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👩‍🎨 Downtown Tacoma’s New Art Café Lets You Choose the Craft

🚒 Trunk-or-Treat Meets a Tacoma Dome Hiring Fair

🎨 Curtis Ashby Paints Tacoma’s Wild Side Into View

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Poppy House Art Cafe gives downtown Tacoma a new kind of place to spend an afternoon: choose a craft, gather some supplies and make something at your own pace. The idea came from owner Charisma Lawler, who found that crafting offered a welcome creative outlet during a difficult stretch.

Now she’s turned that experience into a space where people can craft solo or with friends—and where a casual project might become a birthday, book club or movie night. What does a session include, and what made Lawler think Tacoma needed a place like this?

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A Tacoma Dome visit on October 30 could include costumes, treats and a look at career options. T-Town is pairing a free family event with a hiring fair, bringing together Halloween activities and local employers, schools and apprenticeship programs.

The fair is only part of the draw: visitors can also check out city vehicles, try hands-on demonstrations and see what happens behind the scenes at the Dome. Here’s what’s planned—and how the event combines a family outing with a chance to explore work opportunities.

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Tacoma muralist Curtis Ashby fills public art with the birds, plants and wildlife found around the region. His latest mural, at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, was designed with young patients in mind—and their reaction to the painted birds gave him a moment he won’t forget.

Ashby hopes his work helps people notice the nature already around them, even in the city. The story looks at how he got started painting murals and what he hopes Tacoma residents will see the next time they pass one.

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