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The Seattle Kraken have hoped to dial up the concept of arena food and entertainment. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
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An arts critic and a hockey fan go to a Kraken game: A most useful review of the Climate Pledge Arena experience

What's an evening with the Kraken like, from a purely entertainment perspective? Two features staffers headed to the nosebleed section of Climate Pledge Arena to find out.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) looks for options down field as the Green Bay Packers play the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeau Field in Green Bay Wisconsin on January 12, 2020. 212648
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A new South Lake Union apartment tower will include a decommissioned Boeing 747.
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Boeing 747 to park in Seattle high-rise

Washington State interim head coach Jake Dickert, center, speaks with his players during the second half of an NCAA college football game against BYU, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, in Pullman, Wash. BYU won 21-19. (AP Photo/Young Kwak) WAYK125
Cougar Football

‘Our guys have played themselves into this situation’: WSU stayed the course to set up massive game with No. 3 Oregon

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Dr. Millie L.B. Russell, a University of Washington administrator and an activist and community builder, died on Nov. 1.
Obituaries

Millie Russell, trailblazing Seattle medical educator and civil rights activist, dies at 95

Boise travel story by Brendan Kiley. Downtown Boise still looks modest, but its population and cultural scene are booming. “I moved here 15 years ago, to a sleepy little outpost,” said Ryan Peck, who came to teach biology at Boise State University and now runs Boise Rock School. “In a couple of years, it just took off.”
Real Estate

Boise is now the least affordable housing market in U.S., study says

Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion – University of Washington Huskies vs. San Diego Toreros women’s basketball – 111221 Washington Huskies forward Lauren Schwartz drives around San Diego Toreros guard Kylie Horstmeyer during the first quarter, Nov. 12, 2021, in Seattle. 218776
Husky Basketball

Washington women’s basketball coach Tina Langley earns win in her debut as Huskies beat San Diego

City Hall Park, (center of frame) which is south of the King County Courthouse (at top right of frame) in Seattle, was recently swept of the many tents which have been set up there, shot Friday, August 20, 2021. Earlier this summer, King County Council member Reagan Dunn proposed legislation seeking to have the homeless encampment condemned as a public safety hazard. 217010
Editorials

Mayor-elect Harrell, convene a public-safety summit to end Seattle dysfunction

Politics

FILE — Attendees pray during the Take Back Virginia Rally in Richmond, Va., Oct. 13, 2021. From congressional offices to community meeting rooms, threats of violence are becoming commonplace among a significant segment of the Republican Party, less than a year after rioters attacked the United States Capitol on Jan. 6. (Carlos Bernate/The New York Times) XNYT58 XNYT58

Menace, as a political tool, enters the Republican mainstream

In this April 2020 photo, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Messonnier, Birx detail political interference in last year’s coronavirus response
FILE – Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison speaks at a watch party in Columbia, S.C., after losing the Senate race Nov. 3, 2020. Harrison was Biden’s pick for DNC chair, in part, because of the extraordinary fundraising success he had in his underdog campaign against South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham last year. Harrison’s campaign raised an eye-popping $109 million, although he lost the election by 10 points. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File) WX201 WX201
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Local News

Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Wash. on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. A King County jury awarded $62 million to a group of students and parents exposed to a highly toxic PCB or polychlorinated biphenyl from the campus. 218806

'I knew it was slowly killing me': Juries award students, parents, teachers $247 million for toxic exposure at Monroe school

Project Homeless

Bitter Lake encampment could empty out this month as homeless hotels begin to fill

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Homelessness authority has a vision for downtown Seattle recovery — but first they’re asking for $27M

Business & Tech

Meeting Amazon’s pricing-cutting directives is like playing “whack-a-mole,” said one third-party seller. The sellers on Amazon Marketplace face being cutoff if they won’t match competitors’ prices. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)

Amazon push for lower prices could be bad for shoppers everywhere

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Mayor-elect Bruce Harrell faces critical challenges with Seattle’s economy

