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ARTgenda: September

September doesn't just mean the start of classes and football games — it's also a month packed with exhibition openings and special events around campus, South Bend and Chicago. While most of your weekends this month may be full of tailgating and football games, be sure to check out some of these highlights around campus:

The Progression of Sci-Fi

Sunday afternoon's 3 p.m. showing of the original "Planet of the Apes" kicks off a new series in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) called "Sci-Fi Through the Ages." The series was created to complement a seminar taught this semester by Professor Paulette Curtis entitled "An American Key: An Anthropologist Looks at the Genre." There are three more films being screened as part of this: "Brother From Another Planet," "Metropolis" and "Fantastic Planet."

Now & Then: Football

As the student body prepares for the first football weekend of the year, it's the perfect time to grow nostalgic and discuss seasons of old. To our generation, that includes probably around five seasons, if that.

Lollapalooza: That festival in Grant Park

This August, the Chicago area experienced its annual musical invasion known as Lollapalooza. With the addition of 20,000 extra tickets per day and the expansion of the park beyond the usual border of Columbus Drive, I questioned whether the event would have the same feel as in years past. Despite hesitations, the added space and extra concert-goers didn't hinder the festival at all — they simply amplified the energy in Grant Park and fed the unstoppable force that is Lollapalooza.

Jersey Explosion

If you've been living with no electricity, in the Antarctic or with your eyes shut this past year, you may not have noticed New Jersey's fast and steady takeover of television. From those crazy fist-pumpers on "Jersey Shore" to the crazy fist-punchers on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," loud-mouthed east-coasters are all the rage right now, with shows about GLT-ing, selling prom dresses and making cakes, to name a few.

The soundtrack stands alone

Whether you're rooting for Team Edward or Team Jacob, or you just despise the entire "Twilight" franchise in all its supernatural cheesiness, you can't argue that the soundtracks behind the films are albums that can stand completely on their own, apart from the series.

Music Under the Radar: Hunters and Gatherers

There are two types of music listeners: hunters and gatherers. Hunters are always on the prowl, reading music blogs and magazines, looking up the soundtracks of movies and TV shows, and Googling lyrics they hear on obscure radio stations. Music hunters have accounts at Pandora and last.fm, a collection of ticket stubs from this summer, and about 18 "Personal Best Of" lists. Hunters are ruthless in their pursuit of the perfect song, and go out of their way to explain a detailed opinion on everyone from Lady Gaga to Bon Iver.

The Suburbs': A Majestic Drive Down Memory Lane

Do you remember the good old careless days of "screaming and running through the yard?" Those are the days that the Montreal-based band Arcade Fire reminisces about in their new LP The Suburbs.

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The Kids Are More Than All Right

Though overshadowed by big summer blockbusters like "Toy Story 3" and "Inception," one of the best movies this summer was the small family dramedy, "The Kids Are All Right." The film, about a lesbian couple (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore), their two children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) and the sperm-donor father (Mark Ruffalo), is an honest and real portrayal of what it takes to be a family and why it's worth the struggle.

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Student performers to open for Guster and Mayer Hawthorne

Domers Do Comic Con

By ELLIE HALL

Mayer Hawthorne to croon a "strange arrangement" at the B1 Block Party

A solo artist hailing from Los Angeles, Mayer Hawthorne will be performing with Guster this weekend at Legends along with his live band The County. The singer-songwriter's smooth voice draws from such musical influences as American soul musicians Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Barry White and Smokey Robinson as well as ‘60's Motown trio Holland-Dozier-Holland.

The View From Home

By MAIJA GUSTIN

There and Back: A Student's Tale

Walking around San Diego during the last weekend of July, I was greeted by lamp posts bearing the banner of a character from the movie "Tron: Legacy," which will come out later this year. Underneath the omnipresent ads are the words, "Celebrating Pop Culture and the Arts."

Guster: Not just any college band

Do you remember your Frosh-O?  The awkward serenading, the scavenger hunt, the hundreds of people you met in three days whose names you tried to remember? And although you met a lot of people in those few days, your closest friends are probably now those whom you met in class or through sports.

Students go "Into the Woods" in the shadow of the Dome

Most students are still settling into their dorms, but the cast and crew of the St. Ed's Players have been spending the past two weeks crafting a twisted fairytale landscape in the laboratory theater on the third floor of Washington Hall. They will perform the Stephen Sondheim hit "Into the Woods" this weekend.

Weekend Events Calendar

Thursday: Cymbeline @ DPAC @ 7:30 p.m.

Concert Rewind: John Mayer and Train

Summer is the time for relaxing. For boat rides. For tanning on the beach. For new romance. For concerts. For sleeping in until 2 p.m. For lazy Sunday brunches.