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 […]

Cheap Eats

West$5ide

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 […]

Why We Should Vote

By Zachary Newman This past Election Day saw the lowest voter turnout for a midterm election since 1942. On November 4th, 36.3 percent of Americans mailed in ballots, waited in lines, did whatever they felt they needed to do to be heard. The voter turnout for the 1942 Federal Election […]

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 […]