An artists’-support advocate on today’s fears and potentials; local COVID data collection efforts become ‘overwhelmed’; Idaho gets an earthquake; the rent crunch is now.

Seattleites “make a joyful noise”; the Kingdome implosion’s remembered as another joyful blast; unemployment applications go way-way up; Gov. Inslee and Bill Gates both say we may have to shut down longer (maybe a lot longer).

Local/global music legend Bill Rieflin passes; Seattle cruise-ship season put on hold; Microsoft imports 240,000 face masks from an unnamed country; Steve Ballmer won’t move basketball’s LA Clippers here.

Ellen Forney’s hand-washing tutorial; Inslee’s ‘stay at home’ order and its exceptions; you can now apply to be tested (space permitting); the main West Seattle Bridge is fully closed while the ‘low bridge’ is restricted.

Another special weekend edition full of virus-related (more or less) headlines, plus more pictures of a city forced to go on hold.

COVID takes a major figure in local science and political thought; unearthing the crisis’s confusing early days at Life Care Center; a year without SIFF (sniff); a dance fest, imagining a better future for humanity, may or may not have a future itself.

Gov. Inslee’s set to close all restaurants/bars, further limit public meetings; Tim Eyman makes a horse’s ass of himself again; Ride the Ducks gone is for good; the lighter side of not touching your face.

Lots of songs to wash hands by; another plethora of local COVID updates & responses; Congress members accuse Boeing of promoting a ‘culture of concealment’; what the internment-memorial mural incident tells about modern Bellevue.

Seattle’s current ‘ghost town’ media image, fact and/or fiction?; Womxn’s March among canceled/postponed events; GOP’s ‘weird amendments’ don’t kill state sex-ed bill; the (Elizabeth) Warren court’s no longer in session.

AIDS Memorial Pathway art revealed; Bothell High School still closed by virus fear; Christopher Rufo blames Seattle for the rise of Sanders (and ‘socialism’); payroll-tax bill’s still alive and still without ‘pre-emption’ clause.

Bellevue College de-censors mural artists’ statement about white locals who liked the WWII internments; Inslee wants a Swedish labor pact now; does the city’s Navigation Team really get people off the streets?; neo-Nazis accused of harassing reporters and activists.

Local photog’s shots of national & local black ‘luminaries’; city’s LEAD program renewed after all; Expedia lays off hundreds after just moving their offices; we’re the US’s 9th most liberal city.

How Seattle’s bygone Queen of Neon was rediscovered; Re-bar at 30; Bumbershoot Lives! (in some form); another big ruling against Tim Eyman (whom Republicans still (heart symbol)).

Connecting the WWII internments’ lessons to today’s anti-immigrant hysteria; the downtown ex-Bon Marché’s final days; Caffe Vita’s new owner tries to heal past discord; local researchers try to invent a coronavirus vaccine.

Bernie fills the Tacoma Dome; Bezos will give $ to fight climate change but not change Amazon’s climate footprint; a rally today will support a Catholic school’s gay ex-teachers; 712 people in WA are on coronavirus-related ‘supervision’.