Can the Grand Illusion Cinema survive?; does Seattle ‘have a culture’? (hint: I say yes); housing prices dip but housing crisis remains; Seattle publisher fires kids’-book illustrator who spread transphobic flyers.

Exhibit shows how I-5 construction decimated part of the Chinatown-International District; ‘transit-oriented’ housing bill watered down; Costco reports slowing sales growth; West Seattle’s Yen Wor Village dive bar closes.

Art/music/DJ space opens in a Ballard storage building; Inslee has the state stock up on one ‘abortion drug;’ why local homelessness persists after all these years; Jon Shirley and the Paul Allen Foundation donate big on the arts.

Trapeze school’s class cutbacks; a community activist dies from the gun violence he opposed; WA abortion providers advised not to even vacation in Idaho; even a boxing legend’s not immune to the housing crisis.

What (or rather who) is/isn’t in new Seattle Literary Map; Harrell launches $970 million affordable-housing levy drive; City Council candidate accused of reneging on paying campaign workers; Happy Indictment Day!

Art projects (with far different public reactions) in Everett and Lakewood; Howard Schultz tells Senate committee he’s not a ‘union buster;’ Kirkland megachurch accused of forcing workers to ‘tithe’ back part of their pay; some sports pundits predict big things for the Ms this season.

How an ex-corner store became the Grocery Studios; city and feds want to end the SPD ‘consent decree’; City Council OKs permanent paid sick leave for gig workers; survivors claim Boy Scouts ignored abuse at a WA summer camp for decades.

Colonoscopy-themed arcade game makers’ next big plans; local homeless population up 10 percent in 2 years; undercover cop on sex-work sting nabs another cop; reasons to be optimistic about Seattle.

Private tech-art museum opens; Sound Transit board doesn’t decide on new light-rail station sites; state budget talks begin; middle-school student allegedly attacks teacher.

Eco-costs of a Seattle-Alaska cruise; evidence shows Green River killer could’ve been caught long before he was; man charged with abusing children he’d met at a Redmond church; arson charge in boat-storage fire.

Ex-Coliseum Theater to become a big pop-up art space; more about the apartment eviction that led to a shooting death; bakery king Remo Borracchini dies; King County’s now majority ‘high income.’

What should the new owner do with the ex-Lusty Lady building?; Starbucks boss Howard Schultz retires (again); Amazon announced 9,000 more worldwide layoffs; Ballard woman dies in a shootout during an eviction.

David Schmader’s big book of WA/OR movies & TV shows; state Supreme Court allows transit ‘fare enforcement’ to continue; Bellevue school board OKs closing two elementary schools; remote work’s still big in Seattle (for some workers, on some days).

Robyn Hitchcock’s local pop anthem turns 25; the Stranger returns to print (at least once); T-Mobile buying Mint Mobile; making the case against a new light rail station near the Chinatown-International District.

New plays address racial-justice struggles (here and elsewhere); downtown business leader sees signs of recovery; Meta/Facebook has another big round of layoffs; remembering the first modern bank failure to hit Seattle hard.