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Claire Lyons | Sunday, July 16, 2023
Pitchfork Festival is making its 17th return to Union Park next weekend. It is hosted by Pitchfork, an indie-darling online music magazine, guaranteeing the festival’s lineup sports a unique assortment of beloved musicians and underground up-and-comers. If you’re attending the festival, Scene has a list of acts you don’t want to miss; if you
Andy Ottone | Wednesday, March 29, 2023
I had the great pleasure of recently sitting down with Notre Dame alumnus Samuel B. Jackson ‘20 for an interview regarding his recent work with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, as well as his journey after graduating. Editor’s note: the audio for the first two questions was not recorded fully due to a technical error,
Spencer Kelly | Monday, March 6, 2023
The issues of peace that dominate the headlines tend to focus on graphic displays of violence: war, shootings, assault. These issues are important. Still, the pursuit of world peace goes beyond addressing immediate, obvious violence. The Notre Dame Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, a leading peace research center, notes that peace studies is an
Isabelle Kause | Friday, January 27, 2023
A few days ago on my way across campus, instead of hurrying to get to where I was going like I normally do, I took time to admire the snow. I noticed how beautiful the Golden Dome looked as the snow fell down and how much people seemed to be embracing the moment. Being from
Peter Breen | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
When junior biology student Maeve Murdock, BiotechND founder and president, transferred to Notre Dame in the fall of 2021, she found a gaping hole in the University’s career development planning for undergraduates in the sciences. While Notre Dame advises sending science majors to medical school or postgraduate research, at Xavier University, where Murdock studied her
lettertotheeditor | Monday, December 5, 2022
You may not know it, but if you live in Chicago, Illinois, you’re actually a citizen of two cities. One Chicago features some of the best public high schools in the country according to the U.S. News & World Report. The other Chicago is marked by the kind of school buildings where if it rains
Olivia Seymour | Tuesday, August 30, 2022
“Have you ever had to battle for your life?” Chicago’s Wrigley Field, completely sold out and packed with 45,000 concert goers, erupted in passionate cries at Lady Gaga’s posed question. After fighting through the past few grueling years, the pop-star’s highly anticipated Chromatica Ball was nothing short of a smashing celebration of life’s triumphs and
Gabrielle Beechert | Friday, March 25, 2022
Notre Dame’s Quiz Bowl team will be one of the 32 Division II teams competing in the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament in Chicago on April 2. The team went to the national tournament in 2019 — placing 16 out of 32 teams — after they went undefeated in the Great Lakes Sectional tournament. The road to
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, October 19, 2021
And so it begins. If you missed the prequel to this post, you’ll want to read this. The SparkNotes are that the 57th Chicago International Film Festival is running from Oct. 13 to Oct. 24, and yours truly is representing the fourth estate therein. Needless to say, I am incredibly excited to do so, and
David Kramer | Monday, September 27, 2021
Well before Notre Dame’s shocking fourth-quarter performance against the Wisconsin Badgers in Soldier Field — one that already typifies the lingering, opportune, perhaps even fortuitous scoring trends of this 2021 team — thousands of Fighting Irish students barreled down Highways 80 and 90 in overcrowded caravans to bask in the bliss of college football on