By Aria Cummings With winter break soon approaching, you might find yourself either bored or not being able to find anything good to watch on T.V. Not to worry, as I have put together a list of several movies to get you through your winter break boredom. And while some of […]
New Film “Slime Dunk” Shows Oly Skate Scene
By River Gates It has been an Olympia tradition to show Alex Cooper’s skateboard videos at the Capitol Theatre for long enough that they can be referred to as an “annual event.” His latest, “Slime Dunk,” premiered on Nov. 21, and the CPJ sent me to pay for my own […]
‘Correctional/Fluid’ Shows New Work from Jean Nagai
By Phoebe Celeste Thomas Salon Refu/The Susan Christian Project Space hosted the opening of local artist Jean Nagai’s new exhibit “Correctional/Fluid” on Dec. 5, in what was billed as a “Multimedia Happening.” The exhibition features new works in White-Out on colored paper and canvas, and will be at the gallery […]
The Legendary Michael Hurley Plays at The Guest HouseStill Charming Us with Aliens, Tea and Train-robbing wolves, 50 years After his First Album
By Ariety Fried It was warm and distinctly cheerful inside the Guest House where Michael Hurley was about to play last Tuesday night. I had worried I wouldn’t recognize him from his picture as a 22 year old fledgling on the cover of his first album, First Songs, recorded in […]
RVIVR Record Release
By Garrett Bekemeyer The night began snug from the warmth of a fire at a friend’s house. I slugged back cans of Hamm’s while we read raunchy letters to the editor found within an issue of Penthouse from the mid-’70s to each other. We then bickered about whether leaving this […]
Interview: Mirah & Erica Freas
By Blaine Ewig It’s a rare and exciting opportunity to get two busy and prolific artists like Mirah and Erica Freas to sit down and have an hour-long conversation. But the two somehow managed to make time, and lucky for you, we were there for it. Mirah stopped in Olympia […]
Artist Statement: Patrick Semple
These two pieces, “Moonbeam Mirror Light,” and “Deep Sleep” are from a series I’ve been working on, using oil pastel on newspaper. Initially, I was bored in the kitchen one morning so I grabbed this print of The Stranger and went to town on someone’s face with pastel; it has […]
Up & Coming (Nov. 20 – Nov. 26)
Thursday, Nov. 20 Brotherhood Lounge 119 Capitol Way N. 4pm. 21+ Happy hour benefiting Interfaith Works Emergency Overnight Shelter Le Voyeur 404 4th Ave E. 10pm The Mona Reels, Ether Island, Wide Open Le Voyeur 404 4th Ave E. 10pm. 21+ Moment 2 Shine Dance Party Orca Books 509 4th […]
Up & Coming (Nov. 13 – Nov. 19)
Arts & culture events in Olympia from Nov. 13 to Nov. 19. Thursday, Nov. 13 Le Voyeur 404 4th Ave E. 8pm. $5 Drumatic, Lega C Jones, TripleTHR33, Opus Dei, N.O.V.A., Cyrus, Dirtay Northern 414 1/2 Legion Way SE Mirah, Erica Freas Friday, Nov. 14 Le Voyeur 404 4th […]
Fall of Electricity’s ‘The Grunge Era’
By Cassandra Johnson-Villalobos Let’s start out this review out by making some bold generalizations, and we’ll get to the subtleties later. First, any music critic worth their snuff knows genres are meant to be broken. And second, art is the only accessible form of time travel humanity has right now. […]
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