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.

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.

Beloved local artist-designer Carl Smool dies; city employees protest Harrell’s 1-percent pay raise proposal; game hacker owes Nintendo $10 million; REI closing store where workers tried to unionize, but blames ‘crime.’

Jinkx Monsoon, from Seattle drag stages to ‘Doctor Who’; community mourns Elijah Lewis; Bainbridge special-needs student allegedly locked in a police car; state suing Google over online-ad monopoly.

An all Asian-American online comedy talk show; state Supreme Court upholds WA capital gains tax; light rail station-site dispute goes on despite board meeting’s decision; ‘world’s oldest working drag queen’ dies at 92.

David Schmader’s big book of WA/OR movies & TV shows; state Supreme Court allows transit ‘fare enforcement’ to continue; Bellevue school board OKs closing two elementary schools; remote work’s still big in Seattle (for some workers, on some days).

New plays address racial-justice struggles (here and elsewhere); downtown business leader sees signs of recovery; Meta/Facebook has another big round of layoffs; remembering the first modern bank failure to hit Seattle hard.

New Peter Blecha book links ‘40s-‘50s Seattle R&B to ‘50s-‘60s Northwest garage rock; more on Rep. George Santos’ alleged link to an alleged Seattle ATM thief; 1st & Pike cherry trees to be replaced; Silicon Valley Bank crash’s local effects.

Shawn Kemp’s side of Tacoma parking-lot incident; COVID’s still killing folks here; online activists try to stop a big new Alaska oil-drilling project; a Capitol Hill institution insists it’s not getting redeveloped.

A jazz legend and other influential Black Seattleites of the past; down to the wire for social-housing initiative; could tech layoffs being another Seattle slump?; 777 almost crashes in Pacific.

Airing a seldom-heard voice in the homeless crisis (that of an actual homeless person); works by local Black artists you can see (and some you can’t yet); FTC may sue Amazon; another hunger strike at the ICE jail in Tacoma.

CNN digs Scarecrow Video; two socialist bloggers don’t dig Sawant’s new project; Ron DeSantis names local right-winger to Fla. college’s board; a major Cascades glacier completely disappears.

Your chance to see the new Convention Center complex; activists announce City Council runs; solving homelessness will have a price tag; your chance to help me out by buying cool old stuff.

UW Dance tries to diversify both participants and curriculum; giant Convention Center addition opens at last; pro-choice march passes by two big local Catholic institutions; a wish to bring NW passenger rail back to the ‘50s.