Locals make a kung fu comedy film their own way; Sounders FC tries to make nice with anti-fascist fans; a minimum wage for rideshare drivers; Seattle’s hottest new restaurant (OOPS: already closed).

Drone pix capture Tacoma’s beauty (yes!); $450,000 to a City Light harassment whistleblower; tunnels for light rail would cost way more than bridges; our kelp needs our help.

Where a national article on Seattle destinations doesn’t tell folks to go; recalling the first attempted Boeing takeover; a local case of thwarted justice becomes a miniseries; I’m crowdfunding again.

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.

Paul Allen’s ultra-mega-yacht’s for sale; remembering a master of altered lit-forms; local students of color state their grievances in a DIY book; a new ‘Blob’ threatens Pacific marine life.

Did a local black-dance pioneer inspire the Space Needle’s shape?; does SDOT have to buy bigger streetcars?; what killed thousands of bees in Spokane?; are Americans addicted to violence and hate?

Defending Tacoma’s threatened Catholic parish building; remembering one of Seattle’s cruelest moments; what the Mercer Mega Block might have become; what’s in a (weird new) bank name?

Georgetown Records’ got a southern sister store; Seattle teachers OK a new contract deal; there’s a big lawsuit over big City Light bills; some local Domino’s outlets now ship pizzas by e-bike (only).

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.

Elizabeth Warren gives a speech to Seattle’s not-necessarily-wealthy; a ‘spirit of Seattle’ defense of city-run golf courses; there’s a tentative teachers’ contract; the Wall St. Journal finds lotsa ‘banned or mislabeled’ stuff from Amazon Marketplace sellers.

One scientist’s long-term study of dying glaciers; whale-watching tour operators win and coal-port developers lose in court decisions; can bright clothes keep Rainier Ave. pedestrians alive?

Behind the suddenly famous ‘Salmon Cannon’; a dump truck crashes into a Subway shop; the Inslee campaign’s next do-or-die deadline; how should the county spend $318 million for school kids?

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.

Women get to sing (for now) at St. Mark’s Compline Service; more on state Rep. Matt Shea’s ‘Bible war’ pals; Lorena Gonzalez wants to rein in local PAC spending; Amazon says it can sense your fear.

Folks take to the streets against lane-cheating drivers; City Council nixes soda-tax veto; Crosscut workers protest their boss’s firing; an Amazon interview coach charges thousands to job seekers.