Charles Burns’ career-encompassing graphic novel; more storm fixup/cleanup as a new storm looms; City Council OKs JumpStart-diverting budget; Dave Ross leaving KIRO radio after 46 years.

Icelandic artist family (one of whom you may know) creates scented fake flowers; cyclone recovery proceeds as new storm awaits; Microsoft’s cheap PC substitute for businesses; Dan Savage revisits his ‘Urban Archipelago’ concept.

Century Ballroom closing sometime in ’25; Anheuser-Busch closing Elysian’s Georgetown brewery; Harrell announces expanded downtown ‘activation teams;’ Seattle Storm coaches accused of ‘player mistreatment.’

Performance-art piece explores Native family history; more post-election ‘horror and heartbreak;’ UW president’s house and car tagged with pro-Hamas slogans; announcer Dave Sims flees Mariners for Yankees.

Non-Native-made totem poles returning to Steinbrueck Park; fire devastates Camp Long Lodge; Councilmember Saka wants Lake Union Streetcar gone; county exec Constantine decides four terms are enough.

First post-election protest march; advice on living in these times; ex-SPD chief of staff quits amid allegations of lying to investigators; Cathy Moore proposes city capital-gains tax.

Newly-dedicated Jackson Street Jazz Trail; Amazon told (again) to let workers vote on unions; gov-elect Ferguson on resisting the neo-MAGA regime; what we all can/must do now.

‘Art-filled entryway’ brightens office tower lobby; ex-J&M Cafe building up for auction; remembering a beloved Capitol Hill street cat; more election fallout.

Art exhibit spoofs a certain retail legend; Boeing Machinists to vote on another contract offer; Amazon Web Services is now the company’s chief profit center; Seahawk games could use more ’12s’ and fewer tourists.

Tariqa Waters’ book of art & etiquette; ballot drop box burns in Vancouver WA; Boeing tries to raise $19 billion; WA’s power grid getting closer to maxing out.

New York mag’s doting profile of Christopher Rufo; SAM security staff prepare to strike; Bellevue OKs affordable housing on church properties; Harrell wants to ‘repeal blast-ball ban for protests.’

New book collects comics of Japanese American life in Seattle; striking machinists hold big rally; famed local artist Gloria Bornstein dies; is Seattle politics really both too antagonistic AND close-knit?

Praise for a rare-book store; more on Boeing’s big layoff plan; more on I-2117’s dangers to WA’s environment; how the housing crisis fuels domestic violence.

Seattle Opera’s ‘Jubilee’ celebrates Black spirituals; Boeing accuses Machinists of ‘bad faith’ bargaining; two historic restaurant reopenings; sexual-harassment claims at UW computer science lab.

Remembering the anti-IWW ‘massacres;’ right-wing trolls’ death threats against a Seattle Times reporter; lawsuit against Amazon mostly proceeds; Andrea Suarez ‘wants to go backwards on homelessness.’