Art installation combines AI technology with religion; Councilmember Mosqueda decries ‘misinformation” about proposed SPD budget cuts; is WA approaching COVID ‘herd immunity’?; Broadway will be temporarily DIckless.

A true-crime podcast depicts a Boeing engineer turned master bank robber; Seattle schools take an extra day off this week; KEXP boss retires after three decade; Re-bar to become a piano bar.

Temporary ‘COVID Remembrance Project’ now underway; UW football coach Jimmy Lake’s suspended for one game; 9 percent of Boeing’s US workers want a vax exemption; how has Amazon changed fiction?

A local kids’-TV legend dies at 101; Canadians can finally come here again; should hotel-based shelters stay open?; UW football coach caught shoving a player on the sidelines.

Short Run’s got a print catalog in lieu of an in-person comix/art fest; Lorena González concedes mayoral race to Bruce Harrell; Hanford workers urged to quit instead of getting vaxxed; Standard Time’s substandard status.

Dead people you should know and where they are; an Election Day of unusual opportunity; COVID cases ‘plateau’ at a still-too-high level; a Snohomish high school’s Black, openly-trans homecoming queen.

Abstract-expressionist art from local collectors now at SAM; who’s the real ‘extremist’ in the city-attorney race?; parts of King County near 99% vaxxed; please, Bellevue, take some of our tech growth!

Local music vet Ken Stringfellow denies several women’s sexual-misconduct claims; more windstorm fallout; another judge upholds state vax mandate; Amazon’s employee-leave policies said to have many major flaws.

The Kraken’s home debut is a triumph (except for the game’s outcome and the lack of regular TV); Mandate Monday #2 is here; 40 overboard cargo containers added to the usual local windstorm damage; is it racist to note Bruce Harrell’s past defense of Ed Murray?

Celebrating 50 years since the Pike Place Market preservation initiative; Climate Pledge Arena officially opens; a GOP state House member complains about vax requirement to get into his office; 51 past and present SPD officers are on a King County disciplinary list.

New book recalls a beloved U District hangout; fired WSU football coach sues over vax mandate; Ferndale aluminum plant could reopen; a trans-woman politician in Cobain’s old hometown.

Non-Van Gogh ‘immersive’ art ‘experiences’ around town; Mandate Monday #1 finds few affected workers ousted (except WSU football coach Nick Rolovich); a rich white guy thinks racism’s dead and ‘the free market’ did it.

New doc covers an anti-racist protest (and pro-racist counterprotest); many Pike Place Market and South Lake Union businesses still struggle; Portland cops won’t stop vandals unless they can bust heads; it’s Vax Deadline Monday #1!

Northern lights’ local spectacle shines; Kraken’s regular-season launch thrills & disappoints; county council strips Kathy Lambert’s committee chairs; Boeing imposes employee vax mandate.

The Kraken’s real (away) debut at last; state, county, and hospital workers are almost all vaxxed; the Sawant recall drive has many national counterparts; a man at a convenience store buys Laffy Taffy with counterfeit money.