About Exit133

Exit133.com was a hyperlocal website for Tacoma, Washington, published between 2005 and 2018. It was founded by a very specific Derek Young as one of the earlier experiments in independent neighborhood publishing on the web. It covered development, transit, food, and the daily texture of civic life in Tacoma.

This is an archive of that work. It is not a continuation of that publication: there is no comment form, no newsletter, no login. The original URLs resolve, the bylines and dates are preserved, and what was published remains what was published, except where noted below.

Awards

2013	Best Blog	South Sound Magazine
2012	Best Blog	Weekly Volcano
2011	Best Blog	Weekly Volcano
2010	Art Popham Award	Tacoma/Pierce County Chamber of Commerce
2010	Best Blog	Weekly Volcano
2010	Best Blog	South Sound Magazine
2010	Best Office, Suite133	South Sound Magazine
2009	Best Blog	Weekly Volcano
2009	Merit Award, Un-Built CategoryFor the Imagine Tacoma series.	American Institute of Architects
2008	Best Blog	Weekly Volcano

By the numbers

8,504 entries
31,425 reader comments
3,794 unique commenters
14 years covered
336 city council meetings covered
49 Imagine Tacoma installments

Most-discussed entries

1	The Year of the Sheep - Monkeyshines 2015	460
2	Monkeyshines 2014 - Year of the Horse - The Hunt is On	361
3	Monkeyshines 2013 - Year of the Snake	299
4	Monkeyshines 2012 - The Year of the Dragon	284
5	Monkeyshines 2016 - The Year of the Monkey	240
6	Monkeyshines 2011 - The Year of the Rabbit	222
7	Monkeyshines Returns for 2009 - Year of the Ox	174
8	Monkeyshines 2017 - The Year of the Rooster	148
9	Rethinking Downtown Tacoma	126
10	DB: Buying Local	103

Most prolific commenters

1	RR Anderson	1,411
2	Mofo from the Hood	1,186
3	Jesse	1,152
4	Thorax O'Tool	936
5	crenshaw sepulveda	615
6	Erik B.	598
7	Squid	581
8	JDHasty	529
9	altered chords	377
10	fred davie	366

What's here

The original Articles, Newswire, and Reading channels, spanning May 2005 through February 2018. Real reader comments are preserved as published.

What's not here

Events listings, the jobs board, and the member directory. These pages were never intended to outlive the site. The old-school-style forum, the Galleries, and the original 365 in Tacoma photo project are not yet added.

What we removed

Some content has been left out:

About 250 prosecutor press releases that ran in the newswire from 2012 to 2016, plus a small number of editorial pieces of similar shape.
Spam comments: roughly 99% of the comments captured in the database were bot-injected. These were dropped. Each entry footnotes the original spam count so the total is honest. Real reader comments are preserved as published.

If something here should be removed or redacted, see /policies/removal/.

Removal requests

Write to archive@exit133.com. The policy is at /policies/removal/.