By Ira Zuckerman Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, one of Evergreen’s oldest retreats, is a basin of sagebrush flats and salt lakes tucked into Southeast Oregon. It’s five times smaller than Olympic National Park, but makes a crucial oasis for migrating waterbirds on the western flyway. Though now retired, emeritus ornithology […]
Next Generation A Sober Look at the Generation PsYchedelic Conference
By Ira Zuckerman It was a beautiful spring weekend—birds were singing, weed-whackers were whacking, music was pumping out of the Circus Resurgence Club’s speakers—but the attendees of the Generation PsYchedelic (GenPsY) conference, a three-day symposium on integrating psychedelics into society and culture, where natural beauty was constantly raised to divine […]
Blowing Clouds The Business of Vapor in the E-cig Scene
By Ira Zuckerman For the sole purpose of this article, I inhaled the vapors at the South Sound Vapor Lounge. Usually, all an outsider sees through the heavy fog are scattered crowds of hunched-over smokers. Once through the door, I entered a world of vapor. Now, it was the outside world […]
Modern American FootballThe 12th Man Rising
By Ira Zuckerman It will only get worse: as of writing this, you can’t go five yards without seeing a 12 in Seattle. Seahawks pride has been growing exponentially since the 2013 season, and strong faith ran up and down the Puget Sound long before. And yes, football is here […]
New Food Review:
The Hot Box
By Ira Zuckerman The Hot Box is one of only a few places that deliver late night food to Evergreen. But the convenience of delivery sandwiches is about the only thing it can deliver on, as there’s much room for improvement in this institution of grease. Although there are seven sandwiches […]
Saturday Night DisInfo: Last Word Books Hosts Weekly Discussion of All Things Reptilian and Chemtrail
Illustration by Ruby Thompson By Ira Zuckerman An eccentric among its peers, Last Word Books is packed on Saturday nights. Most bookstores would give into the bars and clubs on these weekend evenings, but Last Word keeps their doors open for a weekly meeting of the paranoid. A man with […]
Obsidian Plans New Music Hub With Classic Values
By Ira Zuckerman In past weeks, the jet black walls across 4th and Jefferson from the Crypt were under the warning sign: “Wet Acid Keep Out.” Over Halloween weekend, a new sign went up: “Obsidian Coming This Fall” in a Gothic font. Formerly, these walls belonged to Jezebel’s Bar and […]
Stuff To Do: Halloween Weekend
By Ira Zuckerman FRIDAY 10/31 Night of the Living Tribute Bands (Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave SE, 8pm, $10) As rock groups, Bon Jovi and Weezer don’t really share artistic traits. All they have in common is that they made it. For the Olympia Film Society, that’s enough to put them […]
Cheap Eats: 4th Ave for $5
By Ira Zuckerman Like many students, I got lost on move-in day. I got lost in the thick of downtown Olympia with a dorm-mate trying to find an inexpensive dinner, something to settle the shock of leaving home. Like two blind vultures, we wandered in circles, looking for the perfect […]
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