By Night in Oly

Olympia’s Karaoke & Open-Mic Scene

Photo: “YOYO” by Pat Castaldo is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original By Daniel Mootz As Fall begins and the school year starts back up, downtown Olympia offers a number of unique venues for creative and artistic expression. From bars to dispensaries, coffee shops to street corners, people gather not only to hang out and catch a few bands, […]

An Interview with CCBLA Director Ellen Sanchez

By Marta Tahja-Syrett. Ellen Shortt Sanchez is devoted to collaboration and advocacy. In her professional life, Shortt Sanchez attends to the partnership and academic needs of The Evergreen State College. As the director of Evergreen’s Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), she finds herself merging the divide between community […]

I Don’t Want Your Hipster Gumbo

By Marta Tahja-Syrett The marbled wood-grain of my great-grandmother’s shotgun sits propped against hung fabrics, quietly dusting itself in the corner of my parents’ closet. I only met her once before she died in Virginia on a street named for the beauty of bluebirds. The stale scent of present estranged […]