By Blaine Ewig This April 18 will mark the ninth annual Record Store Day in the US. Record stores all around the country will be hosting free in-store performances, throwing parties, having sales, and selling special Record Store Day releases. Inspired by Free Comic Book Day, Record Store Day aims to […]
Best Bets April 9-22
Friday, April 10th @ The Longhouse $0-10 Comedy Night with Aamer Rahman As part of Day of Presence, Aamer Rahman, an Australian comic of Bangladeshi descent is performing at Evergreen. He is best know as a former member of the comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet, and a […]
Broken Water Releases ‘Wrought’ Over beers at Le Voyeur, Broken Water talks about Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, and Making Bros Cry
By Josh Wolf The show ended with the guitar screaming face down in the drums. Jon Hanna left his guitar lying nervously on Kanako Pooknyw’s drum, while Pooknyw yelled improv into the microphone and clashed down upon her bellowing drums. Hanna’s long grunge-blond hair veiled his ambivalent gaze as he […]
New Open-Mic Leading the Way in Olympia’s Comedy Scene
By Taylor Sikorski Olympia’s newest stand up comedy open-mic, Vomity, is successfully reviving our comedy scene as well as establishing new standards for local comedians. Olympia has a long-running comedy scene, but it’s been a struggle to keep shows going for a long period of time, mostly due to venues going […]
You and Me on a CD: The Evergreen Media Project
By Zach Newman For 35 years, students at Evergreen have been documenting the unique music and art they have been making on the annual Evergreen Student Media Project (ESMP.) Run by students with guidance by faculty, the ESMP highlights student talent while also showcasing Evergreen’s media programs and equipment. “It […]
Rosemary Engstrom Artist Statement
I am composing a hole in this saucy donut and slapping you with it. I am coughing up your spineless strawberry and licking it so sweetly. I am drizzling a moment through your male gaze. I am your fish and you are my delicate lips. I am carving you to […]
G.L.O.S.S Lives Outside Society’s Shit
By Blaine Ewig G.L.O.S.S. is the band that everyone has been talking about since long before they existed; they’re the thing that needed to happen. The Olympia supergroup is comprised of members of Vexx, Slouch, Body Betrayal, and other Olympia punk bands. They haven’t even gone on their first tour […]
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 […]
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