Wing Luke group exhibit ponders Asian American beauty standards; music fest at the Gorge linked to 160+ COVID cases; wildfire smoke makes COVID worse; more on the trends seen in the new census data.

The new ‘Skid Road’ book’s parallels to the older one; more institutions impose vaccine requirements; controversial PCC president quits; city attorney Pete Holmes is out of the general-election race.

Local band Prom Date’s new Britney Spears tribute EP; new COVID case counts are close to last summer’s; Boeing ‘ekes out’ its first profits since ’19; southern resident orcas are finally back in WA waters.

Remembering the pandemic with tattoos; everybody’s asked to mask up again (at least indoors); racism/sexism claims at Amazon Web Services and Seattle Park Dept.; differing responses about cruise ships’ return to Seattle.

Performers and others re-gather in Chinatown-International District; Canadian border reopens Aug. 9; some of Durkan’s ‘missing text’ recipients identified; Bezos will go into space today (and, yes, come back).

Fifty years and change since the ‘turn out the lights’ billboard; 2 (of 6) SPD officers are cited for being part of the DC siege; heat-wave death counts are still rising; a tireless advocate for the homeless dies.

Another big historic U District church is razed; ‘critical race theory’ isn’t what the far right says it is; south King County’s vax rate still lags; online petitions ask Jeff Bezos to go into space and stay there.

Ballard’s new marine-themed fence mural; a UW psychology prof predicts post-pandemic hookups; Portland’s protest-response cops resign en masse; Megan Rapinoe will help Victoria’s Secret ‘rebrand’ itself.

Really big container cranes show up; a mayoral candidate’s past DC lobbying work could haunt him; restaurant sexual-misconduct claims could widen to more places; what the city-charter amendment campaign won’t answer.

Lumen Field vax site closes; the annual prediction of a center-right ‘backlash’ in Seattle politics; major local chef accused of sexual misconduct; remembering a film nut (in a town of film nuts).

A big new online encyclopedia of NW hiphop; the Puyallup Fair’s on for this year; several building unions back the Sawant recall drive; (faint) praise for (some) street chaos.

SU law prof’s book exhorts ‘mutual aid’ efforts (and anti-capitalism); one Mariner has COVID; a network news story’s ex-SPD ‘spokes-cop’ has a history of harassment; Amazon expands its ‘executive’ ranks for better diversity stats.

CHOP anniversary ‘block party’ set for June; still more Gates divorce dirt; Nigerian man accused of 102 fake jobless claims in WA; national study puts SPD near the top for ‘deadly force per arrest.’

A ‘burlesque cabaret co-op’ takes over a Ballard theater space; more allegations about Bill Gates’ past (he denies ’em); a triple-win Seattle sports weekend; ‘the day the pandemic changed in Washington.’

Pop-up galleries in the mostly empty Pacific Place; UW report says world COVID deaths are greatly undercounted; 10 months of Mayor Durkan’s text messages have gone missing; when will you believe the pandemic’s over?