Arts & Events

It was a good problem to have. Trimble Forum was at maximum capacity. Dozens more people piled into the room as some of the facilitators grabbed an extra table. Overall, Tuesday night’s Bros and Breakfast talk was overwhelming, right down to the dense, delicious, cardamom-infused pancakes being served in the entryway. This event was just the beginning. Though the target audience for this event was masculine-identified people, all types were present and eager to participate. After everyone was settled in, Director of Student Conduct Frank Cirioni created the urgent, determined...

The collection spans several genres and no two films are alike. It starts with “In Search of the Miraculous,” a silent film about a man grappling with some unnamed internal strife and an ominous call to the water as he tries to live an average life. The film depicts the man’s struggle via a series of dream sequences at the beginning of the film where the main character plunges into open bodies of water in various ways, such as falling off a rope swing or riding a bike off the...

The Underachievers - Evermore: The Art of Duality Brooklyn rappers and third-eye openers The Underachievers are back spitting verses with a purpose.  The album comes in at a skittery creep, and continues with alternately stark and spacious beats like a serene bubble in a bustling world.  Both lyrically and sonically it sounds a little more down to earth than their last album, but it’s still very much rap on a spiritual mission, interweaving stories about restless youth with the occasional spoken word monologue about the nature of consciousness.  Instead of...

New talk show to expose the writings of Northwest storytellers Jack Myers and Claire Harbutt ended up in the same group for University of Puget Sound’s preliminary Urban Plunge, picking weeds and getting familiar with the community, but they didn’t think much of it until Myers overheard Harbutt talking about wanting to start a podcast. A connection was sparked. Myers and Harbutt proceeded to spend hours at a time brainstorming for the perfect show idea until the framework for “The Northwest Passage” was born. “We’re trying to develop a Northwest...