In an effort to make it easy and fun to shop local this holiday season, Duchess of Downtown Tours, best known for its monthly Tacoma ART BUS tours, has hand selected nine of its favorite locally owned shops for the Small Business Saturday Shopping Tour. Nobody better to explain the benefits of shopping locally than city of Tacoma's Economic Development Director Ricardo Noguera - the celebrity tour guide for this bus ride. Tickets are $25 and include pizza, beverages, VIP swag bags and entry into the raffle for several awesome prizes including two tickets to the sold out Santarchy craziness, a gift basket from Blue Mouse Theater and more. The first 35 people to sign up are in. Tickets and list of shop can be found at brownpapertickets.com.

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SHOPPING TOUR, 1 p.m., departs in front of Tacoma Art Museum, 17th and Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, $25, duchessofdowntowntours.com

See Also

South Sound Holiday Command Center

Calendar: Arts and Entertainment

Calendar: Music and Nightlife