As of 2018, Tacoma has 19 retail cannabis locations. These serve both medical cannabis patients and adults over 21 who use cannabis for recreation. The shops are highly regulated and sell a wide variety of cannabis, or marijuana, products. Who is selling the most cannabis in Tacoma, how much excise tax are they paying to…
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Getting truly high in Tacoma isn’t as easy as one might expect. Sure, there are pot shops on quite a few corners, but we just can’t compete with the likes of Denver, Colorado. This is sea level, man. Being a waterfront city, it’s no surprise that on average Tacoma only gets to about 243 feet…
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Hit up The Airport Tavern on South Tacoma Way on any given night and you’re likely to spot a beard or two. Happen by when the Grit City Society of Beards (Grit City SOBS) is putting on a competition and you’re in for a show. We stopped in to check out the Tacomans representing Washington…
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Tacoma has museums, photo archives at the library, and many websites dedicated to preserving its history. However, a truly invaluable way of learning about the history of a city you love is talking to someone who actually lived it. One such person in Tacoma is Bob Piatt. Bob is a charming 81 year old man…
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When I walked into Victoria Woodards’ office on her 61st day on the job, she looked up sheepishly from her sandwich. She asked if I minded if she finished her lunch. I said no, and as she thanked me, she checked her phone, the back of which read in gold letters, “Glitter is my favorite…
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On South 11th and Yakima sits a building where Prince Olav of Norway, President Taft, President Truman, President Wilson, and Orson Welles have all paid a visit. A building that holds over 100 years of monumental history, it once held home and garden exhibitions, boxing matches, car shows, and rock concerts. It was also home…
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Spend any longer than a few minutes with the guys from the Grit City Society Of Beards and you’re bound to learn a thing or two about beards. They’re passionate dudes, full of knowledge on mutton chops, whalers, whiskerinas and beyond. After photographing the crew taking home a handful of trophies at Odd Otter’s beard…
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The phenomenon which was previously confined to the Ruston Way waterfront has now shown up in downtown Tacoma. Whether or not it’s the same person(s) responsible for the original guerilla art project is unclear. Whoever it is, though, seems to have stuck to the theme of mid-century folding bikes. The bike stuck to the giant W…
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The way Easter is celebrated changes a little from place to place and from year to year. We took a look at the image archives at the Tacoma Public Library to see how things have changed through the years here in Tacoma. In the 1940s Brown & Haley touted their Almond Roca as the…
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Washington State has no shortage of octopus myths. The well known Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus haunts our canopies from coast to mountain top, but it’s Tacoma that is home to the real King of the North. Deep below the surface of the Tacoma Narrows, among the ruins of a bridge once nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” the…
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While everyone else is busy “disrupting” the tech industry, at least one Tacoma business owner is just trying to make job training more entertaining. William Manzanares, owner of local convenience store chain, Smokin’ Willy’s, is all about trying new things. So when he decided his employees should learn more about the cigars they sold, he…
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For decades Tacoma has been seen by many as a redheaded stepchild compared to the shiny glory of Seattle. But as the housing market skyrockets in the Emerald City (median Seattle house value in 2017 was over $700,000, compared to Tacoma at $264,000), the appeal of our gritty city is on the rise. Is Tacoma’s…
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