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Fashion by Felicia

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This fashionista has a confession to make: I own a pair of yoga pants. Shocking, I know, but I am human (although in most fashion boutiques I feel Divine, but that's another column). I try not to call too much attention to them in the hopes of one day redeeming myself in my inevitable future meeting with Anna Wintour, but there's no hiding it.


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Growing Up Potter

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Fate, and constantly pestering my parents, would have it that I was in the middle of a European tour when the seventh and final



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FTT presents new play at DPAC

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In everything it does, Notre Dame loves being a campus of "firsts." This week the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) will present the first workshop production of Anne García-Romero's newest play "Provenance," giving the Notre Dame community a chance to be its first audience.

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Growing Up Potter

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Fate, and constantly pestering my parents, would have it that I was in the middle of a European tour when the seventh and final "Harry Potter" book was released. It gave me quite a bit of pause when I realized those two dates coincided. Not enough to, say, cancel my trip to Europe, but enough to develop an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach.







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Rome, the Eternal Classroom

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When students think of a classroom, they picture an area enclosed by four walls, with a door and perhaps a window and desks. However, for many of the Notre Dame students studying abroad in Rome at John Cabot University this semester, the opportunity to escape the confines of a building is presented in the form of "on-site" classes. Instead of being enclosed by four walls, the Eternal City itself becomes the classroom.



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Chorale: from Rome to the Dome

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ND Chorale's concerts over the years have brought people together from all over to appreciate music: students, alumni, family, friends — even strangers in Vatican City taking pictures like paparazzi.


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Growing Up Potter

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I was desperate for "Order of the Phoenix" by the time it came out, and I wasn't the only one. In the three years it took J.K. Rowling to pen her fifth and longest installment, Warner Brothers had popped out the first two films. Pottermania exploded to depths neither Rowling nor her original fans could have imagined.



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She & Him make indie Christmas gold in third album

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Baby, it's cold outside! With Halloween in the rear-view, and with Thanksgiving fast approaching, it is prime time to break out the Christmas tunes. With the Oct. 24 release of "A Very She & Him Christmas," ZooeyDeschanel and M. Ward are just in time with the Christmas cheer.


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Growing Up Potter

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"Goblet of Fire" was published when I was nine. Up until that point, I had been playing catch up with J.K. Rowling — I finished one book and then started tracking down the next, either by adding my name to the waiting list at my school's library or pestering my mother to buy it for me. Book four, however, was the start of the waiting process that would stretch through my adolescence.



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Foreign Food Finds

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One of the most touted restaurants in the Notre Dame area, J.W. Chen's is hardly a well-kept secret. Nestled between Ari's Grill and a Papa Johns, it is quite possibly the best Chinese food in the South Bend-Mishawaka region.


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Growing up Potter

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"Prisoner of Azkaban" would end up being my favorite Harry Potter book for years. It wasn't until the sixth book was released and spoke to my romantic tendencies that another one of Harry's adventures would overtake the book in which I met Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.