Venerable music-dance club’s building’s for sale; Gates details past meetings w/Jeffrey Epstein; Columbia River barges are stuck behind a broken dam lock; 18 Years After.

The Seahawks’ new single-game ‘concert’ art; toasting a new school year; some big donors flee Matt Shea; a Burien church’s exhibit on slavery and its legacy.

Photographer Lance Mercer’s stepkid’s research might help save his life; Tent City 3 heads to the ’burbs; Bob Ferguson sues against indefinite migrant-kid detention; how a sober guy with a full-time job has to live in an RV.

Lime-E bike batteries go ‘kapow’; more neo-fascist BS in Portland; Amazon pays warehouse workers to say things aren’t really so bad there; other cities don’t want to be the ‘Next Seattle’ after all.

In one of our biggest newsletters to date: Sounders FC doesn’t like fans’ giant anti-fascist flag; WA’s 1st woman (and gay) House speaker; obviously faked pix on City Council campaign mailers; Inslee’s last (presidential campaign) stand?

Shorty’s loses its longtime space but stays alive; KCTS/Crosscut workers want a union; is ICE using WA driver’s-license pics?; Eyman’s latest initiative fizzles.

Lots more oil tankers are bound for the Sound; hate crimes outside a Renton church; more Meinert/Mecca reaction; would you trust your financial privacy to Facebook?

David Meinert to buy the Mecca Cafe; local co. to buy Sports Illustrated; onetime immigrant-detention advocate’s in town; Amazon talks back to more critics.

Top NW pop foods; top (current) NW pop music acts; Sawant’s campaign raises major bucks; Howard Schultz’s campaign hits a pause.

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

Inside Microsoft’s big cloud-computing control center; rumors of a Showbox deal as two other old nightclubs become threatened; WA’s economic output breaks a half-trillion; ‘surgical tourism’ hits Seattle.

A local punk pioneer speaks for the trees; Saudis cited in Bezos blowup; the alleged Lake City shooter says he doesn’t remember doing it; the surprising Ms just keep winning.

Thoughts on the Viaduct’s demise by an artist said demise will likely indirectly displace; a wedding at the ICE jail; state Dems propose an ‘extraordinary profits’ tax; remember when Apple was an ‘underdog’ company?

Proposing an affordable-housing ‘ecodistrict’ at the Interbay Natl. Guard site; the FAA finally grounds the 737 MAX as reactions keep coming; the Boeing roots of the WA video-game biz; what is and isn’t still alive in Olympia.

Phoenix Jones retires from the streets; more 737-crash reactions; WA’s regressive tax system explained; Facebook likes Viagra ads but bans a local company’s lube ads.