Surprise Party for Frida - Tonight
Tacoma Art Museum is having a party and you’re invited. This year marks the centennial birthday of Frida Kahlo. To property properly celebrate this event, the museum will be hosting a community celebration tonight featuring live music, dancing, film, and, bed racing. We know of at least a few Frida aficionados that are prepping their racing beds and monobrows for tonight’s excitement.
Where
Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific
When
5:30 to 8:30 pm
Link to the Tacoma Art Museum
Previously on Exit133
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R Really? August 12, 2008
In January the city Manager released his Mobility and Transit Strategy. One of the key points was that the money from the system would stat in the system. And yet before it is even implemented, nearly 2 Mil has been set aside for LEED improvements for a development.
The Mayor seems so excited about the LEED certification that he didn’t seem to care where the money is being redirected from.
The council members all seemed to agree that it would be ok, they could just raise the parking rates in this garage. They didn’t get that there is connection to off street and – on street parking. Or that all new parking plus more would be dedicated to the developers creating a net loss of parking.
E Erik B. August 13, 2008
Mayor Baarsma seemed excited about the prospect of LEED enhancements to the South Park Plaza Garage, remarking that it was once the “ugly duckling in downtown,” but now has the potential of being the highest rated LEED building in Washington.
Mayor Baarsma understates this one.
Of all the actions the Tacoma City Council has taken over the last 5 years, voting to renovate the South Park Plaza Parking Garage has to be one of the best.
Knocking down blocks of historical buildings to build the two parking garages lacking any potential for life helped set downtown Tacoma on a death spiral.
Now we need to knock down and rebuild the North Park Plaza Parking Garage.
J John Sherman August 14, 2008
In re: Ordinance # 27737
If, in future years, more business districts are requested to be established and established within the City of Tacoma; as a result, the City of Tacoma should evaluate the safety of all bicyclists that are banned from riding upon sidewalks within City of Tacoma business districts; therefore pushing the bicyclists to ride only in the business district streets with car, truck, and bus traffic.
I did not see any requirement that anybody needs to make their business district safe for the people that ride a bicycle within a business district within Ordinance # 27737, so where is the City of Tacoma’s consideration for the “green transportation” methods like bicycles and the bicyclists safety; for example, no bicycle lanes mandated for business district streets or bicycle pathways upon the business district sidewalks?
So, here again, City of Tacoma likes to blow hot-air around with its empty pre-thought decision process; for example, about what it (The City of Tacoma and City Council actions) is doing to benefit the neighborhoods and it citizens; but in-fact, as a result of these decisions and like Ordinance # 27737 places the general neighborhood public at increased health and safety risk while following the un-safe rule City of Tacoma allows to remain: “bicycle riding on a sidewalk in a business district is not allowed within City of Tacoma.” See “1602-Bicycle, Moped, Go-Cart Regulations” http://www.cityoftacoma.org/Page.aspx?hid=3690