Seahawks use AI art prompts to make promo imagery; doctors fleeing post-Roe Idaho; Kraken in another playoff Game 7; what should be the CInerama’s new name?

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.

Backyard cottage program for the homeless touts success; guilty plea in CHOP killing; Microsoft exec says AI ‘could cause real damage;’ Kraken owners want contract to replace Memorial Stadium.

Inslee won’t run for gov again; SPL lets right wing ex-actor hold ‘anti-drag-queen-story-time’ event; Washington Middle School cuts tech training and jazz band; national media find Kraken fans as surprising as the team.

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.’

Ferry runs aground at Bainbridge; I-90 Bridge light-rail tracks need replacing; major COVID-closed restaurant to finally reopen; tech cos. try to hire back their ex-employees—as temps without benefits.

Comix artist Jon Strongbow RIP; Inslee wants to ban assault weapons; could offshore wind towers threaten whales?; 83 percent of WA kids have had COVID.

1875 shipwreck remains found off WA coast; gun background-check law may finally get enforced; magic-mushroom therapy begins in Oregon; faulty Xmas-tree lights cause major house fire.

Another concept for ‘reviving’ Third Ave.; Mariners drag it out to the bitter (elongated) end; grocery clerks’ union opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; King County scraps expanded-shelter plan in SoDo.

Local waterway gets Indigenous-honoring name; Mariners keep doing the impossible; local concrete co. could help US Supreme Court in union-busting; trying to shame car drivers who park in bike lanes.

Tacoma bar owners’ quest to restore the old, funny Rainier Beer ads; Seattle’s median income hits a new high (and why that’s bad); state official is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the COVID fight in WA; we just had our driest summer ever.

West Seattle Bridge to finally reopen; a lot of Seattle still works from home; Pierce County to dispense antidote drug Narcan from vending machines; Guild 45th theaters coming down.

The former digital assistant you loved to hate; Harrell tries to appeal to cops by hating on City Council; Seattle teachers set a strike vote; there’s been little progress against homelessness this year—except more sweeps.

An LP-size moth shows up in a Bellevue garage; Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price quits to fight sexual-assault charges; Homegrown sandwich drivers go on a one-day strike; Seattle’s ‘lost the battle against air conditioning.’

Lava Lounge building burns; Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic closing Yesler site; Pac-12 loses both LA schools; whether or not to celebrate this July 4.