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🎉 Hilltop’s Biggest Street Party Takes Over Tacoma Tomorrow
🍻 Tacoma’s New Dog-Friendly Beer Garden Is Finally Open
🐳We Now Know What Killed the Whale Found in the Port of Tacoma
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TODAY - Friday, August 28
Beyond the Bin Recycling - 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM / Recovery & Transfer Center
Wee Ones Weekly - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM / Children’s Museum
Game Night - 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM - Wapato Park
Tacoma Rainiers (Fireworks) - 7:05 PM / Cheney Stadium
The Revival Brothers - 8:00 PM / Spanish Ballroom
Pete Davidson - 8:00 PM / EQC
Saturday, August 29
Half Marathon / 10K / 5K - 7:30 AM / Cheney Stadium
Proctor Farmer’s Market - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM / Proctor
Airport Day - 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM / Tacoma Narrows Airport
Kids Health & Safety Day - 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM / Tacoma Dome
Hilltop Street Fair - 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM / People’s Park
Polynesian Luau - 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM / APCC
Tacoma Rainiers (R Grateful Dead Night) - 6:05 PM / Cheney Stadium
Sunday, August 30
Corn Roast / 5K Run - 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM / Tacoma Central Church
Proctor Food Fest - 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM / Proctor
Tacoma Rainiers (K9 Innings) - 1:35 PM / Cheney Stadium
Erina McLaren - 6:00 PM / Spanish Ballroom
Nicola Linde - 6:30 - 8:30 / Odd Otter Brewing
Monday, August 31
Fun Run - 6:00 PM / Fleet Feet in Proctor
Sick World - 7:00 PM / Real Art Tacoma
Monday Mic - 7:00 PM / Tacoma Comedy Club
Tuesday, September 1
Storytime - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM / LeMay Car Museum
Bites on Broadway - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM / 9th & Broadway
Art Workshop with TAM - 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM / Swasey Library
Wednesday, September 2
Creative Aging: Moon Festival - 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM / TAM
Babies On the Trail - 10:00 AM / Point Defiance Park
Blues Jam At the Valley - 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM / The Valley
Thursday, September 3
Broadway Farmers Market - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM / 9th & Broadway
Blue Robot Write-In - 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM / Bigfoot Pizza
Ian Bagg - 7:00 PM / Tacoma Comedy Club
Tributary: Pop Punk Party! - 8:00 PM / Jazzbones
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Hilltop’s Biggest Street Party Takes Over Tacoma Tomorrow
Hilltop’s biggest street party returns tomorrow, when the 11th annual Hilltop Street Fair takes over MLK Jr. Way around People’s Park. The free celebration runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with more than 100 vendors, food trucks, local artists, live entertainment, children’s activities, a classic car show and a huge collection of Tacoma community organizations.
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Tacoma’s New Dog-Friendly Beer Garden Is Finally Open
Tacoma's newest brewery just added a major new attraction. Redd Dog Brewing Co. has opened its long-awaited outdoor beer garden at 2302 Fawcett Ave., with picnic tables, barrel seating, lawn space, Adirondack chairs and cornhole. The biergarten is open to all ages — and well-behaved dogs are welcome too.
Redd Dog took over the former Black Fleet Brewing space and opened in June with house-brewed beer and a Mexican-inspired menu of tacos, burritos and shareables. There's even a separate food menu for four-legged customers. With the outdoor space now finished, the brewery has completed the family- and dog-friendly concept its owners envisioned when they moved from Sixth Avenue.
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We Now Know What Killed the Whale Found in the Port of Tacoma
Fin Whale Breaching
We now know what killed the massive fin whale that arrived unexpectedly in the Port of Tacoma earlier this week.
A necropsy found that the approximately 67-foot female was alive and apparently healthy when she was struck by a vessel. Researchers found a healthy layer of blubber and other signs that she had been feeding normally, ruling out the possibility that she was already dead when the collision occurred.
Exactly where she was struck remains unknown. The container ship traveled from China, and researchers say the collision could have happened near the Aleutian Islands or elsewhere along its North Pacific route. The crew may not even have realized it had hit a whale — a problem researchers say is particularly difficult at night, when fin whales spend more time near the surface and can be extremely difficult for large ships to see and avoid.
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