By Sarah Bradley On the evening of Wednesday, October 21st, The Olympia Ballroom became the stage for Bread and Puppets presentation of Fire. Bread and Puppets is a politically radical puppet theatre and performance troupe currently based out of Glover, Vermont. Fire was originally created in 1965 as a response and […]
An interview with Taylor Dow
By: Amber Hello! Would you like to introduce yourself? I’m taylor dow! I graduated from evergreen in the summer of 2014. I make comics and illustrations. At evergreen I studied creative writing and fine art. Do you wanna talk a little bit about how your Evergreen education gave […]
Halloween Style Olympia Comes Out in Their Costumed Best
By Sara Fabian The idea of masquerading as someone or something else seems about as old as humanity itself. From masquerade balls of 15th century Europe, to Carnival and Shakespeare plays, the idea of disguise have come from old mythologies: the supernatural beings of Europe, the phantoms ghouls and monsters. […]
Evergreen’s Yik Yak The Upside of Internet Anonymity
By Asa Kowals-Rose Certain corners of the Internet are well-known to be cesspools of vulgarity and intolerance of every kind. Often, it seems that the root of this nastiness is one’s ability to hide behind a username. This online anonymity can embolden mean-spirited individuals, giving them the courage to type […]
Horoscopes
By Y Lowy ARIES 3/21 – 4/19 This week, with Mercury finally out of retrograde, you’ll be surprised to find just how easy it is to finally move forward. Don’t spend too long looking at old photographs, or reading last month’s journal entries. Don’t let yourself be pulled back into […]
Wasted Advice
Greetings. Welcome to Wasted Advice, wherein you ask for advice and I continue to get drunk and advise you. We both win. You can ask me the questions you can’t ask your resident advisor. What do you do when you have a huge crush on your friend and he has […]
Flat Tires & Flowers Mysterious Bike on Campus
By Jackie Buckman Rain, snow, sunshine it doesn’t matter, this special bike is still there. Moving through the racks every day, the bike remains. The questions that fill my mind as I walk by the bike is why is it here? What is the story? When I first saw the […]
Starting Out on the Wrong Feet
By Genivieve Adabelle I was sitting at a cafe in downtown Olympia, listening to a plaid-wearing man in his forties play what I think was a fiddle, and talking to my mother, who had driven down from her Port Townsend home to see me. We had ordered coffee and were […]
The Compassionate Generation
By Asa Kowals-Rose September saw me pass a major milestone in my life, as I packed my things, and departed for The Evergreen State College. Moving away from my parents was a major change in my life, as it surely was for many other new Evergreen arrivals. For me, however, […]
Loie Warren Artist Interview
By Ruby Love I spoke with artist Loie Warren at Obsidian in downtown Olympia, surrounded by the din of clanking dishes, espresso being made, and the muted conversation of students in the midst of half-heartedly studying. The walls were lined with Loie’s work—richly contrasted black and white photographs, many featuring […]