One of the best things about the South Sound is the summer. So many festivals, so little time - and nobody wants to stay inside for anything.  There's a good seven months out of the year when the weather stays locked inside a bad mood, so when the heat comes strolling into town and the weather cheers up, everybody wants to just bathe in it. I'll be soaking up the rays, suds and music Saturday at Tacoma's Hilltop Street Fair. At the intersection of South 11th Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, fairgoers will choose between puppets and improv comedy, American pop band The Tenants and metal band Deathbed Confessions, the beer garden next to the BMX bike tricks demonstration team and the dunk tank, Dockyard Derby Dames demonstration and participatory drum circle, Peace Lutheran Choir and rockers The Fucking Eagles. Radiio Disney, health screenings, Hilltop Heroes Awards (2 p.m.), Kids Area in People's Park with the castle of imagination, Buffalo Soldiers, booths up and down, and so much more. Sponsors include 1022 South J Cocktail Lounge, Eleven Eleven bar and Broken Spoke canned beer tavern, so that doesn't suck.

TACOMA'S HILLTOP STREET FAIR, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., South 11th Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, free admission, hilltopstreetfair.com