There are languid summers, and then there are the summers where you realize there are just too many interesting things to do for you to fit in any relaxing. 

Your Washington state summer could be a mad scramble to pack in activities and entertainment if you’re so inclined, since nary a weekend will pass between Memorial Day and the first whispers of fall without some multi-day spectacle or another. 

So log June 24 into your datebook as the day you seek alternative conscious ways of living through music, performance art, DJs, fashion, visual arts and food as the Urban Arts Festival pitches its tent at Fireman's Park in downtown Tacoma.

Righteous. â€" Brad Allen