Entertainment

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Nat Turner was a Black man that led the 1831 Southampton County slave rebellion — the only large-scale slave rebellion in American history. It is after him that the Nat Turner Project is named, a project whose goal is to give a...

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor If a stranger were to stroll through Western Oregon University’s campus, they would stumble across many different art pieces of many different mediums: sculptures, tapestries, paintings and more. Oregon’s Percent for Art program is...

Sean Martinez | Freelancer On Sept. 9, 2018, Netflix introduced the world to a new style of thriller and suspense with a show called “You”. The main character, Joe Goldberg, falls in love with a woman named Beck and makes it his mission to become her boyfriend. But in...

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Esmé Weijun Wang has attended the prestigious institutions of Harvard University and Stanford University, and has an MFA from the University of Michigan. Wang is the winner of the 2016 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a published...

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “Speech and Debate” follows three teens attending North Salem High School grappling with a sex scandal that is on the verge of imploding. Madeline Weinstein, a junior theater major, attended the production. “The characters (Diwata,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...