By NATHANIEL DUNAWAY Entertainment Editor My friends and I have taken up to playing games. Right now, you might be imagining kickball or “Grand Theft Auto”; however — while those are both awesome — the games we’ve been playing aren’t at home outside...
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International Championship of Collegiate A Capella
By STEPHANIE BLAIR Staff Writer An array of pink, purple and blue streams of light are splashed across the stage and overhead the house lights bathe the audience in a soft yellow as they wait for the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA)...
Student-directed Play “None of the Above”
Rosie Peterson and Nick Kintz star in the two-person play, which will be performed in the 54-seat studio space on campus
“Breaking Bad” spin-off “Better Call Saul” to premiere this weekend
By NATHANIEL DUNAWAY Entertainment Editor Television spinoffs get a bad rap. And when you look at shows like “Joey,” “AfterMASH” and “Saved by the Bell: The College Years,” it’s not exactly hard to see why. Sometimes companion shows just don’t work. This concern was...
WOU A Capella Groups Prep for NW Quarter Finals
Photos by Neil Gravatt Western’s very own a cappella groups, 15 Miles West (below) and Suspended (above) at their dress rehearsal on Jan. 28, will be competing in the Northwest Quarter Finals of the Inter-Collegiate Competition of A Capella (ICCAs) on Saturday,...
Science, storytelling and sock-puppets
“No Belles” and the adventure of Portal Theatre
April Verch Band
World-class musician and step dancer to perform at Western
“Frank” and the myth of the tortured artist
By DECLAN HERTEL Staff Writer Many of my favorite musicians fit the idea of the “tortured artist”: a person with a tumultuous past, who has never been quite right, who creates beautiful works of art because of their messed-up life. It seems that we all idolize and...
“Nightly Show” already a fitting replacement for “Colbert”
By NATHANIEL DUNAWAY Entertainment Editor On Monday, Comedy Central premiered their newest nightly comedy news program, “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.” Filling the time slot after “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” that has for the past nine years been...
Civil Rights in Film
By DECLAN HERTEL Staff Writer This past week at Western has been dedicated to the memory and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and with Black History Month coming in February, memories of the Civil Rights movement are in the air. For the last five years,...






