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The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

The Armor Court at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Before you go: CMA edition

Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter December 6, 2019

As the semester winds down and the weather descends into the miserable grossness that is the Cleveland winter, there’s no better place to visit than the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). For regular attendees...

Spartan Bhangra performs at Andaaz x Naach di Jolly.

uISA and Naach di Cleveland team up for CWRU’s largest cultural event

Shreyas Banerjee, Staff Reporter December 6, 2019

After a semester jam packed with events, from a Navratri Garba to an Education Week fundraiser to a “Diwali” dinner, the Undergraduate Indian Students Association (uISA) capped off the year with their...

Prismatica ia a rotating exhibit featuring glass prisms that transmit every
color in the visual spectrum.

Prismatica brings Clevelanders downtown to appreciate art

Sunayana Jampanaboyana, Staff Reporter November 22, 2019

“Prismatica is comprised of 25 pivoting prisms, each more than six feet tall, made of panels laminated with a diachronic film that transmits and reflects every color in the visible spectrum, varying...

Sticky to showcase original music at Mahall’s on Saturday, Nov. 23

Sticky to showcase original music at Mahall’s on Saturday, Nov. 23

Matt Hooke, Executive Editor November 22, 2019

Sticky began, like many Case Western Reserve University bands, as something created for the yearly Battle of the Bands contest. Four Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) brothers and one former brother came together...

Conan Gray takes on the House of Blues

Aimee Wiencek, Staff Reporter November 15, 2019

This past Saturday, Nov. 9, Conan Gray took center stage at Cleveland’s famous House of Blues venue. Cleveland was lucky enough to be one of the stops on the 20-year-old singer’s “The Comfort Crowd”...

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UCCtoberfest pays tribute to German culture

Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor November 15, 2019

Oktoberfest, an annual beer festival held in Munich, Germany, is the largest festival celebrating beer in the world. The 16- to 18-day festival brings more than six million people to Munich for parades,...

CWRU Nritya Performing at the Performance Showcase

CWRU Performance Showcase dazzles prospective students

Emily Young, Development Editor November 15, 2019

For hopeful students dreaming of going to Case Western Reserve University, there is no greater experience than the Diversity Overnight program. A chance to meet real students and live life as a college...

To some students, uISA’s Diwali Dinner sold out in more ways than one.

Review: uISA’s Diwali Dinner is a monument to one-dimensional ethnic campus events

Shreyas Banerjee, Staff Reporter November 15, 2019

Before arriving at the Thwing ballroom for the undergraduate Indian Student Association (uISA)’s “Diwali Dinner,” I had high expectations. With uISA being one of the largest cultural clubs, and clubs...

A Talk with Ryan Hamilton before Saturday Show

Yugan Sakthi, Staff Reporter November 15, 2019

This Saturday, Nov. 16, comedian Ryan Hamilton will be performing an original one-hour set at the Ohio Theater. Fresh off of the release of his first ever Netflix special “Happy Face,” which Decider...

Aurora Thunder at Dragoween, hosted by the Beachland Ballroom.

Queer aesthetics in “costumes,” Cleveland LGBTQ+ performers and safe spaces

Adam Benjamin, Staff Reporter November 8, 2019

In a season where LGBTQ+ youths are inundated with images of dominant groups donning queer aesthetics as costumes, the visibility of the drag community is ever more essential and magnitudinous.  Local...

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