Arts & Events

With the rain setting in and dampening both toes and spirits, a well-decorated interior space is a necessary respite from the gloom. Luckily, brightening your home or dorm room is easily done with a bit of glue, construction paper and a DIY attitude. Preserve the colors of fall by pressing leaves in old textbooks (or current ones you never read). Place the leaves in between two pages near the middle of the book, or between two sheets of waxed paper under a stack of heavy objects, and leave to press...

This Week: “My Sound Collection” with Ali McGrath, Wednesdays at 11 a.m. If you want a music recommendation or something new to listen to, Ali McGrath from “My Sound Collection” is the woman to talk to. She has a tendency to suggest music she thinks you will like. Soon enough a mix CD will be in your campus mailbox with a few off-the-wall artists, a few go-to bands and at least one or two songs by The Books. Researching song meanings and listening to lyrics is McGrath’s form of procrastination:...

The month of November hosts a number of month-long holidays, including No Shave November, Aviation History Month and even Peanut Butter Lovers Month. But if you are not into growing out your facial hair, appreciating the history of aircraft or loving peanut butter, perhaps you want to consider participating in National Novel Writing Month, also called NaNoWriMo or NaNo. NaNoWriMo is an event that people participate in worldwide and, to put it simply, those people all attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. This involves writing...

From the highly acclaimed novel by Stephen Chbosky, comes a movie that celebrates the highs and lows of an underdog named Charlie. In this movie, the director reveres the joys and experiences of finding friends you wish you had met much earlier in your lives. The movie goes way beyond the average film plot that stars the awkward freshmen and turns his masterpiece of a novel into an genuine story of an introvert with a troubled past that finally finds the friends he needs to pull him out of his...

Looking for some good sushi, but don’t want to pay the high prices for your favorite roll? This is a problem we continually face as college students; our lack of jobs can pose a problem when we want to be adventurous in our dining activities. Pizza and burgers are great, but sometimes you have a hankering for something different to satisfy your taste buds. The solution I pose for you today is homemade sushi. Homemade sushi is much easier than you would believe and can be turned into a dinnertime...

The Art department hosted a three-hour open figure drawing class in Kittredge Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 24. The class featured Odie De Blume as the model. The class was open to the public, and gave both students and community members a chance to fine-tune their drawing skills. In attendance were a Puget Sound Communication Studies major and Art minor, a former art teacher and a man who made beautiful drawings of De Blume’s poses, obviously having a sizable artistic background. About six minutes into the class, another man came in,...

This Week: Ubiquitous They Radio with Jeff, Robin and Friends Sunday at 5 p.m. Head honchos Jeff and Robin bring you a show unlike any other on KUPS. Shows like theirs (although there really are none like theirs) make the station proud to be diverse. Ubiquitous They Radio is a talk show, a comedic improvisation show, and an old-fashioned radio drama. UT started in the 1980s as a radio show. The current show is a tribute to the past and a plea for the future of UT to also involve...