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Downtown Olympia was rocked Monday night by the senseless murder of one of its own, Casey Heath. Heath was an avid skateboarder sponsored by local company Northwest Snowboards, who was constantly wearing his trademark grin from ear to ear. He was a good guy with a heart of gold and
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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
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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
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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
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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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Ross Cowman is a humble tour-de-force to say the least. He has been quietly spearheading a huge folk movement in the underground scene in Olympia. His upstart label, Bicycle Records, has been dropping phenomenal releases for the past five years, including such acts as Polka Dot Dot Dot, Eleanor Murray,
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Recently, I called up my lovely ex, a legislative assistant and political insider who I remain on good terms with. She's a fiery, sassy mess, and we made for a good duo at one point, but now we saunter our separate paths through the same halls of power both just
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There is a timeless myth synonymous with Trickster. Trickster goes by many names. The native peoples of America sometimes called him Raven or Coyote. Coyote was a wily drifter, a keen imitator. He was sometimes referred to as "the one without a way." There are many stories about his aimless
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Somehow I have been greatly blessed. In the past few years I have been repeatedly unable to connect with the subjects of rock interviews I pitch to this fabled — and probably award-winning — publication. Somehow, though, probably due to low morals, rampant alcoholism and/or drug abuse, denial and self-loathing
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Last week, I spent some time sipping on a fancy beer at Le Voyeur in glorious downtown Olympia, soaking in the scent and bullshiting with my Alaskan cohort and White Boss frontman, Jean Nagai. If there are two permanent things in this wonderful little seaport, one will be the lingering
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Olympia is killing it on the show tip right now, especially with the house circuit. Every time I turn around there’s a new spot with a new name putting together amazing showcases of the next generation of Olympia talent. The Big Room is cracking, and with the Olympia all-ages spot
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Olympia is killing it on the show tip right now, especially with the house circuit. Every time I turn around there’s a new spot with a new name putting together amazing showcases of the next generation of Olympia talent. The Big Room is cracking, and with the Olympia all-ages spot
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Riding my deadline tighter than a drill sergeant rides a smart-ass remark, I walk uphill out of downtown Olympia to my spot on the Eastside, all the while running a question through my head: What is Olympia? How do we define a city that is itself an explanation of infinite
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Riding my deadline tighter than a drill sergeant rides a smart-ass remark, I walk uphill out of downtown Olympia to my spot on the Eastside, all the while running a question through my head: What is Olympia? How do we define a city that is itself an explanation of infinite
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This is a great time to be alive in the South Puget Sound. Many of us have just experienced what could be called our first true long and snowy winter. Shit, I’ve still got a cold and the sun’s been out for four days straight. Every day on my walk
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This is a great time to be alive in the South Puget Sound. Many of us have just experienced what could be called our first true long and snowy winter. Shit, I’ve still got a cold and the sun’s been out for four days straight. Every day on my walk
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Amy Goodman is a Gangster with a capital G. Make no mistake. She’s as hardcore as the most loc’ed out gangsters in the Sinaloa cartel, but she pushes an entirely different product: The Truth. Having been called everything from “the Edward R. Murrow of today” to “hostile, combative, and even
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Amy Goodman is a Gangster with a capital G. Make no mistake. She’s as hardcore as the most loc’ed out gangsters in the Sinaloa cartel, but she pushes an entirely different product: The Truth. Having been called everything from “the Edward R. Murrow of today” to “hostile, combative, and even
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The story continues with the drone of rain on a winter morning in a sleeping bag with a book about Suicide Girls. The drops on the roof come soft and slow, their volume screaming in the silence of awakening to the day. It’s deafening and eerie. We’ll call it foreshadowing. I
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The story continues with the drone of rain on a winter morning in a sleeping bag with a book about Suicide Girls. The drops on the roof come soft and slow, their volume screaming in the silence of awakening to the day. It’s deafening and eerie. We’ll call it foreshadowing. I
