New SIFF sign goes up at ex-Cinerama; Cafe Racer closes for the fourth time; supporters of Israel and of the Palestinians kept apart at simultaneous UW rallies; Homelessness Authority job cuts could leave some, well, homeless.

NYC authors recount the ‘Joy of Costco;’ Instacart hates Seattle’s worker-protection laws; Seattle Schools planning big budget cuts; Kirkland police used ‘irritant’ on protesters.

Megan Rapinoe’s big career finale, and other major local goings-away; the controversy (and limits) of AI-generated prose; Manny Ellis’s family speaks out at trial of officers who killed him.

‘Black Lodge’ DIY music venue reborn; music clubs are learning how to stop fentanyl ODs; Seattle-area housing prices are driving people to leave the state; Mariners’ season ends with one blowout inning.

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.