New owner-restorer works to get Nippon Kan Theater re-re-opened; big local law firm moves to smaller offices; Pike and Pine becoming one-way each (with bike lanes); UW fish researchers using ‘environmental DNA.’

Halloween stories include a (big) Bigfoot film collection; SPD can’t lie to the public (as much) anymore; seven state ferries are now in for repair; did Amazon fire a worker for criticizing its back-to-the-office edict?

‘Cambodian Rock Band’ musical mixes ‘buoyant’ music & historic tragedy; Manuel Ellis’s mother claims ‘intimidation’ as police trial continues; UW Ph.D grad killed in Israel-Hamas conflict; Comcast bumps Root Sports from basic cable.

USPS picks local artist for Hispanic Heritage stamp; cop who laughed at Kandula death taken off the streets; FTC suit says Amazon has a ‘secret pricing algorithm;’ judge cites Starbucks for underpaying unionized workers.

Centennial of ‘No-No Boy’ novelist John Okada; Microsoft to infuse AI into Windows and other products; ‘could selling sewage save the Salish Sea?;’ heavy rain possible next week.

Deaf playwright’s horror-comedy; QFC (and some Safeways) to be sold off under grocery-merger plan; landlords sued over alleged software-enabled rent collusion; Bob Ferguson becomes one of 11 (so far) announced candidates for governor.

Mutual Fish Co. closing after 76 years; judge opts not to totally end SPD consent decree; Wallingford house fire ruled a homicide-suicide case; suit claims UW Medicine lost a patient’s bladder tumor.

Bumbershoot’s attempted back-to-basics comeback under new mgmt.; Mayor Harrell really tries (awkwardly) to impress ethnic journalists; e-bike ‘lending libraries’ are coming to WA; a hydroplane racing legend dies.

‘American Junkie’ author/musician Tom Hansen’s cancer death; big T-Mobile layoffs; city tells free-pantry organizer to scale back her operation; wildfire smoke coming back this weekend.

Last phase of new downtown ferry dock to finally open; can ‘Big-Art Culture’ in Seattle survive without Paul Allen?; guilty plea in 2020 protest killing; south-central WA wildfire now bigger than Seattle.

Seahawks hope to sell lotsa ‘throwback’ jerseys; this year’s Seattle Art Fair to be more local than ever; court says Seattle’s doing too many encampment sweeps without advance notice; in Seattle becoming ‘a trans haven’?

Harrell gives details about his big downtown plan; Elliott Bay Books at 50; TeatroZinZanni’s got a new ex-church ‘residence;’ trans teen’s family sues Premera Blue Cross to pay for top surgery.

Danish artist’s giant troll sculptures coming to Seattle; Book-It Theatre suddenly closes; Black Coffee NW’s original location evicted; pro-trans slogan projected outside St. Mark’s.

Fremont Solstice, once ‘fringe,’ now a familiar comfort in an age of change; Juneteenth’s local past and present; big cutbacks at Seattle Pacific U.; Amazon-contractor drivers strike in Calif.

Seattle Opera’s tale of a young Vietnamese American and her demons; UW researchers, postdocs go on strike; no, illicit drugs aren’t now ‘legal’ in Seattle; thoughts on these newsletters (and me) turning another year older.