Chris Reinoos
March 7, 2012
A van powered by vegetable oil will bring Minneapolis band Bella Ruse to campus on Friday for a concert at The Cabin. The band, featuring singer Kay Gillette and songwriter Joseph Barker, has used the van for two years since buying it in Georgia. They get their vegetable oil primarily from locally-owned... Read more »
Natesa Nagalingam
March 7, 2012
Good ambience, great performances, mouth-watering food and a chattering crowd were what constituted last year’s Asian Night. The event, sponsored by UW-Eau Claire’s Malaysian Abroad Diversified, works towards bringing together different cultures. This time around, MAD will be challenging themselves... Read more »
Cal McNeil
March 7, 2012
If you’re like me, you will be spending your spring break in the Midwest snuggling up the fire, watching endless amounts of movies and hyperventilating because of the highly anticipated Hunger Games movie premiere (which comes out near the end of spring break). If you are cooler than I am — which... Read more »
Tyler Hart
March 7, 2012
As human beings, we are inherently social creatures. How could we have built the pyramids or traveled to the moon without a little bit of teamwork? Our mastery of communication is what has gotten us to the top of the food chain, despite our frail bodies and lack of claws (imagine a world where bears... Read more »
Devan Schuneman
March 7, 2012
The Blugold Visiting Writers’ Series is a reading series dedicated to bringing nationally recognized writers to the UW-Eau Claire campus. Fiction writer Lorrie Moore will be reading various pieces of her work at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Phillips Recital Hall in the Haas Fine Arts Center. Eau Claire... Read more »
The Spectator Staff
March 6, 2012
Off the Wall: March 7, 2012 Off the Wall is a weekly fantasy baseball podcast that will appear online every Wednesday. The show is co-hosted by Sports Editor Frank F. Pellegrino, Op/Ed Editor Eric Christenson and Copy Editor Chris Reinoos. The show provides a balance of in depth analysis and basic information... Read more »
Chris Reinoos
March 6, 2012
For the first time in what seems like forever, the best basketball team in Los Angeles is not a given. The Clippers, of course, traded for Chris Paul this off season and are finally relevant in the league again after years of dismal performances and inept management. The Paul-Blake Griffin duo has been... Read more »
Emily Gresbrink
March 6, 2012
Literally, the only thing — the only thing — I do not like about sports are the numbers. They scare me. And for the longest time, baseball stats scared me, too. Percentages, abbreviations, averages — I just didn’t pay attention to those for many years. Since then, I’ve learned how... Read more »
Haley Zblewski
March 6, 2012
The UW-Eau Claire men’s tennis team took their six-game winning streak to Iowa for a pair of matches on Saturday. The Blugolds won both matches, defeating the University of Loras (Iowa) 9-0 and the University of Dubuque (Iowa) 6-3. The men are now 9-2 on the season. Coach Tom Gillman said that he really... Read more »
Haley Zblewski
March 4, 2012
In the mid-’90s, teenage girls had Delia’s catalogs and Seventeen magazine to flip through, dreaming about how their lives would be when they grew up. But for girls under the age of 10, there was Polly Pocket. Polly Pocket was a one-inch tall doll that came in a compact, shaped house, which allowed... Read more »
