Skate Tacoma: the designated spots
With national Go Skateboarding Day right around the corner and our own Go Skate Tacoma about to take over Tollefson Plaza’s Red Blocks —complete with skate clinics, sessions, competitions, and prize...
View ArticleTacoma’s Most OK – 2014 Edition
At Post Defiance, we love feedback from our readers. And what better way to get feedback than to hold a totally arbitrary popularity contest that attracts hordes who will probably never read Post...
View ArticleMake a shark friend in Tacoma
Shark diving. Never in my life did I expect to be submerged in a cage underwater, surrounded by creatures I had only ever associated with the loss of limbs. And I would never have expected to be...
View ArticleThe karaoke files: week 10, get high
This is the conclusion in a three part series, The Karaoke Files, set in The Westgate Bar and Grill in Tacoma’s West End neighborhood. The events written about took place over ten weeks. Some names...
View ArticleRide: Downtown to Defiance
Last year as I prepared to ride the first Downtown to Defiance event, I looked outside and I sighed that sigh we all know so well as Tacomans. It was raining. I had a new bicycle and the stubborn kid...
View ArticleDear US Navy: don’t use our rainforest for war games; don’t irradiate our...
The U.S. Navy would really like to truck around electromagnetic-radiation-emitting eqipment in fifteen isolated areas of the Olympic Peninsula and send EA-18 Growler jets out and about – for up to 260...
View ArticleTacoma’s magical paths: Puget Creek
The stairs to the bottom of the gulch were coated with light sand, like they were just steps away from the ocean. I had wanted to hike this trail for years; its entrance tucked behind a faded sign on...
View ArticleGood Sex: A Column for the Curious
Sex can be hard. It’s tricky. Things have to go places and sometimes you have … questions. We all know that there is a shortage of good sex advice out there and so in the spirit of February — the month...
View ArticleTacoma’s pastime
I really like our local baseball team, the Tacoma Rainiers — initially and mostly because they combine my love of Tacoma with my love of our mountain. See, I have spent nearly all my life hating...
View ArticleGive your bike a better home
A bicycle is a wonderful thing. It can be a commuter or a destroyer of forest trails. It’s a leisurely ride down Ruston Way or a forty mile per hour descent on an aerodynamic superbike. A bicycle is a...
View ArticleRunning in Tacoma: a love story
Tacoma is a glorious place for a runner. With its many miles of sleepy residential grid streets, it is easy to navigate away from traffic. The city's hilly location and turn-of-the-century grading...
View ArticleTerror and transcendence: Bikram yoga is more than working up a sweat
Tacoma now features three different hot yoga studios, even further limiting our excuses to not try Bikram yoga. But even with a 66% increase in its hot yoga studios, most Tacomans remain unaware of the...
View ArticleHumble altars everywhere: 20 things to do to find Tacoma zen
Our town is filled with secret and not so secret places where I can reliably make the mundane sacred; where I can, dare I say, transcendentally shake off the stress. (Which basically means I compiled a...
View ArticleChandler O’Leary’s Old Town Dock art installation means you can find every...
A partnership with Metro Parks Tacoma and the City of Tacoma, Old Town Dock on Ruston Way has not only been restored and made accessible, it has also been accessorized in a very Tacoma way
View ArticleMaking Tacoma a skateable city
Tacoma Public Schools, Alchemy Skateboarding and Education, and the Grit City Grindhouse have completed the initial year of their innovative education partnership. This partnerhsip is the first in the...
View ArticleA kid’s guide to summer
It’s SUMMERTIME! The days are long, the nights are short. School is out and your schedule is wide open. By now, you’ve probably run out of ideas. Don’t despair! Below is every kids perfect guide to...
View ArticleLearning to love the Cross Orbweaver Spider
As commonplace in Northwest fall as clouds, the Cross Orbweaver spider (Araneus diadematus) takes up residence for the season, their pervasive webs stringing across windows, from tree to tree, from...
View ArticlePlaying pool in Tacoma
I don’t know much about pool, yet I play it (terribly) often all throughout the area and wherever else I happen to be. Playing badly and often Pool is an obsessive pastime for me; I practice...
View ArticleTacoma-inspired Halloween costumes
This year, forgo the debasing generic Halloween costume from a warehouse store in favor of a creative costume that displays your Tacoma pride. Join author Kate Albert Ward and local cartoonist R.R....
View ArticleHow to First Night
In Tacoma, all parties fade in the gleaming light of our annual downtown revelry known as First Night. This family friendly New Years celebration does everything right: it activates, it welcomes, it...
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