‘Sonics Forever’ podcast gathers basketball memories; another record day for COVID cases in the state; Amazon enters the prescription-drug biz; sex robots for old folks?

Artist Tariqa Waters’ colorful new Bellevue group show; state health officials would rather you not have a big Thanksgiving; Europe hits at Amazon’s trade practices; what to do to stop a coup.

Author Ted Chiang on how sci-fi doesn’t always mirror science and vice versa; how this cultural era can end (and why it must); a fatal police shooting in Woodinville; the city starts a real-estate entity to save and nurture art spaces.

Local filmmaker fictionally stages her (real) dad’s death; parsing the local election results; ‘Every Vote Counts’ protests draw hundreds; a new one-day Washington record for new COVID cases.

What we do know about the election (i.e. the local parts, which went mostly as predicted); average Seattle rents are way down since pre-COVID; Boeing sells its corporate yacht with a borderline-unfortunate name; a local indie biz donates something big to Amazon (why?).

Pre-election jitters and reassurances all around; UW researchers claim to have developed a better potential COVID vaccine; legal settlement in case of Alaska crab-boat sinking; NY Amazon warehouse workers’ safety lawsuit dismissed.

A singularly 2020-appropriate Halloween suggestion; Amazon surges while Starbucks struggles; Redfin’s accused of redlining; West Seattle’s got another broken bridge.

A joint march marks 150 days of local protests; experts’ advice on COVID winter survival; T-Mobile joins the TV ‘streaming wars;’ violent shootings are up locally and nationally.

Anchorage mayor quits in weird sex scandal; would Durkan’s plan for minority communities help them or just bring more bureaucracy?; remembering a pioneer female judge/lawmaker; the UW doc who’s all over national TV.

Local collage artist’s homages to anxiety; the Seahawks get in another really close one (but are unlucky this time); two SPD brutality complaints get moved forward; ‘the future of the Democratic Party’ might be at stake in a Washington US House race.

Allegedly true Seattle ghost stories; Alaska tsunami threat likely won’t reach us; ex-Gov. Dan Evans turns 95 as the WA GOP steadily collapses; ballot drop boxes filling up quickly.

A local painter depicts people with things to say but without the means to say it; SPD attrition is up a bit this year; Boeing could leave its offices at the ex-Longacres site; what’s really ‘revolutionary’?

State high court nixes Eyman’s latest kill-transit initiative; local man gets COVID twice; Portland pastor/NAACP head accused of repeated sexual/physical abuse; ‘Uncle Ike’ doesn’t like his face on urinal cakes.

Major fund campaign aims to keep live music spaces alive; Kshama Sawant fund campaign aims to fight recall drive; COVID cases still rising in King County and at UW; another month with no new Boeing plane orders.

An ‘Indigiqueer’ drag performer wants real Native inclusion in the arts (not just slogans); more evidence of tech-biz sexism; Gates says COVID vaccine could be close; another failed try to track a ‘murder hornet’.