Ethnic advocates’ Dia de Los Muertos displays; Judge orders SNAP benefits resumed, as locals work to help cutoff victims; security guard arrested in Pio. Square shooting; venerable restaurant gets scathing review.

Potential next-gen aircraft shown off; local help for SNAP cutoff victims; Crocodile says it’s not closing its smaller performance rooms (yet); Microsoft Azure cloud outage screws with Alaska Airlines’ systems (again).

Crocodile closing two of its three performance spaces; WA, 25 other states sue over SNAP funding halt; Amazon announces 14,000 layoffs, while the state has a ‘growing backlog’ of pending unemployment claims.

Art/music/comix promoter Larry Reid profiled; fewer people are dying on Seattle’s streets; Amazon to lay off up to 30,000 workers; what DOES horror mean in a world of cruelty and terror as gov’t policy?

Charles Burns’ graphic novel ‘Black Hole’ coming to Netflix; feds post, remove ICE promo vid with possible far-right ‘dog whistle;’ dog-daycare closes after ‘cruelty’ charge; big weekend storm’s big damage.

Tall ship from Norway in town with a cause; SNAP/EBT aid cutoff nears; Harrell/Wilson mayoral race divided on income lines; Alaska Airlines grounds all flights due to a tech outage (again).

New play on (not yet) dying of a terminal disease; Sara Nelson courts right-wing TV viewers; Repubs & conserva-Dems want to control Legislature again; much of tentative new SPD contract ‘still up in the air.’

The New Yorker discovers the Seattle-born monster mart; feds spied on WA license-plate readers; proposed SPOG contact would make SPD cops even richer; Amazon wants to replace 600,000 workers with robots.

‘Native Land’ interactive exhibit opens in Tacoma; big Amazon Web Services crash affects many major websites; Denny Blaine Park goers can stay nude through the winter (huh?); Mariners reach the brink, then…

Massive ‘No Kings’ rallies here, elsewhere; pro-Harrell PAC’s ‘misleading’ anti-Wilson mailer; half of WA’s first legal same-sex marriage dies at 98; Mariners at the brink of history.

Performance as resistance; mass protest time is here again; China-backed hackers blamed for F5 cyberattack; oh yeah, more bad Mariners news.

Remembering the ‘Baseball Saved Us’ author; Harrell spoke to the ‘independent’ PAC supporting him; federal troops still barred from Portland’s streets; Mariners lose ALCS game 3 by a lot.

SIFF won’t reopen Egyptian Theatre; controversial cop won’t run East Precinct after all; ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural vandalized; WSU report says shootings are now the #1 cause of high-school students’ deaths.

Performance piece asks why we still have war; Harrell makes anti-ICE executive orders, while local right-wing influencers appear at the White House; Ms battle Friday for the right to face the Blue Jays in the ALCS.

Art/fashion exhibit celebrates South End diversity; Kristi Noem visits Portland ICE facility; Metro wants to spend $115 mil on safety improvements; Ms’ playoff game rain-delayed.