New book semi-fictionalizes Sacajawea and her journey; Kraken come THIS close to moving on in playoffs; Legislators say they have a drug-bill deal; David Brewster disses diversity in the arts as a mere frill.

SIFF short spoofs Microsoft’s biggest PR bash; Pagliacci to start pizza-delivery drones; who’s trolling a woman with fake ‘$500 reward’ key chains?; it’s ‘end of COVID emergency’ day.

PNB’s first Black female soloist and her many other achievements; Bob Ferguson’s likely to run for gov; Arlington Pride says it’s been asked to keep drag queens out; 30 years of the WWW as we know it.

Inslee won’t run for gov again; SPL lets right wing ex-actor hold ‘anti-drag-queen-story-time’ event; Washington Middle School cuts tech training and jazz band; national media find Kraken fans as surprising as the team.

David Lasky’s haiku comics; would-be laws against outdoor drug use ‘not likely’ to have much ‘visual impact’; texts reveal more about SPD/city responses in June 2020; should you or shouldn’t you eat WA salmon now?

Claire Dederer book ponders good art by bad people; what a new state law about runaway youths DOESN’T do; UW tries for student diversity despite legally-limited tools; Harrell’s not sure whether drug possession should stay a crime.

Ferry runs aground at Bainbridge; I-90 Bridge light-rail tracks need replacing; major COVID-closed restaurant to finally reopen; tech cos. try to hire back their ex-employees—as temps without benefits.

Author, filmmaker separately explore intersections of race and genre; SPD proposes to stop lying as much; port commissioner/alt-weekly founder dies at 75; where to find Seattle’s only public sculpture depicting a real-life female.

Where Seattle ranks among US cities by GDP; KUOW joins NPR in quitting Twitter; Pioneer Square’s venerable Davidson Gallery for sale; Legislature follows a state Supreme Court ruling and makes drug possession a misdemeanor.

Crowdfunding drive saves Couth Buzzard Books (for now); pro-gun lobby plans to fight assault-weapons ban; homeless folk now in hotels may get kicked out as funds expire; remembering Elijah Lewis’s deeds and words.

VR app explores Central District’s heritage; a federal judge in WA approves ‘abortion pill’ while a federal judge in TX moves to ban it; assault-weapons ban passes in Legislature; would light-rail station construction kill the SIFF Uptown cinemas?

Can the Grand Illusion Cinema survive?; does Seattle ‘have a culture’? (hint: I say yes); housing prices dip but housing crisis remains; Seattle publisher fires kids’-book illustrator who spread transphobic flyers.

Exhibit shows how I-5 construction decimated part of the Chinatown-International District; ‘transit-oriented’ housing bill watered down; Costco reports slowing sales growth; West Seattle’s Yen Wor Village dive bar closes.

Art/music/DJ space opens in a Ballard storage building; Inslee has the state stock up on one ‘abortion drug;’ why local homelessness persists after all these years; Jon Shirley and the Paul Allen Foundation donate big on the arts.

Trapeze school’s class cutbacks; a community activist dies from the gun violence he opposed; WA abortion providers advised not to even vacation in Idaho; even a boxing legend’s not immune to the housing crisis.