Mary Kate & Ashley
For my farewell Best Worst column, I had to go back to the very beginning of my obsessive love for fantastically terrible movies — Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s straight-to-video guides for a lifetime of disappointment.
Aardman Animation’s latest adventure, “Pirates: Band of Misfits,” rides the high seas of childish entertainment for a rollickingly fun experience.
This past weekend, the Music Department and the Notre Dame Opera joined forces to put on a production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Although not an opera, this show is a challenging and thought-provoking piece of musical drama that pushes audiences past traditional comfort zones.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies
Decisions are hard. Some days you really want a cookie. Other days, you crave a brownie. Today, I’m giving you a chance to have both. With finals looming, you need a quick, easy, Huddle-friendly treat to fuel your study sessions and late night paper-writing.
Summer Television
Summer is almost upon us, so what are you going to do with all that free time? Jobs and internships may take up some of it, but history proves that the best use of your time in those warm summer months is binge-watching entire TV series in one pop. Catch up with a show on its summer hiatus or digest a completed series — the possibilities are endless. Since the funds are not, Netflix has you covered with a vast collection of some of TV’s best.
3 Shamrocks out of 4
Yes, this is the Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis) — Jack White of the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather and about two dozen other collaborations. While technically his debut solo album, White’s music has been a part of the public consciousness for over a decade, at least since that animated video for “Fell in Love with a Girl” starring Lego figures in 2001.
This is also, perhaps more importantly, the first piece of music we’ve heard from White since he and sister/wife/ex-wife (depending on whose story you believe) Meg White, whose surname he now bears, dissolved the White Stripes a little over a year a
The warbling was worth the wait. Though Vanessa Carlton graced Notre Dame with her presence later than expected, by the time the curtains closed on the Legends stage Saturday night, the audience was left impressed and satisfied with the musician’s performance.
Oedipus, the mythical Greek king of Thebes, had a complex relationship with his mother. He unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his own father and marry his mother — dooming his city in the process.