The annual Taste of Tacoma usually leaves us feeling a little chafed, like we were just stuffed into an obese pigpen like a bunch of caged idiots, and all we could do was wander around buying ungodly amounts of marginal food offered by "local" restaurants that aren't even local. Then we get bitter and head to the beer garden, before inevitably going home for a nap. Yes, we like to bitch about it. And, yes, we'll do it again this year.

[Point Defiance Park, June 25-27, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., no cover, 5400 N. Pearl St., tasteoftacoma.com]