Four-and-a-half years ago, graduating high school felt like an uphill battle. I nearly flunked out of three classes, I quit my varsity sport halfway through my junior year and on top of that, COVID-19 ...

Music, as we all know, is a truly wonderful experience, albeit an emotional one at times. Listening to music transcends space itself. I often find myself lost in a good song, without a sense of time ...

The first time I ever stepped on a plane, walked into an airport or left the United States was in early March 2020, just a few weeks before the world shut down. My family took a trip to the ...

To Eau Claire native nurse and musician, Kathryn Ryan, balancing the two roles is a lot like being on the show “Severance”. “I feel like, going to work, I’m a completely different person than I am ...

Story continues below advertisementNo. 10-ranked UW-Eau Claire had their home opener on Thursday, Dec 4th, with three top-15 teams. The Blugolds opened the night with a win against a WIAC opponent and ...

This is the last article I will write for The Spectator. I’ve been a part of this paper for a tumultuous four semesters. That’s 80% of the time I’ve been enrolled at UW-Eau Claire. Now, I have to say ...

The act of signaling has been around for years within many different groups. It is a method used when a subculture isn’t widely accepted or participation in that group could cause arrest, assault or ...

This show mainly follows Pim and Charlie, two employees for a company that shares the same name as the show. Each episode loosely revolves around a new job they are given to make someone smile. As the ...

Since the first “Five Nights at Freddy’s” movie was released, I have been eagerly awaiting the sequel. The sequel’s release date, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, was announced in May 2024, and it has been in my ...

The first article I ever wrote for The Spectator was about 2002’s The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Unsurprisingly, it’s not my best work. I knew nothing about writing for a newspaper at the time. In ...

When I first moved to Eau Claire, I wasn’t sold on the town. To be honest, I had chosen the school almost randomly, and when I arrived, I didn’t feel much connection to the place apart from the campus ...