The biggest show coming up at Museum of Glass is a three-part installation by Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman called Glimmering Gone. (What a great title!) The three parts are: Landscape, Mementos and Artifacts.

Landscape will be a 12-foot-high by 25-foot-long by 18-foot-deep installation of mountains, trees, rocks and a waterfall made of clear, colorless glass. Mementos is a collection of "utilitarian and luxury objects that reflect Western culture ... arranged into seven ‘crystal' compositions that bring to mind a stroll along the Fifth Avenue shopping district in New York City," according to a museum press release. And Artifacts will be a collection of everyday objects like toys and household goods, which, like the other parts, are all made of glimmering clear glass.

This should be a show not to be missed. Read my full review here.

Three parts calls for three plates of appetizers - stacked atop each other at Stanley & Seafort's. I typically skip the fine-dining room for the bar where I nosh and sip with a front row view of downtown Tacoma. Stanley's tasting samplers arrive as a tower of food, usually with ahi rolls, grilled beef tenderloin and prawns - although their Dungeness crab and artichoke dip is to die for.

After the Glimmering Gone show, walk down the street to El Gaucho, sit around the grand piano and order a vodka in a clear glass.

[Museum of Glass, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Third Thursdays, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, 1801 Dock St., Tacoma, 253.284.4750]