Charlie Benton

Entertainment Editor

Some food experiences are really good; some are not. Everyone has had a few less-than-stellar meals and probably some that were just truly bad. Here are some of my worst restaurant experiences.

The first was in 2001 in a small town in south Alabama. I was travelling with my Cub Scout pack and the families attached to it, heading back from a camping trip in Pensacola, Fla. Somehow the decision was made to stop for lunch at that place famous for throwing its rolls. We stopped to eat, and after some deliberation, I ordered the pot roast.

Tevin Arrington

Reporter

If students were looking for entertainment last week, then they could have gone to hear the musical styling of Claude Bourbon. He was invited by MUW French instructor Robert J. Raymond to play medieval blues.

Raymond hosts a monthly house concert that is usually held in his home.

“Usually everyone bring a little something to eat and a little something to drink, and we have these musicians that are most of the time passing through on their way to something big. And they just need to place to spend the night. So it’s fun for us and nice for them,” said Raymond.

Patrick Wiggins

Reporter            

GoPro has once again raised the bar when it comes to wearable action cameras.

The all new Hero4 was released Sunday and is available in two versions, the Black and the Silver. While the Black is the slightly better camera, both come with a multitude of improvements and enhancements from the Hero3.

The main selling point of the Hero4 Black is its ability to capture video in 4K at 30 frames per second (fps). For those who do not know what 4K is, 4K video has four times the resolution of your standard HD television.

Reagan Graham
Campus Editor

How to save and spend money is a crucial life lesson learned in college. Most students pickup a part-time job to head to after class. But after rent, utilities, gas and groceries, the money tends to run out pretty quickly.

Being a college student can mean subsisting on Ramen noodles for a few days before you can head home on the weekend for a home-cooked meal. When shopping for groceries, there are several ways to find sales that a certain store is offering.

Tevin Arrington

Reporter

Mississippi University for Women held Parent and Family Day on Saturday, Sept. 27. It was the first time that the W has ever held such an event on campus, and the plan is to make it an annual occasion.

Parent and Family Day brought students and loved ones together for a day of activities, food and excitement. Happiness seemed to be in abundance as family members began to arrive on the campus at 10 a.m. to check-in for the day’s event.

Daysha Humphrey

Senior Writer

The Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium was begun in 1989 by a group of humanities professors to honor and inaugurate Dr. Clyda Rent, the school’s first female president, and to honor Eudora Welty.

The symposium is named after one of MUW’s most famous students, Eudora Welty. Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg, a professor of English and the director of Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, explains why the symposium was named after her.

Charlie Benton

Entertainment Editor

It may be small at only 1,000 watts, but WMUW 88.5 The Edge, MUW’s campus radio station, broadcasts a wide variety of music to the surrounding area, and it gives students a chance to have their own weekly shows.

“Primarily, it’s a learning lab for the Department of Communication, to let students learn what it’s like to be on the air,” said Eric Harlan, the faculty advisor and station manager for WMUW, as well as an instructor in the department.

Patrick Wiggins

Reporter

The Spectator now offers a new way for you to keep up with what’s going on around campus and around Columbus.

“The Weekly Update” is a broadcast-style show being produced by the some of the newspaper’s staff and other communication students. The broadcasts will be available at www.muwspectator.com, on YouTube and through The Spectator’s Twitter account, @MUWspectator.

Evan Fox

Managing Editor

Action films revolving around the tired veteran getting pulled back into the life they left behind are common and rarely rise above simple entertainment. “The Equalizer” is not a common action film, injecting fresh moments into a tired script.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day”) and starring Denzel Washington and Martin Csokas, the film keeps the audience captive throughout the proceedings.

Sayonara Jones

Reporter

Here’s what’s happening around town for the week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 4.

The Seventh Avenue Heritage Festival will be held on Oct. 3-4 on Seventh Avenue and 15th Street N.

This will be a heritage festival with an emphasis on African-American history and music in blues, gospel and R&B Grammy-award winning venues.