Over the years I have evolved my answer to the question “Where are you from?” Originally, I would name the nearest town to mine that people might actually recognize, but now I simply say, “Skagit Valley, Washington.” In all honesty, the valley itself is my home. I reside in and […]
Spring Blooms New Tunes: Interview with the Window Smashing Job Creators
Olympia favorites, The Window Smashing Job Creators, are set to release a new album soon. They’ve released a few songs early, which can be found on youtube or bandcamp. You can hear about upcoming shows on their Facebook or Instagram. I spoke with members about the new album, their musical […]
Irrealism, Imagination, Intervention: The Locust Review in Their Words and Mine
by Alex McIntyre The Locust Review is a project of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, “published quarterly in an anachronistic newspaper format” and online. The collective defines itself as “an association of radical, critical irrealist and socialist artists,” and published the first issue of the Locust in Fall 2019. […]
Student Art Returns to Evergreen
by Michael Richards On Thursday, Mar. 10, three separate art programs presented their work in a gallery hosted at the beautiful Evergreen Arts Annex. For the first time in a long while, students and people in the Olympia community were encouraged to experience the handiwork of Evergreen’s extremely talented collection […]
It Came From the Library
Fascinating Finds from the Bowels of Castle Carmichael by Alden Nagle The Daniel J. Evans Library is a welcoming space, with original furniture, carpeted floors, and collections that include classic literature, handmade books, and even laserdiscs. I go there on a regular basis to stock up on DVDs, both because […]
Our Parable
by Clara Riggio How do we know when the apocalypse starts? Is a nation-wide alert going to pop up on our phones and tell us that it has officially begun? Is mass violence going to break out like in “The Purge”? Could it be that it has already started? Octavia […]
Artist Interview: Paige Pettibon
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson Paige Pettibon is an artist based in Tacoma, Washington. Her medium focus is acrylic painting, but has extended to fiber art, beadwork, digital design, and other media. Paige is Black, White, and Salish (from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes). She is influenced by her multicultural […]
Wet City, USA
Part Three of ERRATICA: From the Desk of Fiore Amore, Esq. The Olympia structure, also known as the Legislature fault, is an 80km long gravitational and aeromagnetic anomaly separating the sedimentary deposits of the Tacoma Basin from the basalt of the Black Hills uplift. It is not known to be […]
A Night at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
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 […]