Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor Netflix’s documentary “Reversing Roe,” released on Sept.12, follows the transformation of abortion legislature in America, which has been a consistently controversial topic in this country in recent history. Narrated by prominent...
Entertainment
Awarding student artwork
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Every spring term, the Cannon Gallery of Art uses their Juried Student Art Exhibition to show off what Western students have to offer. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the exhibition, which displays sculptures, paintings and...
Composed by one, played by many
Zoe Strickland, Editor-in-Chief Many years of music study and a working knowledge of three instruments led up to music composition major Jessica McCutchen’s senior music recital. McCutchen, who plays piano, violin and flute, has spent the last four years honing her...
Western takes a trip to the primal
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Vampires, film and dance collide in “Why Cross Chaos,” the newest theatre production put on by Western’s theatre and dance department. The show will open on May 30. The devised play, which is guest directed by Portland-based director...
Review: “Tracyanne & Danny”
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief “Tracyanne & Danny” is the perfect album for a calm summer’s day. The songs are dreamy, carefree and border on sounding old fashioned. Though listening to the entire album at once may make listener’s eyes heavy, the duo has a...
Review: “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Simson Garcia | Sports Editor “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” is its own movie. Yes, it follows along with the linear plot of, and connects to, the larger Star Wars universe — something us fanatics love. But the characters — new and old-droids — Wookies and warp speeds...
Review: “Deadpool 2”
Stephanie Blair | Copy Editor Let me start by saying that I liked the last Deadpool film — I really did — but I felt immediately upon seeing it that it didn’t have the potential to be a good series. I also knew that Marvel would make it one anyway and so, over two...
Review: “Electric Light”
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief It’s been three years since singer-songwriter James Bay released his debut album, and I’ve been anticipating his second since I finished listening to the first. “Electric Light” is good, but it’s nothing special. In his second album,...
Dedication illuminated through dance
Caity Healy | Lifestyle Editor One by one, the audience shuffled to their seats and waited in anticipation for the art they’d soon witness. After some time, the lights slowly dimmed to full darkness. With a hush that consumed the room and the sweeping of a curtain, it...
Music from the heartstrings
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Emmaly Basaraba was three-years-old when she discovered that she wanted to learn how to play the violin; “I remember going to the living room and on TV there was a man playing violin and I was like ‘I want to do that.’” Five years...