Logging creates jobs and disasters. Credit: Kelly O

Your roundup of this week’s most widely-read, shared, and discussed stories.

Logging creates jobs and disasters.
Logging creates jobs and disasters. Kelly O

• Two years after the deadly Oso mudslide that killed 43 people and prompted a presidential visit, the town faces another natural crisis: wildfires. What do the two disasters have in common? Logging played a role in creating them. Charles Mudede gets straight to the point: We must be blunt about the relationship between market-driven activities and environmental destruction.

• The owner of local burger chain, Red Mill Burgers, stepped down after allegations of making sexist and transphobic comments online. Most readers expressed disappointment at the accusations. Except for one guy, who wants to know: “Why is everyone a bunch of pussys [sic] now?”

In its second year, participants at Islamophobia Awareness Day aim to debunk popular myths about the Muslim experience and [educate] people about what the Islamic faith truly teaches.
In its second year, participants at Islamophobia Awareness Day aim to debunk “popular myths about the Muslim experience and [educate] people about what the Islamic faith truly teaches.” IVANOEL/SHUTTERSTOCK

• Islamophobia Awareness Day—which started in Seattle—takes place tomorrow. With anti-Muslim sentiment alive and well in our communities, active awareness is sorely needed. Celebrate the day with free food, free henna, and conversations about Islam tomorrow near Pike Place Market.

• There will be a giant oil refinery protest in Anacortes this weekend. Activists are demonstrating against refineries in the area, as they did last year.

The world sings to Benoît Pioulard and he sings back.
The world sings to Benoît Pioulard and he sings back.

• In music news, Dave Segal shines a light on Debacle Fest’s two biggest acts: Mára and Benoît Pioulard. Their work operates at the intersection between beauty and sadness, he writes, and is well worth contemplative listens.

• Meet Tonoko Mukaiyama—she’s not just any pianist. Mukaiyama believes that pianists don’t just reproduce music in their performances, but that they can create it, too, by making new interpretations of classical songs.

Chef Brian Clevenger named his restaurant Vendemmia after the Italian word for “harvest.”
Chef Brian Clevenger named his restaurant Vendemmia after the Italian word for “harvest.” Kelly O

• Angela Garbes sampled the spring harvest at Vendemmia, where chef and owner Brian Clevenger “gives diners exactly what they want, but doesn’t invite them out of their comfort zones.”

• Looking for something less pricey that $14 ahi poke this weekend? Our Cheap and Easy calendar has you covered. And if that fails, our critics’ film picks surely won’t.

Enjoy the rain this weekend.