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Tacoma’s growing street-food scene has exposed a divide between vendors who navigate the city’s licensing and health requirements—and those who begin selling without them. Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department records show that six roadside vendors in Tacoma were closed during July after operating without permits and lacking basic safeguards such as handwashing facilities, refrigeration and employee restrooms.

Meanwhile, licensed food-truck owners are calling for clearer, more consistently applied rules. Their path to opening can involve multiple agencies, equipment inspections, a commissary kitchen and hundreds or thousands of dollars in fees—raising a fair question about whether Tacoma is doing enough to protect both customers and the businesses that play by the rules.

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Most museums work hard to stop their collections from changing. Anya Gallaccio builds change directly into her art, creating installations from materials such as flowers, fruit, chocolate, sugar and ice—and allowing them to wilt, melt or decay naturally.

The internationally exhibited artist and former Turner Prize nominee is spending five days inside Tacoma’s Museum of Glass Hot Shop through Sunday, September 13. The museum hasn’t disclosed what she plans to create, making her encounter with molten glass—and whatever emerges from it—the intriguing part.

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Tacoma’s Moon Festival returns Saturday with food, performances, arts and crafts, and a lantern parade beside Commencement Bay. But its home at Chinese Reconciliation Park makes this much more than another waterfront festival.

The park was created near Tacoma’s former Chinese settlement to remember approximately 200 Chinese residents who were forcibly expelled from the city in 1885. Today, it hosts a celebration of Tacoma’s many cultures—and a reminder of what reconciliation can look like when a community chooses gathering over exclusion.

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