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Mike Donovan | Wednesday, May 16, 2018
If the class of 2018 can get Kanye’s “woopty scoop poops” out of their heads long enough, they might be able to recall the late summer day in 2014 when they arrived at Our Lady’s University — some humming along to Pharrell’s infectious earworm “Happy” and others still raving read more→
Adam Ramos, Owen Lane and Megan Valley | Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The Scene class of 2018 is, without a doubt, on the small side. What these Scene-iors lack in numbers, however, they make up for in for in their heart and dedication to this beloved little nook of The Observer. Adam is a veteran, jumping into Scene in his first read more→
Mike Donovan, Nora McGreevy, Hanna Kennedy and Ryan Israel | Tuesday, May 1, 2018
In mere days, you’ll crawl out of your hole, shower, wash your clothes and open your eyes wide for the first time in months. It burns! The sun! Pain! Society! All that jazz. Jazz! Then, you’ll realize. It’s summer! Oh no. It’s summer. Shhh. There there. Tuck away your read more→
Mike Donovan, Nora McGreevy, Lauren Weldon, Owen Lane and Carlos De Loera | Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Scene writers discuss departmental policy when it comes to writing about perpetrators, alleged perpetrators and survivors of sexual assault. Volume II: Spring 2018 by The NDSMC Observer’s Scenecast read more→
Molly Chen | Monday, April 30, 2018
If you had to describe the newest album from Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO) in three words, they would be fuzzy, funky and dark. After years of distinctive psychedelic rock, the New Zealand group released “Sex & Food,” the band’s fourth full-length album that manages to maintain the characteristic, buzzing read more→
Carlos De Loera | Monday, April 30, 2018
You never know where you’ll find the best food. When I was 10 years old, my family made the two-hour trip from Los Angeles down to Tijuana, Mexico to visit my grandpa. I had made this trip with enough frequency to know that the day would be spent walking read more→
Nicholas Ottone | Friday, April 27, 2018
“Westworld” is a sprawling behemoth. Thematically, it tackles consciousness, love, memory and morality. Visually, it captures breathtaking landscapes with sun-dappled cinematography, stages brilliant set pieces and inventively plays with western iconography. With narrative, it juggles over a dozen major characters, multiple timelines and a handful of rug-pulling twists. Entering read more→
Hanna Kennedy | Friday, April 27, 2018
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, student actors from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s will take to the stage and bring contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House” to life. Director Brynn Alexander, a senior Film, Television and Theatre major with a concentration in Theatre, chose to stage “The Clean read more→
Nora McGreevy | Thursday, April 26, 2018
A giant, lurid video projection of the sun flickers and pulsates against a blank wall. Detailed posters and life-sized models of grocery store shelves present informative graphics about food insecurity. An interactive app encourages users to take a deep breath. A mounted deer head wears a muzzle, an earring, read more→
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, April 25, 2018
In 1997, the illustrious German game designer Uwe Rosenberg introduced Bohnanza to the world — a card game that invites its players to build a microcosmic socio-economy at the hands of a particular, scarce resource, the bean (side note: bohne is the German word for bean, thus making Bohnanza read more→