Artist’s collage sent out with ad flyers; Kraken arena people picked to replace Memorial Stadium; Seattle’s getting a new telephone area code; UW researchers get tentative contract offer.

Bringing the music of pre-Soviet Ukraine into the digital age; judge says city can’t ban anti-police chalk-art slogans; it now takes twice the minimum wage to afford a Seattle apartment; a better way to think of AI chatbots.

Comics creators’ financial struggles; trans woman who wanted to attend a women’s spa gets death threats; new housing levy approved to go to ballot; Amazon’s cloud-services business hits a snag.

Queer artist group of Pacific Island descent has a show at Wing Luke; there’ll be one fewer ‘affordable’ apt. building on Capitol Hill; historic schooner to be dismantled in Everett; Harrell names group to draft revised ‘new war on drugs’ bill.

Storm legend’s much-deserved retirement ceremony; popular U District bar’s license suspended; health care’s now a hotter job market than tech; state to pay millions to people convicted under court-overturned drug law.

Connecting Native American spirituality and ‘MST3K;’ City Council may try another ‘new war on drugs’ bill; Portland passes ‘daytime camping’ ban; Apple’s forthcoming VR headset: threat or menace?

Seattle Opera’s tale of a young Vietnamese American and her demons; UW researchers, postdocs go on strike; no, illicit drugs aren’t now ‘legal’ in Seattle; thoughts on these newsletters (and me) turning another year older.

Local books cover neon signs, rain, and feminist history; City Council to vote on Neo-War on Drugs bill; ‘swept’ Burien encampment moves locations, will be re-‘swept;’ the death of a businessman and onetime rock promoter.

Seattle writer pens a comic-book anti-heroine’s Seattle adventures; Amazon Prime may offer free cell service; a local tech co. creates a ‘synthetic NPR host;’ it turns out WA folks are just fine with taxing the 1 percent.

Art installation envisions a ‘City of the Future;’ an ex-military gay man, still with a ‘criminal record,’ to speak at a local Pride concert, Hanford cleanup gets even more complicated; my favorite evil-computer movie.

Several angles on Aurora Avenue (past, present, future); hundreds walk out of Amazon offices; Burien encampment sweep looms despite county disapproval; more allegations against ex-state equity office head Karen A. Johnson.

The history of WA’s own Stonehenge; ex-golf course to become an aquatic habitat; SPD borrowed ‘dangerous and toxic’ weapons during 2020 protests; how many Amazon office workers will walk off today?

Tribal canoes return to Lummi Island; ferry riders stuck at the docks in the San Juans; why Seattle schools are re-segregated; why modern politics is like being stuck in traffic.

ChatGPT-written song lyrics are about what you’d expect; SPD killings rose during federal oversight; youth mental-health crisis viewed as a business opportunity; did Jeffrey Epstein try to blackmail Bill Gates?

Kids’-book creator refuses to cut racism talk; City Council passes ‘tree ordinance,’ then vows to amend it; salmonella cases traced to cookie dough; an $800,000 child-sexual-abuse settlement.