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Remembering local Black photog Al Smith; Ferguson, other WA officials denounce MAGA 2.0 tactics, while Fred Hutch obediently kills DEI programs; city workers sue over error-prone new payroll system.
‘Rocket’ retrospective exhibit at UW; Pike Place Market bows out of ‘Resistance’ event; more fallout from social-housing tax victory; big layoffs at Redfin after a joint-venture deal with Zillow.
The more robust social-housing funding measure leads in early votes; Sen. Murray (and fed workers) denounce Musk coup drive; council OKs return of harsh crowd-control tactics; Microsoft researchers say AI could make folks dumber.
Private ‘grunge museum’ in Aberdeen; WA sues to stop federal defunding of medical research; Patty Murray doesn’t like RFK Jr.; Seattle’s civic establishment ‘repurposing the language of the left.’
Performances, exhibits for Black History Month; US judge in Seattle puts ‘birthright citizenship’ order on hold; city Comprehensive Plan hearing ‘was a war zone;’ remember what happened five years ago?
Neko Case still loves Tacoma in new memoir; 1,500 anti-MAGA marchers in Oly, while activists monitor ICE flights; Seattle school kids get a ‘remote day,’ confounding parents; will the big snow finally appear today?
Documentary covers the long fight to bring orca Tokitae home; local businesses stage ‘A Day Without Immigrants;’ UW hires its first-ever Black president; two Stranger reporters agree to resign.
PacNW Ballet and Preston Singletary reimagine ‘The Sleeping Beauty;’ Alki marchers protest ICE raids, while tariffs could wreck WA economy; snow hopes and (in some places) disappointments.
Local artist’s popular miniature tableau photos; immigrants, advocates march in Oly; Teamsters/Costco strike deadline nears; bad takes on the DC air disaster.
Lunar New Year now a state holiday; WA immigrants and advocates fighting back; Seattle’s first two homicides of 2025; Storm sending Jewell Loyd to Las Vegas.
US judge in Seattle affirms ‘birthright citizenship’ (for now); protesters stop transphobic presentation at UW; GOP bill would kill Evergreen State College; Oscar nods for Brandi Carlile, ‘Sugarcane’ doc.
Dawn Cherny’s semi-abstract sculptures lighten up the Frye; glass artist Ginny Ruffner dies; local leaders, advocates vow to fight mass deportations; booming social-media outfit Bluesky isn’t really ‘Seattle based.’
Student’s signs defend Delridge median barrier Rob Saka opposes; WA sues to keep ‘birthright citizenship’ in US Constitution; Providence Oregon med personnel on strike; Ichiro almost unanimous in Hall of Fame vote.
Remembering multimedia visionary David Lynch; AI outfit taking over Pier 70; county exec candidates all vow to resist oppressive pressure from DC; MLK Day (oh, and something else) happening Monday.
New and returning theater shows cover the Big Issues (with laughs); Microsoft ‘shopping extension’ said to take influencers’ commissions; Ferguson talks of family at his inaugural; Biden talks of dangers to democracy.