6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: May 4-10 2026

This week in Tacoma hums like a slightly unhinged crossover episode — Jedi pints and podcast lore, anniversary haze and runaway romances, motel-room reckonings and wind-borne melodies — a city slipping between galaxies, stages, and tap handles, proving once again that the best plans are the ones that wobble, collide, and somehow land exactly where they’re supposed to. Cheers!

Peaks & Pints May the 4th Be With You Flight | Monday, May 4

May the 4th Be With You was never meant to be official — just a sly pun passed between fans who understood that a galaxy far, far away could still feel strangely close — and yet here we are, decades later, still orbiting its pull as Peaks & Pints assembles a scrappy, slightly renegade beer flight that feels more cantina than canon. Supply lines wobble, expected ships arrive late, and the lineup recalibrates in real time, which, frankly, is about as Star Wars as it gets — improvisation, adaptation, a little chaos stitched together into something that works anyway. The result is a five-beer constellation that moves from tart, fruit-bright hyperspace bursts to shadowy lager calm, from Yakima haze drifting in soft orbit to crisp, hop-edged defiance, all the way to a strange and wonderful collision of coffee and citrus that shouldn’t make sense but absolutely does. It’s less about perfection, more about the story — each pour a small rebellion, each sip a reminder that the best things rarely arrive exactly as planned. May the 4th beer flight, all day, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma

Grit & Grain Podcast Episode 188: Michael Perozzo of Vice Beer (Star Wars Edition) | Wednesday, May 6

Every so often the beer world drops the pretense, leans back in its chair, and admits it’s been telling stories this whole time — which is exactly the energy as Grit & Grain Podcast records Episode 188 live at Peaks & Pints, welcoming Michael Perozzo of Vice Beer back for the trilogy capper, the full-circle return after origin myth and mid-career chaos, now arriving as the freshly crowned Tournament of Beer Best PNW Breweries champion with a 13-seed underdog run that felt less like domination and more like momentum finding its moment. The conversation drifts where it should: into the strange gravitational pull of Vice Beer itself — a brand that behaves more like a personality than a product — and then straight into the Star Wars bloodstream, where Vice’s beer names become punchlines, identity becomes mythology, and a tap list reads like a slightly unhinged cantina menu (DarthBlazer, Bantha Blue Milk, No Sleep ’Til Bespin, all of it hovering somewhere between devotion and mischief). Expect equal parts humor and craft, the ongoing argument that playful doesn’t mean careless, and the deeper realization that breweries, at their best, aren’t just making beer — they’re building worlds people want to step into. Podcast recording, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Peaks & Pints, North 26th Street, Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover

Peaks & Pints Great Notion 10th Anniversary Party | Thursday, May 7

Ten years in craft beer can feel like a century if you’ve been paying attention, and Great Notion Brewing has spent that decade gleefully rewriting the rules, turning haze into a full-blown weather system and dessert into something you can legally pour into a pint glass. Peaks & Pints marks the milestone with a low-lit, high-flavor gathering tap takeover that leans less on nostalgia and more on that unmistakable Great Notion spirit — playful, indulgent, just a little unhinged — the kind of beers that arrive bursting with fruit, drifting through vanilla, flirting with breakfast-table absurdity, and somehow still landing with intention. It’s a toast to the era they helped shape, when IPA went opaque and everyone briefly agreed that maybe beer didn’t need to behave so much as delight. Think of it as the prelude before the Portland blowout, a South Sound ignition point where the juice flows, the room hums, and the only real requirement is to raise a glass to ten years of beautiful, flavorful rebellion. Anniversary party, 5–8 p.m. Thursday, May 7, Peaks & Pints, North 26th Street, Proctor District, Tacoma, no cover

Runaway Bride at the Blue Mouse Theatre | May 8–10

Some romantic comedies age quietly; others linger like a half-remembered song you didn’t realize you still knew every word to, and Runaway Bride drifts back into the Blue Mouse Theatre with that exact energy — small-town charm, big feelings, and Julia Roberts once again questioning whether the aisle is a destination or just another scenic detour. Paired with Richard Gere’s gently persistent cynicism, the film unspools as a light, funny meditation on identity, expectation, and the peculiar American ritual of turning love into a public event with cake. Watching it inside the Blue Mouse — that creaky, beloved Proctor time capsule — turns the whole thing into something warmer, more communal, a room full of people rediscovering a story about taking your time, getting it wrong, and maybe, finally, choosing your own version of right. Runaway Bridge, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday, May 8–10, Blue Mouse Theatre, Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, tickets available online.

The Mountaintop at Tacoma Little Theatre | through May 10

History rarely sits still, and in The Mountaintop it breathes, paces, questions itself under dim motel light as Tacoma Little Theatre stages a late-night imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final hours — not as monument, but as man, exhausted and restless, caught in conversation with a mysterious maid who may be more than she seems. What unfolds is less biography than reckoning, a charged, intimate exchange that drifts between the grounded and the surreal, asking what legacy means when time suddenly feels short and the work remains unfinished. DuWayne Andrews, Jr. and Ibri Brooks carry the weight with a kind of electric stillness, letting humor, doubt, and flashes of grace slip through the tension. It’s thoughtful, human, occasionally disarming, and just unsettled enough to linger after the lights come up, especially if you stay for the talkback and let the conversation keep moving. The Mountaintop, performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., Tacoma Little Theatre, North I Street, Tacoma, tickets $23–$30.

Winds5: Live at The Eleanor | Sunday, May 10

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