Quarantine Cooking: Peanut Butter Soup
JOEL KEMEGUE, Evergreen mint editor
July 10, 2020
I love my mom, but she knows how to make at most five dishes, so growing up, me and my siblings ate rice with peanut butter soup at least twice a week. It’s pretty easy to make, and the cooking part is really just putting things in the pot and making sure it doesn’t burn. Peanut butter soup is ...
Educate Yourself: Black Lives Matter protests part two
JOEL KEMEGUE, Evergreen mint editor
July 10, 2020
The Black Lives Matter protests are a product of centuries of injustice and refusal to change. What I continue to find as more stories of police brutality come out and more people speak out is that only the people change. Despite how much this country has changed, so much of the systemic racism has stay...
Quarantine Cooking: Spanish Rice
SARAH DANIELS, Evergreen columnist
July 3, 2020
Cooking has become a rather enjoyable part of my summer as I’m sure it has for a lot of us during quarantine. This summer, I’ve had the chance to learn some authentic Hispanic recipes and this Spanish rice is one of my favorites. This recipe is super simple and easy to make, and I like it enough...
Mint Book Club: July
ZACH GOFF, Evergreen columnist
July 3, 2020
I have always been a fantasy lover. It’s easy for me to get lost in a world that is so vastly different from the one we currently live in. Plus, who didn’t want to have superpowers as a kid? One thing I should explain is the difference between high fantasy and low fantasy as I use the terms sev...
Vocalist tips to improve your singing game
SARAH DANIELS, Evergreen columnist
July 3, 2020
Any car ride I take, whether it’s down the street or across the state, is always accompanied by a sweet playlist I can sing my heart out to. After a couple years of voice lessons, I can now sing to my heart’s content when I drive to the west side without my throat hurting or jaw locking. Here ar...
Quarantine Cooking: Turkey Meatballs
ZACH GOFF, Evergreen columnist
June 27, 2020
I’ve recently found myself making the same five dishes every single week. While that makes grocery shopping quicker, it gets monotonous. For this recipe, I looked at my usual grocery list and tried to think of something besides spaghetti to make. I think this is a great recipe partially because...
BLM playlist to keep your spirit alive
JOEL KEMEGUE, Evergreen mint editor
June 26, 2020
There’s a tweet by writer Quinta Brunson that I think about a lot: “Being black [sic] is having a good day and then seeing another black person was killed for no reason," she wrote, “then you have to think about/talk about that all day. or don't and numb yourself.” This tweet pretty much e...
Palouse Writers Festival showcases local authors
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
June 26, 2020
Palouse Writers Guild is hosting presentations and workshops with local authors for the first-ever Palouse Writers Festival on Saturday at the 1912 Center in Moscow. The goal of the festival is to showcase local novelists and poets as well as provide low-cost workshops for people who may not be ...
Albums to get you into jazz
ADAM HUREAU, Evergreen columnist
June 26, 2020
It is said that jazz is the United States' only original art form. It is a music born from struggle and full of complexity, nuance and expression. However, it can be hard to start listening, as there are thousands of artists and albums out there and many are not necessarily super accessible. So, fo...
Educate Yourself: Black Lives Matter protests
JOEL KEMEGUE, Evergreen Mint editor
June 19, 2020
The important thing to remember about these protests is that none of this is happening in a bubble. The anger and frustration that we’re seeing today isn’t just spurred by recent police killings, but of a general frustration Black people have had in America over the value of their lives. These ...
Pullman Civic Theatre hosts virtual plays
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
June 19, 2020
If you ask, Mike Long may tell you about the time he killed someone with an umbrella. Well, not really. As a sound effect designer, producer, writer and director for the Pullman Civic Theatre, Long is used to finding unusual ways of setting the sounds of a story. If the script calls for ...
Kenworthy sells over 34,000 videos in collection
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
June 19, 2020
The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow is selling over 30,000 videos from Main Street Video Co-Op, which recently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “After conversations with us, they felt like we were the best relationship to work with to make sure those films don’t end up on eBay or don’...
HoneyBee, a 10-year-old retired purebred Maine Coon show cat, sat comfortably in her owners’ car on June 11 with an “ICU SUPER COUG” bandana around...
