We end a bad, terrible, horrible, not-good week with a Veterans Day remembrance and many calls for solidarity, action, and empathy. Also the usual dozens of weekend event possibilities, and the death of a music legend.

The Mariners came home and, yes, lost. Also today: Vandalizing salmon pens; hospital workers stealing opioids; a suburban city official who wanted to know where every Muslim in town lived; human-rights activists claim “victory” at Amazon; and a big artificial-intelligence conference in town (for all us fake-smarties).

Today’s topics feature a much-less-appetizing truck cargo spill; Muslim-bashing in Mukilteo of all places; yet another Hendrix memorial (the biggest yet); Capitol Hill Art Walk choices; and how the news biz can’t both “foster diversity” and expect young adults to work for free.

Comicon begins, as does the Mariners’ home season. And we’re still here as before, pondering alleged racist “microaggression” at a certain cable news channel (NOT “that one”); how “diverse” Seattle’s neighborhoods really aren’t; folks in high rises who don’t like the prospect of other high rises; a Bauhaus Coffee resurrection?; and the usual scads of weekend things.

Hope springs eternal (or at least for a day) as the Mariners’ season begins. We also mention: whales vs. whales; the new 520 bridge non-charity walkathon; another hyper-sleazy “war against the poor” move; and, yeah, the end of the UW women’s hoop dreams (for this year).

The work week begins anew with secret sweetheart deals in Kent; attempts to bring commercial air travel back to Everett; the still-unapologetic Shell ship invader in Bellingham; Fantagraphics’ most prestigious contributor yet; and the Sounders’ season-opening meh.

It’s back to work and back to the news, including strange bedfellows against Trans restroom rights; a threat to a self-managed homeless camp; the death of a local theater legend; and Comcast rains on KING’s new-studio parade.

On Presidents’ Day in a Presidential year we talk about expressing your love with potatoes (really); cutting down old trees before neighbors can make a protest; Seattle’s biggest remaining manufacturing company may split for the ‘burbs; funding tech startups via bankrupt Australian mining firms; and just a little about the Supreme Court.

A new month finds us still dealing with old problems: vast homelessness in Seattle and Tacoma; the still-not-over siege in eastern Oregon; the floundering of Seattle’s bike-share program; GOPers vs. reality.

Another pre-Seahawks playoff weekend begins with the sad fate of (some of) the Waterfront Streetcars; a poignant account of surviving poverty thru music; a fetishistically disgusting legislative proposal; fear of immigration raids; and the usual gazillion weekend activity options.

The Kid’s in the Hall. In other news today: Who’s really the rightful owner of that Oregon wildlife-refuge land?; Inslee’s campaign to reduce the “public health” crisis of gun violence; a respected sex-worker website’s shut down; don’t worry about all those li’l underground tremors.

Your Tuesday e-mail missive discusses a beautiful, doomed Ballard warehouse; the law to let ride-share drivers organize; a professor who warned about Chipotle eight years ago; and why Krampus and why now?

As KEXP moves into its super-deluxe new digs, our midweek report remembers its far-less-slick precursor KCMU. Also: dampness everywhere; Amazon’s plans for the Dog House/Hurricane Cafe block; Troy Kelley refuses to quit.

Our biggest-yet MISCmedia MAIL (our six-month anniversary, in fact) has hordes of weekend activity listings, plus potential hockey hopes; potential freeway-lid hopes; ginormous “cocktail napkins” at a tech-biz gala; and the end of a Belltown institution.

MISCmedia MAIL, still fiercely independent, watches yet more local media consolidation. Also: just how “hate talk” inspires shooters; Redhook returns to Seattle (sort of); and Seattle’s (and the U.S. Northwest’s) real birthday.