Another ‘brutalist’ edifice to be fought over; Bellevue mosque burns again; bike-share vandals get scarier; can the private sector solve homelessness? (probably not).

A strange/icky tale from the real Twin Peaks; King County Council takes over 4Culture; Pacific Ocean ‘blob’ recedes; what ‘Jeopardy!’ players don’t know about us.

The #Enough protests show what’s right with Those Kids Today; the Amazon angle to the Toys “R” Us demise; still more Alexie reactions; how Seattle’s Capitol Hill ‘gayborhood’ grew and shrank.

The Pike Place Market as a mixed-economy role model; student walkout preview; Metro stuck with not-fully ‘accessible’ minivans; what’s really keeping more women from tech careers?

Northgate gets less mall-y while PCC gets more ritzy; Bitcoin ‘miners’ invade Eastern Wash.; Richard Sherman’s goodbye; Hanford’s ‘normalization of deviance.’

The costliest painting ever sold comes to SAM; WA Legislature sprints to the finish; Chris Hansen keeps buying Sodo land; Seattle World’s Fair’s PR genius dies.

Thousands of recalled VW diesel cars are parked at an ex-nuclear site; some Sherman Alexie accusers tell their stories; is there sexism in anti-racist groups?; is Ichiro coming back?; are flying cars finally almost here?

A Seattle punk-scene reunion; Sound Transit funds still imperiled; hunger-strike ICE detainee out of solitary; downtown Tacoma gets upscaled.

NW’s biggest fish getting small; news media agree on laws that affect the news media; oil-train port dead; replacing opioids with acupuncture.

Renowned local author accused of harassment; Inslee drives his point in DC; ICE retaliation evidence; Scoop Jackson’s widow dies.

In our big weekend missive: Art pastiches that are more than mere knockoffs; battle for 4Culture continues; a people-friendly Aurora Avenue?; our annual ode to snow.

Office art gets artier at local corporate HQs; Jenny Durkan’s ‘State of the City’ speech avoids easy answers; an Ijeoma Oluo essay didn’t take down Al Franken (despite recent claims that it did).

The rapid transit system we could’ve had; the White House’s war on NW public power; Bill Gates wants today’s tech titans not to act like him.

Flying cars (or something like them) at last?; did the state DOL help ICE prosecute Maru Mora-Villalpando?; stop pipelines with wine!

An icy valentine; UN human-rights watchers speak for Maru Mora-Villalpando; a legacy gay ‘steam room’ club’s for sale (again); the cost of faulty computer systems.