The last time I wrote about the Portland Trail Blazers for The Observer, it was after the team had started 9-4 in 2022, just over two years ago. I wrote that people shouldn’t be sleeping on the Blazers...

Con contribuciones de Lee Beck, Astor Powell-Pederson, Jackson Roberts y Kam Schindewolf-Broyles.  Este artículo fue escrito el Día de las Elecciones, el 5 de noviembre. Los resultados finales exactos...

Contributions from Lee Beck, Astor Powell-Pederson, Jackson Roberts & Kam Schindewolf-Broyles This piece was written on Election Day, Nov. 5. The exact final results of the Presidential election...

I’ve been craving a theatrical horror experience. I thought about going to see “Terrifier 3,” but those films aren’t for me. I’ve tried the other two… just not my cup of tea. I’m here in...

The Wildcats spoiled Texas A&M University Kingsville’s (TAMUK) homecoming celebration this past Saturday, beating the Javelinas on their home field 31-0, their second shutout win of the season. Following...

Traducción del inglés al español por Evelyn Aguiar and Kathryn Natale CWU está lista para comenzar el desarrollo del Centro Multicultural (CMC), que se propuso hace tiempo, según un correo electrónico...

It’s my favorite time of the year for movie watching – Halloween. Well, it isn’t Halloween yet, not quite. But we are only a few weeks away. The weather is getting colder, the clothes are getting...

CWU is set to begin development of the long-proposed Multicultural Center (MCC), according to a Sept. 30 email from Mal Stewman, director of the Diversity & Equity Center and Verónica Gómez-Vilchis,...

Across my whole life, I have always been able to walk into my Dad’s bedroom and look at a plethora of Portland Trail Blazers memorabilia. From a small child to the young adult I am now. Jerseys, posters...

CWU athletics recently bid farewell to a key member of their team, Jacob Thompson, who oversaw athletics photography and was a digital media graduate assistant (GA) as part of the athletic administration...

I was lucky enough to attend the Seattle International Film Festival — a hub for filmmakers all around the world to show off their movies big and small — for five days last week. It was one of the...

In the Equipment Circulation Center (ECC) in Lind Hall, film students linger, talk about their upcoming projects and check out cameras, tripods and microphones from senior film major Michael Boyer. Recently...

In an age where it seems that both movie-makers and movie-goers seem to be averse to the concept of sex in their media, Luca Guadaginino’s “Challengers” embraces sex and polyamory both literally...

In a closely contested series last weekend against their rivals, the Western Washington University (WWU) Vikings, the CWU softball team battled through every inning and ended with a hard-fought split over...

Seniors Gracen Bayer, Jakob Burnham and Junior Dylan Hanson, are the CWU students and creatives behind two short films that were recently selected to be shown at the KINO Short Film Festival in Moscow,...

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...

“Libs saw how the anti-woke crowd embraced Sydney Sweeney as their new darling and right away had to shove her in this blasphemous, satanic, feminist, pro-abortion, anti-life movie degrading christians!...

The CWU men’s basketball team prevailed against Saint Martin’s University this past Thursday, March 1, with a 92-86 victory. This win earned them a spot in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC)...

The Wildcats took care of business in their final regular season game of the season this past Saturday, walking out of the Nicholson Pavilion with a 97-81 win over the Western Oregon University Wolves. Prior...

Pretty much every decade has a saga, franchise or story that defines it. For the 70s-80s that franchise was “Star Wars” which was released in 1977, and had two sequels that followed in the 80s. The...

On the morning of Feb. 12, CWU’s President Jim Wohlpart sent out an email to students announcing that the search for a new provost had concluded, as he and his 11-member search committee had appointed...

En la mañana del 12 de febrero, el presidente de CWU, Jim Wolphart, envió un email a los estudiantes anunciando que la búsqueda de un nuevo rector había concluido ya que él y su comité de búsqueda...

