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Mike Donovan | Friday, May 17, 2019
After a few good weeks cruising along the “Old Town Road,” it’s time to take a turn down memory lane. Return to late summer 2015, when the class of 2019 first arrived on campus. Some of these newcomers found themselves tangled in a sprawling web of uncertainties, living out read more→
Nora McGreevy, Brian Boylen, Augie Collins, Cynthia Tran and Carlos De Loera | Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Senior year feels a lot like LCD Soundsystem’s song “All My Friends.” The beat speeds up, emotions rise, time slips away faster and faster until you can barely jump up and down quickly enough to keep time to the music. All of a sudden, you’re close to the end. read more→
Mike Donovan, Ryan Israel, Dessi Gomez and Jim Moster | Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Springtime is sweeping through South Bend (sort of) but, with summertime on the horizon, the spring will soon be swept away. That’s okay with us. We have our sunglasses, plenty of sunscreen and a few things we’re really excited about for after school lets out. Hip-hop’s stars come read more→
Jim Moster | Monday, April 29, 2019
The accomplishments of Marvel Studios rival those of its own heroes. Through the 20 films that followed “Iron Man” in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe single-handedly defined the superhero genre and earned the reverence of a burgeoning fan base. Audiences of all ages have reveled in a franchise that continues read more→
Ryan Israel | Monday, April 29, 2019
At the 2018 Radiofest, a crowd of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students gathered to celebrate and partake in our universities’ small yet authentic music scene. With red solo cups in hand, the crowd huddled around a garage to watch the usual suspects perform, like current campus rockstars Felix read more→
Mike Donovan | Friday, April 26, 2019
Stephen Dedalus, the young protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” approaches Sandymount (a long, skinny strip of beach in East Dublin) engulfed in a swirl of images — “Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs.” These visions — “Limits of the diaphane” — clog the young man’s mental pathways, holding his creative read more→
Carlos De Loera | Friday, April 26, 2019
Actor-comedian Ramy Youssef is a millennial. He is a Muslim. He is an American from the great state of New Jersey. He is also the son of immigrants. Youssef’s new Hulu show, “Ramy,” explores what it means to be each of these things, how they all work together read more→
Matthew Kellenberg | Thursday, April 25, 2019
On the topic of predicting a film’s critical or commercial success, screenwriter William Goldman famously declared: “Nobody knows anything.” Goldman’s Law seems to apply to the music world as well. Rivers Cuomo of Weezer once called “Pinkerton,” the band’s second album, “a hideous record … a hugely painful mistake,” read more→
Claire Rafford | Thursday, April 25, 2019
“You see, the thing about living in Derry is, there’s nowhere to hide. Everybody knows everybody, knows everything about everybody and sometimes all I want to do is to be simply left alone.” These words — which begin the pilot of the U.K. series “Derry Girls” — are read read more→
Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan and Carlos De Loera | Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Volume IV: Spring 2019 by Scenecast, from The Observer In light of the tragic destruction to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, Mike Donovan, Carlos DeLoera and Ryan Israel gather to share just about everything they know about France and French culture, including “Ratatouille,” “In Search of Lost Time” read more→