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Anybody who's anybody was at Safeco Field on Saturday JOAN MARCUS

Maybe the King County Council, who just handed $135 million to Mariners, should reconsider who they choose as their sole tenant.

Russell L. Nelson is 94, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and packed Safeco Field on Saturday and brought more fans to Safeco Field than almost any Mariners game this year, especially if you consider no one in the crowd came for beer.

Image this but with people and music! Seattle.gov

The show starts at 4 p.m. and includes Dude York, SassyBlack, Spirit Award, Sol, Smokey Brights, and Ruler. The City Council is holding a meeting at 6 p.m. in council chambers as part of the public notice process for their recent expansion of the Pike Place Historical District, which granted a 10-month protection for the historic venue.

If you've never heard of any of these bands then you need to get your head out of the sand and start listening to good local music. Former Stranger music writer Amber Cortes described Dude York as a "power-pop trio" with a "bold, polished sound." I saw them at Sasquatch a couple years ago and guess what? They're fun!

SassyBlack is the solo project of Catherine "Cat" Harris-White, who was formerly in the R&B duo THEESatisfaction which released two albums on SubPop and got nationwide attention from outlets like Pitchfork. SassyBlack sounds like a classically trained jazz singer went to outer space with a beat machine and a synth and sang about the real shit people are going through in 2018. Read our review of her 2016 album No More Weak Dates by Ciara Dolan.

Brett Kavanaugh Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Polygraphs are in the news once again after Christine Blasey Ford, now a 51-year-old professor in northern California, accused Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her when they were teenagers. According to Ford's account (which Kavanaugh denies), at a party in the early '80s, he and a friend took Ford into a room, turned up the music so no one could hear her protesting, pinned her to a bed, and tried to pull off her clothing. When she tried to scream, he allegedly put his hand over her mouth to shut her up.

Ford reportedly didn't tell anyone about the alleged attack until 2012, when she told a therapist, as well as her husband. After Kavanaugh was nominated for the Supreme Court, she contacted the Washington Post, as well as her congresswoman, Democrat Anna G. Eshoo, whose office then sent Ford's letter to the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. That letter was later leaked to the press, and Ford's name then became public.

Soda companies are freaking out over the possibility of local taxes on their drinks. KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETT

The soda industry is putting a massive amount of money behind an initiative that would stop Seattle's soda tax from spreading to other cities in the state.

Last week, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission, four soda companies donated a collective $5 million in one day to Initiative 1634, a measure that would make it illegal for local governments across Washington to raise taxes on sodas.