Rock band claims retaliation for dissing Bezos at a Kraken game; local reactions to Tyre Nichols killing; more complaints about LIHI’s tiny-house-village management; does Seattle really need a ‘Progressive Revenue Task Force’?

Your chance to see the new Convention Center complex; activists announce City Council runs; solving homelessness will have a price tag; your chance to help me out by buying cool old stuff.

New play tells COVID responders’ tales in their own words; another County Councilmember won’t run again; city sues Hyundai/Kia for making their cars too steal-able; Boeing CEO would like to privatize the FAA.

Remembering cartoonist Michael Dougan; Xbox ‘sleep’ mode and absurd conspiracy theorists; Sawant attacks caste-based discrimination against some South Asians in Seattle; activist running for Sawant’s seat.

UW Dance tries to diversify both participants and curriculum; giant Convention Center addition opens at last; pro-choice march passes by two big local Catholic institutions; a wish to bring NW passenger rail back to the ‘50s.

Modern urban mid-rise buildings & their discontents; judge sanctions city over Durkan’s missing texts; some Sounders FC fans don’t want Providence as the team’s new jersey sponsor; did Amazon lie to financial lenders about warehouse safety?

Kshama Sawant to depart from City Council to start a national leftist org; ‘wealth tax’ proposed again in Legislature; MS hosted a private Sting concert in Davos before announcing big layoffs; bankrupt Regal Cinemas chain closing its downtown Seattle 16-plex.

Mourning ‘outsider artist’ Gregory Blackstock, Screaming Trees cofounder Van Conner, and author Jonathan Raban; Grand Illusion Cinema could be razed in two years; Microsoft confirms 10,000 worldwide layoffs.

Two local productions address race & the theater world; Amazon fires workers hired to handle worker complaints; ‘Niketown’ shutting down; can a movie’s killer robot be a Seattle gay-camp icon?

Papercut artist Nikki McClure’s ‘slices’ of real life; Seattle Center picked to run new waterfront park; more area tech layoffs; Starbucks orders office workers back.

Bill Gates and others developing neo-nuclear power concepts; Inslee gives marching orders to Legislature; City Council votes to preserve ex-Seafirst bank branch building on Denny; some students disagree with Seattle Schools’ suit against social media giants.

‘Fatlesque’ celebrates diverse bodies ‘in a big way’; we’ve got lots of ‘house rich/cash poor’ folk; new Public Health boss warns about COVID funding cuts’ repercussions; what some folks want from the now-underway Legislature.

Seattle Schools suing social-media giants for aggravating youth mental-health crisis; true-crime podcast producers prod SPD into pursuing serial-rape allegations; Legislature starts, all in-person for the first time since you-know-when; what if Amazon hadn’t landed in Seattle?

‘Ski South Lake Union’ art installations end today; LoFi music venue closing in April after 20 years; almost 200,000 sq.ft. of Seattle office space now up for sub-lease; Amazon’s layoffs ‘represent a new mindset’ at the company.

Chess Club as the new midweek bar craze; Amazon’s projected layoffs climb to 18,000 globally; Tina Podlodowski quits as state Democratic chair; Harrell’s vow to have 2,000 fewer unhoused people in a year falls short.