One wave falling forward meets another wave fallingforward. Well-water, hand-hauled, mineral, cool,could bea kiss, or pasturesfiery green after rain, beforethe grazers. In this excerpt from “The Kiss,” critically acclaimed poet Thomas Lux lives up to the title “biographer of the ordinary” bestowed on him by Booklist for his volume New […]

Did you know that in Europe the stage show production of The Rocky Horror Show is more frequently performed and is better known than the movie version? Did you know that also in the stage version, there is no dinner scene? Typically there’s no throwing toast here either. But the […]

Oftentimes, in today’s modern world of college basketball, we tend to assume that teams will travel quickly around the country to play games for the sake of our enjoyment. This luxury, however, sometimes comes with a cost. Last Saturday, ten members of the Oklahoma State University basketball family, including two […]

For four years I’ve represented Western Carolina at athletic contests as either a member of print or electronic media, or as a member of the media relations staff. Sitting along the press row or high atop Whitmire Stadium in the press box, emotions are not tolerated. Rather than being a […]

Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)A Prana-film ProductionDirected by F.W. MurnauWritten by Henrik GaleenBased upon Dracula by Bram StokerStarring Max Schreck and Gustav von Wangenheim In this, the age of slick production, huge budgets and digital special effects, F.W. Murnau’s legendary work Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated, a Symphony […]

If you think that you are a people person then wait until you get a load of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. In this department, people are the key and anything about human behavior is fair game. This department has two degree programs and a host of minors to […]