6-Pack of Things To Do: Feb. 11-13 2022

Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can have anything you want. Work really extra super hard and do nothing else and never have time to spend, sublimate your soul to the corporate machine and enjoy a profound triple IPAs and Richard Thompson and Native American lectures and Proctor Farmers Market and The Last Dragon and horny zoo animals. Get at it!

MUSIC: Peaks & Pints has said it before and we’ll say it again: Richard Thompson is a triple threat — singer, songwriter, guitarist, A-level abilities on all fronts. He bridges the folk and rock idioms like no other. And how about his wit, self-deprecating and otherwise? This is a fellow who can restructure Hamlet as a three-minute pop song. He writes from what might seem a dark and dour place and no one covers the rocky terrain of a relationship on the rocks like him. Yet no more joy can be had in music than to listen to a blistering eight-minute version of “Tear-Stained Letter.” Stop by Peaks & Pints before or after the show and enjoy enjoy Trap Door Brewing‘s Porch Beer. Tacoma Arts Live brings Thompson to the Pantages Theater Friday night. 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, $29-$69, photo courtesy of Bryan Ledgard

BEER FLIGHT: The triple IPA is a palate-smashing beast of an ale designed for those times when a hazy IPA simply won’t cut it. Yet, the style still isn’t recognized — and debate rages among the pimpliest of beer nerds over whether it’s a style at all. Peaks & Pints believes the triple IPA is a massively hoppy beer of 10 percent ABV and greater with outrageous amounts of dry hops, hop flavor, malt flavor, alcohol, and bitterness. The triple IPA may be like a double IPA in hop character, but is differentiated from the style by a thick, syrupy body accented by intense hop resins that make it a heavy sipping beer. Great triples harness an artful assortment of hops and propping them up with a suitable quantity of the proper malts. Swing by Peaks & Pints and grab our to-go flight of triple IPAs. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma

ART: Tacoma Art Museum’s On Native Land: Landscapes from the Haub Family Collection exhibition explores land acknowledgements, which are used to recognize Indigenous communities and their homelands. Through this exhibition, TAM hopes to provide a space to discuss how landscapes from the Haub Family Collection of Western American Art are the homelands of Native American communities. Saturday afternoon via Zoom, TAM educator and artist Vaneassa Harriss will unravel the topic of Native sovereignty and how Native tribes use their independence to care for their communities. 1-2 p.m., Tacoma Art Museum Zoom, register here

MARKET DAY: Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t eat fresh, seasonal foods. We’re in the easiest time of year to shop the Proctor Farmers Market, buy local and sustainable stuff, and come away with produce that tastes only a million bazillion times better than the same species flown in from South America or New Zealand. Expect lettuces, smoked salmon, leafy greens, microgreens, baked goods, cabbages, winter squash, peppers, beets, carrots, potatoes. Bonus: fresh cut pasta and sauces! 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 27th Street and Proctor Street, Tacoma

VALENTINE: Will zoo be mine? Head out to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium with your littlest valentines Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 12-13, for some wild love. See animals celebrating love with Valentine-themed enrichments such as heart shaped ice treats, bamboo hearts, vegetable spaghetti or whipped cream, as well as participate in a heart scavenger hunt and make a Valentine for the animals. 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., 5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma, $15-$20

FILM: The 1985’s martial-arts comedy The Last Dragon screens at The Grand Cinema Friday and Saturday night as part of the film house’s Weird Elephant late night film series. The film, long a cult favorite, offers fights, cheesy special effects, groaner puns, and even a romance. The film’s full title is Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, so you know the Motown Master packed it with musical performances, too. 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11 and 12, 606 S. Fawcett, Tacoma