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Inside the Band

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.

New To Your Queue

1. "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time"

Reasons we love squirrels

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.

SUB Preview

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

ND grad explores storms and struggle in fiction work

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.

Drink up, Vienna style!

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.

Cartoons Ripe for Adaptation

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.

Faris is Darling in "What's Your Number?"

3 out of 4 Shamrocks

Foreign Food Finds

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.

Scene Selects

"Pan Am"

Dream House Review

Jim Sheridan has always been a consistent and quality director — until now.

Wilco reinvents themselves again on "The Whole Love"

"The Whole Love" has the sound of a band tearing up the carpet and starting fresh — for the third time in their career.

Fashion by Felicia: Berets

Fall is never an easy season. While the semester begins with the heat and excitement of summer, it soon becomes as complicated as the varied colors of leaves that fall from our precious campus trees. Fall is a time when the lushness of the landscape slowly begins to turn inward, reclaiming the green with which it had so willingly welcomed us, preparing for the cold winter ahead with each changing shade of red and burnt orange. Underneath the beauty of this luscious canopy, we rarely pause to notice how quickly the time is passing, how fast the football season is progressing or how swiftly our own present moments in college are relegated to the past.

Secret brings surreal, creepy take on familiar tales to life for stage

Tell your fairy godmother you'll be late and leave Hansel and Gretel at home ⎯ the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) is producing a play that puts the Grimm back in fairy tales.

Dream House film remains unscreened, shrouded in mystery

A family lives in a house. They have British accents. They seem perfect. Then disaster strikes.

Local family diner makes for cozy, delicious lunch

You might need to lie about its distance to convince your friends to head to the Apple Dumplin' Inn, but once there, they'll thank you for your crafty deception.

PEMCo smells and spells success

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