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Ayden Kowalski | Thursday, January 26, 2023
Few franchises have a better pitch than “Pokémon”: tame and trained magical animals battle each other, save the world with a team of them and ultimately become “the very best, like no one ever was.” Whether each game brings the player into this dream is a different question. The previous main series games, 2019’s “Pokémon Sword” and
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, November 7, 2022
An inside column can be many things: Funny, cliche, informational, emotional, controversial or otherwise. When I realized (a bit too late) that I had an inside column due this Sunday, I had a decision to make. I’ve already covered funny-ish when I told the campus that I was using Taylor Swift’s Red to recover from
Rose Androwich, Gracie Eppler, Maggie Eastland, Abigail Keaney, Andy Ottone, Gabriel Zarazua and Annie Brown | Friday, October 28, 2022
Halloween is just around the corner, and Scene has chosen its favorite songs, films and haunting reflections to celebrate! “Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge” Rose Androwich, Scene Writer The sequel to “Halloweentown” is better than the original. The first film relies too heavily on sheer shock factor. “Halloweentown II” broaches the idea of good versus evil.
The Observer | Tuesday, October 25, 2022
You’ve probably already met Swedish pop provocateur Tove Lo (pronounced “too-veh loo”). Her artistic thesis statement, “Habits (Stay High),” is a classic for a generation, and she secured some other hits in the middle of the last decade, as both an artist with “Talking Body” and a songwriter, working on Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You
Peter Breen | Friday, September 16, 2022
“A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life” – Ayad Akhtar. Frustrated with a particular persuasive brand of American exceptionalism, the Notre Dame football cult, I spent the Saturday of the Marshall home opener sifting through Ayad Akhtar’s novel, “Homeland Elegies.” Though a work of
Allison Thornton | Thursday, February 17, 2022
When I first joined The Observer as a second-semester first-year at Saint Mary’s College, I never imagined that The Observer office in the basement of South Dining Hall would become my second home. Yet, over the past two and a half years, The Observer has become one of the most significant parts of my life.
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, April 18, 2021
Lou Somogyi, longtime Notre Dame football beat reporter and senior editor for Blue & Gold Illustrated, died Saturday morning, the news site announced Sunday. He was 58. Blue & Gold said Somogyi had posted to its site shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday and then went out to play tennis before suffering an apparent heart attack.
From the Archives | Monday, September 9, 2019
When the first issue of The Observer was released in 1966, the Scene department didn’t exist. It’s not that our journalistic predecessors hated art — quite the opposite, actually. Early editions of The Observer included detailed analyses of literature, theatre and art exhibitions. These articles just lacked a formal category. However, The Observer’s earliest scribes
Chris Collins | Friday, May 18, 2018
I fell into The Observer freshman year after hearing of a friend who worked for them and got paid to go to the Florida State game to take photos. This sounded too cool to be true. I decided to meagerly reach out and apply for a position in the photo department, hoping that my hobby since
Emily McConville | Monday, October 31, 2016
In 1920, All-American football player George Gipp, locked out of his dorm, slept on the steps of Washington Hall and as a result contracted pneumonia and died. Not long after, the Gipper was sighted riding a white horse up the steps of Washington Hall. His ghost has haunted the building ever since. That’s one version. The