MoPOP celebrates Minecraft’s lo-res play power; did a City Council hopeful once post a strange egg-donor ad?; Boeing tries to explain the unearthed MAX-pilot texts; Brandi Carlile won’t be at the same ‘Powerful Women Summit’ with the ex-Homeland Security chief.

A Wing Luke Museum exhibit explores Asian Americans and the ‘beauty myth’; anti-Sawant flyers sent to other councilmembers’ districts; Amazon’s not the only big PAC money source; someone at Boeing knew the MAX had troubles.

Pics of climate change’s regional results; don’t be afraid of the ‘Big Dark’; a big judgment in the Mercer crane crash; Cooke Aquaculture’s damaged fish farm to reopen.

The Georgetown Steam Plant gets a fixing-up; feds approve the T-Mobile/Sprint deal (but more obstacles remain); county prosecutors are tipping off ICE agents about who’s coming to courthouses; Space Needle boss blasts Boeing’s management.

A puppet salmon’s sermon about driving less; could Amazon be broken up and survive?; a UK family has its own tale of mistreatment by US border officers; the Mariners are now in sole possession of a major baseball record.

A Tacoma mag tries to spark new interest in both Tacoma and print media; Dow Constantine slams back against an ICE PR offensive; a big gas leak hits the U District; feeling broke on $100,000 a year.

A rally to stop shootings; a task force blames both Boeing, FAA for letting the MAX fly; math isn’t racist but the way it’s taught can be; so much housing being built around here, so little of it ‘affordable.’

Highbrow pundits on Amazon’s present and future; Time magazine notices the Seattle City Council battle; the Stranger campaign ‘endorsement’ that wasn’t; a Boeing-Porsche flying car project.

Trashing an RV as a hate-filled ‘statement’; big support for burned-out Ballard businesses; Durkan’s ‘traffic czar’ may be leaving; could the 737 MAX be back by January?

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.

That local ad jingle you still can’t forget; is bus riding really that dangerous? (a driver says no); addressing built-in bias in school gifted programs; how ‘tree rustlers’ allegedly started a big wildfire.

Seattle’s oldest department store will close next year; Beth’s Cafe (but not its building) is for sale; Mariners’ season ends; a UW prof tells why tech execs are all positive all the time.

Tula’s Jazz Club shutters; Intiman Theatre might not be saved after all; more new (weird) Amazon Echo/Alexa products are introduced; can we wish away the “tech bro”?