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Will the PAX video-game expo outdraw the revived Bumbershoot?; late-summer COVID wave; some non-teaching Seattle Schools staff could strike; fish are ‘dying in droves’ on a Vancouver Island river.
Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe put up a Seattle artist’s works in their fancy new NYC abode; wildfire threatens big City Light dams; SPD officers may have detained a Black delivery driver at gunpoint; what street sex workers really need.
Fatal fire destroys a former U District theater; a ‘more potent fentanyl’ is now on the streets; the state’s court trial on Amazon-warehouse safety begins; ‘X’ marks the what?
Local filmmaker’s Stewart Udall doc; Rep. Jayapal makes pro-Israeli politicians mad; folks had already complained about deadly Tacoma crash site; Harrell switches course on S. Lake Union light rain.
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.
Bellevue sixth grader’s contest-winning ‘Google Doodle;’ City Council nixes ‘new war on drugs’ bill; a Catholic high school picks a prom-queen couple; why many Seattleites hate the heat.
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.
Club-night promoters try for ‘safer space’ policy; Chinatown-Intl. District declared ‘endangered;’ Weyerhaeuser HQ workers told to come back on-site; what might be behind the big supermarket-takeover plan.
Author Megan Asaka on western WA’s early, nonwhite laboring class; layoffs hit FareStart; Kraken demolishes Dallas; will Redmond pay city council enough to afford to live there?
Inslee won’t run for gov again; SPL lets right wing ex-actor hold ‘anti-drag-queen-story-time’ event; Washington Middle School cuts tech training and jazz band; national media find Kraken fans as surprising as the team.
Claire Dederer book ponders good art by bad people; what a new state law about runaway youths DOESN’T do; UW tries for student diversity despite legally-limited tools; Harrell’s not sure whether drug possession should stay a crime.
Ferry runs aground at Bainbridge; I-90 Bridge light-rail tracks need replacing; major COVID-closed restaurant to finally reopen; tech cos. try to hire back their ex-employees—as temps without benefits.
Author, filmmaker separately explore intersections of race and genre; SPD proposes to stop lying as much; port commissioner/alt-weekly founder dies at 75; where to find Seattle’s only public sculpture depicting a real-life female.
Where Seattle ranks among US cities by GDP; KUOW joins NPR in quitting Twitter; Pioneer Square’s venerable Davidson Gallery for sale; Legislature follows a state Supreme Court ruling and makes drug possession a misdemeanor.
Art/music/DJ space opens in a Ballard storage building; Inslee has the state stock up on one ‘abortion drug;’ why local homelessness persists after all these years; Jon Shirley and the Paul Allen Foundation donate big on the arts.