the downtown Tacoma waterfront to Port Townsend, Washington across the Salish Sea. It is not easy. Grown men and women cry. Experienced…

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USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Lakewood

2019 U.S. Cyclocross National Championships in Lakewood - The Race You Never Knew You Needed to See

By Matt Wakefield on Dec. 05, 2019

"When the racers are competing, they stay on their bikes, right?" I asked. "Yeah...well, mostly. Except for when they're carrying them," she said. That was my introduction to Cyclocross, the edgy…

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Orphaned walruses at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma

Your Daily Dose of D'awwww: Walrus Edition

By Matt Wakefield on Nov. 15, 2019

It's Friday, I'm a sucker for walrus stories, and two orphaned walruses are getting a new home at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma. That's all you need to know. Now, the pictures. This is…

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Tree with snow

Things to do this weekend in Tacoma and Pierce County (Nov. 15-17)

By Matt Wakefield on Nov. 08, 2019

Sometimes the stars align, and a fall weekend pops up that has so many experiences packed into it that it feels like a summer one. That's this weekend. Our events calendar should be where you…

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Bart at TAM

The Museum District Right Now is a Look at Tacoma’s Soul

By Matt Wakefield on Oct. 11, 2019

I end up going to a lot of museum exhibition previews, and individually, each one is some degree of interesting. But this week, I started looking at the slate of exhibitions that just launched or…

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Zoo Boo for Halloween at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Haunted houses and spooky scenes in Tacoma and Pierce County

By Matt Wakefield on Sep. 20, 2019

Look...we all need something to look forward to between Oktoberfest and Thanksgiving, so that's why they invented Halloween*. It's a holiday where we take a break from internal existential terror…

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