6-Pack of Things To Do: March 4-6 2022

R.I.P. Sue Kidd

FILM: The Batman starts its run at The Grand Cinema today. It’s has the makings to be one of the best in the series. It’s directed by Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes), which is extremely cool. The casting, the color palette, the odd contouring of the Batman costume itself, the burly runtime, and Robert Pattinson in the suit — it looks like a hard-boiled super noir. Noon, 3:45, and 7:30 p.m., Friday-Sunday, March 4-6, The Grand Cinema, 606 S. Fawcett, Tacoma

BEER FLIGHT: Sue Kidd, a longtime food writer for the Tacoma News Tribune and other publications, died Tuesday from an aggressive form of cancer. She was 52. That’s how the sad news is written in newspapers. As the founder of the alternative newsweekly Weekly Volcano in November 2001, I would have written it with more F-bombs as Sue (I’m using her first name for this story) was a skilled F-bomb practitioner. She was also a top-notch food critic and feature writer. She ran circles around my Volcano coverage of the local food and beverage scene. Every Wednesday and Friday, when her work hit the News Tribune’s paper and screens, I would shake my fist toward the sky and scream, “You scooped me again, Sue Kidd!” Sue was a Professional with a capital “P” — writing, researching, and paying anonymously. I finally met Sue, her infectious laugh, and six or seven of her F-bombs as a co-owner of Peaks & Pints. She wrote several stories about our craft beer bar, bottle shop, and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District, as well as phoned me for my thoughts on beer for her projects. Tacoma will miss her. I will miss her. Today, I honor her with a to-go flight of food-themed beers that I have in the fridge — a flight I’m calling Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Sue Kidd On the Fly. Cheers Sue Kidd! — Ron Swarner 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, March 4, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma

ART: Walk among sunflowers or lay beneath the stars to the sound of modern-classical music as world-famous art is brought to life at “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience.” The digital art installation and interactive space opens at the Tacoma Arts Live hosted Tacoma Armory Saturday for a run through April 16 with timed entries. Visitors can surround themselves with 360-degree projections of more than 200 of Vincent van Gogh’s sketches, drawings, and paintings on 15,000-square-foot, floor-to-ceiling screens. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 5, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, Tacoma Armory, 1001 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma, $33.50-$48.50, photos courtesy of Van Gogh the Immersive Experience via Facebook

FILM: The mostly virtual Destiny City Film Festival will host a live event Friday night at the Blue Mouse Theatre. Stop by the Proctor District film house for a special in-person screening of The Sound Of Us, the award-winning documentary Harper’s Bazaar calls a “rousing ode to the healing power of music.” Featuring interviews with Patti Smith, Bettye LaVette, Jason Mraz, Sarah McLachlan, and others, The Sound of Us weaves inspirational stories about the beauty and goodness of music, showing how music heals us, gives us hope for the future through our children, keeps our legacy and history alive, allows us to have the hardest conversations, sheds light on current struggles and continues to invite us to return to the thing that unites us all. Stop by neighboring Peaks & Pints before or after the screening for Aslan Brewing’s High Fives Hazy IPA. 5:15 p.m., Friday, March 4, Blue Mouse Theatre, 2611 N. Proctor St., Tacoma, $7-$9 here

CLASSICAL: Listen to the beat of the music. Clap along to it. No, that’s not it — you’re going too fast. No, now you’re going too slowly. That’s it, you have got — no, you’ve lost it again. How about this: Instead of clapping, just try to move your feet a bit to the music. Just shuffle them at a pace that seems right to you. Good, good, you’ve got it. That looks nice. Let’s take this up a notch now. Start moving your arms around to the music. Oh, good lord stop that! Never mind. Head to the University of Puget Sound’s Schneebeck Concert Hall Friday night and watch the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anna Wittstruck performing “How Does Music Move Us?” This all-strings concert program featuring music by Florence Price, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, explores questions around identity, spirituality, classicality, and gesture. Gesture? Yes, OK, but maybe skip the dancing at Schneebeck and live stream it at pugetsound.edu/schneebecklive so you can try the dance thing in your living room. 7:30-9:30 p.m., Friday, March 4, 1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, must register here to attend the performance in person.

SCIENCE DOME: The Pierce College Science Dome is a 58-seat digital planetarium that is the only one of its kind in the South Puget Sound region. This immersive and interactive facility allows visitors to view the night sky from anywhere in the known universe on a cloudy day, be immersed in an alien environment with breathtaking full-dome images, explore the Egyptian pyramids and so much more. This weekend, the Science Dome studies the night sky, flies through the Solar System, explores the universe, and discusses new astronomical discoveries. Stop by Peaks & Pints before or after the show for a Block 15 Brewing Nebula Oatmeal Stout. 6 and 8:15 p.m., Friday, March 4, 5:45 p.m. Saturday, March 5, Pierce College Science Dome Zoom, free, register here