By Cassandra Johnson-Villalobos “You would’ve never thought I was capable of this, if you met me in person,” opens one of the most emotionally potent tracks on Heart Hurt Good, the new CD from Olympia hip hop band AKA and the Heart Hurt Goods. The 12-song LP is a meticulously […]
Intercity Transit: Why I Don’t Ride the Bus
I don’t ride the bus in Olympia because I don’t want to guess if I’ll be getting a ride home or not. On April 7, the Nightline bus reached the Farwell street stop and then sat there for roughly 20 minutes while multiple Evergreen students were refused service. The ordeal […]
Comedy Night Brings Up-And-Coming Comics to Campus
On April 10 the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition, Feminists In Solidarity Together (FIST), and the Generation Friends Comedy Arts Coalition came together to co- sponsor Comedy Night, a stand-up event featuring Hannah Boone, Elicia Sanchez, and Hari Kondabolu. Boone, a current Evergreen senior, is one of the most prolific stand-ups […]
Wasted Advice: 4/25/13
I went to Rainy Day Records to get an LP that is so obscure they didn’t even know how to order it. Am I a hipster? -Not That I Care First off, hippies don’t know how to use computers, so of course they aren’t going to know how to order […]
Upright Citizens: Not For Children
Even with a small child in the front row, nothing was off-limits for the Upright Citizens Brigade. For the third year in a row, presented by Evergreen’s comedy group Generation Friends, the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Tour came to campus for an hour-long show this past Saturday night, April 20. […]
Controversial GSU Amendment Repealed
After three months of extensive revisions and heated debate, The Geoduck Student Union (GSU) members rescinded Amendment 3.6 at their meeting on April 10. Amendment 3.6 was an attempt to change the way Evergreen collected voluntary fees and funded off-campus organizations. For more information, read “GSU Amendment Sparks Conflict” in […]
Show Review: The Shivas at the Brotherhood
The Sunday late-night crowd may not have been large at Olympia’s Brotherhood Lounge this weekend, but the energy was certainly palpable. Three bands were set to take the stage, culminating in the rock n’ roll quartet known as The Shivas, from Vancouver, Wash. Kicking their set off with the aptly […]
Artist Profile: LYNN SCHAEFER
Where did you get inspiration for this particular series? I started to experiment with the concept of tubes after designing a custom shoe case for a company called Nfinity in Atlanta. I kept thinking about shoe laces and composition, and it eventually turned into me developing a biological sensation of […]
It’s Doesn’t Always Suck to be Rick Pitino
At the age of 46 (a relatively young age for a basketball coach), Rick Pitino seemed to be poised for nothing but the highest level of success any coach could dream of. It was the spring of 1996, he was the head coach of the University of Kentucky – one […]
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