About Exit133

Exit133.com was a hyperlocal website for Tacoma, Washington, published between 2005 and 2016. It was founded by a very specific Derek Young as one of the earlier experiments in independent neighborhood publishing on the web. It covered development, transit, food, and the daily texture of civic life in Tacoma.

This is an archive of that work. It is not a continuation of the publication: there is no comment form, no newsletter, no login.

What's here

8,758 entries across the original Articles, Newswire, and Reading channels, spanning May 2005 through February 2018. Comments are preserved.

What's not here

Events listings, classifieds, the jobs board, and the member directory. These pages were never intended to outlive the site. Galleries and the original 365 in Tacoma photo project are not yet added.

Awards

By the numbers

• 8,759 entries
• 31,459 reader comments
• 3,805 unique commenters
• 14 years covered
• 336 city council meetings covered
• 49 Imagine Tacoma installments

Most-discussed entries

Most prolific commenters