By Zachary Newman Having moved from the dorms to our house off Division Street, my friends and I have had quite the cuisine around Olympia, without having to go very far (downtown is far- It’s, like, two roundabouts away.) But unlike our cute neighbors and the very nice community we […]
Fermenting Local Culture OlyKraut Expands Reach Beyond the South Sound
By Cassie Johnson-Villalobos Sash Sunday began sharing her small batches of homemade sauerkraut with friends in 2005. The former Evergreen student now manages the production of much larger batches of raw, fermented products and distributes from Seattle to Portland—as the founder and owner of the growing local business OlyKraut. Since […]
Game Fix Where to Find Classic Video Game Gear
By Cody Byre As an employee of GameStop, the biggest corporate game retail company in the U.S., I often encounter customers seeking classic games, consoles, and accessories. These old gaming items—Playstation 2, GameCube, Original Xbox and older—have become increasingly difficult to locate for collectors or classic gaming enthusiasts, especially in […]
Three Magnets Brewing Co. Opens New Brewpub In Downtown Olympia
By Kathryn L. Casterline Beer drinkers, rejoice! There is a new brewpub in downtown Olympia. Cancel your plans to visit the craft breweries in Seattle and Portland and go check out the Three Magnets Brewing Co. as soon as you possibly can. Three Magnets is owned and operated by Evergreen […]
A Nerd’s Paradise Gabi’s Olympic Cards and Comics Continues to Expand
By Kathryn L. Casterline Gabi’s Olympic Cards and Comics has been in the Olympia area for over twenty years, though there are still a lot of locals who don’t even know it exists. Over the years, it’s become less of a comic shop and more of a “nerdy community center,” […]
Harvest Festival
By Zachary Newman “This is the fourth Harvest Fest we’ve played, and it’s always been cloudy!” Stephen Smitty, guitarist and vocalist of local favorites Camp Wisdom, told the crowd before his band launched into their set. It was not a complaint. Even as the skies opened up and the rain came […]
Community Season 4: A Parody of Community
“Community” has never been a popular show. On a national scale it has been widely ignored. During it’s third season no episode topped four million viewers, a relatively miniscule number. This rating is especially small for NBC’s Thursday night comedy line-up, a block that has held shows like “The Cosby […]
‘Capitalism’ Rebuttal, the Beauty of Community Living
While I agree with last issue’s opinion piece (“Capitalism: America’s Misunderstood Economic Outcast”) on the unappealing nature of government cheese, I have to take issue with the author’s endorsement of capitalism as a political-economic system worth keeping around much longer. The grievances of capitalism’s critics are well known: environmental destruction, […]
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