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(NSFW) Our Most Popular Story of All Time Is a Minivan Covered in Dicks

The worst part is, it wasn’t even a story. It was just a 20 word Instagram post that auto-shared to our Facebook page. Read More

10 Best Instagram Spots in Tacoma

Let’s be honest, nowadays, with our smartphones, we are all basically amateur photographers. Of course our phone pictures are no replacement for professional portraits, but that doesn’t mean they can’t look good! Read More

110 Years Later, You’ll Still Like Tacoma

In 1909, the “longest shoreline electric sign in the world” was lit up at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. Its 20-foot-high letters... Read More

5 Hand-Picked Tacoma Podcast Episodes To Give a Listen To

Think of this as your handy guide to getting started in the Tacoma podcast scene. Rather than direct you to pages all willy nilly, we've asked podcast network Channel 253 to curate not only a list of great podcasts, but the very best episodes they've heard from each. Read More

8 Out of 10 Sonics Guys Prefer Grit City Magazine*

If you ask artist Taylor Rushing to design a poster about Tacoma, he’s going to include Sonics Guy. If Sonics... Read More

A Cabin, a Beard, and a Pioneering Spirit: The Story of Tacoma’s Founding Father

What’s the best Christmas present you ever received? For Job Carr, it was probably finding the 138 acres that would become the city of Tacoma, which he claimed on Christmas Day of 1864. Read More

A little Backstory on Monkeyshines in Tacoma

If you’ve ever explained the concept of Monkeyshines to someone outside of Tacoma, there’s a good chance they just didn’t... Read More

A Message to Tacoma From Our Healthcare Workers

COVID-19 Comes to Tacoma On March 6th, Pierce County confirmed its first case of COVID-19. One month later that number... Read More

A Rare Look Inside the Coolest Vacant Tacoma Building You’ve Never Noticed

Sitting a block down from one of Tacoma’s busiest intersections at Sprague and 7th Ave. sits a 105 year old building that, for the last decade, has sat vacant and largely ignored by passersby. Read More

An Inside Look at Foster Care and Adoption in Tacoma

For me, the word ‘orphan’ makes me think of a young Dickens character roaming the streets of 18th century London in tattered clothes. I always found that image rather romantic as a kid and would pretend to be a poor orphan who would inevitably be adopted by some form of royalty. Read More