MONDAY, MARCH 2 This week of transgender action, departed documentarians, and the painful intersection of prayer and fajitas kicked off in Seattle, where numerous residents were waylaid today by a potent batch of heroin. "As of 4 P.M. Monday, both police and fire officials received at least six reports of overdoses in North Seattle and downtown, requiring hospitalization," reported the SPD Blotter, offering no other details beyond a reminder of Washington's "Good Samaritan Law," which "offers legal protection against drug possession charges to anyone who calls 911 to report an overdose. If you or anyone you know is overdosing on drugs, please remember you can call 911 for help without the fear of prosecution." In closing, a humane recommendation from SPD detective Drew Fowler: "Given these latest reports, if [you] feel you need to use heroin, please don't do so alone."

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 In better news, the week continued with some forward motion in the quest to combat the insane violence that regularly rains down on transgender Americans. Today's subject: Islan Nettles, the 21-year-old transgender woman who in 2013 was walking with friends in Harlem when she was brutally assaulted, sustaining severe injuries that ultimately proved fatal. After 18-plus months of investigation, today brought the indictment of the prime suspect in the attack: 24-year-old James Dixon, whose alleged pounding of Nettles into the pavement brought charges of manslaughter and felony assault. "The indictment charges that Dixon used the sidewalk as a 'dangerous instrument' to cause Nettles' death," reported DNAinfo.com. "He pleaded not guilty to the charges."

•• Meanwhile in Seattle, tonight brought a heartening hate-crimes forum to Capitol Hill's All Pilgrims Christian Church, where Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, Mayor Ed Murray, the Gender Justice League's Danielle Askini, and a roomful of people sick of the antigay/anti-trans violence being allowed to flourish in what was once Seattle's safest neighborhood for queers came together to call for the creation of a homeless shelter for LGBTQ youth. As The Stranger's Ansel Herz reported, Council Member Sawant pledged to fight for such a shelter and fund it fully from the city budget. Full speed ahead.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 In stupider news, the week continued with a story out of Trenton, New Jersey, where, as the Associated Press reported, an appellate court has found that "a man cannot seek damages for burns he suffered while bowing his head in prayer over a sizzling steak fajita skillet at a restaurant." The instigating incident behind today's highly specific ruling went down at a New Jersey Applebee's in 2010, when the unnamed complainant said he bowed his head to pray over a sizzling skillet of steak fajitas and wound up with grease burns on his face. According to his complaint, these facial burns caused him to panic and knock the fajita skillet in his lap, causing more burns. "The ruling made public Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed his lawsuit," reported the AP. "The man claimed a waitress didn't warn him the dish was hot, but the lower court found the food posed an 'open and obvious' danger." Last Days looks forward to the forthcoming Fox News report on fajitas' anti-Christian bigotry.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 If there's one thing Last Days loves, it's a great documentary, and so today we pay tribute to the cocreator of some of the greatest documentaries ever made: Albert Maysles, who, along with his brother David, gave the world such documentary touchstones as Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, and Salesman, and who today passed away at age 88. Famously rejecting the use of both interviews and narration, the Maysles brothers' documentaries instead trafficked in pure human behavior, expertly edited. ("The Maysles brothers famously insisted that Charlotte Zwerin, who edited Salesman and Gimme Shelter, be given codirector credit, an extremely rare occurrence in American cinema," reported Forbes.) The number of images Albert Maysles imprinted on Last Days' brain is substantial, including but not limited to Little Edie's flag dance in Grey Gardens, Big Edie singing in Grey Gardens, and that amazing scene in Gimme Shelter when viewers are distracted from the roiling tension of the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the death of the '60s by the sight of a dog wandering around the stage. RIP, Albert Maysles.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 In worse news, the week continued in Madison, Wisconsin, where tonight a police officer responded to a disturbance involving alleged battery and traffic disruption, and an unarmed 19-year-old black man wound up fatally shot. "Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said at a Friday news conference that an officer—later identified as veteran cop Matt Kenny—responded to reports of a man jumping in and out of traffic and that 'the same subject had been responsible for a battery that had recently been committed,'" reported NBC. "Koval said Kenny followed the man to the residence where the alleged battery had taken place, and said the man attacked the officer there. During the confrontation, the officer drew his weapon and shot the suspect." And that's how Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., a 19-year-old whom family members will say was prepping to pursue a business degree and whom authorities will confirm was unarmed, came to be fatally shot by a cop. Within hours of the shooting, the citizens of Madison will commence protesting, starting a sit-in at Madison City Hall that will continue into next week.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 Nothing happened today, unless you count Last Days' first experience of 12th Avenue Arts, the glamorous new Capitol Hill performance center where tonight we saw New Century Theatre Company's production of The Flick, Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a run-down movie theater and the trio of employees who keep the screen lit and the floor swept. Set entirely in a realistic empty cinema (props to set designer Andrea Bush), The Flick is basically two and a half hours of people sweeping up popcorn while lackadaisically chatting about movies and money and their lives, and it's delightful in its own static, slackery way. If this sounds like something you'd like, you're right, so go before it closes on April 4.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 The week ended in Selma, Alabama, where an estimated 70,000 people marched to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday, that awful day in 1965 when roughly 600 peaceful civil-rights protesters were attacked by white state troopers armed with batons and tear gas. As for today's huge commemorative march: "Among the throng were demonstrators who took part in the 1965 march, as well as others calling for immigration and gay rights," reported Reuters. Meanwhile in Madison, today brought the third day of protests over the fatal police shooting of yet another unarmed black teenager, Tony Robinson, which have thus far involved no police batons or tear gas. Stay tuned.

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