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Food Matters in the South Puget Sound

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Today’s South Sound Specials

It's Tasty Thursday night at Cheney Stadium. Drink $2 beers, shove down a few $1 hot dogs, and watch the Tacoma Rainiers play the Salt Lake Bees at 7 p.m.

As part of Tacoma Reads Together’s book of the year, Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, The Tacoma Public Library hosts a community conversation titled “The Farm Show” tonight 7 p.m. in the Main Library’s Olympic Room. The Main Library branch is at 1102 Tacoma Ave. S. in downtown Tacoma. For more information, call 253.591.5688. For a complete calendar of Tacoma Public Library community conversations centered around this year’s book, go here.

McCrea Cellars Wine Dinner, 6:30 p.m., $70, Dockside Bistro & Wine Bar, 501 Columbia St. N.W., Olympia, 360.956.1928.

Wine tasting, 5-7 p.m., complimentary, Cork!, 3012 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.212.1492.

LINK: South Sound happy hours