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Saturday, November 2, 2024
They are calling her a pop culture dynamo. They are saying she is daring and sexy. They are billing her as the next big thing for pop music. No, not Brittney or Christina or even Jessica Simpson; that other blondie vying for the title of Miss Teeny-Bopper is Vitamin C. […]
With all of the crappy lovey-dovey chick flicks that seem to rear their ugly heads around Valentine’s Day, I thought, “how refreshing; a horror movie. One based on a book, no less. This should be good.” How very wrong I was. “Valentine,” directed by Jamie Blanks (“Urban Legend”) stars a […]
Aries: Love may be working its charms on you this week, no matter how much you try to fight it. Always independent and frustrated with commitments, Arians will often ignore a good thing when it comes along. Be wary you aren’t making that mistake now. Taurus: With a determined spirit, […]
The history of the Parliament Funkadelic is a funny, and sometimes confusing thing. Break-ups and reconstructions of the band have resulted in, at this humble reporter’s count, three different incarnations of the P-Funk. The first, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, is spearheaded by the lively dreadlocked singer. Billy “Bass” […]
Creativity is a word that is very important to Western students, especially when they are describing the Cullowhee night life to their friends in Boone, Chapel Hill and everywhere else on earth. Sometimes it takes a creative imagination to navigate the life of a student or life in general. And […]
As you open the glass door and step inside, you enter a world of sight and sound. A world of colors and light. A world where all sorts of music is at your fingertips. You have entered In Your Ear Music Emporium. However, if you have ventured into the store […]
#8220;’Mary?’ Joan asked tentatively, an instant before she looked down and saw that the figure stood barefooted. Dark hair covered the tops of the feet; the nails were thick as claws. A snippet of bright green grass clung to one dirty toe. Joan opened her mouth to speak, but the […]
Dear Editor- Kudos to the WESTERN CAROLINIAN on their new website! As Western advances into the realm of education coupled with technology, there becomes a need to reflect our performance in the University’s websites. Many of you will notice a new design on Western’s homepage (www.wcu.edu) very shortly–and much thanks […]
Western Carolina University is in the middle of a national search for its first distinguished professor of musical theatre. This position has been made possible by a $233,000 gift from the estate of the late Carolyne P. Phillips of Waynesville, $100,000 matching funds from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, and $167,000 […]
It’s not often that aspiring musicians can find a living legend to tutor them in the ways of becoming a guitar master. Steve Miller found Chet Atkins. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, as the story goes, had Stevie Ray Vaughan. But one of the greatest living country blues guitarists found not one, […]
