Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor That’s right folks, Jeff Goldblum — America’s sweetheart, apple of my eye — released an album Nov. 9 and ushered in a new age, breaking music history into two parts: before Goldblum’s honeyed, soulful piano, and after. Accompanying...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor In the student media building, there is an office that contains every edition of the Northwest passage since 1966. The Northwest Passage is Western’s literary magazine, run by students. Art is submitted by students and faculty, and...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Opening on Nov. 8, “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche” is Western’s fall production, and it has all the lesbians anyone could hope for. Set in 1956, in a community center basement-turned-bunker, this sapphic comedy follows a group of...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “You don’t have to be artistic to have a voice,” said senior Bachelor’s of Fine Arts student Eric Frey. Frey has a recent art installation that is a part of his thesis on discrimination and bias. His art piece is symbolic of any...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor On Nov. 2, the Majestic Theatre in downtown Corvallis opened their production of the musical “Catch Me If You Can.” This story, based on true events, follows the escapades of Frank William Abagnale Jr. Born in 1948 in New York;...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor At first glance, “The Travelling Cat Chronicles” is a sappy, sentimental novel told mostly from the perspective of a proud male cat named Nana. This may be true, but a closer look will reveal that this novel has many levels and...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “We are actually the third high school in the country to do (“Mamma Mia”),” said Central High School’s production director Jeff Witt, “the other two are east of Texas, so we’re the west coast high school premier.” In May of 2018,...
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “Criminal” Launched in 2014, “Criminal” is an award-winning podcast that takes a holistic look at crime and how it intersects with sociology and history. The host, Phoebe Judge, has a journalistic style that always cultivates a...
Compiled by: The Western Howl staff Chrys — “The VVitch” (2015). My favorite scary movie has to be “The VVitch.” I remember going to see it in theaters when it came out in 2016. This movie mastered the art of atmospheric horror. I can’t sit through this movie without...
Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief As Sheriff Brackett put it in the 1978 film by the same name, “It’s Halloween — everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” With the 2018 “Halloween” release on Oct. 19, audiences everywhere got just that, as they were invited into the next...
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