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Community events happening in Monmouth and Independence

Rylie Horrall  | Lifestyle Editor

  • Mon., Feb. 10 — Central Lions Club Meeting, a service club, meets at the Independence Elks Lodge from 12–1 p.m. 
  • Thurs., Feb. 13 — Mystery Book Club Meeting at the Independence Public Library from 6–7 p.m. A discussion group for book lovers, it meets the second Thursday of each month. Those who are interested can check the library’s website to see the title of the month.
  • Sat., Feb. 15 — “The General” silent film viewing at the Polk County Museum in the Polk County Fairgrounds. Showing takes place from 1:30–3 p.m. and costs $5. There are snacks available to purchase and viewers can have fun watching a ‘20s classic.
  • Fri., Feb. 28 — Deluxe Brewing Tap Takeover from 6–8 p.m. Hosted by Rookies Sports Tap, patrons have a chance to try free samples from the brewery.
  • Sun., Mar. 1 — Polk Flea Market at the Polk County Fairgrounds from 9 a.m–3 p.m. Admission is $1 and customers have a chance to shop for collectibles, antiques, furniture, jewelry and more. Event is recurring for the first Sunday of every month.
  • Sat., Mar. 14 — 2020 Rickreall Spring Gun Show at the Polk County Fairgrounds and Event Center from 9 a.m–3 p.m. A buy, sell, trade event for those in the community.
  • Sat., Mar. 14 — Seamus Egan Project at Rice Auditorium at Western. From 7:30–9:30 p.m, those interested can see Irish musician Seamus Egan perform.
  • Sat., Mar. 28 — 38th Annual Spring Doll Show & Sale held at the Polk County Fairgrounds & Event Center. Admission is $5 and occurs from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Contact the author rhorrall17@wou.edu

Artist Spotlight on Abi Lowther, aspiring tattoo artist

Never Retallack  | Entertainment Editor

Abi Lowther’s love for art was ignited as a first-year in high school when she took an introduction to drawing class and realized that she had a natural talent. From there, she started to pursue art more seriously; as a sophomore at Western, she is currently majoring in Art and Design.

The main mediums she uses are drawing and painting, and recently she has started practicing stick and poke tattoos. Her art style is not too focused on one aspect; Lowther says that she gets a lot of her inspiration from the music that she listens to, elaborating that, “In my head when I’m listening I can imagine something more organic, a lot of my bigger paintings will have trees and mushrooms and have a lot of color and be kind of funky.”

Lowther is mainly self-taught; she describes the art degree as, “…mainly a way for me to find my style and shape it while learning things.” But she says she hasn’t gotten there yet, so most of the time she spends working on art is in her free time.

Depending on what piece she is working on, a small drawing might take around a day, while a painting on a larger canvas usually takes up to a month. Lowther is also an avid doodler, and even uses it to aid her learning; in Art History she will sketch out whatever painting they’re looking at in the margins.

While painting and drawing are forms that Lowther loves to practice, her dream for a future career is actually in tattooing. She purchased a stick and poke kit and practiced on herself; her first piece she initially thought was a mess, but now when she looks at it she loves it. Lowther, currently more confident in her stick and poking skills, often gives her friends free tattoos, grateful for a willing canvas.

Her future plans entail moving to Portland — because of the large tattooing scene — hopefully obtaining an apprenticeship under a wise tattoo artist and also entering tattooing school. 

For Lowther, there is no other field she could be in; being creative through art is what makes her thrive and she can’t imagine doing anything else.

Lowther said that art is a process, and for those who are interested they must, “learn to like (their) mistakes … and practice, practice helps a lot.”

For those who want to check out Lowther’s art, she has an instagram page called, @killbillvoltree, where she posts some of her pieces. Lowther also does commission work. People can directly message her via Instagram if interested in learning more.

 

Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu

Photo by Ashlynn Norton

King Princess performs in Portland and summons the rock gods.

Sage Kiernan-Sherrow  | News Editor

Already on the radar in the LGBTQ+ community, King Princess is an up-and-comer in pop music — and she summons the rock gods. At her Portland show, located in the Roseland theater, King Princess proved two things: one, that she eats CDs for breakfast, as her live vocals were indistinguishable from her recordings and, two, that she’s a rockstar. A versatile (cheap) queen known for her sultry vocals, King Princess pranced around the stage like she owned it — which, she did — all while playing guitar and piano intermittently and breaking the venue’s no-smoking policy. 

During her two-hour performance, she played the majority of her album, “Cheap Queen,” pausing in between to provide witty, playfully teasing commentary about her music and her fanbase. At one point, she discussed her attempts to remain authentic to her craft and resisting control from others, while before playing her hit song “1950,” she half-jokingly begged the audience to help get her another hit because she was “tired” of the former. 

Her genuineness of character combined with her roguish, bordering on sexual-deviant, attitude captivated her audience during the entire show, even after they had already been dancing to both her opener’s performances — an exciting drag showcase from Bujee Cherry and what can only be called an EDM experience from spunky Kilo Kish (due to the unfortunate case that the audio cancelled out her voice). And, although there were a few mishaps (with one fan claiming to need medical attention just to get King Princess to notice her), King Princess delivered a flawless show. 

True to her brand until the very end, King Princess wouldn’t come on stage until she had the audience screaming and only came back on stage for her final act when she had the audience begging for more. Sporting a jockstrap with the word “KING” embellished on it, she literally stood before her subjects and performed until people’s throats were hoarse and their ears were numb.

 

Contact the author at howlnews@wou.edu

Photos by Sortia Sherrow

See the new content arriving to Disney + February 2020

Sean Martinez  | Copy Editor

There is a wide selection of shows to watch on Disney+ for February. From Oscar-nominated films to original series, here’s everything coming to Disney+. 

