By Issac Scott Just before midnight on Friday, Oct. 24, police vehicles descended on a Westside house, where students were throwing a benefit show featuring local bands. With a search warrant, the police entered the house and ordered everyone over the age of 21 to get out. Those who were […]
Evergreen Faces Lowest Ever State Funding, Ballooning Tuition Costs
State-Wide Budget Shortfalls May Spell Further Cuts
By Issac Scott After six years of sweeping reductions in state funding to The Evergreen State College, state support for the college is at a historic low and may now face major cuts next year, threatening staff layoffs, bigger class sizes, and even higher tuition rates. Governor Jay Inslee will release […]
Best New Music: 2013-14
Here’s what we think you should be listening to. By ISSAC SCOTT While everyone fawns over Portland, Chicago and Austin as hot spots for new music, Olympia quietly ferments the kind of sublime weirdness that has contributed disproportionately to overall “alternative culture,” whatever that means. Obviously, themes established by riot […]
Best New Music: LAKE – “Circular Doorway”
LAKE – CIRCULAR DOORWAY (K Records) By ISSAC SCOTT LAKE assembles a cabal of talented players for laid back, vintage-sounding grooves in what is arguably most quintessentially Olympia band imaginable. Nearing a decade since their first release, Circular Doorway shows that the quartet has settled comfortably into their offbeat pop […]
Best New Music: You Are Plural – “Rabbit Rabbit”
YOU ARE PLURAL – RABBIT RABBIT (Side With Us) By ISSAC SCOTT Though Olympia trio You Are Plural have established themselves on the West Coast over the past several years, their new album Rabbit Rabbit is a first in many ways. It’s their first full-length album after two shorter EPs, […]
Israeli Supreme Court Hears Rachel Corrie Appeal
FAMILY APPEALS DECISION EXONERATING ISRAELI MILITARY IN STUDENT ACTIVIST’S DEATH BY ISSAC SCOTT Eleven years after Rachel Corrie’s death, the Israeli Supreme Court heard arguments appealing the decision that found the Israeli military was not responsible for the death of the Evergreen student in 2003. On May 21, the Corrie […]
Evergreen Wrestles with Budget Problems Amidst Dropping Enrollment
By ISSAC SCOTT Due to falling enrollment, Evergreen is in a budget crisis and will have to cut costs over the next several years. At a recent community meeting, Evergreen President Les Purce announced the crisis and lead a discussion by outlining the issues, the sources of the crisis, and […]
Brooklyn Quintet Fuses No-Wave and Hip-Hop
BY ISSAC SCOTT Ava Luna hails from the heady Brooklyn music scene that favors the often impossibly intricate and angular experimental rock evidenced by Dirty Projectors, Akron Family, and Battles. Listening to these bands, it is clear they emerge from the epicenter of every musical style from no-wave to hip-hop. […]
Deadline Nears for Lawmakers to make Education Reforms
BY ISSAC SCOTT Washington state lawmakers are working to increase education funding and enact other education reforms this legislative session, under pressure from the State Supreme Court and Governor to take decisive action to improve public education in the state. The State Legislature has until April 30 to offer a […]
From ‘Urban Blight’ to Public Sanctuary
The West Central Park Project Works to Reinvent Neglected Lot with Help from Volunteers BY ISSAC SCOTT The vacant lot at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Division Street is getting a makeover, thanks to a group of committed local residents. The West Central Park Project is working to renovate the […]
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