Elva Crist is a second-year English linguistics student and this is her first semester on the Spectator. She loves reading, needle-felting and playing the violin, and she would always rather be in the ...

Yukio Mishima is one of the most famous novelists of Japan and one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century. A controversial and powerful figure, he was not only an author but a poet, ...

When Larry Mboga arrived in the United States from rural Kenya to go to college in Minneapolis, he never imagined the impact he would end up having on a city 90 minutes away called Eau Claire, ...

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the critically-acclaimed anime and manga series “ JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (JJBA). ” I’ve written two articles about it for this very paper, I recently started ...

The UW-Eau Claire women’s track team competed in the WIAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 23 and 24 where they placed third out of eight teams. The Bluolds received solid performances from fourth-year ...

Local grunge band ValleyKiL was formed in Eau Claire in summer 2024 and is fronted by vocalist/guitarist Emm K with Seany Cope on lead guitar, Kman on bass and Ryan Pleski on drums.

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The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival returned to Eau Claire on April 21 at the Pablo Center. The event showcased multiple outdoor-themed films about biking, skiing and even wind sailing at ...

“Captain America: Brave New World” is the fourth Captain America film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but the first featuring Sam Wilson as the Captain. Wilson received the mantle at the end ...

Interactive exhibits and children lined the front entrance of Phillips Hall Saturday afternoon for Astronomy Day 2024. The event is part of a joint collaboration between members of the Chippewa Valley ...

Universal Studios Japan was not some place I expected to visit on a random Saturday in November. The park currently has several attraction-filled sections, such as Hollywood, New York, Minion Park, ...

Renowned Hmong author, speaker and former UW-Eau Claire Professor Kao Kalia Yang returned to campus to read from her newly released books and discuss her writing process. Yang’s first book “The ...