Arts & Events

If you’re anything like me, you know that the day after Thanksgiving is far too late to begin ushering in the Christmas season. The appropriate time is the third week of October, which is when the Tacoma Holiday Food and Gift Festival takes place at the Tacoma Dome. The five-day festival boasts live entertainment, cooking displays, impressive decorations, a resident Santa and over 600 merchant booths. This year’s show was the 30th anniversary and spanned the days between Oct. 17 and 21. The atmosphere of the Holiday Food and Gift...

The Amazing Spiderman There are plenty of reasons why The Amazing Spiderman is a good movie: The give and take between Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield is playful and entertaining, Martin Sheen is funny and the comic book roots shine through in all the right ways. Even the camera work is interesting and tries to avoid the cliché motion-sickness-inducing swinging that comes with a Spiderman movie. The bottom line, though, why this movie is one of the top 10 superhero movies, is that it does not feature Toby Maguire, Kirsten...

This week: “Working Nights” with Donny Vegas, Wed. at 7:00 p.m. Disco music is a little distracting to be ideal study music, but whatever Donny Vegas pulls out on his disco show just might be okay for it. Wide bellbottom pants, velour jumpsuits and huge Afros define disco. The DJ of this show does not wear any of those things, and he goes on to challenge the definition of disco music as well. Imagine yourself on a Wednesday evening in the library, a snack next to you. You scroll through...

Midterms: you survived all the papers and exams, but just barely. It’s only just the beginning of the year, but you must already be burned out on your favorite study spots. The library is great, until it suddenly becomes too quiet—or too loud. Yeah, you two can discuss the need to wear makeup to look alive, but not in the Learning Commons for two hours. Diversions and Oppenheimer are fine places to study, but can be entirely too social as you write up a lab report. This leaves studying to...

On Oct 2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis released a new music video called “Same Love” with singer Mary Lambert. Fans of the Seattle-based artist nationally agree that what the duo launched was more than just another music video, but a powerful message for change. Well-known for his iconic hip-hop songs “And We Danced” and “Can't Hold Us”, Macklemore takes a deeper turn in his music in his song “Same Love” and expresses his perceptions in a way that everyone can relate to. Original and honest in his depiction of same-sex...