LGBTQ paraders for immigrant rights; jackets for those who DO care; a guy claims women’s brains aren’t built for coding; publishers gaming Amazon via “book stuffing.”

The lost art of the courtroom sketch; Bob Ferguson’s latest crusade against the feds; out-of-state online sales tax likely won’t hurt Amazon.

A map of Seattle’s weirdest places; still more family-separation backlash; Seattle Symphony’s VR push; crime fear vs. reality.

Harsh police treatment for a bus-fare scofflaw; yet more head-tax complications; Death Cab on a Bezos-era Seattle; the royal wedding preacher’s lessons for us.

Street deaths remembered; why anti-homelessness efforts can seem futile; local ‘scarf dancer’ accused of groping; making the case for making the 797 here.

Protesting the immigrant crackdowns; Mexico imposes apple-import tariffs; Randy Revele RIP; more things that aren’t fun any more.

Starbucks boss Howard Schultz’s second retirement; the Mariners’ amazing season (thus far); a local ditty named the ‘best song of 1998’; Dr. Hubert Locke RIP.

A transgender activist’s Twitter complaint; more homeless-stats fallout; Microsoft buying GitHub?; how not to convince me of something.

A park’s disappearing viewpoint; parsing the latest homeless stats; a union win for Boeing’s S. Carolina workers; a bomb threat staged as a YouTube stunt.

A ‘genderless’ fashion model; police chief Carmen Best’s defenders; a family shelter gets its first permanent space; backyard homes as a nascent ‘cottage’ industry.

Flags will alert boaters to nearby orcas; DACA stories from the Yakima Valley; a school-shooting video game denounced; what head-tax opponents could do instead.

Art installations describe life in a lonesome town; the McKinsey report’s non-non-existence; Seattle’s ‘whiteness problem’; the usual scads of weekend events.

Amazon threatens to slow local growth as if we should fear that; shouters take over a head-tax hearing; a Spokane teacher’s truth-to-power moment.

Connecting the early UK female punks to the Oly riot grrrls; counting every native plant and animal here; what’s certain to happen on May Day.

The problem with having fewer trees in traditionally minority neighborhoods; a new ‘reality’ show features an area bikini barista stand; the SPD gets its first inspector general.