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Tacoma’s Bid for Domination

Our sibling city’s June events calendar rivals some of Seattle’s best offerings.

Seth Sommerfeld
Author: Seth Sommerfeld
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 Wait a second. When did Tacoma decide to battle Seattle for arts supremacy? Our sibling city’s June events calendar rivals some of Seattle’s best offerings. For starters, Pantages Theater isn’t messing around with back-to-back performances by living legend Tony Bennett (June 15) and kooky pop princess Cyndi Lauper (June 16, broadwaycenter.org), who celebrates the 30th anniversary of her wild-child debut album She’s So Unusual. Tacoma also gets indie cred when Fremont Abbey Arts Center’s intimate concerts-in-churches series Cathedrals politely invades Immanuel Presbyterian Church with folk-baroque pop band Paper Bird (June 21, broadwaycenter.org). And while Taste of Tacoma (June 28–30, tasteoftacoma.com) easily leads to the joke, “I hope Tacoma tastes better than it smells,” it might be enlightening to sample some Northwest cuisine, wine, and craft beer outside Seattle city limits—in Point Defiance Park no less. Well played, Tacoma.

 

Published: June 2013

Published in the Be a Tourist in Your Own Town issue of Seattle Met.




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.