TUESDAY, OCT. 18 2017: South Sound events + craft beer …
The Grand Cinema + The Copper Door = Stone cold
Tacoma Public Library + Pint Defiance = O’Leary & Spring & Brown & Scary
OUR LITTLE SISTER
From Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda (After Life, Still Walking) comes Our Little Sister, a sweet, sensitive family drama based on the popular manga Umimachi Diary, by Akimi Yoshida. The story revolves around the lives of three sisters: responsible, motherly Sachi (Haruka Ayase), fun-loving Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa), and oddball Chika (Kaho), living together in their grandmother’s house. We quickly learn that the girls have been looking after and relying on one another for 15 years, ever since their father left their mother to start a family with another woman, and their mother in turn abandoned them soon after. Catch the film at 2 and 7:30 p.m. in The Grand Cinema.
PREFUNK: Your parents’ anniversary got nothin’ on Stone Brewing’s anniversary tour at The Copper Door tonight. You could celebrate with the ’rents with a nice meal and a card, OR you could celebrate 20 years of balls-out brewing from Escondido, California. Greg Koch and gang nearly melt your face off with their diehard brand of hoppy beers, leaving you begging for more and searching The Copper Door’s floor for your face. Worth it? Worth it. From 6-9 p.m. drink Stone 5th Anniversary IPA, Stone 10th Anniversary IPA, Stone 15th Anniversary – Escondidian Imperial Black IPA and Stone 20th Anniversary – Citracado IPA.
DEAD FEMINISTS
Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring, owners of Anagram Press in Tacoma, have released Dead Feminists, gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book combines feminist history with a vision for a better future. The book revisits their original posters — plus adds new art, archival photographs, and ephemera —to tell the stories of feminists such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rachel Carson and others. The feminist broadsides feature quotes from historic figures done in elaborately decorative type with a variety of type styles and sizes that all fit together into unified designs. The Eleanor Roosevelt quote is used in a poster called Victory Garden, which was created after the 2008 election. It features a picture of the White House, tomatoes on the vine and root vegetables growing in the ground. The quote is “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of dreams.” The title refers to the World War II Victory Gardens, a project of Eleanor Roosevelt’s, and reflects the culmination of a dream as seen in the election of Barack Obama. The authors will chat up the book and sign it at 7 p.m. in the Tacoma Main Library.
PREFUNK: Skookum is a name given to a mythical woodland beast, aka a Sasquatch. The Sasquatch will step through Pint Defiance’s door at 5 p.m. Ron and Jackie Walcher started their 10-barrel Skookum Brewery at their Arlington-area home in 2007 before opening a stand-alone business near the Arlington Airport five years later. More than 80% of the grain and most of the hops they use are grown in Washington state. Skookum head brewer Hollis Wood is an IPA man, as you’ll notice when you tip Double Citra Jack IPA and Rising Bines Mosaic Fresh Hop IPA. Wood also knows how to brew a big, dark beer. His Breakfast of Crows Stout is killer good. Skookum’s flagship oatmeal brown, Brown & Scary, is also tasty with brown sugar and whole vanilla beans. These beers will be on full display from 5-7 p.m. at Pint Defiance.
