WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 2017: Tacoma events + craft beer …
G. Donnalson’s + Peaks and Pints = Proctor night
Broadway Center + The Red Hot = Black Lives Matter and Wander Brewing
BLUES GUITAR
It’s been a long week already, and the weekend seems so far away. You need to wash away your Hump Day woes with some fine wines. Hell, bring the whole work crew to G. Donnalson’s for some tasty wine and blues. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., James Haye will deliver an evening of smooth and sultry blues guitar and vocals performing songs from his latest album, Hot Cat on a Tin Roof.
PREFUNK: Chemistry is difficult to define but simple to spot. It’s that little spark that exists between two entities, and without it, an otherwise stellar situation can turn into a flop. For instance, you can have cheese (and it will be glorious) and you can separately have ham (and it will be succulent), but put them together and boom: ham and cheese and delicious. There are other famous duos: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Reuben’s Brews and Rainier Beer. What? It’s true. Take a multiple award-winning, family owned and operated craft brewery in Ballard, Reuben’s Brews, and pair it with Seattle’s oldest lager (but Pabst owned) with the neon R, Rainier Beer, and you have an exciting collaboration of two Seattle brewing institutions — r & R Pils. New school meets old school, little r meets capital R, in this collaboration, the first in Rainier’s long history. Join Peaks and Pints as we celebrate the hop-forward r & R Pils at 6 p.m. We’ll have the r & R Pils pouring from our Western red cedar tap log, as well as Rainier Beer and Reuben’s Pilsner, Rainier swag plus raffling off a limited edition Rainier fire pit!
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Founders and leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement will discuss the feelings and frustrations that led to their revolutionary new approach to social activism at 7:30 p.m. inside the Pantages Theater. Fueled by deep-rooted social, economic and cultural issues stemming from decades of tense race relations and powered by the pervasive presence of social media, Black Lives Matter has rapidly evolved from a Twitter hashtag into this generation’s civil rights movement. With a vision of justice for all, the Black Lives Matter founders engage audiences in discussion about race relations in America and how their activism from the fringes became the national movement it is today, galvanizing individuals to stand up and together against the state violence, police brutality and social injustice plaguing our country.
PREFUNK: Colleen and Chad Kuehl wander. The Midwesterners wandered into each other at the University of Iowa many years ago, then wandered around the world. Then engineer Chad wondered about craft beer, eventually attending the American Brewer’s Guild in 2011 before working at Hilliard’s Beer in Seattle. They wondered what would happen if they started Wander Brewing in Bellingham. Now Wander Brewing wanders into The Red Hot with their Shoe Toss IPA, Doglost Pils, Global Mutt Baltic Porter and a special treat at 5 p.m. with schwag at 7 p.m.
