Simson Garcia | Sports Editor J. Cole’s “KOD” arrived on April 20 and, while he’s progressed and improved as an artist, his new project regressed towards the end. While varying styles of instrumentals are constructed, ranging from newly stylized modern trap beats to...
Entertainment
Take a break from midterms
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief As it gets to be the middle of term, it’s important to hit the books and study for midterms. However it’s also important to take some time and explore all of Western has to offer. Here are some events on and off campus that can provide...
Review: “Mercury 13”
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Are women fit for space travel? NASA in 1961 thought the answer was a resounding no. One of Netflix’s newest documentaries, “Mercury 13,” explores the fight that resulted from this opinion. “Mercury 13” is informative and vital for...
Exhibit explores how numbers relate to nature
Kevin Reed | Staff Writer “Art is really for oneself and fine art doesn’t really have one finite message that one’s trying to get across,” said Jennifer Bracy, a professor of visual communications design at Western. “It’s often much more about questions and maybe...
Colorful in “Candyland”
Caitlyn Nakatsukasa | Freelancer One of the most popular events is back on campus, and its hype at the school is monumental. Western’s 22nd Drag Show took place on April 11 and 12. The show is hosted by the Triangle Alliance and the show, script and choreography is...
Annual One Act Festival coming to Rice Auditorium
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor The One Act Festival is a celebration of student involvement in the theatre department by giving plenty of students the chance to direct and put together their own short single act plays. There are eight different plays being...
What We Can Learn From Nature
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor “Art is really for oneself and fine art doesn’t really have one finite message that ones trying to get across,” said Jennifer Bracy, a professor of visual communications design at Western. “It’s often much more about questions and...
Review: “The Defiant Ones”
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor “The Defiant Ones” is a documentary based series on HBO, directed by Allen Hughes, centered on the story of Andre Young (Dr. Dre) and Jimmy Iovine starting “Beats by Dre.” The audience gets to see how they both started out in the...
‘Clever, lewd, crude and undesirable’ art
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor Auston Ricks’s artwork is centered around the viewer thinking in a different way than they are used to and interpreting his art in their own way. Ricks is a criminal justice student in his junior year here at Western. In his spare...
Gaming’s newest trend: battle royale games
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor Thanks to the huge success of Fortnight and “PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds” — or “PUBG” — similar video games have been coming out and trying to recreate their success. All of these games have brought new life to the battle royale...
