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Matthew Kellenberg | Thursday, October 17, 2019
Fans of indie rock band Big Thief were surprised last July to receive unmarked, unannounced packages at their doors. Those fans had purchased vinyl copies of the group’s third album, “U.F.O.F.,” back in May, but these new packages contained something different: a two-song record, etched only with the date read more→
Ryan Israel | Thursday, October 17, 2019
Last Friday, Notre Dame announced that Billy Joel would be performing in Notre Dame Stadium following in Garth Brooks’ footsteps as the second artist ever to perform in the legendary venue. While Scene offered up a number of Joel-related takes Monday, I’d like to offer a different response to the read more→
Sarah Kikel | Wednesday, October 16, 2019
On Sunday afternoon at the Morris Performing Arts Center, the stage-adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s 1941 novel, “The Screwtape Letters,” provided audience members with insight into the inner workings of hell. Starring Brent Harris as the charismatic master devil-temper Screwtape, with Tamala Bakkensen playing his loyal secretary, Toadpipe, the duo read more→
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, October 15, 2019
For all its technical wizardry and for every commercial that claims “you’ve never seen anything like it” — “Gemini Man” is a movie you have certainly seen before. Quite an obvious reason for that has to do with the film’s script, which sat rotting in development hell for 20 read more→
Jake Winningham | Tuesday, October 15, 2019
At the end of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” in 2013, the show’s two main characters ended the series reaping what they sowed. Teacher-turned-kingpin Walter White died caressing equipment in a meth lab, while his former student Jesse Pinkman rode off into the night screaming and smiling after being freed from read more→
Mike Donovan, Ryan Israel and Jake Winningham | Monday, October 14, 2019
As campus prepares for the Long Island legend’s fateful return, Scene will try its hand at the impossible — to define, as it were, a theory of Joel. Our theorists will look beyond the songs and into the soul of the man, the mystery, the myth, the whole, the read more→
Mike Donovan, Ryan Israel, Hanna Kennedy, Jake Winningham and Gina Twardosz | Friday, October 11, 2019
From Shakespeare’s sonnet for “the world’s fresh ornament” to Avery Tucker’s “All Blacked Out” elegy, LGTBQ+ history is written in a lineage of art. It works against a world inclined to reject, projecting modes of thinking, feeling and loving from its marginalized residencies. Ultimately, it queers, or blurs, lines read more→
Caroline Lezny | Thursday, October 10, 2019
New Zealand film director and producer Peter Jackson is best known for his work on the fantastical “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and its three prequel films concerning “The Hobbit,” but his most recent project is anything but otherworldly. It has been theorized by literary scholars that the fantasy read more→
Willoughby Thom | Thursday, October 10, 2019
It all began with Patti Smith. In 1975, Smith released her debut album “Horses,” the spark that ignited the punk explosion. Due to her political insight, simplistic song structures and sophisticated beat poetry, it presented something that resembled the sounds of the past fused with modernity and uniqueness that read more→
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, October 9, 2019
2019 has been a strange year for rap music. Drake and Kendrick Lamar, two of the genre’s most prevalent artists, have yet to release any new music. Kanye West’s recent “Jesus Is King” debacle has garnered plenty of attention but has yet to yield any actual music. So instead read more→