Fun local, indie museums; ex-Boeing CEO’s investment startup suddenly closes; Tacoma LGBTQ ‘safe space’ store closes after ‘violent attacks;’ does anyone expect scientific accuracy in a Marvel movie?

A jazz legend and other influential Black Seattleites of the past; down to the wire for social-housing initiative; could tech layoffs being another Seattle slump?; 777 almost crashes in Pacific.

CNN digs Scarecrow Video; two socialist bloggers don’t dig Sawant’s new project; Ron DeSantis names local right-winger to Fla. college’s board; a major Cascades glacier completely disappears.

MOHAI’s big AI exhibit; friends, neighbors mourn Central District community advocate fatally shot near his business; El Corazon building (again) threatened by redevelopment; waiting for the cleansing rains to arrive at last.

The former digital assistant you loved to hate; Harrell tries to appeal to cops by hating on City Council; Seattle teachers set a strike vote; there’s been little progress against homelessness this year—except more sweeps.

Garfield High’s COVID-delayed centennial; overdoses up, here and around the NW; female Nintendo game testers allege sexual harassment by male staff; Danny Westneat’s mistaken again.

Making an AI-assisted music video; LeBron James plays almost-half a basketball game in Seattle; stolen/dismantled Arboretum gates rebuilt; remembering a Seattle social-justice protesting legend.

An LP-size moth shows up in a Bellevue garage; Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price quits to fight sexual-assault charges; Homegrown sandwich drivers go on a one-day strike; Seattle’s ‘lost the battle against air conditioning.’

‘African Streetwear’ in a pop-up storefront; City Council passes SPD hiring incentives; Bill Gates’s role in getting Inflation Reduction Act passed in US Senate; Calif. Amazon air-freight workers walk off.

AI engineer creates a jazz band with a robot vocalist; selling Seattle rain to LA tourists; Starbucks wants feds to stop unionization votes; religious ‘crisis pregnancy’ centers offer medically questionable ‘abortion pill reversals.’

Four decades of Seattle microbrews (some less micro- than others); COVID lockdowns were good for area birds; Harborview’s overcrowded and won’t take most new patients; West Seattle bridge reopens on 9/18.

Hope for a cleaner Duwamish; first primary ballot drop shows few signs of a ‘red wave;’ why today’s COVID strains are so threatening; City Council votes to end grocery workers’ hazard pay.

Seafair Torchlight Parade’s reassuring (if smaller) return; state AG Ferguson, Seattle Pacific U trade barbs; what Jon Talton gets wrong about Starbucks (and Seattle); Bill Russell RIP.

Ferry crash and truck explosion (at separate places) snarl traffic; the heat wave now comes with a side order of air pollution; Amazon loses $2 billion (Wall St. loves it); Cranium creator dies of COVID.

Military-radio transmitter site with salmon and hiking trails; hot-osity just keeps on; a GOP Congressional candidate’s ties to the Proud Boys; an arrest warrant for the harasser at Rep. Jayapal’s home.