by L. Kravit-Smith Olympia theater is back! After a long-awaited pandemic setback, shows at the Harlequin Theater are going steady once more. Harlequin has updated their regulations when it comes to seeing shows with a mandatory mask and vaccination requirement. They’re not allowing max capacity in their theater and are […]
Quo Vadis, Aida? – A Review
by Alden Nagel 9/10 Quo Vadis, Aida? is a piercing meditation on the nature of cultural and historical trauma as seen through the eyes of its perpetrators, the intermediary bureaucrats actively participating in the necessarily banality of evil while retaining their individuality, and the victims of such events in such […]
A Cacophony of Cum
by Michael Richards On the evening of Dec 11, I had the pleasure of attending a performance of “LINGUA II: Maledetto” by Evergreen’s Experimental Music Ensemble. To summarize the summary provided in the show program penned by “Maledetto” author Kenneth Gaburo, it is an attack attempting to reconstrue one’s meaning […]
Artist Interview: Parker Wong
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson My name is Parker Wong, and I’ve been drawing for about 15 years. Most of my work is character and environmental design, as well as fanart. I’ve dabbled a bit in scientific illustration and am considering it as a career. Most of my art is viewable […]
Dear Annie (November 2021)
by Clara Riggio Dear Annie, I miss the sun, but every time it’s out we get loads of shitty little stink bugs soaking up heat on our living room window. Studying there is a nightmare when they keep crawling around in hoards, projecting the worlds most disgusting shadow puppet show […]
The Fantasies of Youth: an Interview with Artist Elayna Sturm
by Lee Arneson Hello! My name’s Elayna (she/her), I’ll be newly twenty-two by the time this is printed (yes, I’m a Sagittarius) and I’m always changing my favorite color but currently it’s cedar-branch-green. I grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Olympia to attend Evergreen, where I will be graduating […]
Dean Spade In Context
by Elise Grage Dean Spade is an emergent revolutionary author, focusing primarily on abolitionist and trans-feminist theory. For nearly two decades, Spade worked towards racial and economic justice while being a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a collective organization focused on community building and legal service accessibility to […]
Moving Olympia’s Unhoused: From Deschutes, the Mitigation Site, to Ensign Road
by Miguel Louis For the last month, local city and council meetings have been defined by a series of debates between citizens and their local governments that will define the future of unhoused Olympians and residents of Thurston County. One of the primary concerns was the Mitigation Site, a small […]
Public Funded Art Creates Health Hazard for Evergreen Staff and Neighbors
by Caroline Keane Evergreen allowed large rocks to be cut by faculty for art, potentially exposing Evergreen staff and community residents to large amounts of silica, or fine ground rock particles. Silica exposure over time can lead to silicosis, a serious lung disease. Rock artist and faculty member, Bob Leverich, […]
The Murder of Speedy Geoduck
ERRATICA: FROM THE DESK OF FIORE AMORE, ESQ. OLYMPIA, OCTOBER 29th The Committee for Pleasant Journalism, a clandestine organization dedicated to uncovering the rot, silica, and asbestos from the hidden channels of the Evergreen State College, was prevented from screening the seminal 1983 body horror film “Videodrome” by David Cronenberg. […]