LITTLE MICHAEL SWAN: GET TO TAM BEFORE JUNE 14 >>>

Celebrate Father's Day early with a "Dad and Me" trip to David Macaulay: The Way He Works, closing June 14 at the Tacoma Art Museum. Macaulay's work illustrates and explains the how and why of things, from airplanes to pyramids, subway tunnels to remote controls, the circulatory system to flying buttresses.

[Tacoma Art Museum, through June 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday, $6.50 military and students, children younger than 5 are free, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.4258]