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-7 posts tagged "authenticity"
Kate Casper | Wednesday, January 25, 2023
What would you fight for? I started off my Winter Break losing brain cells. I watched a combined total of 20 hours of New York City influencer vlogs for the first few days of break and found myself both fascinated and disgusted by their lifestyles: wake up, take a ginger shot, Uber to an overpriced
Claire Lyons | Wednesday, October 12, 2022
My favorite moment in comedy television history happens in the “Smokers Allowed” episode of “Nathan for You.” If you haven’t seen the show, the general premise is a spoof on reality TV shows like “The Bachelor” and “Undercover Boss.” Comedian Nathan Fielder contacts small-business owners to be on the show under the guise of a
Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, October 16, 2020
Dubbed one of the greatest forgers of all time, Han van Meegeren sold $60 million worth of fake Vermeers to everyone from high-ranking Nazi officer Hermann Göring to the government of the Netherlands. Dutch artist Han van Meegeren didn’t start out as a forger. He simply wanted to be recognized as an artist. For a
Katie Harmeyer | Monday, November 4, 2019
October means football and Halloween, the change of leaves and the all-too-quick transition from sweatshirt to jacket to parka. And, on a campus where 75% of students study abroad, the month of October is also #studyabroadappszn for sophomores. As we turn the calendar to November, I’d like to consider how Notre Dame’s study abroad culture
Tobias Hoonhout | Friday, May 17, 2019
“If it’s half as good as the half we’ve known, here’s Hail! to the rest of the road.” How fitting that a Program of Liberal Studies major would shape his sendoff column around too many book references, am I right? But in all seriousness, it took me four years of wayfaring to find out what
Mary Steurer | Friday, January 26, 2018
Fr. Pete McCormick, director of campus ministry, challenged Notre Dame students to share their vulnerabilities with each other and ground themselves in God‘s love in a talk titled “Can Christianity be Cool?” hosted by Campus Ministry on Thursday night. The talk was the first in a monthly speaker series, “Taste of Faith,” which aims to promote the discussion
Matthew Munhall | Monday, November 9, 2015
In a conversation facilitated by The FADER earlier this year, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Carles, the writer behind the blog Hipster Runoff, discussed the state of indie music and the concept of authenticity. “I think ‘indie’ was about romanticizing amateurism in music and media,” Carles explained. Koenig concurred: “The amateur/professional dichotomy is just about