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Eagle Entertainment hosts inaugural music festival, Swoopalooza

Eagle Entertainment hosts inaugural music festival, Swoopalooza

By Erik Rötness, Contributor June 6, 2018

EWU held its first music festival, Swoopalooza, on The Inferno Friday, June 1 from noon-4 p.m. Breaking from the traditional spring concert, Swoopalooza featured three bands playing different genres of...

EWU journalism student Erica Halbert as Nissa from Magic: The Gathering| Erica Bullock for The Easterner

Creative costumes and comic culture

By Erica Bullock, Contributor June 6, 2018

Lilac City Comicon held its 12th annual event this past weekend. Fans of comic book characters, cartoons and creative costumes gathered at the Spokane Convention Center to shop, meet special guests such...

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Planned Parenthood Club seeks better access to sexual health products

By Sam Jackson, Reporter May 31, 2018

The Planned Parenthood Generation Action club and its coalition partners worked hard throughout the school year to pursue its mission of reproductive justice on campus. One way they have achieved that...

An exhibit at the Cheney Historical Museum. The museum highlights Cheney and the surrounding areas including Marshal, Tyler, Amber and Four Lakes | Bailey Monteith for The Easterner

Museum seeks to preserve Cheney’s historical values

By Sam Jackson, Reporter May 31, 2018

The Cheney Historical Museum is continuing to evolve as the town of Cheney becomes more transient while maintaining its historical values. The museum was started by the Tilicum club, a social and service...

Turn the volume up and rock out at Spokane’s annual music festival

By Kelsey Magnuson, Contributor May 31, 2018

With 80 local and touring bands participating in The Inlander’s growing Volume Music Festival, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this weekend in Spokane. Volume began in 2010 as a one-night...

EWUs opera department partakes in Gisela in Her Bathtub. All the props used in this performance were either from the dollar store or donated | Bailey Monteith for The Easterner

EWU opera students flourish in the One Acts Opera

By Tania Núñez, Contributor May 31, 2018

The stage was set with colorful lighting, a grand piano and a multitude of student performers for the first annual evening of the Opera One Acts that took place in the Recital Hall Friday, May 25. The...

EWU junior Sami Schubert gives confidence too disabled young girls through her Miss Exceptional Pageant. Miss Exceptional Pageant was founded by Schubert and made its debut in 2015 | Photo courtesy of Samantha Schubert

Anybody can be a princess

By Kaitlyn Engen, Reporter May 31, 2018

EWU junior Sami Schubert leads a double life. In one, she is an everyday college student.In the other, she is a pageant princess. Through her program, Miss Exceptional Pageant, she seeks to help make other...

The Charlie Brown entry won the most votes this year and received a $100 gift card. The number of entries and participants increased this year | Tania Nunez for The Easterner

Books2Eat combines dessert and books

By Tania Núñez, Contributor May 23, 2018

Students and faculty strolling through the JFK Library marveled at, and then later consumed, edible books as a part of the annual Books2Eat event that took place Monday afternoon. Using dessert as a...

The Slants are the first and only all-Asain American dance rock band in the world. The Slants went through a legal battle for eight ears that climbed up to the Supreme Court over patenting their band name | Photos by Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner

Asian-American band goes from Supreme Court to EWU stage

By Kaitlyn Engen, Reporter May 23, 2018

On May 17, dance-rock music was not the only thing the all-Asian-American band The Slants brought to the EWU Campus Mall. With the band came a backstory of struggle and persistence to transform the conversation...

Senior Tiara Sieks work is composed of poster sized digital illustrations. Sick picked a concept that would be worth her while | Dayana Morales for The Easterner

VCD students smashing stereotypes

By Tania Nùñez, Contributor May 23, 2018

The theme for this year’s VCD showcase, “Smash,” is a concept that focuses on “smashing” prevalent stereotypes. This is exactly what the six graduating VCD students showcasing their work aimed...

EWU’s music department premieres Scheherajazz

By Sam Jackson, Reporter May 16, 2018

For the first time in North America, a renowned piece of work called Scheherajazz will be performed by EWU’s Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Jazz Band in the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. In...

Instructor Reinaldo Gil Zambrano guides students through the printmaking process to design a mural. The mural has been placed at WSU, the University of Idaho and outside of the Computing and Engineering Building at EWU | Photo courtesy of Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

Students create monumental mural

By Dayana Morales, Arts & Entertainment Editor May 16, 2018

Nine students with different majors came together under instructor Reinaldo Gil Zambrano’s guidance to create, draw, carve, print and install a 8-by-32-feet mural. The mural was installed at the Rocky...

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