MOHAI explores intersections of women, queer-lib, and motorcycles; Seattle’s soul-food queen dies; Wild Waves gets one more year; over 100,000 may evacuate region’s ‘catastrophic’ floods.

‘Seattle’s last roadhouse’ closing; waiting for the ‘atmospheric river’ to resume after major floods; City Council OKs SPOG contract; Ste. Michelle wines sold to in-state buyers.

Original Pike Pub location closing; Amazon exec says company’s home base will stay here; no, Mt. Rainier isn’t on the verge of erupting; no, Katie Wilson isn’t vocally ‘anti-Israel.’

The man who found or created much of Bartell’s beloved merch; BECU to merge with Calif. credit union; King County Council OKs budget, while Zahilay fires much of Constantine’s old staff.

Harrell’s farewell, Wilson’s victory speech; damning evidence about SPD’s Cal Anderson response in May; juvenile-detention doctor accused of multiple sexual abuses; Starbucks strike is on.

Knute Berger profiles Henry and Sarah Yesler; will full SNAP funding come back or not?; mayoral race narrows in late ballots; the (unintended?) double meaning of the new women’s hockey team’s name.

Potential next-gen aircraft shown off; local help for SNAP cutoff victims; Crocodile says it’s not closing its smaller performance rooms (yet); Microsoft Azure cloud outage screws with Alaska Airlines’ systems (again).

Crocodile closing two of its three performance spaces; WA, 25 other states sue over SNAP funding halt; Amazon announces 14,000 layoffs, while the state has a ‘growing backlog’ of pending unemployment claims.

Performance as resistance; mass protest time is here again; China-backed hackers blamed for F5 cyberattack; oh yeah, more bad Mariners news.

Retrospective doc about 1999 WTO protests reaps award nomination; county assessor Wilson won’t run again; mixed fiscal news in first ‘WA Music Census;’ Amazon suspends employee who dissed company’s ties to Israel.

SIFF won’t reopen Egyptian Theatre; controversial cop won’t run East Precinct after all; ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural vandalized; WSU report says shootings are now the #1 cause of high-school students’ deaths.

Memorial Stadium’s demolition; troops going to Portland despite court order against it; AI can help make ‘killer toxins that evade controls;’ Mariners playoff progress report.

Henry Gallery show on ghosts, ancestors, moving between continents, etc.; federal shutdown’s effects widen; can new Harrell proposal really stop ‘food deserts’?; Mariners’ playoff matchup now set.

Ex-‘Seattle Sketcher’ spreads the word about hand-drawn art; city, state leaders don’t want US troops on our streets; big $$ for Harrell re-election campaign; last three Bartell Drug stores close.

Mariners-owned TV channel closes; Rendezvous buyers make themselves known; Harrell claims most of Seattle’s unhoused people aren’t from here; Portland isn’t ‘war-torn,’ doesn’t want federal troops on its streets.