By Mercer Stauch   On Nov. 6, 2024, library student employee August Grey (‘27) discovered and reported vandalism in Collins Memorial Library’s main floor men’s restroom. The message, written before the 2024 presidential election, read: “I hope Trump wins so that pedo men stop going into women’s bathrooms.” The message was accompanied by a swastika symbol and the acronym “KKK.”   Security Services, which chose not to comment due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, removed the vandalism and filed a report within an hour of Grey’s alert. Before that,...

By Graham Whitney   On Saturday, Nov. 16th, dozens take shelter from the rainy skies inside downtown Tacoma's bright, bustling Grand Cinema Theater. Filing into the theater, people take their seats and get ready to watch “A Real Pain,” a comedy-drama written, directed and produced by Jesse Eisenberg, who stars in the film alongside Kieran Culkin. “A Real Pain” is Eisenberg’s story of two Jewish-American cousins who travel to Poland to attend a tour of Holocaust memorial sites and to visit their late grandmother's childhood home. Eisenberg’s character David is a...