Triangle District (Tacoma, WA)

04/08/2021

Help save Bob's Java Jive !!

02/20/2021

Devils Reef open tonight in Downtown Tacoma!

03/02/2019

Check out the City of Tacoma Governmentof new trailer for 3/6!

02/11/2019

Manifesto Coffee open today!!

Our planet Hoth location is open and warm. ❄️☕️

12/29/2018

Read everything you wanted to know about electric scooters coming to Tacoma from Joshua Jorgenson at The Tacoma Sun!

12/19/2018

Seattle gives Tacoma mostly good review!

Thinking of leaving our beleaguered city? Knute Berger has a few ideas on where you might want to go

11/22/2018

Tge ultimate bar is being constructed at McMenamins Elks Temple!

A beautiful bar going in on floor 1!

10/11/2018

The art coming out of McMenamins Elks Temple is looking pretty incredible!

McMenamins artist Jonathan Case explains this fictional mash-up of Tacoma figures from the 1990s. This panel will be displayed at McMenamins Elks Temple, opening in early 2019:

"Here we have Krist Novoselic, Joe Cowan and Neko Case hanging out on the Elks Lodge stage. In the early ‘90s, Novoselic and the rest of Nirvana used their fame to advocated for gay rights in the Northwest (Novoselic later became a WA state politician). At that time he also became friends with Case, who was just getting into the local music scene in her late teens (she dated Nirvana’s tour manager for a while, too). Cowan performed in drag routines at the lodge in the ‘80s and was a regular part of local LGBT events.

Case moved around a lot as a kid before her family moved to Tacoma, but she considers it her hometown. She had a lonesome childhood with largely absent parents. At 15, she ran away and found community in the local rock/punk/LGBT scene, mostly among 20- and 30-something men who took her under their wings (in a not-creepy way, she insists).

Quoting from a KomoNews article: 'Case is eternally grateful for the rockers and drag queens of Tacoma, who looked after a girl hanging out in places she shouldn’t. In the painting, you can see them sharing a meal from Frisko Freeze, a longstanding Tacoma burger joint, and a favorite of Case’s. Graffiti on the walls is referenced (though sometimes repositioned) from the actual graffiti in the ballroom before its restoration. Case wears Doc Martens, a WA staple."