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Notre Dame Style Spotter: Winter Weather

By The Observer · Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011

Snoop Dogg to Take the Stage at Feve

By The Observer · Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011

Better known by his world famous moniker Snoop Dogg, Calvin Broadus will take the stage this Wednesday at Club Fever in South Bend. Snoop Dogg, originally known as Snoop Doggy Dogg before he changed his performance name in 1996, has been rapping and acting for more than 20 years. His 1993 debut album "Doggystyle" featured such hit singles as "Gin and Juice" and "Who Am I (What's My Name)" and has been hailed as a classic of the gangsta rap genre. He is currently touring in support of "Malice n Wonderland," his 10th album, and plans to release another studio effort entitled "Doggumentary" in March of this year.

Notre Dame Royalty?

By The Observer · Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011

Salacious gossip surrounds the life of a man who grew up behind the stone walls of a vast manor. A peer of Prince Charles who met the likes of Laurence Olivier as a child, Charles Duff, professor of London Theatre at the University of Notre Dame's London Programme, has spent his life in a whirlwind of royal company and theatrical prominence.

Notre Dame Student Film Festival Entertaining and Enlightening

By The Observer · Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011

With topics ranging from the controversial Westboro Baptist Church to the difficulties of single motherhood, the 22nd Annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival was highly entertaining and impressive. The festival, featuring 15 short films and documentaries, aired this weekend in the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Here are some of the highlights:

Fashion by Felicia: Fur Hats

By The Observer · Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011

Arriving back on campus from our holidays is always a wistful time. We yearn for the hours spent in heady relaxation after an abundant meal cooked by our parents who are ever so eager and happy to wait on their prodigal offspring returned from the halls of academia. We grieve for the Christmas morning spent opening lovely wrapped packages and eating hot brioche under the tree, and for the hedonism of our New Year's celebrations which must be replaced with the challenges of new classes and the tediousness of required errands and duties. Compounding this January season of longing is the Dr. Zhivago landscape in which we find ourselves. Our breath visible in front of us, we gaze on never-ending expanses of Moscow-esque snow which seem to create a mirage of long-lost friends sledding eagerly towards us (just the other day on South Quad I was sure I saw Omar Sharif desperately crying my name and swiftly running as he did so brilliantly in the Dr Zhivago film adaptation of 1965).

Black Swan: Both Beautiful and Disturbing

By The Observer · Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011

Joining more well-known and mainstream films such as "The Social Network" and "Inception" in the running for numerous Golden Globes this year is the highly acclaimed and somewhat controversial ballet drama/thriller "Black Swan." Directed by Darren Aronofsky, known for similarly dark but praised films "Requiem for a Dream" and "The Wrestler," the always-exceptional Natalie Portman and impressive Mila Kunis star in a film that has left audiences both amazed and disturbed.

True Grit salvaged by Bridges

By The Observer · Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011

Joel and Ethan Coen's faithful adaptation of 1968's "True Grit," the film that finally won John Wayne an Oscar for Best Actor, has a style and sensibility about it that only the Coens can pull off, and that might be its only fault.