6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 29-Oct. 5 2025
Because this week Tacoma doesn’t just schedule itself—it combusts into a fevered pageant of laundry-born cider gospels, last-call hoplit Oktoberfests, podcast pulpits dripping with fresh-hop gospel, Swiftian showgirl liturgies flickering ten feet high, Beatles and Bowie resurrected in jazz-soaked thunder, and a library bursting open as the official portal into a month-long kaleidoscope of art, story, and spectacle.
Peaks & Pints Monday Incline Cider Flight: From Laundry to Legend | Monday, Sept. 30
Incline Cider Company didn’t start in some bucolic Northwest orchard — it started in an Arizona laundry room, a kegerator next to the dryer, experiments in yeast and hops bubbling under fluorescent light. Fast-forward a decade, and Incline is a full-on cider gospel, family-run, boundary-pushing, and unafraid of fruit that roars instead of whispers. Today’s Peaks & Pints flight is Incline distilled into five pours: Basecamp Proctor, our house cider and orchard anthem; Apple Crisp, autumn baked into liquid form; Tangerine, citrus gone neon; Pineapple, island mischief in a glass; and Imperial Tart Cherry, a ruby meteor with a velvet hammer. Call it Monday’s salvation — proof that a humble laundry ferment can climb all the way to legend. Cider flight, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma
Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour | Through Tuesday, Sept. 30
And just like that, the steins empty, the hop fields sigh, the last notes of polka dissolve into vapor. Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour is nearly spent, its 30-day delirium of resin-dripping fresh hop and caramel-laced Oktoberfest down to the final pours. That’s the cruel alchemy of September—fresh hops are lightning in a glass, already fading by the hour, while Märzens and Festbiers anchor us between summer’s exhale and winter’s dark inhale. Together they’ve filled Peaks & Pints all month, harvest colliding with history, fleeting colliding with eternal. Raise one more before the curtain falls—then wait another year for the saga to return. Seasonal pours, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma
Podcast + Party: Vice Beer at Peaks & Pints | Wednesday, Oct. 1
Think of it as a midweek communion: Grit & Grain drags Vice Beer onto the mic, that Vancouver crew who brew nostalgia into neon, lagers into laser beams, IPAs into hop-slinging sermons. They’ll spill on their story, their shiny new brewhouse, and why fresh hop chaos is the only season that matters. Then the real delirium begins: Peaks & Pints taps five of their harvest gems, from a Tettnang-kissed pilsner humming European grace to a West Coast IPA bristling with Crosby Chinook and citrus thunder. Call it conversation, call it takeover, call it your one-night chance to taste hops still humming on the bine. The podcast is the spark; the pints are the fire. Podcast and fresh hops, 4:30 p.m. podcast, 5:30-8 p.m. Vice Beer fresh hop tap takeover, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma
LP And The Vinyl | Friday, Oct. 3
Tacoma Arts Live brings the fire: gospel-soaked vocalist Leonard Patton joins the Danny Green Trio for LP And The Vinyl, a quartet that doesn’t just cover the canon, it seduces it. Beatles ballads reimagined, Bowie reborn in gospel thunder, Stevie Wonder refitted as late-night jazz confession—all threaded with originals and improvisations that feel both razor-precise and gloriously untethered. It’s groove, gospel, R&B, and rock all poured into one molten set, where telepathic interplay turns every song into revelation. Concert, 7:30 p.m., Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, 1001 S. Yakima Ave., Tacoma, $46, tickets at tacomaartslive.org
The Official Release Party of a Showgirl | Oct. 3–5
Taylor Swift doesn’t just drop an album anymore, she detonates it into ritual—and for three nights only, Proctor’s velvet-lined Blue Mouse becomes her shrine. The Life of a Showgirl arrives not as playlist but as pilgrimage: the world premiere of “The Fate of Ophelia” video, lyric reels fresh as wet ink, behind-the-scenes footage glowing like contraband, and Swift herself spilling reflections usually guarded tighter than nuclear codes. It’s cinema as séance, fandom as fever dream, pop turned into liturgy. Come dressed to swoon, sing, scream, and remember that sometimes the most intimate confessions happen ten feet high on a Tacoma movie screen. Album film release, 3:45, 6:00, and 8:15 p.m., Oct. 3–5, Blue Mouse Theatre, 2611 N. Proctor St., Tacoma, $12, tickets at bluemousetheatre.com
Kaleidoscope: Tacoma Arts Month Opening Party | Saturday, Oct. 4
Tacoma Arts Month doesn’t just arrive quietly—it blasts open in a kaleidoscopic roar at the Main Library, the official kickoff to 31 days of citywide creativity. Kaleidoscope is three hours of everything Tacoma does best: live music shaking the atrium, dancers slipping between the stacks, poets and storytellers bending language into light, a group art show glowing against the bookshelves, plus hands-on stations where kids and adults can smear paint, fold paper, and discover they’re artists too. Around every corner, Tacoma Creates organizations and local makers offer glimpses of the month to come—gallery tours, theater runs, studio visits, and festivals waiting just outside this room. Free, family-friendly, and crammed with more culture than should fit inside a library, Kaleidoscope is your portal to Tacoma Arts Month itself: one radiant afternoon that unlocks a full October of spectacle. Party, 1–4 p.m., Tacoma Public Library Main Branch, 1102 Tacoma Ave. S., free, all ages.
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