Our new (old) wintertime icon; state Supreme Court lets police tear-gas ‘rioters;’ Cal Anderson Park’s BLM Garden saved for now; Heart to reunite on New Year’s.

Artist/curator Tariqa Waters wins big SAM award; off-duty pilot tries to sabotage Alaska Air flight; business groups spending big in City Council races; Bainbridge High football players accused of chanting racial epithets.

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.

‘Cambodian Rock Band’ musical mixes ‘buoyant’ music & historic tragedy; Manuel Ellis’s mother claims ‘intimidation’ as police trial continues; UW Ph.D grad killed in Israel-Hamas conflict; Comcast bumps Root Sports from basic cable.

Longtime Seattle art/music scene figure dies; three City Councilmembers say they’re against any major ‘austerity’ budget cuts; SDOT’s got ideas for climate-change responses in transportation; Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe still exists (but not for long).

‘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.

Yakima Hispanic trio’s breakthrough; Harrell budget plan doesn’t address predicted funding crunch; FTC & 17 states sue Amazon for anti-competitive practices; turning crab shells into ‘useful chemicals.’

Nighttime video-art installation at City Hall Park; why some places with more poverty don’t have more homelessness; why people don’t get needed mental-health treatment; do you trust SPD to fairly enforce a new drug law?

Mike McCready starts a ‘grunge rock opera’ project; rally seeks justice for Jaahnavi Kandula; Seattle median income tops $100,000; a Seattle techie bemoans his lowly life.

Film ‘Fantasy A Gets a Mattress’ shows struggles of being an artist in Seattle; stats show widening local wage gaps; more reaction to post-police-killing ‘joke;’ feds sue Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime subscription practices.

Deaf playwright’s horror-comedy; QFC (and some Safeways) to be sold off under grocery-merger plan; landlords sued over alleged software-enabled rent collusion; Bob Ferguson becomes one of 11 (so far) announced candidates for governor.

Mutual Fish Co. closing after 76 years; judge opts not to totally end SPD consent decree; Wallingford house fire ruled a homicide-suicide case; suit claims UW Medicine lost a patient’s bladder tumor.

How a jazz pianist’s stay in Pasco led to state anti-discrimination laws; SPD chief denies rumors of an affair with a top advisor; Bainbridge ferry to be passenger-only for a week; Seattle’s ‘at the center of the AI universe.’

Bumbershoot comeback as a Seattle landmark event; Huskies start final Pac-12 season in a rout; Elysian Brewing workers go union; seeking reasons for a fatal Wallingford house fire.

Bumbershoot’s attempted back-to-basics comeback under new mgmt.; Mayor Harrell really tries (awkwardly) to impress ethnic journalists; e-bike ‘lending libraries’ are coming to WA; a hydroplane racing legend dies.