The 50th anniversary of the ‘exploding whale’ film; Inslee wishes you’d spend T-Day at home; where I want new arts spaces to go when we can have them again; UW football season starts (finally) (maybe).

Stage and live-event workers rally for ‘restart’ help; new police chief shuffles staff; a false COVID rumor spreads quickly from a local Twitter post; yet another bombastic White House threat against Seattle.

Supersonic jets (at least prototypes) could fly here again; a Showbox buyout offer (terms undisclosed); a possible Children’s Hospital mold infection case from 2005; parents of special-needs kids are advised to move out of the state.

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.

An attempt to save the doomed-for-development Alki Rock House; learning about the alleged Seattle cyber-thief; more UW College Republican hate speech; can Inslee’s presidential campaign live another day?

Remembering two giants of Seattle visual art; more Showbox landmarking details; another big-money City Council PAC; is Sea-Tac Airport lying about its age?

An artist’s preserved kid-clothes make a message about the child detainees; ICE jails former church sanctuary resident; the Showbox gets ‘landmarked’; a shooting survivor’s concert to help others.

Many local angles on the Apollo 11 nostalgia; Amazon defends itself to a Congressional committee; the Lake Washington water-taxi idea progresses; Rapinoe for Prez?

The owner who tried to move the Seahawks dies; Pride’s bigger than ever but its cause isn’t done; imagining a made-over Third Avenue; a state Senator accuses fellow Dems of racism and sexism.

Art made from Viaduct scraps; a big human-caused sewage spill; the KC Labor Council has a new City Council fave; what rising sea levels may cost Washington state.

More attacks on Pride Month art installations; ‘Sully’ speaks on the 737 MAX crisis; a new program invites techies to invest in affordable housing; turning water (very indirectly) into diamonds.

A Japanese exchange student among the Richland Bombers; Council OKs Showbox extension and Ft. Lawton housing; a new building will look like a ‘façaded’ old building; Nick Hanauer on why ‘Education Isn’t Enough.’

Nordstrom’s leaving Northgate; a freak ambulance crash; where can two young-adult shelters go?; why should we save the Showbox?

Xbox-branded grooming products are announced; the Showbox-preservation drive wins another round; Inslee’s climate-debate proposal’s spurned (thus giving him more PR); thoughts about D-Day 75 years after.

The newest public (painted) face of the drive to expose violence against Native women; an Edmonds convenience-store owner closes after an allegedly racist attack; another Showbox reprieve; more questions about the homeless count.