Weekend Preview: going to be hot, hot, hot

I am not much of a car guy. In fact, I am so not much of a car guy that a neighbor changed my tire when I got a flat because I looked helpless. Stop laughing. I could have done it… eventually.

Anyway, that vignette into my life might make it seem odd that I would be looking forward to the eighth annual HOTROD-A-RAMA in Tacoma this weekend at the parking lot by the Swiss. But I am.

There is expected to be some 500 pre-1965 cars, from restored to towed-in jalopies. Along with the cars, there will be music, lots and lots of music. Friday will bring Si Si Si, the F—-ing Eagles and Girl Trouble. Saturday entertainment starts at 1 p.m. with ’63 Burnout, followed by Marshall Scott Warner, a Pin up contest and Basemint. The nighit set of music starts at 9 p.m. with The Scuzztones, Johnny Cheeseburger and the Cum Bunnies, Bentz Brothers and Stafford and Marti Brom.

For something a bit more vintage, there will be a Fort Nisqually Brigade Encampment this weekend at the facility at Point Defiance Park. Visitors can journey back to the 1855, when fur brigades from east of the Cascades camped at Fort Nisqually, a Hudson’s Bay Company post. Re-enactors will cook, make fires, and do beadwork.

And for something well back into the way-back machine, “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” and “The 15-Minute Hamlet” are continuing their run at Lakewood Playhouse. Tom Stoppard’s “Rosenkrantz” tells the story of what happened behind-the-scenes in “Hamlet” as told by Shakespeare’s classmate. For “The 15-Minute Hamlet” Stoppard condensed “Hamlet” into a hilarious 13-minute version using Shakespeare’s own words.

All totaled, it will be a hot time in T-town this weekend.