Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Wizard World Comic Con’s 2019 celebrity guest list included the likes of Jason Momoa, known for “Game of Thrones” and “Aquaman”, Melissa Benoist, star of “Supergirl”, and many others. The Comic Con was held on the weekend of Feb....
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Accomplished pianist Paul Roberts visits Smith Hall
Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Paul Roberts can be described as many different things: a writer, lecturer, teacher and pianist. Piano expert Bryce Morrison wrote that “Paul Roberts is an exceptional musician, a fine and deeply sensitive pianist, teacher and an...
The Nat Turner project brings three mini-exhibits to the Cannon Gallery
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...
How the Percent for Art program altered Western’s campus
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...
“You” and Ted Bundy: Analyzing how society ignores problematic content
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...
Review: Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias”
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...
Western’s production of “Speech and Debate” starts a discussion about the secret life of teens
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,...
Staff picks: Favorite romantic movies
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...
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...










