Seattle Rep’s ‘Fat Ham’ inverts Shakespeare tropes; Kraken leave cable for broadcast TV and Amazon streaming; big profits (and security concerns) for Microsoft; Rep. Adam Smith doesn’t like pro-Gaza protesters.

Tessa Hulls graphic novel ‘Feeding Ghosts’ praised as an all-time great; SDOT paints over words on pro-ceasefire street mural; Boeing ‘bleeding cash;’ WA GOP convention delegates ‘not into democracy.’

Stories of young red-state clients of SPL’s ‘Books Unbanned’ program; Auburn police officer’s murder trial starts; more low-income tenants facing eviction; students planning big pro-Palestinian actions around the region today.

New book chronicles Seattle’s street trees; Seattle schools seeking causes for enrollment drops; pro-Palestinian protestors temporarily block highway to Sea-Tac; Fremont Brewing sells out to investor group.

Cherdonna Shinatra’s cabaret show at an auto garage; most library branches to close one day a week; Carnation neighbors vs. Remlinger Farms’ concert plans; is T-Mobile supporting a red-states AGs’ group?

Kids’ TV host ‘Brakeman Bill’ dies; advocates decry city transportation plan and SPD contract proposal; Senate wants Boeing CEO to testify; ‘at least six’ suicide attempts reported at Tacoma ICE jail.

New Microsoft book says AI can be used ‘for good;’ WA ban on high-capacity magazines goes to state Supreme Court; questioning the FAA’s ‘cozy relationship’ with Boeing; the eclipse got eclipsed (here at least).

Public poetry coming to a storefront near you; feds say Apple’s ‘monopolistic’ behavior doomed Amazon, Microsoft smartphones; more Oso landslide remembrances; city’s auctioning off leftover pandemic PPE gear.

Frank Herbert wrote a gay-coded villain while disowning his gay son; local newspaper chain’s mysterious new owners; traffic deaths set a recent record; MacKenzie Scott gives big (again).

Stacey Levine’s novel of two Florida sisters and a ‘shadowy’ Other; Shaun Scott runs to replace Frank Chopp in the Legislature; judge says King County deputies needn’t enforce Burien camping ban; a sad local anniversary.

A history of Black student movements at UW, WSU; Legislature OKs three conservative initiatives; King County launches new anti-fentanyl efforts; MAGA candidate in SW WA invokes racism to oppose a new I-5 bridge.

Ex-Seattle writer/producer self-outs as trans at age 63; Japanese Americans protest at ICE jail; county sues child-care contractor for nonpayment; Redmond rainbow crosswalk defaced in hate crime.

Tessa Hulls’ graphic novel spans 100 years in China and the US; highlights of HistoryLink’s 25 years of yesterdays; Amazon wants the National Labor Relations Board to go away; one local bank’s buying, another’s selling.

Wallingford’s Changes gay bar at 35; Seattle author Neal Stephenson’s 1995 predictions about AI; bill to raise local property-tax cap dies in Legislature; SPD female employees allege harassment and discrimination.

Trying to solve civil-rights leader’s slaying 55 years later; Liquor & Cannabis Board pauses ‘lewd conduct’ enforcement; bill to rein in rent-gouging dies in Legislature; OR GOP lawmakers who walked out can’t run again.