Bright and early on the morning of me writing this (Jan. 23) at 5:30 a.m. the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were revealed. I was not awake. In fact I was sound asleep. I woke up at 7:30 a.m....

Awards season officially kicked off this weekend, as the 81st annual Golden Globes ceremony took place on Jan. 7. Hosted by comedian Jo Koy, the Globes returned to television on a one year prove-it deal...

For almost two years now, CWU’s film club has been encouraging students, both film majors and not, to get their creative and critical juices flowing. Senior film major Matthew Corbin serves as president...

A movie based on a fake trailer that was made for a movie released in 2007? You must be kidding, right? Surely that can’t be good… Right? Released on this past friday, “Thanksgiving” is director...

Junior public relations major Brian Valencia is releasing a children's book. “The Dog Who Barked… and Barked, and Barked…” tells the story of just that, a dog who has a real affinity for barking....

50 years after the release of the original masterpiece, Pazuzu returned to terrorize new blood in “The Exorcist: Believer,” released on Oct. 6. “The Exorcist: Believer” marks the fourth consecutive...

Electricity flowed this past Saturday as the cast and crew of the upcoming shadowcast production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” convened to do their first stumble-through of act one of the show.  “Rocky...

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. The weather starts to cool down, I’m able to get out my sweaters and studios begin to release my favorite kinds of movies: Oscar-fare and horror.  This...

  The Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached an agreement on a tentative new deal on Sept. 24, ending the 148 day long writers...

Once more with feeling. The summer movie season has kicked off with the premiere of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” on May 5, written and directed once again by James Gunn, the movie comes five years...

CWU Football Head Coach Chris Fisk has some new help in the coaching staff, as well as a returning face in a new position.  James Basham and Ronnie Scott have taken over as Defensive Line Coach and...

The CWU men’s rugby team have punched their ticket to the playoffs. Finishing the regular season with a nearly undefeated 8-1 record, the Wildcats cemented their best ranking in team history, earning...

The 95th Academy Awards took place on March 12, and A24’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once” swept in historic fashion. The heavy frontrunner coming into the ceremony, everything went according...

This Sunday marks the commencement of the 95th Oscars. A year’s worth of movies watched, campaigns ran and other awards shows attended have all led to this, and right now it seems like the clear frontrunner...

Released this past year by A24 and MUBI, “Aftersun” has been the breakout sleeper hit of this award’s season. Directed by long-time short, but first-time feature-director, Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun”...

The term “Eat the rich” originates from a quote by Genevan Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, reading: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” Rousseau said this...

One of the most coveted awards of the ceremony, the Best Actor race is always tight, and this year seems to be no different. After being won last year by Will Smith for his performance in “King Richard”...

A day often met with feelings of anticipation for fans, confusion for those in the industry who find themselves off the ballots and relief for people like my mother and I, who want to know what movies...

After beginning the year with a record of 1-7, CWU men’s basketball has caught fire and won seven of their last ten games and found themselves in the midst of a four game winning streak.  Junior...

One year removed from his masterful re-imagining of “West Side Story,” legendary Director Steven Spielberg returns with a deeply personal story about his childhood, how he grew to love movies and the...

On March 8, the Seattle Seahawks traded All-Pro Quarterback (QB) Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos. In exchange, they received QB Drew Lock, Tight-End (TE) Noah Fant, Defensive Lineman (DL) Shelby Harris...

The Wildcats currently sit at 11-3 and rank fourth in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) with a 3-2 conference record.  Of those 11 wins, eight of them have been won by 20-points or more....

After cementing himself as the Seattle Mariners best player during the year that they made the playoffs for the first time in two decades, outfielder (OF) Julio Rodriguez has been awarded American League...

The Pacific Northwest is becoming a hub of the sports world once again. The Seahawks find themselves at 6-3 and on top of the NFC West, thanks to the resurgence of Seattle legend Geno Smith. The Mariners...

