SUNDAY, NOV. 18, 2012 >>>

1. It gets cold out there, but it sure is fun and the crisp air sparks the holiday spirit in even the most curmudgeon among the walkers. A family tradition in the South Sound is walking through the Fantasy Lights displays at Spanaway Park. The 2.5 mile route is open to walkers for a preview from 5-7 p.m. Beginning Nov. 22 you can drive the loop to see some 300 light displays that range from a skiing snowman to a tank firing snowballs to a pirate ship and jumping rain deer. Fantasy Lights, now in its 18th year, is the Northwest's largest drive-through holiday lights display.

2. This and That Rummage Sale will be loaded with clothes for our entire family, household items, books, record albums, tchotchkes, kitchen stuff, toys and more for chump change from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Studio 6 on Sixth Avenue.

3. Coming direct from an award winning world premiere in Washington, D.C., Welcome, O Life will be screening at noon inside the Washington Center for the Performing Arts this Sunday afternoon as a part of the 29th Olympia Film Festival. The first feature film of Evergreen graduate Nicholas Redding, Welcome, O Life film is about the search for the sacred within a broken world of industrial ruins. For a schedule of today's screenings - the last - day - at the Oly Film Festival, click here.

4. Reenactors as Col Silas Casey, Lt. August V. Kautz, Lt. E. Porter Alexander, and Maj. Alvord retired army officers will tell of their experiences at Fort Steilacoom and as generals during the Civil War as part of "You are There" series at 2 p.m. on the grounds of Historic Fort Steilacoom, 9601 Steilacoom Blvd. in Lakewood.

5. Off With Their Heads, Phasers On Kill, Neutral Boy and The French Exit play a 5 p.m. show inside Jazzbones.

LINKS: Sunday, Nov. 18 arts and entertainment events in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area