Monday, July 28th, 2025

6-Pack of Things To Do: July 28 to August 2 2025

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Join Peaks & Pints as we uncap the elegance for the official Tacoma launch of Sierra Nevada’s new PILS Thursday, July 31.

6-Pack of Things To Do: July 28 to August 2, 2025

Because some weeks don’t ask politely. Some weeks burst through the door with jazz riffs, blueberry stardust, robotic puppets, and a mariachi band covering Slayer. This one? This week in Tacoma demands a toast—six of them, actually. So whether you’re sipping anarchic cider, worshipping at the altar of K-pop, or buying pottery you’ll pretend you needed, we’ve lined up six glorious reasons to step away from the mundane and fall headfirst into the wildly curated now.

Blueberry Cider Flight | Monday, July 28

Mondays are for the blessedly unreasonable. For ditching your inbox in favor of something purple, effervescent, and wholly unconcerned with productivity metrics. Behold the Peaks & Pints Monday Blueberry Cider Flight—five pours that could care less about your quarterly goals but very much care about the alchemy that occurs when apples and blueberries fall in love under the watchful eye of a fermentation tank. These are not your child’s juice boxes, nor are they the sugary pretenders that crowd the back shelf at Safeway. These are orchard poems. Wild fizz. Blueberry lullabies composed by people who believe flavor should surprise you, seduce you, maybe even liberate you. From Seattle’s lavender-hued VIVID to Greenwood’s mossy murmurs to 2 Towns’ galactic funkbomb, each cider is a rebellion in a glass. Drink them slowly, wildly, reverently. Because if you’re going to rewire your Monday, you may as well do it with something that tastes like blueberry stardust and orchard jazz. Blueberry Cider Flight, all day, Peaks & Pints, Proctor District, Tacoma, $12

Robopocalypse: The Musical! | Tuesday, July 29

Ah, the theater: once the realm of Shakespeare and sorrow, now the stage for felt-skinned chaos and synth-fueled robo-uprisings. Enter Robopocalypse: The Musical!, a sci-fi fever dream hatched by the glorious weirdos at Puppeteers for Fears—a psychedelic puppet rock opera complete with killer appliances, ’80s cyberpunk sparkle, and more original songs than a Broadway understudy’s TikTok. Think Avenue Q meets Blade Runner by way of a toaster possessed by Freddie Mercury. Add a live set from Tacoma’s own Blunderbusst, and you’ve got a night of analog synths, irreverent genius, and puppet-on-puppet tension so palpable it should come with a spoiler alert. Bring your existential dread and a childlike sense of awe—leave your logic at the door.
Robot Puppets Musical, 8 p.m., Spanish Ballroom, McMenamins Elks Temple, all ages, $31.06 advance, $38.58 door
Peaks & Pints Cooler Prefunk: Pair this puppet-fueled robo-fantasia with Sig Brewing’s Did I Dew That?!, a neon-hued hard seltzer that tastes like your favorite 8-bit arcade exploded into citrus static—sweet, tart, and just chaotic enough to match a night of felt-faced cyberpunk mayhem and synth-drenched puppet drama.

ATEEZ | Wednesday, July 30

Imagine Tacoma Dome as an arena-turned-spaceship, lit with neon fervor and bracing for simultaneous heartbeats syncing in rhythm. ATEEZ drops in like eight energizer charges—each a sculpted silhouette of sweat, ambition, and trap-edged pop. This is not polite entertainment. It’s choreography punching through the screens of your aesthetic sensibility with Fireworks and Guerrilla and Halazia. It’s eight idols orbiting each other, storytelling through fury, lyric hooks, and synchronized chaos. Bring earplugs if you must, but drop your cynicism in the lobby. This is existential transcendence, Korean pop-style—set against Tacoma’s humid summer dusk. Pack for crowd communion, not personal space. Move with the mass, shout along, cry when they hit that final refrain. Exit 133 may be blocked, parking may have evaporated, but if you get inside before sunset—you’ll see, world-tour stardust has an address.
K-Pop, Tacoma Dome, 7:30 p.m., Live Nation tickets
Peaks & Pints Cooler Prefunk: Pair this choreographed cosmic thunderstorm with Claim 52 Brewing’s Thicc Rocket Pop, a joyously unhinged smoothie-style sour that slaps your nostalgia receptors with red, white, and blue fruit chaos—like slurping a melted firecracker popsicle before eight beautiful aliens teach Tacoma how to feel again.

Sierra Nevada PILS Launch Party | Thursday, July 31

Some beers whisper. This one glides in on a jazz riff and freshly ironed linen. Join Peaks & Pints as we uncap the elegance for the official Tacoma launch of Sierra Nevada’s new PILS, a beer so clean, so Saphir-smooth, it could teach a masterclass in graceful understatement. The evening will be soaked in golden hues and low brass, with Sierra’s PILS and Big Fo on tap, a live jazz trio laying down smoky reverie, and free swag so wearable you’ll wish your closet had a tap list. No cover, no pretense—just barley, bop, and the kind of pilsner that makes you text someone about the mouthfeel. Pilsner Release Party, 6-9 p.m., Peaks & Pints, Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover

Metalachi | Friday, Aug. 1

Some nights, Tacoma, the laws of sound and style get lovingly dropkicked into the crowd. Enter Metalachi, the rhinestone-drenched fever dream that dares to ask: what if Slayer had horns—brass ones? This Friday, the Airport Tavern Music Hall hosts the world’s only heavy metal mariachi band, and it’s not so much a show as a glitter-soaked collision of spandex, tequila, and blistering guitar work that shreds the very fabric of genre. Expect Ozzy en español, Metallica con gusto, and a crowd that knows the words to “La Bamba” and “Reign in Blood.” Wear something washable. Hydrate accordingly. This is not your abuela’s mariachi band. Metal Mariachi, The Fun Police and Psycho 78 open, Airport Tavern Music Hall, 8 p.m., South Tacoma Way, 21+, tickets at airporttavern.com
Peaks & Pints Cooler Prefunk: Pair this rhinestone riot of brass and blistering riffs with Mortalis Brewing’s Strange Philosophies, a cosmic sour that tastes like Nietzsche fell into a fruit salad—thick with blackberry, lemon, and existential swagger, perfectly suited for a night where mariachi meets metal and reality politely excuses itself.

Proctor Arts Fest | Saturday, Aug. 2

Once a year, the Proctor District sheds its buttoned-up brunch vibes and becomes a full-blown, sun-drenched swirl of artists, musicians, food trucks, chalk murals, toddlers in face paint, and the kind of local color you can’t buy on Etsy. Proctor Arts Fest is back, and this year’s edition promises 200 artisan booths, two music stages, one frothy beer garden, and roughly 10,000 wandering souls pretending not to impulse-buy hand-thrown pottery. There’s a kid zone curated by Metro Parks, a family stage from the Tacoma Library, and yes, Peaks & Pints will be out among the people—hydrated, sun-screened, and pouring joy by the pint. Come for the art, stay for the banjo funk fusion quartet, and leave with a tote bag full of intentions. North 26th & Proctor Street, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tacoma, no cover
Peaks & Pints Cooler Beer Postfunk: After soaking in 17 types of ceramics, three ukulele solos, and at least one interpretive dance about climate change, recalibrate your chakras with a cold pint of Reuben’s Brews Juice Party IPA at Peaks & Pints—where the citrus haze is dense, the hops are unrepentant, and the party continues.

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