‘Alice in Wonderland’ themed cocktail ‘experience’ coming to Seattle; Amazon’s openly playing Seattle against the suburbs; a major labor union may cut back on Sawant support; many police and sheriff’s employees are still un-vaxxed at the mandate deadline.

Vaccination-themed mural installed at U District church; Kraken shines in preseason debut (too bad about Storm, Seahawks); car dealership tries to out-park an encampment; State Patrol has ‘failed to diversify over the decades.’

Montlake highway ‘lid’ project to get bigger in nine years; WA hits another cruel COVID mark with over 7,000 deaths; is Rep. Jayapal a cruel boss or a victim of sexist double standards?; how ‘hesitancy’ can be manipulated, exploited.

Art-world celeb and UW grad Chuck Close dies; frustration among doctors, nurses as delta variant rages on; why encampment residents don’t want to move into shelters; Redhook (and the Seattle microbrew scene) turn 40.

Henry Weinhard’s beer to vanish; few real changes in latest the primary-vote update; why Amazon likely won’t demand its workers be vaxxed; local anti-ICE activist says she’s being targeted for retaliation.

‘Seattle Walk Report’ sequel book is out; the SPD commander blamed for CHOP response says he was framed; the Lummi Nation’s traveling totem pole gets to DC in a drive to save sacred spaces; the NYT seems to think Seattle’s in Silicon Valley.

One man’s search for free, public ‘writing spaces;’ COVID testing’s in demand again; a subdued Olympic hype this time around; The NY Times discovers we make and like beer in Seattle.

White Center gay bar destroyed by fire; new Amazon CEO enters as worker-organizing drives continue; activists sort out how to make Aurora Ave. less pedestrian-hostile; still waiting for the border to reopen.

Fun, food-esque street art in Maynard Alley; massive Alki Beach party broken up; officers charged in Manny Ellis’ death plead not guilty; mass grave found at a former BC boarding school for Indigenous children.

CHOP anniversary ‘block party’ set for June; still more Gates divorce dirt; Nigerian man accused of 102 fake jobless claims in WA; national study puts SPD near the top for ‘deadly force per arrest.’

My new book that’s (mostly) by other people; that big, brief, local movie shoot; King County’s buying hotels to house some of the homeless; Seattle’s newest mayoral candidate is an ex-mayor/governor’s grandkid.

The Black Tones’ Museum of Flight concert; 50 years since the (real) first Starbucks opened; campus COVID cases are on the rise around the state; the legislature passes a bill to close Tacoma’s for-profit ICE jail.

Retro civic-PR art from a ‘Department of Design;’ no cruise ships to Canada (or, likely, Seattle) this year; Lorena Gonzalez’s last rival wants the Council seat she’s leaving to run for mayor; judge overseeing SPD reform warns against major restructuring without his OK.

The Duwamish fear getting left out of a bill mandating native history in schools; Amazon’s global workforce tops 1 million; Alaska Air’s pivot-to-cargo plan flops; the rich and connected try to cut in vaccine lines.

Cal Anderson Park encampment swept, 21 protesters arrested; ‘J.P. Patches’ costar Bob Newman dies; some restaurant workers say they don’t necessarily want to go back to indoor-dining work yet; the ‘Twin Peaks’ connection to tonight’s planetary conjunction.