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Thursday, Feb. 20: Art Bus - Willy Wonka Style

Begins at Tacoma Art Museum

Do you have your Golden Art Bus Ticket?

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Oompa Loompa Doompadee Doo/I've got a perfect puzzle for you/Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dus/When can I ride the Tacoma Art Bus?

The answer to that musical riddle, my friends, is Feb. 20. After a two-month hiatus, the Art Bus rolls again - this time with special guest Willy Wonka as tour guide. You might be thinking the character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a strange choice, but the Art Bus has a long history of fictional celebrities as tour guides, like Vern Fonk, Buddy the Elf and Vinnie from Doogie Howser (OK, that last one was actually a guy who worked for the city but just reminded me of Vinnie). Of course there'll be games and prizes, and stops at various art galleries: Spaceworks Tacoma: Gallery of Ambition, Embellish and Ginko Forest Winery, to name a few. At no point will riders be put on to a scary water tunnel ride, with frightening images projected on to the tunnel sides.

Puget Sound Pizza will be providing their delicious pizza.

And no, there won't be any of those really short guys with orange faces and matching white overalls lecturing the riders in song about over-indulging. Seriously, those Oompa Loompas creep me out.

FEBRUARY ART BUS TOUR - WILLY WONKA STYLE, 6 p.m., starts at Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, $10-$20, duchessofdowntowntours.com

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