By Miette Deschenes Winter quarter can be a difficult time. The sky is always dark, the air is cold and finger-numbing, and nobody wants to leave their dorms. And who can blame them? It seems like there’s no reason! Thankfully, there is actually a lot going on in the Olympia area this […]
FOUND PAINTING: Seeking Artist
Photo of found painting courtesy of the author. By Tzvi Silver A year and a half ago I was driving around with a friend and she spotted a free pile on Division Street that seemed especially lucrative. I slammed on the breaks. There was a huge canvas in the pile, done up in unpleasant colors: pukey purple mixed with […]
Yvette Onychuk: Artist Interview with Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: Art by Yvette Onychuk Yvette Onychuk is an artist whose deeply detailed fantasy style caught my eye while attending the Evergreen Arts and Crafts Fair. An arts student at Evergreen, she originally hails from Redmond, Washington. Fittingly for the locale, a good deal of her artwork rings of otherworldly interpretations of forestlike settings […]
Spoiler Warning: How Uncut Gems Wins
Photo: Adam-Sandler by CONNOR VICK is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Alice McIntyre Uncut Gems (2019) is a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long heart attack. And I love it. It seems highly unnatural to say that about a film starring Adam Sandler. Stranger still is the fact that Uncut Gems, in marked contrast to Sandler’s myriad rom-com roles of days past, is a […]
New Journalism: Studio B, Unscripted
Photo: Talk Show Studio. VAZHA DESPOTASHVILI. Labeled for reuse on pexels.com By Daniel Mootz Al Jazeera’s English News network has a new talk-show program without a host. Studio B, Unscripted, consists of “just two notable individuals from different walks of life and ideas to share,” according to aljazeera.com. The first episode aired Nov. 15, 2019, and featured public intellectuals Marc […]
Evergreen Introduces New Scholarship Process
Photo: The Evergreen State College’s Scholarship Office sign. SHAYNA CLAYTON. By Miette Deschenes Evergreen has streamlined its scholarship application process this year. Hooray! Anyone who applied for a scholarship in previous years knows how convoluted the process used to be. Thankfully, applications have been simplified and it should be much easier to apply now. Here is a handy guide […]