Art exhibits portray Black women, power, and wisdom; ‘millionaire tax’ passes WA House after 24-hour debate; Starbucks union fights latest closure plans; big Boeing deal to sell smart bombs to Israel.

Longtime, still-living leaders for local Native rights; Ferguson says he’ll sign ‘millionaires tax;’ 5th Ave. Theatre, Pacific Science Center lay off workers; Starbucks closing another unionized store.

Kyle MacLachlan on ‘Twin Peaks Day’; Tukwila bans new detention centers; CARE team chief blasts SPD-driven limits on what it can do; man fatally stabs four, then is fatally shot by police, in Purdy.

Cold-war closeted gays at Seattle Opera; Legislature Dems’ competing budget plans; a brutal, fatal shooting on Capitol Hill; nonprofit housing sold to for-profit companies that harass tenants to force ‘em out.

Degenerate Art Ensemble’s next multimedia performance; could WA ‘millionaire tax’ help legalize Seattle income tax?; SeaTimes business columnist Jon Talton dies; Jeff Bezos decimates Wash. Post newsroom.

Seahawks headed to Super Bowl vs. a familiar foe; local protests against another murder by MAGA goons; Teatro ZinZanni suddenly shutters (again); Seattle-Eastside light rail starts in late March.

Play about ‘70s immigrant lives is all too relevant; Wilson, Ferguson won’t change ‘sanctuary’ policies despite White House threats; Wilson stops one sweep, lets another proceed; anti-ICE protesters disrupt City Council meeting.

New musical tracks a gender and family journey; Legislative session starts with threats of big cuts; anti-ICE protests (and proposed actions) continue; 49ers to play Seahawks in playoffs.

Massive Monkees’ dance studio adds cafe; more federal arrests/shootings in Seattle, Portland bring more protests, responses; quarterback Demond Williams Jr. not leaving UW after all; ‘Can Katie Wilson build a movement?’

‘The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show’ returns; massive windstorm threat also returns; Ferguson proposes drastic budget cuts but supports income tax on millionaires; most striking Starbucks workers returning to work.

Cafe Nordo concept to be revived, expanded; what America pre-JFK-shooting was really like; states block feds from killing some funding programs; UW study set AI contributes to racially-biased hiring decisions.

The Seattle World’s Fair’s ‘adult’ shows recalled; Katie Wilson-bashing gets even more ridiculous; DC could cut homelessness funds housing thousands; charges filed in attempted Neighbours nightclub arson.

Tribal masks from a BC master carver at the Frye; communities organize to help SNAP cutoff’s victims; police kill man at S. Holgate; Amazon reports big profits, goes ahead with big layoffs anyway.

Art/music/comix promoter Larry Reid profiled; fewer people are dying on Seattle’s streets; Amazon to lay off up to 30,000 workers; what DOES horror mean in a world of cruelty and terror as gov’t policy?

New play on (not yet) dying of a terminal disease; Sara Nelson courts right-wing TV viewers; Repubs & conserva-Dems want to control Legislature again; much of tentative new SPD contract ‘still up in the air.’