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Monday, June 15, 2026
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Best-Worst Movies: "Ever After"

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Everyone needs a good fairy tale, especially during the stressful, nowhere-near-a-fairy tale week before fall break. So take a study siesta, log onto Netflix and replace sweatpants and books with ball gowns and glittery shoes.


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Foreign Food Finds

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Once when asked what my favorite type of food was, I responded that it was a tie between Indian food and Thai … pun intended. So this past week, a few friends and I ventured into the vibrant and lively downtown South Bend on the prowl for the best Thai food in the area.


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50/50 brings light to a dark subject

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Inspired by a true story loosely based on the screenwriter Will Reiser, "50/50" is a story about friendship, love, family and how all these play an essential role in helping us get past our struggles and challenges in life.



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Fashion by Felicia

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There often seems no end, dear fellow fashionistas, to the mountain of misunderstanding we lovers of fashion face. This is a problem of grandiose proportions that needs our immediate attention.





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Inside the Band

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The Band of the Fighting Irish is the nation's oldest college band, as the announcer proudly proclaims at every home football game. The band has not missed a home football game since it performed at the first Notre Dame vs. Michigan game in 1887 and continues to rouse the crowd of Irish supporters to this day. Here, Scene provides a closer look at the many Notre Dame Marching Band traditions.



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Reasons we love squirrels

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What chatters incessantly, gets in the way on your walk to class and is always begging for attention? No, it's not the group of freshmen in your philosophy class. It's the omnipresent squirrels on campus.


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SUB Preview

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This weekend SUB is hosting a wide range of activities for students all around campus. Movies, poetry, music and comedy galore!


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ND grad explores storms and struggle in fiction work

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It's really true. It doesn't matter what degree you graduate from Notre Dame with, be it Engineering, Arts and Letters, or Architecture, you really can do anything you want. David Michael Belczyk, a 2003 graduate with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and author of two collections of poetry and one work of fiction, is living proof.


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Drink up, Vienna style!

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When students studying in Europe think of travel destinations in the month of October, one usually pops up: Oktoberfest in Munich. However, to the south of the popular Bavarian destination lies another city with an equally rich beverage culture — Vienna.


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Cartoons Ripe for Adaptation

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Hollywood executives like to make money. To that end, they tend to like making movies they are confident lots of people will want to go see. This means the types of movies that get made are innumerable sequels and adaptations of other media properties. There isn't anything inherently wrong with this, except that turning an animated series into a live action movie is often a terrible idea.



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Foreign Food Finds

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After a nostalgic trip to the movie theater to see "The Lion King 3D" this weekend, a few friends and I discussed and debated the age-old question of where to grab dinner. Many of you might scoff at this, believing that the only places worth going to near school are Taco Bell and Perkins. I, however, am on a quest to dispel that myth and find the best foreign food places in South Bend.