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Explore the South Sound! Find great schools, restaurants, parks, and more in your neighborhood and all around Tacoma.  Want to see something listed here?  1) Write a post about it and 2) tag your post with a neighborhood name and one of the following: "eat" "play" "learn" or "shop."

Proctor loves chocolate at Metropolitan Market

Submitted by Sara Latter on October 7, 2009 - 9:41pm
Picture by: 
Kirti Poddar

You may call it pandering, but this is well worth meandering: Starting Wednesday this neighborhood supermarket tempts Tacoma chocolate lovers for five blissful days, but Sunday Oct. 11 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., it’s downright cocoa loco!

Kandle Park, New Master Plan

Submitted by Jennifer Boutell on September 28, 2009 - 3:10pm

Plans to convert Kandle Park into an urban playland have taken a big step forward, with a new Draft Master Plan, featuring a beach-entry pool, sprayground, spray pool and skate park. Under the plan, Kandle would also get an all-new playground and keep the popular community garden space as well as a large open area for sports practices or other open ended uses. My kids had the opportunity to provide their input this summer along with the rest of the kids from the Gonyea Boys & Girls Club, who can't wait to play at their new park. Here's our last post about Kandle, from 2008: Having always driven by on N 26th Street, I always thought Kandle Park was just a sports field.

Shanghai House Brings New Flavor to Commerce Street

Submitted by Jennifer Boutell on August 7, 2009 - 7:00pm

Tacoma has plenty of fabulous Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese grub, but very little in the way of worthwhile Chinese restaurants. Shanghai House, which opened this spring on Commerce, is a refreshing deviation from this trend.

Federal Way Community Center Pool

Submitted by arterialturns on April 1, 2009 - 1:48am

The Federal Way Community Center has a killer "leisure pool," not unlike the Stewart Heights aquatics center in Tacoma--except it's indoors, and they're running on a special schedule this week (3/30-4/5/09) for kids on spring break! The young 'uns  I went there today, where the kids were excited to see a huge water slide, a "lazy river," a water playground, etc.

Foss Waterway Seaport Museum and Winterfest - This Weekend!

Submitted by Jennifer Boutell on December 11, 2008 - 9:54pm

Last week, we took advantage of the extra time off from school and checked out the new Foss Waterway Seaport Museum (formerly the Working Waterfront Museum) on Dock Street. We had a great time at the latest addition to Tacoma's museum lineup, making wooden boats and checking out the science-y "Finding Your Way" exhibit on loan from the Exploratorium.

Wapato Lake

Submitted by admin on September 8, 2008 - 6:24pm

I confess, I had never been to Wapato Lake before yesterday afternoon. With the mall sewage issue, the rampant algae, and the ensuing water treatment debacle, followed by attempts to pull an entire car out of the lake, it just didn't sound too inviting. I was very wrong.

I don't know how it used to look, but this is the lake yesterday, post restorative treatments:

Hands on Children's Museum (Hands on Olympia)

Submitted by admin on August 19, 2008 - 2:50pm

The Hands on Children's Museum rocks. We should have checked it out years ago, but I seldom get further South than Lakewood, unless a ride magically appears the way it did yesterday morning when a friend called and suggested the field trip.

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