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A photo of Edward David White in an album kept by his sister Barbara Mack, in Philadelphia, Nov. 5, 2021. White’s family says they have been blindsided by the confession in a pending book by Larry Miller, a former team president of the Portland Trail Blazers and the head of the Michael Jordan brand at Nike, to his murdering 18-year-old White, whom he didn’t identify by name in the autobiography, 56 years ago. (Kriston Jae Bethel/The New York Times)

A Nike executive told of once killing a man. Here’s what he left out VIEW

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Coronavirus

The shadows of Associated Press editor Pia Sarkar and her family are cast on the sand at Island Beach State Park in Berkeley Township, N.J., in November 2020. Since the start of the pandemic, Sarkar tried to play it safe, staying close to home, avoiding large gatherings, and limiting activities to the outdoors. Yet she and her kids still managed to get COVID. (AP Photo/Pia Sarkar) RPPS201 RPPS201

Virus diary: Family followed rules, got thwarted at the finish line

Food & Drink

Din Tai Fung serves a limited menu at Climate Pledge Arena, including these kurobuta pork buns — certainly not your standard arena fare.

An arts critic and a hockey fan go to a Kraken game: A most useful review of the Climate Pledge Arena experience

Pacific NW Magazine

Smoke from wild fires in Oregon that crossed over the Columbia River add a background haze Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, outside Sunnyside, Wash. In the foreground are 20 acres of new cabernet sauvignon planted only a year earlier at Chateau Ste. Michelle’s Cold Creek Vineyard. 14258059 203138

Washington wineries work to weather the challenges of climate change

Editorials & Opinion

Homeless camp at Bitter Lake on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. About 66 people live at the site. King County bought a hotel a little ways away, which will house some of the people living at the site.

In a Seattle school’s backyard, lessons on compassion and its limits | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist

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Free Press web site debuts

Horsey Cartoon

Nothing but hot air

Sports

Ikaika Malloe breaks out into a smile while talking with Bob Gregory during spring practice with the University of Washington football team at Husky Stadium Saturday April 24, 2021. Gregory and Malloe are co-defensive coordinators, with Gregory overseeing the inside linebackers and Malloe the outside linebackers. 216978

UW Huskies attempt to move forward with makeshift coaching staff against Arizona State

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Arts & Life

Din Tai Fung serves a limited menu at Climate Pledge Arena, including these kurobuta pork buns — certainly not your standard arena fare.

An arts critic and a hockey fan go to a Kraken game: A most useful review of the Climate Pledge Arena experience

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Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion – University of Washington Huskies vs. San Diego Toreros women’s basketball – 111221 Washington Huskies guard Missy Peterson breaks through the double team of San Diego Toreros guard Kiera Oakry, left, and guard Jordyn Edwards during the fourth quarter, Nov. 12, 2021, in Seattle. 218776
Sports

Photos: UW women edge San Diego Toreros in basketball season opener VIEW

A really big great white shark at WildLanterns is finished by a technician from Sichuan Province in China at a preview of the illuminated figures / sculptures at the Woodland Park Zoo Wednesday. It measures 20 meters by 8 meters wide and 6 meters high (65.6 by 26.24 by 19.6 feet) and visitors can walk through it. It opens to the public on Friday. Ref to more online Preview before opening to the public on Friday. Wednesday Nov. 10, 2021 218746
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Larger-than-life figures light up the night at Woodland Park Zoo’s WildLanterns VIEW

Downed utility pole off East Madison Street in Capitol Hill after heavy rain and strong winds came through the Seattle area Tuesday afternoon. A driver was trapped under the wire and rescued. Nov. 9, 2021. LO
Weather

Photos: Stormy weather hits Seattle area VIEW

A leaf lost to the winds finds a home among a collection of sword ferns at Meadowbrook Pond, a stormwater detention facility and habitat area, which offers a walk-through gallery of fallen leaves in many shades of autumn, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021 in Northeast Seattle. 218747
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The fallen leaves of Northeast Seattle’s Meadowbrook Pond VIEW