Private parties trademark potential hockey-team names; a rare-book dealer’s sudden death; IBM sues Expedia; Motel 6 allegedly “kept a light on” for ICE agents.

As “the news” resumes in the new year, we observe T-shirts made from coffee grounds; Susan Hutchison’s split as state GOP head; a still-unsolved civil rights murder; and “global cities” alienated from their own geo-regions.

The year’s first MISCmedia MAIL covers the Two Bells Tavern’s final moments; the death of Tim Eyman’s latest kill-transit drive; a drive to restore Indian Heritage High School’s funding; and Teresa Mosqueda’s and Nikki Oliver’s differing views on political progress.

It’s the year when all the kids conceived at the dawn of the millennium reach voting age. And for the 32nd consecutive year, we humbly offer the MISCmedia In/Out List, the most trusted (and only accurate) list of its kind in this and all other media formats now or yet to be invented.

As always, this list compiles what will become ferved and frigid within the coming year, not necessarily what’s ferved and frigid now. If you believe everything hot now will just keep getting hotter, I’ve got some Sears stock to sell you.

And here’s the link to another such list, not so much competing as complementary, by Seattle’s own clown princess of diva decadence Dina Martina.

The year’s final MISCmedia MAIL explores a city getting ever younger; an addition to the Charleena Lyles lawsuit; the end of Seattle’s crooked-est alley; and Sherman Alexie exhorting against hate.

The year’s penultimate MISCmedia MAIL discusses great photos of a long-gone Seattle few people were aware of when it was around; a local underwear biz with sketchy (not in a good way) ads; cyclists suing Sound Transit; and Jews helping Muslims.

It’s midweek already, and we’ve got words about new uses for shopping malls; drone photos of moose; a non-bomb at the ferry terminal; and your chance to add to our next In/Out List.

For your Boxing Day edification: Further thoughts and sights from a rare Seattle White Christmas; a derailment survivor’s tale; Travel Ban 3.0 partly blocked.

Our pre-holiday message includes stuff about Bob Ferguson vs. Comcast; derailment survivors vs. Amtrak et al.; a trans man vs. Providence Swedish; and the death of our premier radio-drama revivalist.

For your solstice perusal: Value Village’s scant charity giving; more derailment updates; saving an historic house from its owner’s wishes?; ex-state auditor convicted.

In your midweek missive: Bike racks to prevent homeless tents; more derailment details; the state education director vs. the White House; a polar-bear swim will promote women in politics.

Thoughts on the big train wreck; Durkan’s newest affordable-housing plan; transit and bike shares are really popular here.

Our pre-Xmas week begins with the Santa Con bar crawl; why you should admire the Seahawks even after that last game; a fish farm losing its lease; and how Pierce Co. prosecutor Mark Lindquist could be re-elected, disbarred, or both.

In your big weekend MISCmedia MAIL entry: Fighting the net-neutrality repeal; money reasons behind the potential big hospital merger; blacks in tech forming their own networks; a message of peace at a time of turmoil.

For your Thursday perusal: everyone loves net neutrality except (some) corporations and the politicians they own; simply “praising” black women’s not enough; Fisherman’s terminal gets bigger; light-rail expansion to speed (slightly) up.