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...
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...
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...
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...
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor Logic started off his rap career in Rockville, Maryland, growing up a biracial child with a dream. He was able to rise out of his hometown and become one of the most inspirational rappers in the game today. He’s grown his career not...
Kevin Reed | Entertainment Editor “Behold the Dreamers” — a book written by Imbolo Mbue in 2016 — revolves around two Cameroonian immigrants travelling from Limbe, Cameroon to New York City. They deal with both the hardships of immigration and discrimination in their...
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief On March 8, members of the community piled into Smith Hall for a 30-minute recital put on by the campus’s renamed and rebranded a cappella group, The West of Us. The West of Us is comprised of members from the groups that were known as...
Byron Kimball | Staff Writer As the rain hammered outside, Smith Music Hall played host to 15 music students on Thursday, March 8. Though the 11 a.m. recital received little advertisement, students who attended had the chance to enjoy musical feats across a variety of...
Darien Campo | Designer As an insufferable music snob, my hunt for even more obscure artists to listen to never ends. Over the years I’ve padded my iPod collection with a large collection of albums from unsigned and little-known bands. From indie artists to solo...
Zoë Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Smith Hall opened to a nearly full house on March 2 as senior Kathryn Powers took center-stage. Powers was there for her junior music recital, and spent the next hour filling the music hall with a selection of soulful songs. For...
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