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8/7/23: ‘PAC’ HACKED
Aug 6th, 2023 by Clark Humphrey

UW bails out of a sinking Pac-12 Conference; Seattle’s ‘urban heat island’ grows; Pierce Co. brush fire destroys nine homes, kills two residents; rival online-psychic networks in a legal dispute.

8/4/23: BYE, ‘MoM’
Aug 3rd, 2023 by Clark Humphrey

Museum of Museums closing forever (partly due to faulty plumbing); UW Regents ponder what to do if Pac-12 Conference collapses; City Council approves studying new I-5 lids; my annual defense of the hydroplane races.

7/31/23: STILL LIVES; LIVING STILL
Jul 30th, 2023 by Clark Humphrey

A couple of faves at the Seattle Art Show and its satellites; violence strikes at an anti-violence event; Amazon doesn’t want a light rail stop at Westlake & Denny; the real meaning of the Seafair parade.

7/28/23: TERMINAL BEGINNING
Jul 27th, 2023 by Clark Humphrey

Last phase of new downtown ferry dock to finally open; can ‘Big-Art Culture’ in Seattle survive without Paul Allen?; guilty plea in 2020 protest killing; south-central WA wildfire now bigger than Seattle.

7/24/23: LINES OF RESISTANCE
Jul 23rd, 2023 by Clark Humphrey

A Ukrainian-born artist’s animations of solidarity; small town holds Pride event despite heavy right-wing opposition; state tries out combo-treatment ‘hubs’ for addictions; Seattle survives combo Canadians/Swifties onslaught.

7/21/23: VINTAGES (WINE, MUSIC, PHOTOS)
Jul 20th, 2023 by Clark Humphrey

Ol’ punk pix on a winery’s walls; honoring Bruce Lee on his death anniversary; Inslee vows to probe oil-biz profits; among many other happenings this weekend, a certain singer’s in town.

8/8/22: BACK IN THE WATER
Aug 7th, 2022 by Clark Humphrey

Gatherings old (the hydros) and new (‘KEXP 50’); Amazon wants to buy the maker of Roomba vacuums; an early Amazon investor/consultant dies at 82; metro areas across the NW have severe housing shortages.

8/1/22: CARRYING THE TORCH
Jul 31st, 2022 by Clark Humphrey

Seafair Torchlight Parade’s reassuring (if smaller) return; state AG Ferguson, Seattle Pacific U trade barbs; what Jon Talton gets wrong about Starbucks (and Seattle); Bill Russell RIP.

6/29/22: PARABLES FOR OUR TIME
Jun 28th, 2022 by Clark Humphrey

Charles Johnson co-creates an Afro-Futurist-Buddhist graphic novel; Teatro ZinZanni’s post-COVID, post-Woodinville comeback; wildfire forces evacuations near Soap Lake; a pro-choice state constitutional amendment isn’t likely.

5/10/22: WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN
May 9th, 2022 by Clark Humphrey

Rejected, more elaborate ’62 World’s Fair plans; another big encampment sweep’s pending; Ballard High student wins $3 million settlement in sexual-abuse case; Starbucks union drives seen as models for other workers.

7/2/21: OLDER, NOT NECESSARILY ‘WISE’-R
Jul 1st, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Thoughts on the re-released ‘Streetwise’; the regional heat-wave death toll climbs; a heat-stricken BC town succumbs to wildfire; Microsoft rebrands itself as ‘the anti-Apple.’

6/29/21: FRYING COLORS
Jun 28th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

A rare sign of beauty amid the heat-borne misery; it likely won’t get this hot again this year; Councilmember Mosqueda wants to rename the city’s ‘single family’ zones; today’s mask-off day in King County.

8/5/20: PRIMARY COLORS
Aug 4th, 2020 by Clark Humphrey

Early primary-election votes show several progressives leading, Tim Eyman losing; Durkan and Best don’t want any significant SPD cuts; is Microsoft getting too cozy with the White House?; were violent feds sent to Portland just to appear in campaign ads?; Pat O’Day RIP.

5/21/20: NO-SEE-FAIR
May 20th, 2020 by Clark Humphrey

Seafair’s major events axed for this year; record-high state unemployment rate; Portland OKs ‘tax the rich’ measure; what Washington’s big counties need to show before further reopening (and could nursing-home infection rates hold them back?).

3/30/20: DRAWING ROOMS
Mar 30th, 2020 by Clark Humphrey

Short Run cartoonists depict their social-distanced lives; government relief package isn’t enough to save some small businesses; local used-records king RIP; it’s been a month already and it feels like a decade.

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