Entertainment

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor “If the men come to you, show yourself some mercy. Don’t stick around and wait for them to put you out of your misery.” These are the words of King, the caretaker and creator of a supposedly utopian compound in a world that is...

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Madeline Weinstein is a junior studying theater at Western Oregon. Originally hailing from Seattle, Washington, Weinstein didn’t have much enthusiasm for the idea of college after her graduation from high school. “It’s really...

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor If anyone could claim that they were addicted to podcasts, it would probably be me. I am a self-diagnosed podcast addict, and I have an endless supply at my fingertips; it seems like everyone and their mother has a podcast, and of...