CAN I KICK IT? featuring Enter the Dragon | Friday, Oct. 17 | Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, 7:30 p.m.

All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street.

Forget passive movie nights — this one punches back. CAN I KICK IT?, the traveling film-and-music series from the Washington, D.C. collective SHAOLIN JAZZ, lands at Tacoma Arts Live with Enter the Dragon on the big screen and DJ 2-Tone Jones remixing Bruce Lee’s every strike in real time. Scene by scene, he layers hip-hop, funk, and soul beneath the film’s legendary martial-arts choreography, turning each glare into percussion and every kick into jazz improvisation. The result: part séance, part sonic riot — a living soundtrack that blurs the line between cinema and cipher.

Founded by Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone Jones, SHAOLIN JAZZ grew out of The 37th Chamber, their cult-favorite Wu-Tang-meets-jazz mixtape. The duo has since transformed it into a touring multimedia experience performed everywhere from Lincoln Center to open-air plazas, blending Black music traditions, martial-arts mythology, and live turntablism into cultural alchemy. Tonight, Tacoma gets the full dose — Bruce Lee, bassline, and beat drop in perfect rhythm.

Cooler Postfunk: New Holland Dragon’s Milk
When the final gong fades, join us at Peaks & Pints and sip New Holland Dragon’s Milk, a bourbon-barrel leviathan layered with dark vanilla, toasted oak, and a silken punch of heat and myth. A stout fit for monks, fighters, and anyone still vibrating from the bassline.

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