Grand Illusion taking over the three-screen Varsity; City Council outlaws grocery ‘algorithmic pricing;’ more layoffs at Microsoft, Expedia; Wilson’s first budget is big on austerity (except for cops).

Local painter’s ‘macro’ lo-res images; camping trip ends with five ICE arrests; Seattle has more kids these days, many other cities have fewer; Seahawks return (for real) tonight, while national media still underestimates ‘em.

Frye exhibit on ‘impermanence;’ Matt Calkins goes from Seattle Times to right-wing podcast; Wilson dismisses Chamber of Commerce polls dissing her; Starbucks fires workers who won’t move to Nashville.

Nonprofit roller rink opens in an ex-Bartell’s; White House wants to end ‘roadless rule’ in National Forests; Costco to offer Medicare Advantage plans; visiting one of the 56 (so far) data centers near the Gorge.

Local Black leaders still see the Central District as the community’s ‘home’; local DJ held by ICE for three weeks in Mass.; state House District 27 race narrows; ’Neumos security staff unionizes.’

Anti-Trans WNBA player draws (very small) support rally; Microsoft’s big revenues, big layoffs; Council tightens zoning-code appeals process; shooting suspect charged with assault.

Judge sez Denny Blaine Park can stay nude, with ‘conditions;’ new US attorney for western WA promptly fired by White House; anti-‘millionaires tax’ initiative makes ballot; lightning could spark wildfires today.

‘Unrecognized’ doc on Duwamish Tribe’s struggles past & present; what Juneteenth means today; Jonathan Choe allegedly hits guard outside pro-LGBTQ event; Starbucks sued over Brazilian coffee farm conditions.

Memoir by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil; the World Cup’s here (along with more ICE agents); WA sues feds over demands for voter lists; Benihana to open where Hooters used to be.

Big galleries plan Seattle Art Fair rival; ‘trans refugee’ advocates march for city support; Social Housing Developer buys 150-unit building; Wild Waves water park’s final season has started.

Getting Vonda N. McIntyre’s last novel published; remembering the slain trans UW student Juniper Blessing; Seattle schools top national scores (as a whole); happy Cascadia (Mount St. Helens) Day!

Teen’s anti-suicide clothing line; Seattle Housing Authority buildings derided as ‘unsafe;’ unionized REI workers call for anniversary-sale boycott; Seattle factory being built to create ‘autonomous warships.’

Kim Fu’s novel of ghosts, memories, and rain; ‘nearby gunfire’ disrupts Wilson speech; ‘Magic: the Gathering’ online game creators say they’ve unionized; drive to dissolve Homelessness Authority begins.

‘Augmented reality’ Seattle walking tour; whither the Regional Homelessness Authority?; Microsoft offers early retirement to thousands of workers; Nick Hanauer asks ‘which capitalism’ we really want.

Photog captures new life in long-logged forests; Homelessness Authority can’t find $13 million; Starbucks staffers worry over company’s future in Seattle; parents rally to prevent school closures.