SIFF to reopen (and rename) the Cinerama; Metro’s dropping more routes; we just had a really bad flu season; gay men can donate blood again.

Club-night promoters try for ‘safer space’ policy; Chinatown-Intl. District declared ‘endangered;’ Weyerhaeuser HQ workers told to come back on-site; what might be behind the big supermarket-takeover plan.

Author Megan Asaka on western WA’s early, nonwhite laboring class; layoffs hit FareStart; Kraken demolishes Dallas; will Redmond pay city council enough to afford to live there?

Archie McPhee marks 40 years of rubber chickens; West Seattle Bridge off ramp closed with a big hole; Seattle schools start planning for big budget cuts; a judge could close an entire Alaska salmon fishery to help orcas.

PNB’s first Black female soloist and her many other achievements; Bob Ferguson’s likely to run for gov; Arlington Pride says it’s been asked to keep drag queens out; 30 years of the WWW as we know it.

David Lasky’s haiku comics; would-be laws against outdoor drug use ‘not likely’ to have much ‘visual impact’; texts reveal more about SPD/city responses in June 2020; should you or shouldn’t you eat WA salmon now?

Painter Alfredo Arreguin dies at 88; more scrambling about drug-possession laws; King County settles with e-cig maker Juul; NLRB claims Starbucks ‘refused to negotiate fairly’ at unionized cafes.

Wa Na Wari gallery’s building listed for sale; state, cities, and counties scramble to potentially make up for Legislature’s drug-bill failure; man tries to hijack a Bremerton ferry because ‘revolution;’ it’s ‘Bed Bath and Bye Bye.’

Beloved local artist-designer Carl Smool dies; city employees protest Harrell’s 1-percent pay raise proposal; game hacker owes Nintendo $10 million; REI closing store where workers tried to unionize, but blames ‘crime.’

Claire Dederer book ponders good art by bad people; what a new state law about runaway youths DOESN’T do; UW tries for student diversity despite legally-limited tools; Harrell’s not sure whether drug possession should stay a crime.

More hate-graffiti at a Capitol Hill synagogue; $10 late-rent fee cap passes City Council; Kraken win their first-ever playoff game; just what is ‘Space Needle thinking’?

Mural of Seattle icons done all in pencil; Harrell details parts of his big downtown plan; Soundgarden members reach settlement with Chris Cornell’s widow; local Navy vet runs pro-Putin propaganda account.

Author, filmmaker separately explore intersections of race and genre; SPD proposes to stop lying as much; port commissioner/alt-weekly founder dies at 75; where to find Seattle’s only public sculpture depicting a real-life female.

Where Seattle ranks among US cities by GDP; KUOW joins NPR in quitting Twitter; Pioneer Square’s venerable Davidson Gallery for sale; Legislature follows a state Supreme Court ruling and makes drug possession a misdemeanor.

Bartell Drugs’ oldest store suddenly closed; Legislature passes weakened ‘missing middle housing’ bill; some Amazon offices aren’t ready for workers to come back; progressive groups ask Starbucks to accept unions.