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 […]
Crisis-Friendly Cooking: Mug Cake!
by Adam Nichols We’re finally on the last leg of the Washington Seasonal Depression era, and sometimes we just need a little nudge to make it through with our mental health somewhat intact. For me, this usually means making something sweet, and low-effort desserts are my favorite form of self-care. […]
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 […]
A Cacophony of Cum
by Michael Richards On the evening of Dec 11, I had the pleasure of attending a performance of “LINGUA II: Maledetto” by Evergreen’s Experimental Music Ensemble. To summarize the summary provided in the show program penned by “Maledetto” author Kenneth Gaburo, it is an attack attempting to reconstrue one’s meaning […]
Artist Interview: Parker Wong
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson My name is Parker Wong, and I’ve been drawing for about 15 years. Most of my work is character and environmental design, as well as fanart. I’ve dabbled a bit in scientific illustration and am considering it as a career. Most of my art is viewable […]
Dear Annie (November 2021)
by Clara Riggio Dear Annie, I miss the sun, but every time it’s out we get loads of shitty little stink bugs soaking up heat on our living room window. Studying there is a nightmare when they keep crawling around in hoards, projecting the worlds most disgusting shadow puppet show […]
The Fantasies of Youth: an Interview with Artist Elayna Sturm
by Lee Arneson Hello! My name’s Elayna (she/her), I’ll be newly twenty-two by the time this is printed (yes, I’m a Sagittarius) and I’m always changing my favorite color but currently it’s cedar-branch-green. I grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Olympia to attend Evergreen, where I will be graduating […]
Dean Spade In Context
by Elise Grage Dean Spade is an emergent revolutionary author, focusing primarily on abolitionist and trans-feminist theory. For nearly two decades, Spade worked towards racial and economic justice while being a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a collective organization focused on community building and legal service accessibility to […]