Microsoft joins the deliberately “ugly” holiday sweater craze; how the Pike Place newsstand could be saved; two local rock promoters pass on; (some) non-passengers will get to enter Sea-Tac’s concourses.

SAM hires BC First Nations artist to make a big manga-esque mural; Pantone’s local color guru; Intl. Dist. panel elections imitate City Council run; hiring a trans dancer gets King County homelessness exec suspended.

City Council approves big aquarium expansion; 737 MAX ‘whistleblower’ to testify; Megan Rapinoe gets another big honor; a plea to cartoonist David Horsey.

Lessons & legacy of the World Trade Org. protests; a judge stops I-976 for now; Gordon Sondland accused of sexual misconduct; Seattle’s Watergate hero Bill Ruckelshaus RIP.

A Tacoma mag tries to spark new interest in both Tacoma and print media; Dow Constantine slams back against an ICE PR offensive; a big gas leak hits the U District; feeling broke on $100,000 a year.

A city legal settlement means trouble for attempts to save the Showbox; City Market’s site’s marked for development; ‘Seattle’ mag publisher files for bankruptcy; Boeing wants in on the budding space-tourism biz.

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.

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.

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.

Sue Bird defends partner Megan Rapinoe’s honor; judge nixes a plan to keep asylum seekers jailed indefinitely; Durkan had, but didn’t submit, an alternate DADU deregulation plan; Joe Biden seems to think Seattle just discovered gay rights.

The owner who tried to move the Seahawks dies; Pride’s bigger than ever but its cause isn’t done; imagining a made-over Third Avenue; a state Senator accuses fellow Dems of racism and sexism.

Grounded 737s are being stored wherever they can go; Apple will occupy the old KING-TV block; baristas stage a labor walkout; replacing food banks with ‘community pantries.’

Showbox ruling aftermath; church art-trashing aftermath; ‘brush-eating goats’ to help stop wildfires; could Children’s Hospital lose its license?