By Brooke Lynch I don’t think I was ready for how catchy “800 db cloud” by 100 gecs was gonna be. As an 18-year-old, I was all about the distorted guitars and supposed rawness of punk and grunge, so an experimental electronic album was of no interest to me. But […]
We’re Still in a Pandemic, Nice Weather Doesn’t Change That
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson As the months drag on and the weather starts to change, a pleasant Spring emerges from the chill of Winter and an increasing number of people are beginning to go out again. Travel posts and party pictures are slowly taking over social media sites—everything we should […]
The Rising Cost of Textbooks in the US
By Brooke Lynch It should come as no surprise to any college student to hear that textbooks are expensive. The often mandatory cost of the books students use has been increasing at a staggering three times the inflation rate since around the 1970s. This rate would be alarming on it’s […]
The Garbage of Earthly Delights
By Jack Stroud As for looking like you’re ‘bouta squeeze butterflies out of your solar plexus; lolloping cave-man like around a box TV framed in brightly painted polygons of cardboard; playing tug of war with your intestines when you’re an amorphous blob; twirling gracefully on an aerial swing amidst the […]
On Oly Housing Now at the Red Lion Hotel
By Miguel Louis Correction: Within the print edition, we had claimed that the author was involved with the actions in the article. To clarify, this involvement was the retelling of events, giving special consideration to the perspectives of the actors involved. On Jan. 30, a small group of activists visited […]
Eating Sustainably & DIY Living: An Interview with Forest Ember (she/her), an Evergreen Student, Pt. 2
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson The following is the second half of an interview that was published in our January issue, which you can find here. What first started you with sustainable living–why’d you first decide to start that kind of lifestyle? When I moved to Seattle, I moved into an […]
Evergreen First Peoples’ February Events
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson The following is a list of virtual events and announcements for the month of February for Evergreen’s First Peoples, Multicultural, Trans, & Queer Support Services. Evergreen’s First Peoples, Multicultural, Trans, & Queer Support Services is here to provide (virtual) community amidst all our social distancing! We […]
The Violet Paroxyst
by Avery Quinn The Violet Paroxyst is 20 year-old experimental music-maker Milo Balcziunas. Their music combines spacious melodies with a deeply evocative intensity to create what they call “hidden galaxies of sound.” Within these galaxies I am soothed and disturbed, made whole as well as fragmented, pulled into a world […]
Getting Started with Sustainable Living: An Interview with Forest Ember (she/her), an Evergreen Student
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson What first started you with sustainable living—why did you first decide to start that kind of lifestyle? There were a lot of rolling blackouts in California maybe 15 years ago, and it turned out that it was people trading on the stock market. They were all […]
Election Responses in Olympia
By Brooke Lynch Over the past few weeks, the country and world have seen the extent to which the supporters of our former commander in chief will go to voice their support. We all watched in horror on January 6th as the president, along with others such as Rudy Guliani, […]