PacNW Ballet and Preston Singletary reimagine ‘The Sleeping Beauty;’ Alki marchers protest ICE raids, while tariffs could wreck WA economy; snow hopes and (in some places) disappointments.

Local artist’s popular miniature tableau photos; immigrants, advocates march in Oly; Teamsters/Costco strike deadline nears; bad takes on the DC air disaster.

New and returning theater shows cover the Big Issues (with laughs); Microsoft ‘shopping extension’ said to take influencers’ commissions; Ferguson talks of family at his inaugural; Biden talks of dangers to democracy.

Last chance to see the Icelandic digital fake flowers; local Jimmy Carter tribute; Ferguson orders budget cuts to most state govt. departments; Eddie Bauer merging with JCPenney.

An immigrant (and her luggage) star in new local play; Council divided on big housing plan; Apple announces major Seattle office expansion; SPOG appeals a records case—that it already won.

Jinkx and DeLa’s annual holiday spectacular; new SPD chief nominee named, while case against ex-chief Diaz deepens; suspect in Metro bus driver killing arrested (while on another bus).

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.