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Gina Twardosz | Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series on mental health services at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Follow these links to find part one and part two. Imán Omar, a Saint Mary’s senior, feels the pull of many strings: she is a black, Muslim, South African woman who spent the past four-odd
Mike Donovan, Gina Twardosz, Caroline Lezny, Hanna Kennedy and Charlie Kenney | Wednesday, April 29, 2020
With four years gone, now our senior Scene writers share their collegiate swan song. These songs make up the soundtrack to a collection of memories — some vivid, some faded — and they capture the essence of what Scene is often about: the people and the music. “Aphasia” – Pinegrove By Senior Scene
Gina Twardosz | Monday, April 27, 2020
In what would have been the sequel of “hot girl summer” if not for a global pandemic, Doja Cat’s “Say So” would have definitely reigned supreme. The music video for “Say So” is a hyper stylized ’70s wonderland of glitter, nostalgia and disco — cue the iconic jumpsuits and dancing. Amidst the ’70s grooving, Doja
Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, April 21, 2020
During freshman orientation at Saint Mary’s, we close the circle. It sounds rather cultish, doesn’t it? At least, that’s how I saw it, almost four years ago, in the midst of my pitiful “I don’t want to be here” malaise. At age 18, I was a misguided Ed Sheeran fan. Sheeran didn’t have a back-up
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, April 16, 2020
In the first episode of David Lynch’s series “Twin Peaks,” prom queen Laura Palmer is D.O.A. She’s beauty, she’s grace and she’s wrapped in a plastic bag, blue in the face. It’s a horror comedy that kills off its protagonist as a catalyst for the absurdity that follows. But, is it so absurd to see
Sara Schlecht and Gina Twardosz | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
‘Tiger King’ sensationalizes eccentricities, overlooks abuses By Sara Schlecht, Scene Writer I didn’t watch “Tiger King” because I wanted to. In fact, it was quite the opposite. A friend Twitter-pressured me into watching, knowing I would hate the show but wanting me to suffer through it because many of its ridiculous events occurred in my
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, March 26, 2020
“Escapism” might not be the right word to describe a show about Nazis, revenge and the Holocaust, but if you’re looking for a show that crosses genres and delivers highly stylized action sequences — all while sticking to an appealing 1970s aesthetic — then Amazon Prime’s “Hunters” is the show for you. I was initially
Gina Twardosz | Monday, March 23, 2020
“The ugly truth of the matter is this,” Rob Brooks, played by Zoe Kravitz, laments at the end of the first episode of Hulu’s “High Fidelity.” “If we suddenly heard that the world was going to end in 24 hours, the people I would call in the first hour would be the obvious: my parents,
Gina Twardosz | Monday, March 23, 2020
In the Netflix series “Gracie and Frankie,” Frankie, a kooky hippie grandmother, exclaims in one episode that she’s an “amateur sleuth with limited self-control and a computer.” While hilarious, Frankie raises a good point: How much of ourselves and others are online and who has access to this information? In “The End of Privacy as
Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, March 3, 2020
In her 1996 Grammy-nominated single, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”, singer Paula Cole muses the whereabouts of her real-life John Wayne. She laments the toxic masculinity that underlies the traditional country singer cowboy archetype that makes a figure like the bygone Hollywood star an unrealistic and problematic aspiration. Yet, she raises an important point: