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

Yayoi Kusamas Souls of Millions of Light Years, coming to Seattle next summer.
Yayoi Kusama's Souls of Millions of Light Years, coming to Seattle next summer. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

• Hold on to your Instagram accounts: Seattle Art Museum is bringing Yayoi Kusama's famous Infinity Mirrors to town. This will be just one stop on its North American tour, which begins in 2017. Infinity Mirrors will include Kusama's fully immersive galaxy dreamland rooms, such as the one depicted above, as well as other works of hers. The exhibition marks a return of sorts for Kusama, whose first U.S. exhibition was right here in Seattle.

• Speaking of art, we interviewed mail artist Carl Chew, a notable figure in Seattle since 1976. He talks about lying, teaching, and whether he will ever stop mailing art.

• For this week’s feature, Rich Smith rode a Solowheel around the city for a week. He even raced a leather daddy on one. Could the little baby Segway really be the future of urban transportation, as the Solowheelers claim?

• On Thursday morning, a naked, life-size Donald Trump showed up in Seattle, specifically in Capitol Hill, a block away from The Stranger offices. The statue quickly drew large crowds of selfie-takers and media attention, until it was taken down. The anarchist collective behind the statue then made a statement regarding the piece: “[We want] to know if he’s got a small dick. Simple as that.” What does that say about the selfie-taking citizens who made fun of the statue? We argue that the people who laughed at the Trump statue are playing into Trump's hands . "[The statue] is made using Trump's sense of humor, Trump's aesthetic texture, Trump's sensibility. It makes us all into Trump supporters," writes Rich Smith.

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Occupying Seattle City Hall. Heidi Groover

• This week, protesters filled a Seattle council meeting, where council members voted 7-1 to move forward with a controversial police station. The vote didn’t approve of the cost of the building, which, at $149 million, would have been the most expensive police station in the country.

• Three Seattle millennials have started a PAC to fund young women running for political office in Washington. It’s called the Feminist Progress PAC. "The boys' club is really on its way out," one founder said, "And young women are poised to take that place."

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• Need something to watch this weekend? Here are The Stranger’s 23 critics’ picks in film. In the terrific Little Men, a rent struggle between parents threatens the friendship of two youth. In Werner Herzog’s latest film, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, the director searches for an internet god. And in Watch Dogs, Jonah Hill snorts cocaine and gets punched in the face. All of these are highly recommended movies.

• Want to start planning your Bumbershoot? You can now do that with our comprehensive Bumbershoot guide.

• Wish you were in Rio right now? The next best thing is BrasilFest, which takes place in Seattle this weekend. Stranger Things To Do has that, and 51 other cheap and easy weekend activities.

Enjoy the sun this weekend.