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Best Olympian 2011: Jerry Ziegler

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Best Olympian 2011: Jerry Ziegler

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

Best of Olympia 2011 Readers' Pick: Angie Dalton

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Best of Olympia 2011 Readers' Pick: Angie Dalton

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

EL VACIO MORAL: Vote or keep living anyway!

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EL VACIO MORAL: Vote or keep living anyway!

  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

EL VACIO MORAL: Booze Bruise 2010

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EL VACIO MORAL: Booze Bruise 2010

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

EL VACIO MORAL: The Constant Tomorrow

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EL VACIO MORAL: The Constant Tomorrow

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

EL VACIO MORAL: The Return

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EL VACIO MORAL: The Return

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

A beautiful thing

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A beautiful thing

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,

Thursday, April 15: White Boss

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Thursday, April 15: White Boss

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

EL VACIO MORAL: Tales From Thunderdome

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EL VACIO MORAL: Tales From Thunderdome

"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

Friday, April 2: Milk Music

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Friday, April 2: Milk Music

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

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The Great Income Tax Debate in Tacoma recap

RICH GUYS VS. RICH GUYS AT UWT >>> Last night, UW Tacoma played host to "The Great State Income Tax Debate" between Bill Gates, Sr. and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton, in what was being billed as a showdown between two leading minds weighing in on the hot-button issue of I-1098. Gates,

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Gaining understanding

NASEEM RAKHA TALKS ABOUT THE CRYING TREE TOMORROW IN OLYMPIA >>> Too often in America we fall victim to our inflated sense of self, the better self delayed by the hater self, the squeaky voiced youth of self doubt long ago formed, wringing your hair in a hand of doom, cursing

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An ode to Zinn

Last week I was sitting at the cultural epicenter Old School Pizzeria, jamming some 1942 in the front window, a few days away from one of my biggest interviews. In the five years or so since I was first introduced to the seedy, disgusting world of "professional journalism" I've been

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PLAN AHEAD: Yellow Cross

NO LONGER VIRGINS >>> Yellow Cross is the band formerly known around Oly as the psychedelic sludge fiends, Black Virgin. Doing some research, the boys found another band named Black Virgin, purportedly from the early '80s, and thus decided a change was in order. Sitting with vocalist Carlton Bostock, guitarist Todd Bernd

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