A local bookselling legend dies; M’s get most of the county $ they wanted; Showbox landlord sues; Bernie Sanders introduces ‘Stop B.E.Z.O.S. Act’.

A bike-share firm that may or may not be leaving town; one person who supports razing the Showbox; an ‘answer’ video to the police lip-sync spectacle.

An art photographer takes on black glam; a racist attack on Burien’s mayor; sacrificing golf for housing?; an online troll’s tragic offline life; defending libraries from stupidity.

LGBTQ paraders for immigrant rights; jackets for those who DO care; a guy claims women’s brains aren’t built for coding; publishers gaming Amazon via “book stuffing.”

A birthday for this e-missive (and its maker); various Seattles that might have been; ICE mothers jailed here; peacocks vs. cars in BC.

A transgender activist’s Twitter complaint; more homeless-stats fallout; Microsoft buying GitHub?; how not to convince me of something.

Drag protesters at Amazon’s shareholder meeting; Durkan’s big new shelter plan; LCD license plates and their discontents; harassment claims against ex-UW track coach.

A ‘genderless’ fashion model; police chief Carmen Best’s defenders; a family shelter gets its first permanent space; backyard homes as a nascent ‘cottage’ industry.

Anti-head-tax campaign begins with big funding; kayakers vs. pipeline redux; Susan Hutchison redux; Seattle’s not immune to hate-talk after all.

In our big weekend missive: ‘Gender-fluid’ teen’s prom experience makes the NYT; 38 years since St. Helens; ‘two two-minute statements’ explaining the housing crisis; scads of event listings.

A local comedy legend passes; the county exec’s recorded speech; UW psych unit threatened; a possible motive for Michael Bennett’s accuser.

A judge rules for fish over power; sexism charged at SDOT; KOMO staff don’t like Sinclair’s agit-prop demands; city approves parking-less apartments.

Mayor stalls (but doesn’t stop) a transit project; racism and (offline) ‘social networks’; Trans Visibility Day; tribes sue state to save salmon.

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.

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.