Guides
If you are reading this and find yourself asking, "Who the fuck is Jerry Ziegler?" I can only recite the immortal words of Jeffrey Lebowski: "Obviously, you're not a golfer." If you don't know Ziegler, you don't know downtown. Ziegler is the absolute embodiment of the rock-and-roll lifestyle ethos that many purport to
Guides
In a town like Olympia that has a coffee shop or Asian food restaurant every 10 steps, a couple of the more highly contested awards handed out in this year's Best of Olympia Readers' Poll figured to be Best Barista and Best Thai Food. Apparently to our readership, however, there was
Columns
This election cycle has brought out some of the most low-down, dirty, despicable cases of shit-talking we've seen since iCON The Mic King knocked Copywrite's ass out cold in front of a hundred spectators at Scribble Jam following its world famous MC Battle. With that in mind, we felt it
Columns
Let's get this out in the open right now: I don't think either of the liquor privatization initiatives (I-1100, I-1105) are very good. Both of them are open-ended and loosely drafted (almost like rush jobs), but they do directly address a number of concerns - mainly Washington's budget woes and
Columns
Is not trusting the Washington State Legislature in the future enough reason to continue the legacy of suffering and tax inequality now? Proverbs 14:31 "He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God." Despite what you may or may not have discerned
Columns
So, stop me if you've heard this one before: I have a friend who calls me crazy. For the past three years I've left Washington around the end of spring for the cooler confines of Western Alaska. In June and July, the Sockeye Salmon run wild and run big, and on
Greenville
Instead of meeting for a PBR like we usually do, we hop in the car and cruise up Olympia's Westside hill. We're food co-op bound. After narrowly avoiding a gaggle of protesters in black, we make it to our destination - sharing the parking lot with soccer-mom Subarus, band vans,
We Recommend
Oliver Doriss' Fulcrum Gallery has already distinctly set itself apart from other galleries in the Tac/Oly corridor. It has done so by doing what good art galleries do - take chances. Too many "art galleries" seem to be a front for Northwest landscape watercolor copycats whose only risk-taking involves staying
Columns
"What a fabulous day here in Thunderdome, Don!" "Boy, you are right about that, Ted." "Well, let's check back in on the action on the floor, Don. It's day 642 of the special session, with the Majority Democrats still unable to agree on a tax plan." "You can say that again, Ted. I've
We Recommend
Olympia is a rock town. Plain and simple. Sure, we've got all kinds of cross-genre music, from sexy electro laptop folk punk to AARP sponsored state worker blues rock bands, but quintessentially - downtown Olympia belongs to rock and roll. Enter Milk Music, quite possibly the closest thing to Boston's
