The Observer

Sound Bite #4

Brandon Mattesich and Isaac Dobmeier
April 30, 2024

Brandon Mattesich This Week in Music Welcome to this week's issue of Sound Bite, where we’re talking big developments on the beef front. Kendrick Lamar finally dropped a response to Drake,...

Ice Cube Offers Caitlin Clark $5 million BIG3 Deal

Devanee Lopez, Columnist
April 25, 2024

Caitlin Clark, arguably one of the best women basketball players ever, has now been drafted as the overall first pick to the Indiana Fevers. Prior to this Clark was playing for Iowa Hawkeyes, Iowa made...

SATIRE: Oops I Did it Again: CWU Student Accidentally Tears Down Wrong Building

Brandon Mattesich, Satirist
April 25, 2024

On the bright and early morning of April 15, the birds were chirping, the dogs were barking and one prospective Construction Management major was doing good work tearing down the Language and Literature...

Sound Bite #3

Isaac Dobmeier and Brandon Mattesich
April 25, 2024

This Week in Music Welcome to this week's issue of Sound Bite! The biggest news of the week is the release of Taylor Swift's latest album “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY.” The release...

My top five movies of 2024 (So far!)

Isaac Hinson, Columnist
April 25, 2024

In rapid-fire style, I’d like to go over my top five movies of the year so far ahead of my attendance of the Seattle International Film Festival as press next month! It’s been an interesting year,...

Sorry David Bowie, apparently JoJo Siwa did it first

Gabriela Gonzalez, Columnist
April 25, 2024

A staple experiment of any self-respecting celebrity’s career is a failed go-around in the music industry’s carousel. Even Kim Kardashian, an icon of eclectic money-making pursuits, turned up short...

The Taylor Swift Album Rankings

Isaac Hinson and Winnie Killingsworth
April 18, 2024

With “The Tortured Poets Department'' being released tomorrow on Poetry & The Creative Mind Day (April 19), it's the perfect time to talk about superstar Taylor Swift’s first 10 albums, coming...

SATIRE: CWU biology professor leads “accidental resurrection” during lab

Gracen Bayer, Guest Satirist
April 18, 2024

Renowned Biology Professor Marianne Shelley has taught at Central Washington University for over fifteen years, and though her classes are never quite full, her reputation for providing her students with...

SATIRE: Another One Bites the Dust: Boeing’s Employees are Dropping Faster than Their Planes

Brandon Mattesich, Satirist
April 17, 2024

Boeing has recently come under fire for allegations about the structural integrity of their planes. This shocking news comes just two weeks after an initial whistleblower was tragically found dead in his...

It’s not all that! A ‘Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV:’ Review

Nicolas Palaia
April 17, 2024

‘‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” is a brand new documentary series that explores the dark history behind the scenes of classic Nickelodeon shows. The series consists of five episodes which...

Sound Bite #2

Brandon Mattesich, Jackson Roberts, and Isaac Dobmeier
April 17, 2024

This Week in Music Welcome to this week's issue of Sound Bite! Recently J. Cole released “Might Delete Later” where he snapped back at Kendrick Lamar for his diss on “Like That” from Future...

Lucky

Astor Powell-Pedersen, Columnist
April 11, 2024

If you’ve been paying attention to the national news, it isn’t difficult to see that in recent years, the right-wing has found its perfect new scapegoat. According to https://translegislation.com/,...