Associated Students Mariachi Club plays traditional Mexican tunes.

While joggers’ shoes or bike tires are usually bouncing off the crimson bricks of Red Square, the black rubber tires on rows of low-rider cars, trucks, SUVs and bicycles will soon replace them.

Using jazzy-rock and classic sound, Grand Archives has created a light and uplifting soundtrack ­— something simply to cruise around in the car to or listen to while lying in the sun.

On Ensemble brings innovative musical fusion to Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.

Bratz dolls don’t actually smash each other on the head with a shiny gold cross or fly over Chicago on a purple magic carpet wearing a matching skirt.  Barbie dolls don’t actually shop at Nordstrom.  But in Western graduate student John Sloan’s photography, they do.

Western's Viqueen Lodge gives students and staff a place to kick back and relax.

For every time someone has stared at a blank canvas with visions of grandeur only to paint a disaster, every time someone has grasped needles to knit the perfect scarf but weaved a hopeless wad of yarn in its place and every time someone has set out to sculpt clay into true beauty and was repulsed by the result, Western students Heidi Norgaard and Abby Wilson would like to celebrate their failures.

A man wearing a traditional Japanese kimono sits on a stage six feet above a crowd of onlookers. Using only a paper fan, a hand towel, his smile and the sound of his voice, he is able to make the audience laugh.  This is the essence of Japanese rakugo.