A city legal settlement means trouble for attempts to save the Showbox; City Market’s site’s marked for development; ‘Seattle’ mag publisher files for bankruptcy; Boeing wants in on the budding space-tourism biz.

A local artist links racial & climate crises; a WA sheriff has to give up his guns due to a protection order; Eyman insults an un-amused Seattle City Council; are online games (and online everything) meant to be addictive? (Well, duh…)

Young activists’ ideas become an art exhibit; the local CEO inside the Ukraine affair; Boats Afloat Show floats away to Everett; Seattle’s biggest ‘soot polluter’ is a recycling plant.

Caffe Vita workers fired or quit over a new policy on homeless giving; did Boeing quash a preventive MAX fix to save money?; Melinda Gates vows $1B to fight the gender gap; Morrissey concert scrapped.

A new art zine profiles a prolific street artist; the WWII origins of Sounders fans’ anti-fascist anthem; Bauhaus Coffee returns to Capitol Hill; is ‘The Far Side’ coming back?

Behind the suddenly famous ‘Salmon Cannon’; a dump truck crashes into a Subway shop; the Inslee campaign’s next do-or-die deadline; how should the county spend $318 million for school kids?

Seattle inventors make a hi-tech fake coffee; other inventors make safer but costlier helmets for high school football; a sad tragedy on Pine Street; is King County helping ICE after promising not to?

BBC Radio spins a yarn about Ballard’s spite house; a fish-saving plan that didn’t get built; the pilots who tried to warn Boeing; a scramble to control the warming Arctic.

Local May Day events stayed on-message (sorry, news media); the yearly SIFF onslaught approaches; more hate-talk from Matt Shea; is this any way to teach science?

A local animation legend dies; affirmative-action foes file a referendum to stop I-1000; Boeing’s CEO says he won’t quit; a coffee company that knows when you need more beans.

A once and potentially-future cinema; another (interim) Bob Ferguson courtroom win; Municipal Court Judge Ed McKenna refutes bias claims; our local air is really bad (sometimes).

Remembering an early, now-doomed Amazon HQ building; bowling’s 500 lb. gorilla wants to buy a Seattle ’boutique bowling’ spot; the Mariners’ miracle season continues; we mark a big (at least numerically) milestone.

A local vintage-wear merchant’s newest comeback; Boeing’s CEO again vows to make things right; Bezos divorce details; one surprisingly positive result of the KOMO homeless-special ado.

An ‘alpine coaster’ may come to Leavenworth; the FBI joins the 737 MAX probe; Nicklesville’s removed from running three tiny-house villages; KOMO’s homeless doc gets bashed some more.

The lovely/deadly snow remains and grows; why the Enquirer went after Bezos (maybe); Starbucks’ cofounder speaks out about Schultz; Beth’s Cafe is threatened by the usual local threat.