By Miette Deschenes Winter quarter can be a difficult time. The sky is always dark, the air is cold and finger-numbing, and nobody wants to leave their dorms. And who can blame them? It seems like there’s no reason! Thankfully, there is actually a lot going on in the Olympia area this […]
FOUND PAINTING: Seeking Artist
Photo of found painting courtesy of the author. By Tzvi Silver A year and a half ago I was driving around with a friend and she spotted a free pile on Division Street that seemed especially lucrative. I slammed on the breaks. There was a huge canvas in the pile, done up in unpleasant colors: pukey purple mixed with […]
Yvette Onychuk: Artist Interview with Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: Art by Yvette Onychuk Yvette Onychuk is an artist whose deeply detailed fantasy style caught my eye while attending the Evergreen Arts and Crafts Fair. An arts student at Evergreen, she originally hails from Redmond, Washington. Fittingly for the locale, a good deal of her artwork rings of otherworldly interpretations of forestlike settings […]
Spoiler Warning: How Uncut Gems Wins
Photo: Adam-Sandler by CONNOR VICK is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Alice McIntyre Uncut Gems (2019) is a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long heart attack. And I love it. It seems highly unnatural to say that about a film starring Adam Sandler. Stranger still is the fact that Uncut Gems, in marked contrast to Sandler’s myriad rom-com roles of days past, is a […]
New Journalism: Studio B, Unscripted
Photo: Talk Show Studio. VAZHA DESPOTASHVILI. Labeled for reuse on pexels.com By Daniel Mootz Al Jazeera’s English News network has a new talk-show program without a host. Studio B, Unscripted, consists of “just two notable individuals from different walks of life and ideas to share,” according to aljazeera.com. The first episode aired Nov. 15, 2019, and featured public intellectuals Marc […]
Evergreen Introduces New Scholarship Process
Photo: The Evergreen State College’s Scholarship Office sign. SHAYNA CLAYTON. By Miette Deschenes Evergreen has streamlined its scholarship application process this year. Hooray! Anyone who applied for a scholarship in previous years knows how convoluted the process used to be. Thankfully, applications have been simplified and it should be much easier to apply now. Here is a handy guide […]
Evergreen’s Food and Agricultural Path
By Kris Hill The Paths of Study were created to better support students who already know what field of study they want to follow by making curriculum in an area more visible and more repeatable. The Food and Agriculture Path is designed for students focused on the intersection of sustainable food production, […]
No Fare is Fair: Bobby Carleton on Fare Strikes, Police Brutality, and Direct Action
Photo: Olympia’s Transit Center by Shayna Clayton By Alice McIntyre Bobby Carleton is an Evergreen student and Olympia resident that has been involved with various community organizing projects around housing justice, food justice, and reproductive rights and is currently focused on advocating for fare-free public transit. Given Intercity Transit’s recent decision to eliminate fares starting on Jan. […]
Emily Grugel: Artist Interview with Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: Art by Emily Grugel Emily Grugel is a member of the Olympia community who finds a great deal of reflection and expression through art. She is a member of the band Defect Play, which is one of her key focuses in the arts; she also makes collages, as well as a variety […]
Spoiler Warning: The Room is a Hetero Nightmare
Photo: “Tommy-Wiseau-2” by Tommy Wiseau is a public domain photograph By Alice McIntyre “I did not hit her! I did not! Oh, hi Mark.” This is one of many strange lines of dialogue found in Tommy Wiseau’s oddball cult classic The Room, recently screened at the Capitol Theater by the Olympia Film […]