Arts & Events

Alicia Matz hosts this year’s Film Series for the Honors Program. Catch these free films in Wyatt 109 at 7 p.m. every Tuesday this month. It’s a chance to see some classic Shakespearean plays adapted to modern times and modern audiences. The Honors Program selects a student each year to pick a theme for a series of films that will be shown on campus. Matz selected “Shakespeare for a Modern World.” 10 Things I Hate About You, based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, was shown on Sept. 30, and...

If you’ve been in Tacoma for long, or even if you’ve just walked into Wyatt while on campus, chances are you have heard of Dale Chihuly, or at least seen his work. But have you ever heard of Lino Tagliapietra? Venetian by birth, like Chihuly, he too is a glass artist. According to his website, Tagliapietra has established his own forms of creativity with blown and fused glass forms, engineering models with incredible technical and aesthetic quality. He has created numerous glass vessels, permanent installations and glass panels. Throughout his...

Between midterms, finals, surprise essays and the ever-so-dreaded idea of 8 a.m. classes, it’s fair to say that college can be a stressful experience. When faced with the challenges of what amounts to a usual college week, it’s important for the students of the University of Puget Sound to have somewhere where they can forget their troubles and laugh for a while. Luckily, there’s a group on campus that can help with that. They’re called Ubiquitous They, and they’ve been making students laugh for nearly 15 years. Started originally as...

Did you ever play the nonsensically-titled GameCube game “Sonic Adventure 2 Battle?” Well, it was actually an American port of a Dreamcast game, but do you remember the gem-hunting levels, featuring Knuckles the inexplicably red echidna and that bat chick who had literally no part in the history of the Sonic franchise until that game’s 2002 release? OK, last question: could you do me a favor and put this website into your preferred web browser: https://ecovirtual.bandcamp.com/track/lavender-club? Don’t try to tell me you can’t see the connection here. Take your pick;...

What do you get when you give a well known senior his own morning show on KUPS? If you’re a student who tunes into the University’s renowned radio station Thursday or Friday mornings, you may have just found out. Beginning Thursday, Sept. 25, Lee Pennebaker took to the airwaves and debuted his new early-morning talk show: “Ain’t Nothin’ But A Morning Show.” On the inaugural show, he sat down with Passages co-coordinators Brandon Johnson and Brad Heusinkveld, speaking with them about their experience with the program this year. The show...

University of Puget Sound’s French Film Series opened with its first film, Les Quatre Cents Coup, on Sept. 24. The following two films in the series, Á Bout de Souffle and Cléo de 5 á 7 will be shown on Oct. 15 and Nov. 19, respectively. The French Film Series is an event hosted by the newly established University of Puget Sound French Studies department. “This is the first semester we actually are a department of French Studies. We haven’t had in a couple years,” Arnaud Perret, French Studies professor...

This summer, two students created stunning works of art as part of the University’s summer research program. After applying for and being awarded summer research grants in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, seniors Bianca Jarvis and Karina Harper devoted ten weeks to the research of a subject of their choosing. Harper took the opportunity to travel to France, inspired by native Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s empathetic portraiture of the late 1800s, hoping to locate or create a fuller understanding of what the portrait means in today’s increasingly digital and shutter-happy society....