Remembering Seattle Times music writer Patrick MacDonald (and Kraken co-owner David Bonderman); big grocery-merger plan scrapped amid new lawsuits; an ‘adult cabaret’ (NOT a ‘strip club’) planned for Ballard.

Cornish College merging into Seattle U; judge rejects Boeing/FAA plea bargain deal; West Seattle teen fatally shot; a ‘strong earthquake’ off the Pacific coast led to a tsunami warning.

Network-news tribute to ‘Seattle teriyaki;’ no Seattle schools will close after all; Paramount Theater operators buy Cornish’s Kerry Hall; Ferguson making plans to ‘combat Project 2025.’

Performance-art piece explores Native family history; more post-election ‘horror and heartbreak;’ UW president’s house and car tagged with pro-Hamas slogans; announcer Dave Sims flees Mariners for Yankees.

Seattle Opera’s ‘Jubilee’ celebrates Black spirituals; Boeing accuses Machinists of ‘bad faith’ bargaining; two historic restaurant reopenings; sexual-harassment claims at UW computer science lab.

Saving one of the region’s last big theater organs; survey says more folks are ‘optimistic’ about Seattle; lawsuit challenges Amazon’s hiring practices; Boeing’s bond rating perhaps headed for ‘junk’ level.

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.

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.

Local editor’s ‘Literature of Japanese American Incarceration;’ stabbings, shooting inside a car being driven on I-5; Congressional candidate fires manager who’d criticized Israel online; ACLU slams conditions at Tacoma’s for-profit ICE jail.

‘Modular’ apartment high rise finishes three years late; ex-chief Diaz claims he couldn’t have harassed women ‘cuz he’s gay; Constantine wants to replace downtown county jail; a trip to ‘Twin Peaks’ country.

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.

The healing power of ‘erotic dance;’ Sound Transit keeps SLU station site as planned; WA joins feds in suing Ticketmaster/Live Nation; state parental-rights law bashed as potentially causing ‘forced outing’ of teens.

Seattle Rep’s ‘Fat Ham’ inverts Shakespeare tropes; Kraken leave cable for broadcast TV and Amazon streaming; big profits (and security concerns) for Microsoft; Rep. Adam Smith doesn’t like pro-Gaza protesters.

3D tour of late, beloved Re-bar; students, others march for Gaza peace; ex-cop/suspected killer apparently kills self while on the run; Boeing engineers claim ‘retaliation’ by company.

Cherdonna Shinatra’s cabaret show at an auto garage; most library branches to close one day a week; Carnation neighbors vs. Remlinger Farms’ concert plans; is T-Mobile supporting a red-states AGs’ group?