Fascinating Finds from the Bowels of Castle Carmichael by Alden Nagle The Daniel J. Evans Library is a welcoming space, with original furniture, carpeted floors, and collections that include classic literature, handmade books, and even laserdiscs. I go there on a regular basis to stock up on DVDs, both because […]
Our Parable
by Clara Riggio How do we know when the apocalypse starts? Is a nation-wide alert going to pop up on our phones and tell us that it has officially begun? Is mass violence going to break out like in “The Purge”? Could it be that it has already started? Octavia […]
Artist Interview: Paige Pettibon
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson Paige Pettibon is an artist based in Tacoma, Washington. Her medium focus is acrylic painting, but has extended to fiber art, beadwork, digital design, and other media. Paige is Black, White, and Salish (from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes). She is influenced by her multicultural […]
Wet City, USA
Part Three of ERRATICA: From the Desk of Fiore Amore, Esq. The Olympia structure, also known as the Legislature fault, is an 80km long gravitational and aeromagnetic anomaly separating the sedimentary deposits of the Tacoma Basin from the basalt of the Black Hills uplift. It is not known to be […]
A Night at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
by L. Kravit-Smith Olympia theater is back! After a long-awaited pandemic setback, shows at the Harlequin Theater are going steady once more. Harlequin has updated their regulations when it comes to seeing shows with a mandatory mask and vaccination requirement. They’re not allowing max capacity in their theater and are […]
Quo Vadis, Aida? – A Review
by Alden Nagel 9/10 Quo Vadis, Aida? is a piercing meditation on the nature of cultural and historical trauma as seen through the eyes of its perpetrators, the intermediary bureaucrats actively participating in the necessarily banality of evil while retaining their individuality, and the victims of such events in such […]
A Cacophony of Cum
by Michael Richards On the evening of Dec 11, I had the pleasure of attending a performance of “LINGUA II: Maledetto” by Evergreen’s Experimental Music Ensemble. To summarize the summary provided in the show program penned by “Maledetto” author Kenneth Gaburo, it is an attack attempting to reconstrue one’s meaning […]
Artist Interview: Parker Wong
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson My name is Parker Wong, and I’ve been drawing for about 15 years. Most of my work is character and environmental design, as well as fanart. I’ve dabbled a bit in scientific illustration and am considering it as a career. Most of my art is viewable […]
The Fantasies of Youth: an Interview with Artist Elayna Sturm
by Lee Arneson Hello! My name’s Elayna (she/her), I’ll be newly twenty-two by the time this is printed (yes, I’m a Sagittarius) and I’m always changing my favorite color but currently it’s cedar-branch-green. I grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Olympia to attend Evergreen, where I will be graduating […]
poems.
all poems featured in this post originally published in volume 50, issue 3/4