by Jack Stroud In early October, the City of Olympia made the decision (it was ultimately City Manager Jay Burney’s decision) to clear the camp of houseless people parked along Ensign Rd, the main justification thereto being that Ensign residents impeded emergency vehicle traffic to Providence St. Peter’s Hospital. On […]
Spoiler Warning: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Photo: The Man Who Fell to Earth, British Lion Films, 1976 by Alice McIntyre The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie, is a movie I constantly return to. Bowie plays an alien named Thomas Jerome Newton, who has arrived on Earth from […]
The Olympia Waterfront: Past and Present
Photo: Aerial view of the Capital Campus in 1940, before the 5th Avenue dam was built, Washington State Digital Archives by Jack Stroud Percival Landing, Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 a.m.–Red Road Rising, an Indigenous-led spiritual group open to all, stand in a socially distanced circle of eight people, drums in […]
Graduate Feature: Skokomish Artist Bunni Peterson-Haitwas Finishes Evergreen Studies Ready to Follow Her Heart
Photo courtesy of Bunni Peterson-Haitwas
‘Booksmart’ Is a New Classic Teen Movie
Cast of “Booksmart” at SXSW Film Festival by DannyB Photos / CC BY 2.0
Art Feature: Isabelle O’Connor and Her Journey With Printmaking
Artist Interview by Jacob Anderson-Kester Isabelle O’Connor is a printmaker attending Evergreen who I first encountered through a small box via Zoom meeting. The level of detail and intimacy entailed within their art drove me to expand beyond the box; though the level of connection afforded during these times is […]
White Supremacy: The Second Article of a Three-Part Series, titled ‘White Emptiness’
by Luca Fiora Dalton This piece is a follow-up to a previous article titled “White Emptiness.” White supremacy is everywhere in our society. Its stronghold is within we white people — it is my deeply held belief that all white people are racist, including myself. By racism, I don’t just […]
Emiliano Monchilov: Artist Interview by Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photos: Art by Emiliano Monchilov Can you give me some background as to where you grew up, why you chose to go to Evergreen, what you have studied, and where you are in your life now? I grew up mostly in an isolated mining town in West Papua, Indonesia, where […]
Spoiler Warning: Napoleon Dynamite’s Faded Jeans and Faded Dreams
Photo: Jon Heder, right, and Efren Ramirez appear in a scene from the 2004 movie “Napoleon Dynamite.” by Alice McIntyre Napoleon Dynamite (2004) is one of my favorite movies. The film, directed by Jared Hess and starring Jon Heder, is the dictionary definition of the American high school comedy. Our […]
Economic Insecurity Among College Students
Photo: A sign at The Evergreen State College, Shayna Clayton by Sheridan Turner In 2020, any quick visit to social media will show you that college students, almost universally, are broke. We make memes out of skipping meals, our mounting student debt, and living with an excessive number of roommates. Ramen is […]
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