By Ira Zuckerman It will only get worse: as of writing this, you can’t go five yards without seeing a 12 in Seattle. Seahawks pride has been growing exponentially since the 2013 season, and strong faith ran up and down the Puget Sound long before. And yes, football is here […]
G.L.O.S.S Lives Outside Society’s Shit
By Blaine Ewig G.L.O.S.S. is the band that everyone has been talking about since long before they existed; they’re the thing that needed to happen. The Olympia supergroup is comprised of members of Vexx, Slouch, Body Betrayal, and other Olympia punk bands. They haven’t even gone on their first tour […]
Get Caught “Green-Handed”Recyclemania at Evergreen
By Devon Merriman How well do Greeners live up to their green reputation? Find out in this year’s Recyclemania, an annual 10-week recycling competition between colleges around the U.S. and Canada, beginning the first week of February. Washington State University and Eastern Washington University are also participating. “It’s a great […]
Hands On Children’s Museum Shows off Local Brews
By Seth Lueck While finding oneself highly inebriated at the Olympia Hands On Children’s Museum is usually the culmination of a series of increasingly poor life choices, once in a blue moon, it’s something absolutely fantastic. Friday, Jan. 23 was Beer Craft 2015, an annual 21-and-over event hosted by the […]
Joel SkavdahlArtist Statement
In second grade my friend John would give drawing lessons and I guess this was when I first became interested in art. I really looked up to him and initially tried to draw like him but soon enough I was doing my own thing. I’ve been concentrating on drawing ever […]
Community Organizes to Save Evergreen Gallery from Closure Art Gallery Slated to be Closed Due to Budget Cuts
By Phoebe Celeste Thomas A change is in the works for Evergreen’s art facilities—the elimination of the only professional art gallery on campus, the Evergreen Gallery. The state budget has discontinued funding the gallery, leaving the gallery posed to close after the 2014-2015 academic year. The gallery, which has been a […]
Sleater-Kinney Release ‘No City to Love’ Evergreen’s Greatest Musical Legacy Continues
By Zachary Newman Kathleen Hanna may get the documentaries and Calvin Johnson gets the books, but there is no greater product of Olympia’s music scene than Evergreen’s own Sleater-Kinney. Fiery, urgent, harmonious, and downright powerful, Sleater-Kinney offered an exceptional escape from the dudecore sound of a post-Nirvana world. Their riffs cut […]
Wasted Advice
Greetings. Welcome to Wasted Advice, wherein you ask for advice and a different member of our talented staff answers each week—drunk. We both win. You can ask us the questions you can’t ask your resident advisor. What’s the best way to make a threesome happen? Well, first ou have to […]
Best Bets: Four Ways to Have an Alright Time in Olympia
Thursday, Jan. 29 Holy Komodo (Tour Kickoff) w/ Sawtooth, Sun Eggs Few bands in Olympia are as unapologetically fun as Holy Komodo. Thick bass lines, seductive harmonies, and infectious disco grooves (supplied by drummer Joel Skavdahl, that’s his art on the cover), cut easily through the fog of cynicism that […]
Foxcatcher Showing at Olympia Film Society
By Sara Fabien Showing at the Olympia Film Society Feb. 6 through 11 “Foxcatcher” is an intelligent drama based on a real murder case, in which a wealthy patron hired two wrestler brothers, tried to seduce and control one of them, and ended up murdering the other. It is a […]
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