By Alice McIntyre As a child I was, like many others, enthralled by Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit. To this day when I recall my father sitting on my bedside and delivering his personal rendition of Bilbo Baggins’ journey to the Lonely Mountain and back, a part of me becomes […]
Oedipus Complex 3: Saint Pete
By Fiore Amore Content warning: mentions of suicide, self harm I’ve spent nine whole years of my life wanting to kill myself and by god, I did it. “Finally! Suck my dick, corporeal being! You don’t mean a goddamn thing to me.” Or so I thought. Funny thing: I was […]
George Washington Bush: an Abridged Biography
By Patrick Hamilton In 1844 the first Americans to settle on the Puget Sound in what is now Washington State were led through the frontier by George Washington Bush, a man of African and Irish descent. Bush, along with his wife (b.)Isabella James, established a farm named Bush Prairie in […]
How Contemporary Black Poets are Shaping Society
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson These past couple weeks I had the pleasure to interview three local Black poets in the Pacific Northwest. During Black History Month, it is important to celebrate Black history as well as look to those in the Black community currently making history. It could be said […]
On Oly Housing Now at the Red Lion Hotel
By Miguel Louis Correction: Within the print edition, we had claimed that the author was involved with the actions in the article. To clarify, this involvement was the retelling of events, giving special consideration to the perspectives of the actors involved. On Jan. 30, a small group of activists visited […]
Eating Sustainably & DIY Living: An Interview with Forest Ember (she/her), an Evergreen Student, Pt. 2
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson The following is the second half of an interview that was published in our January issue, which you can find here. What first started you with sustainable living–why’d you first decide to start that kind of lifestyle? When I moved to Seattle, I moved into an […]
Evergreen First Peoples’ February Events
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson The following is a list of virtual events and announcements for the month of February for Evergreen’s First Peoples, Multicultural, Trans, & Queer Support Services. Evergreen’s First Peoples, Multicultural, Trans, & Queer Support Services is here to provide (virtual) community amidst all our social distancing! We […]
The Violet Paroxyst
by Avery Quinn The Violet Paroxyst is 20 year-old experimental music-maker Milo Balcziunas. Their music combines spacious melodies with a deeply evocative intensity to create what they call “hidden galaxies of sound.” Within these galaxies I am soothed and disturbed, made whole as well as fragmented, pulled into a world […]
WA Climate Assembly Offers New Path
By Jacob Anderson-Kester On January 12th, 80 Washington residents gathered virtually for the inaugural meeting of the United States’ first Climate Assembly. The Washington Climate Assembly presents a unique angle to paths towards direct democracy by utilizing community conversation and action, mirroring similar pursuits in countries around the world that […]
Spoiler Warning: Videodrome
By Alice McIntyre Videodrome (1983), directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, is a sci-fi horror classic. It chronicles the descent of TV executive Max Renn (Woods) into a derealized nightmare by way of the ultraviolent program known as, well, “Videodrome.” The film is well and truly terrifying—not only […]