On Wednesday, Oct. 5, students of WCU’s School of Music performed their first concert of the semester. The symphonic band, led by Dr. Jack Eaddy, played Ignition by Todd Stalter, Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon by Percy Grainger, Sea Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Illumination by David […]
Arts, Entertainment & Culture
Gemini Tattoo shop now open in Sylva
A new tattoo shop, Gemini Tattoo and Body Piercing, is up and running in Sylva beside Cook Out. The studio, established by Curtis Lamoureux, opened July 2022. The shop is open from noon to 10 p.m. weekdays and noon to midnight Fridays and Saturdays. Gemini Tattoo currently has two artists, […]
Closed Curtain Review: Romeo and Juliet
“Are you kidding me?” That was my first thought when the School of Stage and Screen’s Romeo & Juliet began on Thursday, Feb. 17. It was a happy thought and one full of excitement because I knew that if the first minute of the play brought laughing tears to my […]
Student work ‘takes flight’ in airport gallery
This year’s annual showcase at the Asheville Regional Airport highlights students from Western Carolina University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program as a group show. The exhibit features eight WCU students who each demonstrate a different technique, theme, approach and discipline. Kate Chassner is one of the students featured in […]
Catamounts Create: Highlighting Student Art
The Western Carolina Student body is diverse in hobbies ranging from mountain biking and hiking to reading and collecting. Our student body is creative, active, and waiting to be recognized. Three students from three different concentrations agreed to meet with me to show our readers what making art as a […]
POTM ends season with joyful banquet and plans for future
The Pride of the Mountains marching band held their end-of-the-season banquet Saturday night, celebrating the culmination of two years’ worth of hard work. The first marching season since the end of serious covid restrictions left a lot of uncertainties for the band, however, they completed yet another successful year. This […]
Closed Curtain Review: Heathers: The Musical
I have never attended a play with so much emotion and excitement that at times the clapping and whistles were deafening. If this type of breathtaking entertainment is what you’re after, look no further- Heathers: The Musical is here. With voices that carry, and a heavy dose of comedic relief […]
Closed Curtain Review: Seeing Sound – A Musical Journey of Water and Light
If you could see sound, what would you see? Well, at the Bardo Arts Center’s latest opening performance, audiences experienced the visual and musical arts of water, sound, light, resonance, vibration, frequency, harmony, and music through their latest live performance, Seeing Sound: A musical Journey of Water and Light. On […]
Video artist discusses diversity through exertion
Jefferson Pinder was getting his BA in Theatre when he visited a video art exhibition by Gary Hill and realized the strength of using video as an art medium. He’d always loved performance art because of the community it created between the artist and the audience, and video was the […]
An Appalachian spin on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
As I walked down to the pavilion, I was instantly teleported to an Appalachian interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fiddler played a lovely tune as I took in the transformed pavilion that blended right into the nature surrounding us. Peter Savage, the director of this lovely performance, further […]