Arts & Features

One of my favorite characters in film is Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, which he portrayed in dozens of silent films. Chaplin was one of the greatest slapstick artists of all […]

According to the Seattle Times, higher education funding took a big hit last weekend in the final hours of Washington State’s legislative session. Colleges got operating budget cuts of six […]

Unemployment is now at 9.2 percent statewide. A job search can take a lot of time and effort when the job market is this competitive. Many students do not know […]

The demise of Worker Retraining has been greatly exaggerated. While the program has indeed run out of funds, as reported in the April 5 Seattle Times, the new fiscal year begins July 1. […]

I had a difficult time writing this. I wanted to give equal time to male attitudes about beauty in this series of columns, and frankly, I was embarrassed to talk […]

Who watches the Watchmen? Students at Bellevue College do. English classes that are teaching “Watchmen” like literature are giving serious graphic novels a long-due comeback. Just like eating Cookie Crisp […]

By Jamie Johnson: The money in your wallet keeps disappearing. The price of gas is higher, the cost of living has gone up, and soon breathing will be a dollar […]

This week, I’d like to write about beautiful women. Well, not just that. I also have serious questions I want to ask. How do we try to control how others see us? Is the image we project really so important? Is a portrait art, or a reflection of the subject’s soul? […]

Dear Tyra Banks, You, ma’am, are ridiculous. I used to like you. Heck, I will go as far to say I respected you. But my feeling all changed once you started opening that pretty little mouth of yours. […]

Amidst a Western war in the Arabic world that has propagated both prejudice and acceptance between the two cultures, little is still understood in the United States of the mysterious […]

Meet Laurel Cooper. She’s a second-year Bellevue College student getting ready to graduate. You might recognize her from seeing her bright orange hair around campus. […]

This will be a little different, so please, bear with me. Elegância is the name of my new column, in which I hope to call attention to routine beauty and […]

Do you know what a keffiyeh is? You probably wouldn’t at first, but you could probably spot one if you were reminded of a few of the keffiyeh’s misleading western […]

Elvis sat on the recycling bin at the smoking hut at the back of the C building.  He wasn’t smoking. He was playing a 12-string guitar. He stopped for a […]

Come next quarter, there will be a new addition to the Social Sciences department that’s already got everybody talking. The class is called “History of Pornography” and it has sparked […]

It’s a cold, wet March morning, but Magnus ver Magnusson is sweating as he removes the last debris from around the artifact and lifts it carefully from the surrounding earth. […] […]

By Lance Braud. “Everything’s connected, man,” is a statement hippies and physicists can both agree on. Physicists, however, try to figure out how it’s all connected. We’ve come a long […]

By James Storbeck. Are you bored with your life? Feel like you may need a change of scenery? How about an entire change of culture? Well, BCC can help. Through […]

By Brittany Butterfield. Every 56 days or so, the Puget Sound Blood Center (PSBC) bus comes to BCC’s campus for students to donate. The van will be parked outside the […]

By Ashton Cermak. With the current state of our economy, and the cost of higher education, many students have turned to the option of financial aid. BCC offers several types […]