Arts & Events

By Matthew Gulick There is a place where residents across the South Sound travel for recreational fear. You’ve probably passed it countless times northbound on I-5; perhaps you, like me, just used it as a landmark to know you’re about 25 minutes out from the University when caught in rush-hour traffic. That’s right, for the month of October, Wild Waves presents “Fright Fest,” where the theme park gets a “SPOOKTACULAR makeover” providing souls of all ages with a fright-filled evening of fun for the whole family. A visit to Fright...

By: Evan Welsh The music rang from every angle of a full Schneebeck hall. Instrumentally, everything was covered, from string and wind ensembles to EWI and intonation pipes. The styles ranged from classical to Broadway to jazz and beyond. Genre and location shifted with each new piece performed. Even with a program, each transition from song to song excited and surprised. Collage was more an experience than a concert. Collage is a concert that is formatted to transition seamlessly from piece to piece, meaning the last note of one song...

The latest Stephen King movie adaptation, It, broke records and inspired memes to become one of the biggest phenomena in horror movies in history. With the largest horror movie opening weekend of all time, Pennywise the clown danced his way into the lives of people across the country, horror fans or not. For a while It was inescapable. Did the movie live up to the hype or is America just terrified of clowns due to witnessing what happens when one holds the highest office in the land? Spoilers ahead.        ...

Oscar Vázquez, hailing from Uruapan, in Michoacan, Mexico described himself as the kind of person who used to steal candy from his grandma and give it to boys. That same grandmother considers being to be gay “an abomination”. Oscar came out when he was sixteen; the next day he awoke to his uncle building him a room about a hundred feet away from the house. This was one of the primary motivators in his decision to leave Mexico.   Last week was Welcoming Week in the United States, and from...

By Evan Welsh Even without the microphone, N. Scott Momaday’s voice would’ve reached every corner of Schneebeck Concert Hall. You wouldn’t expect such strength and confidence in a voice from a man in his eighties who mostly is bound to a wheelchair, but Dr. Momaday is a storyteller and the voice is paramount in the conservation of his people's oral tradition and identity. Scott Momaday is a Native American author, poet and playwright of Kiowa heritage. Much of his writing focuses on his Kiowa culture and identity. His first novel,...

By Brynn Svenningsen Isn’t it time to get off campus and do something fun? Even better, something free? It often seems that with classes, friends, and our commitments on campus that we don’t get involved in the Tacoma community enough.Especially as college students who are often trying to save as much money as possible. Instead of spending your money, here are some fun free things to do Tacoma. Start with a visit to Wright Park and the W.W. Seymour Botanical conservatory. The park can be walked to from campus and has...