Tacoma has officially entered its bookish era, and frankly, it was about time. Not because literature needed saving, but because Pierce County’s reading scene has been getting too lively to ignore. Bookstores are multiplying, readers keep showing up, and book fairs are popping up with the kind of…
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Pierce County’s bookstores come in all shapes and sizes: from polished new spaces where fresh-off-the-press books sit waiting like well-behaved debutantes, to tucked-away shops where every shelf carries the faint scent of time and untold stories. Whether you’re after the newest bestseller, a…
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The Victorian Christmas Festival returns to the Washington State Fair Events Center December 4–7, ready to transform Puyallup into a spirited, cinnamon-scented time machine. For 37 years, the festival has been the unofficial signal that the holidays have started—no matter what the calendar or the…
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America’s love affair with speed gets the museum treatment—chrome, carbon fiber, and all. Opening October 25, 2025, The Birth of the American Supercar traces how Detroit muscle evolved into bona fide world-beaters. Guest curated by performance legend Steve Saleen, the exhibition gathers the heavy…
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If your adventurous family is up for a pumpkin-chucking, corn-maze-wandering, haunted good time, the Puyallup Valley has a farm for that. If pumpkin-picking, cocoa-sipping, and hay-riding is more your speed, we’ve got you covered there too. With the State of Washington’s guidance allowing…
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Every destination has its postcard highlights—Tacoma has plenty—but understanding a place means going deeper than the skyline or the Instagram angle. This Is Native Land , a new permanent exhibition at the Washington State History Museum, makes the case that to really know Washington, you have to…
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If you’re driving through Wilkeson and you’re sleepy, it wouldn’t take much to convince yourself that you’d nodded off for a few seconds and dreamed you’d been ripped backward in time a hundred years. The walkway past the brick storefronts of “downtown” - all two blocks of it - is covered with an…
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What if you stepped into a world of speculative art at Tacoma Art Museum’s new what if exhibition, a groundbreaking showcase featuring the works of Black artists exploring Black interiority? This dynamic exhibition invites you to delve into alternative realities through interactive installations and…
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Tacoma Art Museum invites visitors to immerse themselves in a transformative journey through its newly reinstalled Haub Family Galleries. This ambitious reimagining, titled [re]Frame, brings together four innovative exhibitions that offer fresh and diverse perspectives on the art of the American…
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This October, the spirit of the '90s grunge scene comes alive at Tacoma Art Museum with the unveiling of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana . This exhibition is a deep dive into the raw energy and emotion of an era that defined a generation, all through the lens of Charles Peterson, a photographer whose work…
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