THURSDAY, OCT. 6 2016: South Sound events + craft beer …
The Grand Cinema + Silver City Brewery = going big
Frighthouse Station + Narrows Brewing = terrestrial and extraterrestrial
TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL OPENS
The Tacoma Film Festival — now in its 11th year and hosted by The Grand Cinema tonight through Oct. 13 will include 145 films and 13 events for one week at eight venues across the city. This year sees the inclusion of new local studios, new events, even a weekend of new virtual-reality technology. But, let’s talking about tonight’s opening night: Tacoma local Sean Patrick Burke, who just opened Have Not Films in the Alberta Canada building at South 11th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, is the producer for TFF’s opening night film, As You Are, a grunge-era teen thriller starring Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) and Amandla Stenberg (Hunger Games) at 7 p.m. at The Grand. Set in the early 1990s, As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. An after party will follow the screening at with food, music from a local DJ and photos.
PREFUNK: At noon, Silver City Brewery releases Le Fat 2016 Oak Barrel Aged Belgian Sour Scotch Ale, in limited 500ml bottles and on draft. Le Fat production began immediately following the brewery’s move to Bremerton six years ago. The beer is based on one of Silver City’s most popular and award winning beers, Fat Scotch Ale. The beer was fermented with a host of microorganisms and aged in used wine oak barrels for hints of fig, plum, and cherries.
FRIGHTHOUSE STATION OPENS
You know haunted houses aren’t real. Those bodies hanging from the ceiling? Molded latex. The creature with the half-melted face charging at you with a cleaver? That’s just some teenager in a costume. Yet your pulse is up. You jump as a jet of air blasts your neck, and a strobe light flashes, revealing that you’re nose to snout with a pig-faced demon who roars, “Give me your eyeballs!” You know it’s not real — but still you scream. Fear exists in your head. At the same time, you experience it bodily — in that sense, it’s very, very real. That’s why every October visitors enter the haunted house at Freighthouse Square by the tens of thousands to inject a bit of terror into their Halloween season. This year, experience fright maker Valour Designs takes over the haunted house — actually houses as you may tour the 15,000 square foot “Shadows” or the smaller, winding path of “Haunted Hollow.” Both houses open at 7 p.m. for the season. Can you show up drunk or high? Punch actors? Touch props? Wear a mask and scare people? Bring a real or simulated weapon? Ignore safety instructions? Smoke or vape indoors? You’d think these are stupid questions to ask, yet you’d be surprised. The answer is no.
PREFUNK: Narrows Brewing Company hosts Green Drinks Tacoma at 6 p.m. The monthly sustainable drinking group hosts Earth Economics, a Tacoma-based, non-profit organization that builds practical solutions by providing science-based economic analysis to shift investment to promote conservation and restoration of marine and terrestrial systems. Projects have spanned all scales from street trees and city parks to multi-state river basins and national flood policy. Drop by Narrows, discover what Earth Economics will do next, and sip on Narrows Area 13 IIPA, Narrows Black Barleywine, Narrows Release Point IPA, Narrows Ursula Imperial Stout and Narrows Orca Mike Red.
