You free Tuesday, June 26? Awesome. Because we’re partnering with our friends at Seattle magazine for our next reader meetup, Craft Beer & Conversation; there’s going to be beer, beer writers, beer trivia, and paella; and you are not going to want to miss it.

Not a beer nerd? Not a problem. Kendall Jones, beer writer for Seattle magazine and the Washington Beer Blog, will join Evergrey director Mónica Guzmán in hosting a learn-as-you-go round of local beer trivia — and all Moni knows about beer is that she prefers stouts because they’re “good.”  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It all goes down at Seapine Brewing Company in SoDo, and they’re going to treat us right. Pint glasses for trivia winners, $1 off brews all night, and paella for purchase. That’s right: Seapine doesn’t usually offer food, but for you, they’re inviting the foodies at Pintxo Seattle to cook up the ricey dish. 😋

Think you can join us? The event is free, but RSVP ASAP ‘cause space will be limited. We’ll see you then!

The head tax is history. Real Change, Seattle’s street paper, covers our city’s homelessness crisis more intimately than anyone else. So as our city council voted 7-2 to repeal the head tax yesterday, Real Change staffers and supporters settled in by City Hall to strike a gong 6,320 times. That’s once for every person who’s living unsheltered in King County. The head tax was a big per-employee tax on high-grossing local businesses that would have raised $47 million to fund housing and services for the homeless. It got a lot of pushback — especially from our business community — and even though our city council passed the tax unanimously about a month ago, they didn’t see it holding up.

What worries you most about where we’re at after this repeal? Come join the chat on our Facebook page. “What worries me,” writes reader Jamie Clausen, “is that we don’t seem any closer to a solution.” (The Seattle Times)

Homelessness in LEGO. You’ve seen LEGO art, but nothing quite like this. Local LEGO artist Iain Heath recreated Seattle in the style of a LEGO skyline set — complete with tents where thousands of our unsheltered neighbors sleep. Iain used to work in our tech industry and told Kurt Schlosser of GeekWire that he was “galled” by Amazon’s big moves against the head tax, which was supposed to raise millions for homeless services before our city council repealed yesterday. “Maybe before we start putting people in tents on Mars,” he wrote on Flickr, “we should first try to reduce the number that are forced to live in them down here.” (GeekWire)

A failed rebellion. Students at Juanita High School over in Kirkland decided not to change their mascot, “The Rebel,” in a vote of 680 to 350. Hundreds of students wanted it gone because they see associations with the Confederacy and the racism embedded in that part of America’s past. Hundreds more students who voted to keep The Rebel believe it ties back to the spirit of the American Revolution and that’s it. (Kirkland Reporter, KUOW)

Nobody’s perfect. And isn’t it about time we celebrate that? Enter FuckUp Nights Seattle. It’s an event where locals talk about times they screwed up professionally. It’s happening tonight in Queen Anne. And here’s more info.

In our blackberry-picking explainer yesterday, we caught up with James Apa, a spokesperson for King County Public Health — but we called him Frank. Clearly, we had Frank Zappa on our minds. 🙃 Thanks for letting us know and being a good sport about it, James!

TODAY’S SEATTLE SHOUTOUT

We’re big fans of the advertisers who help us keep you tuned in to your city (thanks, 4Culture! 🙌). And some of the ads you’re seeing in The Evergrey these days are a little extra special. They were placed here by you — the readers who last week won a free spot to promote something local and awesome in the newsletter.

Today’s community ad (look for the * above!) comes from reader Tricia Cervenan, who helps organize App Camp for Girls in Seattle to “participate in the movement to help change the trajectory of under-represented people in the tech industry.”

Have a good one, all. — The Evergrey