By Seth Lueck While finding oneself highly inebriated at the Olympia Hands On Children’s Museum is usually the culmination of a series of increasingly poor life choices, once in a blue moon, it’s something absolutely fantastic. Friday, Jan. 23 was Beer Craft 2015, an annual 21-and-over event hosted by the […]
Joel SkavdahlArtist Statement
In second grade my friend John would give drawing lessons and I guess this was when I first became interested in art. I really looked up to him and initially tried to draw like him but soon enough I was doing my own thing. I’ve been concentrating on drawing ever […]
Community Organizes to Save Evergreen Gallery from Closure Art Gallery Slated to be Closed Due to Budget Cuts
By Phoebe Celeste Thomas A change is in the works for Evergreen’s art facilities—the elimination of the only professional art gallery on campus, the Evergreen Gallery. The state budget has discontinued funding the gallery, leaving the gallery posed to close after the 2014-2015 academic year. The gallery, which has been a […]
Sleater-Kinney Release ‘No City to Love’ Evergreen’s Greatest Musical Legacy Continues
By Zachary Newman Kathleen Hanna may get the documentaries and Calvin Johnson gets the books, but there is no greater product of Olympia’s music scene than Evergreen’s own Sleater-Kinney. Fiery, urgent, harmonious, and downright powerful, Sleater-Kinney offered an exceptional escape from the dudecore sound of a post-Nirvana world. Their riffs cut […]
Wasted Advice
Greetings. Welcome to Wasted Advice, wherein you ask for advice and a different member of our talented staff answers each week—drunk. We both win. You can ask us the questions you can’t ask your resident advisor. What’s the best way to make a threesome happen? Well, first ou have to […]
Best Bets: Four Ways to Have an Alright Time in Olympia
Thursday, Jan. 29 Holy Komodo (Tour Kickoff) w/ Sawtooth, Sun Eggs Few bands in Olympia are as unapologetically fun as Holy Komodo. Thick bass lines, seductive harmonies, and infectious disco grooves (supplied by drummer Joel Skavdahl, that’s his art on the cover), cut easily through the fog of cynicism that […]
Foxcatcher Showing at Olympia Film Society
By Sara Fabien Showing at the Olympia Film Society Feb. 6 through 11 “Foxcatcher” is an intelligent drama based on a real murder case, in which a wealthy patron hired two wrestler brothers, tried to seduce and control one of them, and ended up murdering the other. It is a […]
Wednesday! College President Candidate Will Take Your QuestionsDr. Margaret Madden is the first of four candidates to hold public meetings
By Issac Scott Dr. Margaret Madden, the first of four candidates to be Evergreen’s next president, will visit the college on Wednesday, Jan. 28 to speak and meet students. Madden will give a speech and answer questions in Evergreen’s Recital Hall, in the COM building at noon, followed by a […]
Proposed Bill Would Reduce Penalties for Drug Crimes
By Felix Chrome In a move to lessen the penalties for drug possession, House Rep. Sherry Appleton has filled a new bill in the Washington Legislature that would reduce most drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor. Rep. Appleton, from Port Orchard, filed the bill ahead of the Legislature’s […]
Ben Rosen Introduces Qigong to Olympia
By Kathryn L. Herron Qigong is a Chinese art form dating over 4,000 years that serves as a practice of regulating one’s body, mind, and health for meditative and medical purposes. Qigong taps into qi, the Chinese concept of life energy which is said to underlie all things. Through the […]
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