Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “Call Me By Your Name” (2018) Based on a book of the same name, “Call Me By Your Name” is a movie following a young man named Elio who falls in love with a graduate student named Oliver. Oliver is staying with Elio’s family in...
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Review: Netflix original “Velvet Buzzsaw” breathes life back into the slasher genre
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Are you ready to be thrown back in time, to the age of slasher flicks with their dramatic cinematography and sense of impending doom? “Velvet Buzzsaw,” released on Jan 31, does just that. Featuring the talents of Jake Gyllenhaal,...
Guest poet Todd Davis gives a poetry reading at WOU
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Born to two farmers from Kentucky and Virginia, Todd Davis grew up working beside his father as his veterinarian assistant and bonding over poetry. Today, Davis lives in Tipton, Pennsylvania and teaches creative writing, American...
2019 Oscar nominations and demographics
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor In 2016, outcry from celebrities and audiences alike started the twitter trend #OscarsSoWhite — a hashtag addressing the fact that all 20 actors nominated for lead and supporting roles for the year 2016 were white. There were also...
Review: “Oculus”
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “For all my sisters” reads the dedication of Sally Wen Mao’s newest collection of poetry, “Oculus.” In this her second collection of poems, released Jan 15, Mao weaves a complex story of technology, patriarchy, racism and time. Each...
Civil rights film series on campus
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Civil Rights Film Schedule: Jan.30 Eyes on the Prize (Continued episodes) Feb. 6 Freedom Riders (Famous bus trips across the South in support of desegregation) Feb.13 The Black Panthers (A documentary on the Panthers and their...
Dodie Clark’s “Human” EP review
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Back in 2007, Dodie Clark started started posting her original songs — and covers — onto her Youtube channel, doddleoddle. Since the its birth, Clark’s main channel and second channel, called doddlevloggle, have blown up, becoming a...
Art on campus: “Soliloquy”
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor In the first stairwell of Hamersly Library hangs an intricate tapestry that many students may not give a second glance. “Soliloquy” by Shelley Socolofsky has been living in the library since it opened its doors. The art piece was...
Youtube channel Girls Play features WOU alumnae
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor According to the 2016 census, Monmouth’s population is about 10,000 people. The Girls Play Youtube channel’s subscriber count currently sits at about 246,000, which is 24 times more people than the population of Monmouth. Girls Play...
Folk musician John Gorka visits Western
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor John Gorka was born into the world of music in a small coffeehouse in Pennsylvania in the 1970s. The coffeehouse, Godfrey Daniels, was a hotspot for musicians and a place that Gorka frequented often, even living in the basement for...