The regular season for the women’s Rugby team has come to a close, and the Wildcats sit with a 4-3 record as they prepare for the D1 Elite Semifinals.  Before the game, the Wildcats found themselves...

Football’s safety Tanner Volk won the Lone Star Conference (LSC) Defensive Player of the Week award this past week, making him the third Wildcat to take home an LSC Player of the Week award.  His...

The Washington Wizards (sixth in the Eastern Conference) of the NBA lost at home 127-117 to the Indianapolis Pacers (12th in the Eastern Conference) Friday, Oct. 28. The Pacers took control over the...

The men’s basketball team plays their first exhibition game on Nov. 1 against Whitworth University in Spokane.  Coming off a 17-9 season, which included a heart-breaking loss in the Great Northwest...

After much anticipation, Oct. 14 saw the release of “Halloween Ends” in theaters and on Peacock. Directed by David Gordon Green, the film marked the conclusion of the recent “Halloween” trilogy,...

As the sun set and the stadium lights burned, the CWU football team rushed onto Tomlinson Stadium to play Midwestern State University (MSU) in their annual Homecoming game last Saturday, Oct. 15.  CWU...

Three wildcats won player of the week awards last week. Tre’jon Henderson won Lonestar Conference (LSC) Offensive Player of the Week. Hannah Stires won volleyball Greater Northwest Athletic Conference...

Wildcats enjoying the rock wall.

Oct. 6 Women’s Rugby @ Penn State Win 63-12   Oct. 6 Volleyball vs. University of Alaska Anchorage Loss 0-3   Oct. 6 Soccer @ Seattle Pacific Loss 1-3   Oct....

The state of the film industry had left me wondering, what happened to the way things used to be? What happened to going to the cinema on a Saturday night and struggling to choose between the five new...

The SURC was booming, cheers could be heard as you entered the building. A red carpet led the way to courts 3 & 4 in the Recreation Center as both courts and the walkway above were filled to the brim...

XC at Whitman College Invitational  Oct. 1 Men’s team: 4th  Women’s team: 5th    Women’s Rugby at Victoria  Oct. 1 Loss 12 - 27    Women’s Soccer at Saint...

Assistant track and field coach Brittany Aanstad has established herself as one of CWU’s most decorated coaches as she heads into her 10th year as a member of the track and field coaching staff.  “I...

As the school year begins to wrap up, the CWU community looks forward to summer and its festivities. July 7 marks the beginning of the annual Kitna Wildcat Classic Golf Tournament, celebrating its 20th...

Allie Thiessen was awarded a First Team All-GNAC selection this month, following a season where she held career-bests on multiple statistical fronts. Thiessen led the Wildcats in batting average at .392 ...

Netflix is no longer the top dog of streaming services. For the first time in over a decade, the streaming juggernaut reported a decrease in subscribers. This could be for a variety of reasons; some point...

The baseball team saw one of their freshman pitchers make an impact down the stretch. While Nolan Milliman got off to a slow start in the first half of the season, his improvement in the second half showed...

For spring season student-athletes, this is the time where they finally get to put what they’ve been working on all year during practices on the field. Let’s look at how each program did.  Rugby Being...

The CWU football team competed in the annual Crimson vs. Black spring football game which took place on April 23. Redshirt sophomore running back Tyler Flanagan said both sides of the ball looked...

Sports teams measure success in various ways. Most of the time a team's success can be judged based on the record they have that season. However, that isn’t the only way teams judge a season as successful.  One...

Marijuana has long been banned for collegiate athletes. Marijuana is a legal drug in Washington, but the punishments a student-athlete would face makes the drug virtually untouchable for athletes.  Logistics...

As I am sure we are all aware by now, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, overshadowing a ceremony otherwise worthy of the name the Oscars. With Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor,...

At the Hayward Premiere meet, the women’s 4x400 relay team placed second in their race. The runners, freshman Madison Thompson, senior Kay Lester, senior Madison Child and junior Meridith Massey, finished...