After the Seattle Storm’s narrow loss in the WNBA playoffs, the basketball legend considers retirement. And that’s OK.

Plus, film festivals showcasing topics from Jacques Cousteau to a South Asian coming of age.

19th century mapmakers hoped to draw settlers to the region with idealized vistas of emerging Northwest towns.

Local author Josephine Ensign reveals how the city’s long legacy of poverty is crucial to understanding our current crisis.

Plus, Seattle Center says go skate or go home and new cultural venues are opening doors.

Fans of art house films and niche festivals are returning to local venues (with masks and vax cards).

From sewage to milk to vaccinations, naysayers have always obstructed mandates and measures.

There’s something special about a place where night owls and late-night workers can huddle at unusual hours.

Plus, in-person festivals return to On the Boards, Northwest Film Forum and Intiman Theatre.

Plus: Bellwether arts festival returns to Bellevue, alongside a vivid retrospective of NW painter Alden Mason.

Minoru Yamasaki's work emphasized humanism and democracy. It left a significant mark on our built environment.

*Delta dependent.

From Fremont to SODO, tiny to arena-sized, new art spaces are popping up across the city.

Prominent artists from the Puget Sound area tell us how they’re feeling (and what surprising hobbies they picked up during the pandemic).

From a trans retelling of the Icarus myth to a darkly funny tale about bulimia, the opera’s new mentorship program lets a new vanguard take the stage.