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Nora McGreevy and Carlos De Loera | Thursday, October 11, 2018
When Garth Brooks speaks, he preaches. He rambles in run-on sentences, a series of mounting cliches and free associations, all delivered with inexhaustible charm. As Brooks walked into a press conference in August to discuss his upcoming concert at Notre Dame Stadium, dressed in boots and a sweaty t-shirt read more→
Nicholas Ottone | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
As a Marxist philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, Theodor Adorno was understandably a rather dour guy. He declared films as “neither guides for a blissful life, nor a new art of moral responsibility, but rather exhortations to toe the line, behind which stand the most powerful interests,” and he read more→
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
One day, a Harlem teenager had to make a pivotal decision. Option one was to attend his high school basketball team’s playoff round matchup. Option two was to be a model in the biggest hip-hop/high fashion crossover event to date, Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion line release. Sheck read more→
Nicholas Ottone, Sara Schlecht, Cameron Sumner, Martin Kennedy, Mike Donovan and Jake Winningham | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, a popular film soundtrack, social media craze and two earlier films to compare it to, Bradley Cooper’s newest take on the classic “A Star Is Born” always intended to stir up some controversy. The Observer’s Scene section reviews films, music and films with music in read more→
Jake Winningham | Monday, October 8, 2018
You’ve heard it a thousand times: the caterwaul that launched a thousand memes, the moment that already has Lady Gaga preordained for Oscar glory. The litany of “Ha’s”, “Oh’s” and other assorted noises that was the centerpiece of the viral trailer for “A Star Is Born” comes in the read more→
Nora McGreevy, Nicholas Ottone and Brian Boylen | Monday, October 8, 2018
What do Francis and the Lights, “Over the Garden Wall,” “Moonrise Kingdom” and the poems of Emily Dickinson have in common? They all remind us of fall, in their own idiosyncratic ways. Volume III: FALL 2018 by Scenecast, from The Observer read more→
Dessi Gomez | Monday, October 8, 2018
The line outside Legends Nightclub steadily lengthened from 8 p.m. onward. Excited chatter reflected the increasing excitement and anticipation of Notre Dame students who were kicking off their weekend with the Lauv concert. Once the crowd had trickled in, it was not long until opener Charlotte Lawrence took the read more→
Nora McGreevy and Charlie Kenney | Friday, October 5, 2018
Look, football is great and all, but those rare fall weekends without an exhausting, multi-hour sporting event are, in the opinion of these writers, some of the season’s greatest luxuries. Northern Indiana thrives in the fall and so do we. Temperatures creep down, breezes are crisper, leaves turn to read more→
Dessi Gomez | Thursday, October 4, 2018
Pop singer-songwriter Lauv will perform at Legends Nightclub on Friday at 9 p.m. Tickets for his upcoming concert sold out halfway through the first day of sales on Thursday Sept. 27. Such a sellout is a rarity for the Legends Nightclub venue, hinting at Lauv’s popularity and the promise read more→
Mike Donovan | Thursday, October 4, 2018
On the relationship between the artist and his or her art, I side with Michel Foucault — even though “It has been understood that the task of criticism is not to re-establish ties between the author and his work or to reconstitute an author’s experience through his works and, read more→