By Joe Anderson For the last ten months, The Evergreen State College has been in a struggle to manage the school’s food waste in a sustainable manner. The school is now investigating other community connections to handle this waste. Silver Springs, the commercial composting facility that previously received Evergreen’s compost, […]
Album Review: The Celestials – Peach Noise
Local psych rockers The Celestials show their knack for mellow indie pop on their debut full-length album Peach Noise. The quintet presents accessible, hipster-friendly fare while demonstrating the kind of inventive musicality that should put them on every music-lover’s radar. All lower-case song titles? Check. Far out existentialist lyrical content? […]
Food Bank Satellite Challenges Misconceptions
Every Tuesday, from 4 pm to 6 pm, the Thurston County Food Bank Satellite opens it’s doors to Greeners and other community members. The satellite was launched on April 9, 2013, and is based in Seminar II, building E2115. “This project began in Police Services as the ‘Food Pantry’,” said […]
Oysters, Tides, and Boots (Knee High) – That’s What Shellfish Club Is Made Of
The beach was filled with the squish of boots wading through low-tide mud as the Shellfish Club hosted its first work party on the beach. On October 6, at midnight, the club took about twenty-five students to learn about how clams and oysters are farmed at the Evergreen State College, […]
New Moon, New Ownership
In August, the New Moon Cafe at 113 4th Avenue opened its doors under new ownership. The local Black Moon Collective spent February through April in negotiations with then-owner Dylan Elkhart. The collective officially purchased the restaurant in May. “Ultimately it’s about creating a job for ourselves,” said Kat Darger, […]
A Conversation on Positive Politics
Sometimes it seems like we can feel so separated from government and its mechanisms. But not everyone feels so. Recently I had a chance to meet Mary Ellen McCaffree (left), a former Washington State representative. She was the only woman in the leadership group during the Daniel J. Evans (right) administrations […]
Interview with an American Fourtracker
By Cassandra Johnson-Villalobos Independent artist and producer John Vanderslice is having an exceptional year. Throughout the first part of 2013, Vanderslice left his record label, self-released two albums, embarked on a “living room” tour, and began building a new recording studio in Oakland, Calif. Now the Bay Area-based musician is […]
A Journey to China, Evergreen Style
Sometimes a place calls you; sometimes you are lucky enough to answer the call. We don’t get to ask why and in not being able to ask, we certainly don’t always get an answer. The pull is there and so we end up in some distant land questioning, why am […]
Full Local Audio
Bob Schwenkler is an important force behind Olympia’s music scene. From founding Bicycle Records while a student at Evergreen, to recording some of the Northwest’s best bands, Schwenkler now helms K Record’s legendary Dub Narcotic studio. Schwenkler has made a lasting impact on the music Olympia listens to and the […]