Viaduct demolition’s just as noisy as expected; more Amazon-snubs-NY fallout; U Way merchants don’t want upzones; Heidi Wills wants back on the City Council.

A major correction: The site where a strangely-shaped new tower project is going up, as seen in Thursday’s MISCmedia MAIL, is NOT the site of El Corazon/The Funhouse, but an adjacent lot. Our apologies to all.

Another vital alt-culture spot’s (at least indirectly) threatened; another City Council member’s not running again; another local TV station’s for sale; the snow trouble’s still not over in some places.

A major correction: The site where a strangely-shaped new tower project is going up, as seen in Thursday’s MISCmedia MAIL, is NOT the site of El Corazon/The Funhouse, but an adjacent lot. Our apologies to all.

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.

Awaiting a big-ass storm; ‘American Junkie’ comes to the stage; a verdict in the Ride the Ducks trial; Bezos sues National Enquirer for extortion; Woody Allen sues Amazon for breach of contract.

Remembering Northwest photo master Mary Randlett; the Lava Lounge and neighbors are threatened with removal again; women’s-soccer Reign headed south; still more Howard Schultz dissing.

A sea cruise with a pompous talk-radio host; more on MS’s big affordable-housing plan; 1st Avenue streetcar lives!; Sounders team up with a local e-commerce firm (no, not THAT one).

Northgate’s original ‘anchor store’ will go away; still more climate-change ickiness; BC tribes want to buy that big pipeline project; Pramila Jayapal may co-preside on any impeachment drive.

The Viaduct’s end becomes a big cruisin’ scene; KIRO-FM ‘talk bros’ axed; the Legislature starts minus one embattled member; why the Bezos’ split was announced when it was; the Seattle music scene’s founding mother dies.

The city and WSDOT apparently expected a calm, orderly shutdown to the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 10 p.m. Friday night.

What happened instead was a big, popular, slow-speed cruisin’ scene. Thousands came to pay their last respects to the doomed scenic waterfront roadway. There were cars, trucks, at least one semi, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians.

It was after 10:25 when crews finally put up the barricades at the Viaduct’s northern on-ramps. The northbound cruise continued for more than another hour.

The official last civilian vehicle on the Viaduct was a stalled car, that had to be pushed by a cop car.

The day we’ve all awaited is here at last!; a cogent, nonverbal comment gets snuck onto a KCPQ newscast; neo-affirmative action initiative filed; yet more city council candidates.

Various folks’ post-Viaduct plans; the federal shutdown’s effects get more dire; another GOP legislator’s anti-Seattle scheme; misleading ‘spreadsheet’ smears SeaTac immigrant business owners.

Neighbours dance club’s building sold; Bruce Harrell to leave the City Council; Inslee wants public-option health care; Mounties trash BC pipeline blockades.

UW scientists hope to decipher mouse language; Blue C Sushi dies; Bush Garden might live; state’s ski resorts get more corporate.

One of the last three Seattle video stores gives up the good fight; footage is posted of the 12/31 police shooting; big vacancies at Seattle apartments; Viadoom phase one begins.