After the Big Snow, get ready for the Big Melt; the Lava Lounge building gets closer to demolition; Sen. Murray says she was ‘within inches’ of the Capitol mob; the state reports 1 million vaccine shots.

Hundreds attend many Biden-Harris celebrations around town; the local COVID risk is now ‘higher than ever;’ the closed-since-March Local 360 restaurant may reopen after all; Ken Jennings remembers Alex Trebek.

More pix of quarantiners at home; KEXP’s widened spectrum of sounds (and voices); Durkan says she’s not responsible for SPD’s actions; COVID modelers say schools should only open if case counts go down.

Another special weekend edition full of virus-related (more or less) headlines, plus more pictures of a city forced to go on hold.

Pictures from a bustling place gone almost still; losing a beloved Leschi neighborhood fixture; unemployment-security requests boom; ‘Tax Amazon’ initiative filed.

One barmaid’s temp-closing words of reassurance; a year without St. Patrick’s Day; Sawant repurposes her ‘Amazon tax’ proposal; Joe Biden wins WA’s Presidential primary.

Local photog’s shots of national & local black ‘luminaries’; city’s LEAD program renewed after all; Expedia lays off hundreds after just moving their offices; we’re the US’s 9th most liberal city.

Protesting the next war at its potential start while Americans of Iranian descent get detained at Blaine; my days with the (now-splintering) Methodists; what NY State promised Amazon for half of HQ2; the Seahawks move forward.

What will emerge and ebb during the twelve months in which many things must change.

A corporate buyout means New Seasons Markets is leaving Seattle; a photographer’s last goodbye to the Viaduct; cops attack anti-fascist protesters at Westlake; Sea-Tac makes rules for facial-recognition scanners.

Northgate’s end days continue; where should surplus soda-tax money go?; more sewage leaks close more beaches; sellers of past-date food to discount groceries are convicted.

The owner who tried to move the Seahawks dies; Pride’s bigger than ever but its cause isn’t done; imagining a made-over Third Avenue; a state Senator accuses fellow Dems of racism and sexism.

BBC Radio spins a yarn about Ballard’s spite house; a fish-saving plan that didn’t get built; the pilots who tried to warn Boeing; a scramble to control the warming Arctic.

The El Corazon nightclub will indeed likely be razed (but not for a while); a Seattle Times reporter‘s accused of sending sexist texts; more 737 MAX revelations; local tech workers of India descent make a bilingual Seattle film.

A Seattle writer’s tribute to a pre-surrealist Vancouver photographer; the city’s top judge is accused of biased sentencing; Boeing’s financial bad news; Northgate’s lonely last days.