by Caroline Keane Photo: George Galvez’s Mural at the Alano Club, GEORGEOUS MURALS. Over the past two years, the walls of downtown Olympia have become much more colorful. Murals and graffiti covered boarded up shops. This shift began when the pandemic hit and the Black Lives Matter uprising followed. This […]
Poem: Where Softness Lives
by lee 이 therese I live in tea tins, jars of money meant for saving, fairy lights, art & photo plastered walls, scratched cd cases, & half-read books This is my eclectic safe-haven When I was younger, I wanted to live like Arrietty tiny, petite, bright-eyed, & surrounded by plants […]
SPOILER WARNING: ‘Becoming Confused, Again’ with ‘Psycho 2’, a Review
by Brock Holes What better way to kick off Halloween season, and my tenure at Spoiler Warning than to review a bizarre and uncalled for sequel to a beloved classic? For this October column, I want to introduce the uninitiated to “Psycho II” (1983). Directed by Richard Franklin and scripted […]
Interview with Artist Pearl Jade
By Avery Quinn Pearl Jade is a 21-year-old musician and visual artist currently residing in their hometown of Anacortes, Washington. I had the pleasure of interviewing them over Zoom. Look for them in the coming months as they move back to Olympia and at https://pearltottenhammusic.bandcamp.com/music. avery: What have you been […]
Spoiler Warning: Go Play Disco Elysium. Now. Posthaste.
By Alice McIntyre The 2019 role-playing game “Disco Elysium,” developed and published by ZA/UM, is phenomenal. This column has been, and will continue to be, essentially a place for me to gush about media I like and think CPJ readers ought to check out. On this occasion, though, I really […]
Guilty Pleasures
By Brooke Lynch Recently, I have been horrified to find that I have an affinity for 80s hard rock and metal. Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses and other bands whom I’ve had absolutely no love for have been popping up in my playlists and recent listens, and I […]
An Interview with Moonshine Quinn
By Avery Quinn Moonshine Quinn is a twenty-three year old artist currently residing in Olympia on Coast Salish, Cowlitz, Nisqually, and Squaxin land. Moon is an incredible human, who in addition to being my sibling has also saved my life more than a hundred times over simply by existing. Their […]
Hyperpop Transness
By Brooke Lynch I don’t think I was ready for how catchy “800 db cloud” by 100 gecs was gonna be. As an 18-year-old, I was all about the distorted guitars and supposed rawness of punk and grunge, so an experimental electronic album was of no interest to me. But […]
Poetry by lee 이 therese
Love Letter to the Little Mixed Kid by lee 이 therese Whenever you are ready if you are ever ready just know I will embrace you welcome you with both hands arms spread wide to catch your starlight you multifaceted wonder you with your eclectic soul you can be a […]
Spoiler Warning: Bullshit Jobs, Clerks, and Capitalist Realism
By Alice McIntyre Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” (1994) is one of my comfort movies, for sure. It chronicles the misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two minimum-wage retail clerks in New Jersey. After being called in to cover another employee’s morning shift, Dante has a series of encounters […]