Grand Illusion Cinema needs a new home; Sara Nelson says she wants to save Seattle Channel; woman killed in W. Seattle shooting was an ex-doctor and Jan. 6 riot participant; who vandalized Bellevue’s Pride mural?

Microsoft vet buys naming rights to a giant space telescope; saving the Seattle Channel from Harrell’s budget axe; Asylum-seekers’ Kent encampment swept; the ‘special kind of futility’ known by Mariners fans.

State using undersea robot to restore eelgrass meadows; Council OKs wimpy ‘alternative’ to social housing ballot measure; Tanya Woo ‘shadowboxes old City Council’ in debate; Climate Pledge Arena settles ‘hidden fees’ lawsuit.

China Harbor restaurant closing; Amazon wants corporate staff in the office every day; Harrell wants social housing to have to fight for $$ instead of getting its own funding; Wing Luke Museum director resigns.

Debate for gov not as dramatic as debate for prez (thankfully); Zahilay proposes $1 billion for ‘workforce housing;’ Seattle Indian Health Board cuts ties with SPD; Boeing machinists’ strike more likely.

Using AI to update a century-old play; is Andrea Suarez a Dem in name only?; Boeing machinists might reject contract offer, go on strike; UW researchers say teen brains got physically worse during COVID.

Living Computers Museum contents to be auctioned; 2020 anti-SPD protesters awarded punitive damages; 737 crash families want an ‘independent monitor’ over Boeing; why Pride still needs to be radical.

We’re still a scary place in video games; ex-SPD chief Diaz accused of ‘dictatorship;’ WA’s first strip club with booze in decades is now open; 50 years of (and three different sets of) Seattle Sounders.

Two new giant murals near the waterfront; Garfield student fatally shot while ‘trying to break up a fight;’ SPD-beating video goes viral; I’ve got a big to-do this Saturday.

Old Tacoma anarchist mag unearthed; City Council delays votes on gig-worker wages, defunding Equitable Development Initiative; Melinda French Gates vows $1 billion to help women and families; T-Mobile buys another rival.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to get a SAM exhibit; 40 years of the Young Fresh Fellows; Pacific Place sold at a big discount; SPD had ‘policy’ to harass anti-police protesters.

Pro-Palestinian camp at UW dismantled; another lawsuit claims racial and gender discrimination at SPD; Burien could kill tiny-house village project it previously OK’d; Seattle hits a population milestone.

Rat City Roller Derby turns 20; more impacts of Tuesday’s UW protest scuffle; Seattle School District may close up to 20 elementary schools; should a disgraced former abusive priest get to keep his Ph.D.?

Accordion-esque apartment tower opens; refugees get a few more days in Kent hotel after one-night encampment; Manuel Ellis police killing co-defendant quits new job; Boise State prof ran an extremist website.

Trying to save Puget Sound’s endangered ‘kelp forests;’ Instacart settles sick-leave law violations; burnt-out site on Rainier to become 400 apartments; some past bridge disasters of our own.