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Top news stories that you should be reading today

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Weather this week: Sunny with some clouds. More sunny skies predicted for the weekend.
As reported by KOMOnews.com

Gunfire investigation in West Seattle last night. Gunshots were reported for the second night in a row in West Seattle’s North Delridge neighborhood near 23rd and Juneau. No injuries; it may have been a drive-by shooting.

The Wall Street Journal visits our fair city. Sure there are the requisite grunge and Space Needle references, but this WSJ writer spent a long weekend here then wrote this travel article about it. We think her itinerary was rather well planned.

Randy Jokela, Seattle Police officer who wrote 80% of pot citations is back to work. His behavior is still under investigation as he apparently decided who should be cited based on a coin toss. Good thing he started working again after last weekend’s Hempfest.

Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Jeff Bezos take on the ice-bucket challenge. Some of the greatest minds put their creativity to work and others did it the old-fashioned way. And Macklemore took it overseas!

Kent Police found developmentally disabled woman. Police located her at 4 p.m. yesterday and she is safe and sound. No further details have been released yet. 

 

Rearview Mirror: Godzilla, Cork, and a New Sushi Spot

Rearview Mirror: Godzilla, Cork, and a New Sushi Spot

Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).

POPPING OUR SENSES I don’t think I’ve ever given much thought to a wine cork beyond the satisfying pop it makes when opening a bottle, but after spending a morning at DeLille Cellars in Woodinville with about 50 other people, I have a new appreciation for it. The occasion was “(Pop) Open Your Senses,” a…

Best Bookstore: Beguiled Books

Best Bookstore: Beguiled Books

This Pioneer Square darling is easy to spot: pink doors and candy-striped details mark its home near Occidental Square. Beguiled Books started in 2024 as a mobile bookstore, making its way from table to tent to trailer, and finally to its current brick-and-mortar space. Labelling itself as “Seattle’s Original Romance Bookstore,” Beguiled specializes in just…

Best Art Gallery: Foster/White Gallery

Best Art Gallery: Foster/White Gallery

A pillar in Pioneer Square’s arts ecosystem, Foster/White Gallery opened in 1966 (then called Richard White Gallery) as the first space of its kind in the neighborhood. It soon gained notoriety for showing preeminent Northwest artists such as Morris Graves, William Morris, George Tsutakawa, and Dale Chihuly. In the decades after founding the gallery, its…

Best Museum: Seattle Art Museum

Best Museum: Seattle Art Museum

A vote for Seattle Art Museum is really a vote for three different art outings. The downtown museum pairs ambitious exhibitions with a global collection; the Seattle Asian Art Museum occupies SAM’s original 1933 Art Deco home amid the 43 acres of Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park; and the Olympic Sculpture Park puts art out in…