Tacoman Erik Hanberg loves parks and books. He's taken both passions to the next level. He's currently a commissioner with Metro Parks Tacoma. He's also penned The Saints Go Dying, The Marinara Murders and within days of releasing his first sci-fi novel,The Lead Cloak. Hanberg is campaigning to create a park out of the waterfront property next to Point Ruston, naming it after the Tacoma author Frank Herbert, author of the Dune series. Hanberg will join Post Defiance, King's Books's Broad Horizons Book Club and Chris Keil, co-owner of Hilltop Kitchen cocktail lounge and Dune fan, toasting Herbert Tuesday, Oct. 8 - what would have been Herbert's 93rd birthday - with Keil's exclusive cocktail menu inspired by Herbert's classic six-book science fiction series. Let's hope HK skips the Toto soundtrack from David Lynch's 1984 film version.

COCKTAILS THROUGH A STILLSUIT: A TOAST TO FRANK HERBERT, 7-10 p.m., Hilltop Kitchen, 913 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.327.1397

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