By Alice McIntyre Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979) is widely regarded as one of the best films of all time, and deservedly so. It tells the story of the commercial starship Nostromo and its crew, who intercept a distress signal during their return to earth and subsequently deal with an […]
Bunni Peterson-Haitwas: Welcome Woman
Photo: Photograph of the Welcome Woman, by herself, courtesy of Shayna Clayton. Interview by Marta Tahja-Syrett On Oct. 2 of 2019, Makah carver Greg Colfax and Skokomish artist Bunni Peterson-Haitwas revealed their beautiful restoration of the Welcome Woman—a joint project which they presented to the Evergreen community through a fall unveiling […]
Always Greener: A Look at Xing Wei’s Evergreen Partnership and the Radical Potential of Student Power in Practice
By Daniel Mootz Four years after opening in 2012, Xing Wei College, a private liberal arts school in Shanghai, partnered with Evergreen to develop an overseas exchange program. For four years that program has been going strong, and has expanded to include independent Evergreen courses, such as Arts, Culture, and […]
Remembering Rachel Corrie
Photo: “Rachel Corrie Peace Vigil”. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. CC BY-SA 3.0 By Jake Andersen If you’ve walked around Evergreen, I’m sure you’ve seen the Rachel Corrie Memorial on the third floor of the College Activities Building (CAB). The memorial, a bronze dove perched atop a steel pyramid, stands outside of the Student Activities […]
Ro Waters: Artist Interview by Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: art by Ro Waters By Jacob Anderson-Kester Ro Waters is a visual artist attending Evergreen. Originating from deep in the concrete holdings of Denver, they expressed to me an artistic desire to break free from the bleak shroud an environment of such a type might cast. Fittingly, Ro’s artistic output is predominantly loud […]
Hey There! with @HeyMariah: Valentine’s Day Edition
Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate love in all of its forms. This Valentine’s Day, the most important person for you to love is yourself. Loving yourself means having grace for yourself. It means not beating yourself up with negative self-talk every time you do something you consider a […]
Stuff 2 Do: February Edition
By Miette Deschenes Winter quarter can be a difficult time. The sky is always dark, the air is cold and finger-numbing, and nobody wants to leave their dorms. And who can blame them? It seems like there’s no reason! Thankfully, there is actually a lot going on in the Olympia area this […]
FOUND PAINTING: Seeking Artist
Photo of found painting courtesy of the author. By Tzvi Silver A year and a half ago I was driving around with a friend and she spotted a free pile on Division Street that seemed especially lucrative. I slammed on the breaks. There was a huge canvas in the pile, done up in unpleasant colors: pukey purple mixed with […]
Yvette Onychuk: Artist Interview with Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: Art by Yvette Onychuk Yvette Onychuk is an artist whose deeply detailed fantasy style caught my eye while attending the Evergreen Arts and Crafts Fair. An arts student at Evergreen, she originally hails from Redmond, Washington. Fittingly for the locale, a good deal of her artwork rings of otherworldly interpretations of forestlike settings […]
Spoiler Warning: How Uncut Gems Wins
Photo: Adam-Sandler by CONNOR VICK is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Alice McIntyre Uncut Gems (2019) is a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long heart attack. And I love it. It seems highly unnatural to say that about a film starring Adam Sandler. Stranger still is the fact that Uncut Gems, in marked contrast to Sandler’s myriad rom-com roles of days past, is a […]