6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Oct. 27-Nov.2 2025

Because Tacoma this week doesn’t just hum — it howls, glows, and grins through a cider-scented haze. The city is pure autumn delirium: apples fizzing into amber hymns, Springsteen whispering from the screen, skeletons tangoing down Proctor, and drag queens twirling through the Armory rafters while Peaks & Pints turns nine and still beats like the city’s cedar-framed heart. This isn’t a week of events so much as a fever dream — half harvest, half Halloween, entirely Tacoma — where every pint, song, and scream feels like communion under flickering light.

Peaks & Pints Late October Cider Flight | Monday, Oct. 27

Autumn, distilled. Peaks & Pints’ Late October Cider Flight is the season in a glass — all fog, spice, and orchard memory. Each pour plays a different note of fall: Ace’s baked-apple radiance, Newtopia’s chai-drenched reverie, Bauman’s smoky pumpkin seduction, Seattle Cider’s rain-polished nostalgia, and Tieton’s tart cranberry jolt. Together they taste like October exhaling — sweet, sharp, fleeting, and impossibly alive. Cider flight, 11 a.m.–10:30 p.m., Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor

Grit & Grain Podcast: The NYT vs. Craft Beer Debate | Wednesday, Oct. 29

Few things are finer than a good beer brawl — especially one fought with logic and laughter. The Grit & Grain Podcast crew takes the mics at Peaks & Pints to dissect The New York Times’ notorious op-ed urging craft brewers to “abandon the IPA arms race.” Hosts Matt McLaren, Ron Swarner, and Bethany Carlsen counter with data, wit, and lived fermentation — contrasting punditry with the raw pulse of the industry. Expect talk of profit margins, palate fatigue, and why the 16-ounce can is both sinner and savior. It’s equal parts seminar, satire, and hop-scented therapy. Beer podcast, 3:30–4:30 p.m., Peaks & Pints Event Room, 3816 N. 26th St., Tacoma, no cover

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere @ Blue Mouse Theatre | Through Nov. 3

Even the Boss needs to whisper. Deliver Me From Nowhere peers into Bruce’s quiet masterpiece Nebraska — the four-track prayer recorded in solitude and static. Forget stadium lights; this is the Springsteen of dirt roads and dead radios, the poetry of survival sung into the void. Inside the Blue Mouse, Tacoma’s cinematic chapel, reel and reverence merge in a meditation on loneliness, art, and grace. Sometimes the loudest truth comes from a voice barely holding on. Film, 4 p.m. & 7 p.m. Fri–Sat, 7 p.m. Sun–Mon through Nov. 3, Blue Mouse Theatre, 2611 N. Proctor St., Tacoma

Proctor Treats + Peaks & Pints Proctor Adult Treats | Friday, Oct. 31

For nearly a century, Proctor has turned Halloween into pure Tacoma pageantry — a Proctor Treats parade of giggling ghosts, pint-sized superheroes, and sugar-addled joy. Streets close, spirits rise, and tradition reigns for two glorious hours of organized chaos. Meanwhile, Peaks & Pints offers the grown-up sanctuary across the street: Proctor Adult Treats, where Halloween beers pour, costumes sparkle, and laughter fogs the glass. Let the kids chase candy — you chase bliss. Parade 4–6 p.m., N 26th–28th St., free. Adult Treats 4–11 p.m., Peaks & Pints, Basecamp Proctor

The Rocky Horror Circus Show | Friday, Oct. 31

Let’s do the Time Warp — suspended from silks. Tacoma Arts Live‘s Tacoma Armory explodes into a glitter-lit carnival as Ethereal Chaos Productions and Akasha Aerial Arts reimagine Rocky Horror as a high-flying, high-camp circus spectacular. Think sequins, straps, and sin on the half-shell: acrobats spinning through “Sweet Transvestite,” aerialists seducing gravity itself, and call-backs raining down like confetti. It’s chaos with choreography, desire with a harness, and Halloween at full altitude. Circus, 9–11 p.m., Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, 1001 S. Yakima Ave., $48 GA ($54 door), $60 VIP ($64 door), 18+, tacomaartslive.org

Peaks & Pints Ninth Anniversary Party | Saturday, Nov. 1

Nine years of barley, cedar, and unabashed Tacoma soul. Peaks & Pints celebrates its ninth orbit around the sun with a flannel-fueled rager worthy of its mythos. On tap, our new house liquids: Finnriver’s Buckhorn Cider — a bright bridge between Chimacum and Proctor — and Lumberbeard’s Cut-Off Flannel IPA, a pine-citrus anthem to the sleeveless aesthetic. The Barleywine Revue ignites the night with bluegrass thunder as firelight flickers off pints and faces alike. No tickets, no ego — just music, cider, and hop-drunk gratitude glowing against the November chill. Peaks’ Ninth Anniversary Party, 6–10 p.m., Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover

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