Sadly, it appears that apps have killed the art of the postcard (Good Lord! We sound more like our grandfather with each passing day). When our friends go on vacation, we no longer receive postcards. Instead, we receive alerts from our phones from far away locales. Gee, that's special. We have one friend who still sends postcards, but his idea of a hot vacation is Idaho in February, and his postcards convey the excitement of these trips with snapshots of golden potatoes in the dirt. So it appears that we'll need to get our postcard fix elsewhere, because the spuds just aren't cutting it. Just in time to satisfy this itch, Historic Tacoma unveils the Postcard Project Thursday. The organization asks you bring one or more 4x6 postcards, "handcrafted by you of a favorite or most unfavorite Tacoma building," affix a 34 cent stamp, leave room on the back for an address label and bring them to a designated building by the Tacoma Dome. Upon entry each guest will fill in their name and address onto a label: the same number of labels as the cards they brought. After a two-hour display of the cards pinned to the walls, the Historic Tacoma board will randomly apply the labels to the accumulated cards and mail them to the attending guests. Fun!

HISTORIC TACOMA POSTCARD PROJECT, 7-9 p.m., 323 Puyallup Ave., Tacoma, must bring finger food and/or a beverage to get in