Category: Restaurant Reviews
Coming to downtown Olympia in late April is a new “grab-and-go” deli: Peace, Love, and Raw, which is currently a wholesale business. Everything on the menu is gluten-free, corn-free, soy-free, vegan, and organic. When the business opens, it will be selling an assortment of raw juices, smoothies, bars, and other simple snacks and desserts. The [...]
Turkey, bacon, pesto, oh my! I was recently invited down to the Sidewalk Cafe for a sampling of some food and soups. The café is a small discreet walk-in sandwich shop nestled on the edge of Capitol Way, between the Farmers Market and the Phoenix Inn. At first smell, the Cafe’s warm and enticing aroma [...]
Chopsticks Noodle House on 119 Fifth Ave. in downtown Olympia is a dreamy, small spot filled with delicious food, courteous wait staff, and a cozy, comfortable atmosphere. Chopsticks serves various Asian dishes including stir fry, mochi, bubble tea, seafood, and tofu dishes. Their menu contained a large selection of appetizers, soups, and specials. From my [...]
Peppers Mexican Restaurant is hard to find if you don’t know where to look. It’s tucked away next to Olympia Coffee Roasting Company, with the new Olympia City Hall nearby. The interior is nice enough, if a bit small. The service is acceptable, if nothing fantastic. But, where Peppers truly shines is its food. While [...]
Kitzel’s is a community focused deli with wonderful Jewish based creations and isn’t afraid to be bold. The title “Kitzel’s” along with its subtitle “Crazy Delicious Delicatessen” is plastered in big, bright letters on both windows on either side of the entrance. An enormous calendar sits on the left side wall; essentially a giant blackboard [...]
5th Avenue Sandwich Shop is a delightful refuge for the hungry. It will satisfy the demands of the consumer’s stomach along with the fickle desire of her taste buds. These sandwiches easily stand out from most other commercial sandwich restaurants because they are handmade. The sandwiches aren’t spit out of a corporate machine. Instead, the [...]
While Wally’s Sandwich Bar’s inexpensive prices may be what first draws you in, their ingenious customization system and vast range of ingredients will keep you coming back over and over. Wally’s provides a somewhat unique way of ordering, simply giving you a card on which a list of different breads, meats, cheeses, vegetables, and sauces [...]
Traditions Café and World Folk Art is an Olympia store and café hybrid that is dedicated to fair trade. Dick Meyer is the owner and visionary behind the fair trade company. “We operate on a basis of building community, trust, and a personal connection,” Meyer said. The Olympia location has been open since 1995. Before [...]
Caffe Vita Vita, a local shop on 4th avenue in downtown Olympia, is home to Olympia’s best and driest cappuccino. If ever one ever needs a quality pick-me up that gives no mercy to the stomach lining, Vita’s cappuccino is the way to go. They offer outdoor seating for customers and a variety of menu [...]
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Student Spotlight: Hongna Svay
Hongna Svay, 29, is currently studying computer programming at South Puget Sound Community College. He came to Olympia from his native country Cambodia to attend college and to be near his friends and relatives in the Olympia area. Svay first came to America in Aug. 2010. He started attending SPSCC right away, enrolling in English [...]
Student Spotlight: Hal Schrieve
After two years of frustration, new Running Start student, Hal Schrieve begins school in the hope that SPSCC will provide a more realistic transition into adulthood. “I felt as if I deserved more autonomy within my own education,” said Schrieve. Schrieve’s decision to participate in Running Start spawned, in part, from previous conflict with his [...]
After experiencing challenges at SPSCC, student Rebekah Hutson turns things around
Rebekah Hutson faced and overcame many challenges while at SPSCC. Graduating with an associate of arts this quarter, she said she started at the college unenthusiastically, feeling isolated as a black student on a mostly-white campus. Hutson said since then, she gained a passion for making the school more diverse and became very involved [...]
Mainstream media: biased and skewed
Recently, there was an ExxonMobil oil spill in Arkansas, according to NPR. However, there was very little media coverage on it. ExxonMobil threatened to arrest journalists who enter the area of the oil spill, because they didn’t want media coverage of the damage the oil spill has done. From Exxon’s point of view, it makes [...]
In 1997, the United Kingdom enacted strict legislation effectively banning almost all firearms across the country. This was in the wake of the Dunblane school massacre, which sent the entire nation into a panic over gun control. So, how did this ban affect gun crime in the United Kingdom? It rose, dramatically. The number of [...]
People are more likely to use a gun for harm if it is available to them. The easy accessibility of firearms, rather than people themselves, causes rising gun violence. Think of corruption in government. Politicians are more likely to abuse power because of their position. Their actions are not necessarily malicious. They are presented with [...]