 

Available Feb. 1: “Big Business,” “The Sandlot,” “Around the World in 80 Days,” Wicked Tuna: Season 1-2” 

Available Feb. 2: “Descendants 3” 

Available Feb. 5: “Toy Story 4” 

Available Feb. 7: “Pixar In Real Life: Toy Story: Traffic Cone Rescue,” “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made”

Available Feb. 9: “Old Dogs” 

Available Feb. 14: “My Dog, The Thief,” “Splash,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “Because of Winn-Dixie,” “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief” 

Available Feb. 16: “Marvel’s Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United” 

Available Feb. 21: “Unlikely Animal Friends: Season 1-2,” “Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri,” “Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire”

Available Feb. 25: “Star Wars: Resistance: Season 2” 

Available Feb. 28: “I Captured The King Of The Leprechauns,” “Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars,” “Marvel’s Future Avengers: Season 1” 

 

Original Series (available weekly):

 

Starting Feb. 7: “Diary of a Future President,” Disney Family Sundays,” “Marvel’s Hero Project,” “One Day At Disney”

Starting Feb. 14: “Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings: Season 2”

Starting Feb. 21: “Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 7”

Starting Feb. 28: “Shop Class”

 

Contact the author howlcopyeditor@wou.edu

Photo courtesy of movies.disney.com

Men’s Rugby lose match versus Oregon State University

Hannah Greene  | Sports Editor

This past Saturday, Feb. 1, the Men’s Rugby team held a friendly match against the Oregon State University Beavers — a team they beat during the 2019 season.

The first half, the Wolves were challenged, showing more exhaustion by every passing minute. With only 26 more seconds left, the Beavers persisted on, getting a few more points — Beaver forward juked out multiple Wolves and broke through to finish and score, making the score 21-10 at the start for the second half.

The Wolves showed great power and strength coming onto the field for the final half — dominating on the defensive end and stopping the Beavers attack. However, the Beavers were able to catch the Wolves off guard and score, and made the score 28-10.

As the game continued, more and more Wolves got injured and lost energy. Luckily, the Beavers showed great sportsmanship and sent one of their own to join the Wolves. 

Twenty minutes into the second half, the Wolves finally scored, bringing themselves within six points of the Beavers.

As the clock counted down, it was easy to tell who was going to win this match — the Beavers kept knocking at the Wolves’ door with no fight back from the Wolves.

Beavers were able to walk away with a 47-22 win, a 25-point difference.

The Wolves’ next home game is on Saturday, Feb. 8 versus Pacific University. Go out and support this club team.

 

Contact the author hgreene18@wou.edu

Photo Courtesy of Emily Prall

Futsal kicks off winter season

Hannah Greene  | Sports Editor

Scoreboard for Futsal Open Sunday League.

 

Teams Wins Losses Total Standing Points
the Benders 1 3
Black Ninjas 1 3
Sumo 1 3
LFG 1 1 3
Straight Shooters 1 1 3
the Quickies 1 0
UTU Banghz 1 0
And the Funky Bunch 1 0

 

As of right now, the Benders, Black Ninjas and Sumo take the top three seeds with the highest points. The Benders lead with the most points scored, while the Black Ninjas lead with the least amount of points against. Who’s going to win overall?

 

Contact the author at hgreene18@wou.edu

Super Bowl LIV makes for a memorable one

Hannah Greene  | Sports Editor

Still a little hurt over the loss of my sweet cheeseheads, I sit down and cheer on the Chiefs. 

Grubbing on Mendi’s Pizza, on Sunday, Feb. 2, in front of a big screen, Super Bowl LIV (54) begins with a heartwarming entry — a young boy carrying a ball from his gridiron all the way to the Dolphins stadium in Miami to pass along the game ball to ref on the actual field. 

Super Bowl LIV marked the NFL’s 100th season, making for a lot of memorable commercials and breaking of the glass ceiling. 

Samantha Gordon, a 15-year-old stud football player, was featured in the 100-Year Game commercial, why you ask? Remember that little girl that was breaking headlines for playing, and beating every defender, in a youth football league? That’s her now, making a change for future generations. Gordon started an “all girls” football league that she hopes will be brought to the high school level — a dream more and more young girls have everyday.

This Super Bowl was also very special, it was the Chiefs second time winning a Super Bowl and their first appearance in 50 years. This game brought the best defense, the 49ers, versus the best offense, the Chiefs, a match made in heaven. That saying, “defense wins championships,” didn’t apply to this win, with Patrick Mahomes setting up teammates throughout the whole game — and becoming the youngest player in NFL history to win a “League MVP” and a Super Bowl Championship, at the age of 24. 

Coach Andy Reid had the most wins (222) by any head coach without a Super Bowl title, until this last Sunday where he ended his Super Bowl drought at the age of 61 — finally capturing that all elusive Lombardi trophy. And shoutout to Shakira and J-Lo for the awesome halftime show, representing the latina community and showcasing the moves and vocals they got.

As most of us may know, the Super Bowl has become one of the most celebrated days of the year, but what most of us may not realize is that sex trafficking is at it highest during this day, according to ESPN and NPR. Florida is ranked third nationally for sex trafficking which caused the Miami-Dade county to make precautions and help to prevent sex trafficking. “It’s a Penalty” is a global campaign using the power of sports to address the issues of human trafficking, where several NFL players have made campaign videos for. Though, during the game there was no recognition towards human sex trafficking, there are many movements and people put on the front lines to help combat this.

The Super Bowl, one day a year that symbolizes our country — and although this is a great day for a lot of people, there are those less fortunate who have to deal with the negative effects of what the sport brings to our country. 

 

Contact the author at hgreene18@wou.edu

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