A musical mash-up of Morrissey and workout-DVD reviews (!); the Storm’s righteous total triumph; detained immigrant youth at risk of abuse; local tourism biz deals with shutoff of public ad money.

Seattle Times loses at ‘monopoly’; area traffic’s about to get (and stay) even worse; Amy Siskind will speak here after all; we’ll have KeyArena a bit longer.

A local bookselling legend dies; M’s get most of the county $ they wanted; Showbox landlord sues; Bernie Sanders introduces ‘Stop B.E.Z.O.S. Act’.

Russell Wilson gets US sports’ highest honor; local theater company tackles ableism; the Storm gets back to the WNBA finals; is it Seattle’s best or worst of times (or both)?

A plan would restore an estuary by killing Olympia’s Capitol Lake; Seattle teachers OK a possible strike; KingCo deputies under-report ‘acts of force’; recalling the days of ‘Reds’ in the NW.

Tariffs vs. e-bike makers; Durkan signs Showbox bill; historic recording studio to be razed; are mass shootings really ‘senseless’?

Artist Natasha Marin’s new message; the smokestorm’s emotional toll; another ICE-jail hunger strike; Amazon says Amazon warehouses are great workplaces.

Local company’s gender-neutral undies; Manweller report made public; bringing techies into the civic discussion; We Can Breathe Again!

Drone video of the Sodo Busway murals; local air’s still dreadful; crane crews on strike; claims of sexual-assault cover-up at a summer camp.

Starbucks’ ‘craziest’ idea yet; Portland police chief taunts antifa protesters; can bad air get carbon fee passed?; remembering Aretha Franklin.

Pearl Jam’s ‘Home Shows’ raise $11 mill; competing plans to ‘save’ the Showbox emerge; orca-rescue drive continues; an architect defends the stalled downtown streetcar project.

The right-wing orchestrators of attacks on left-wing ‘thought police’; remembering Hiroshima (still); no big primary-election surprises; homelessness task force folds without doing much.

How Sub Pop triumphed; some places we wish weren’t demolished; Matt Manweller rants against #MeToo and ‘liberals’; David Meinert’s business world shrinks some more.

A strange new concept bar; more save-the-Showbox ideas; Rep. Jayapal calls family separations ‘terrorism’; green algae’s spreading in the Sound.

The ‘quietest place in America’ gets pretty noisy these days; a need for ‘ethnic-specific’ blood donors; 3D-printer gun plans kept offline for now.