By: RYAN L. GRUENEWALD Staff Writer A customer stood in front of the Taco Bell counter at 8 a.m. Her head craned upward at the fast food chain’s newly introduced breakfast menu. She hesitated before placing the order. “I wanted to try more,” Jamie Jacobs, South Bend-area resident, said as she held her receipt. “This
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By: Ryan L. Gruenewald Staff Writer Celebrate the passion, the commitment and the creativity of the independent filmmaker at the 6th annual River Bend Film Festival. The three-day event begins Thursday, April 3, with the Indiana premiere of “Sand Castles” starring the prolific Hollywood film actor Clint Howard and Jordon Hodges, a Goshen native and
By: RYAN L. GRUENEWALD Staff Writer Unlike a zombie’s ravenous walk toward human flesh, undergrad Jim Master’s first steps into the literary world can be described as smooth. On Mar. 15, only a few months after submitting a query, Master accepted an offer to publish his first novel, “The Book of Roland.” Along with eight
By: RYAN L. GRUENEWALD Staff Writer Google a professor. Have another drink. Re-watch the full series of Breaking Bad (this time with commentary). When all the best ways to procrastinate have been exhausted, it’s time to do taxes. It’s time to gather the 1098-T, the W-2 and those receipts for textbooks that should be stashed
By: Ryan L. Gruenewald Staff Writer Kwadwo Okrah began his presentation on the cultural traditions of Africa and Ghana with a pair of songs. The associate professor struck percussive rhythms with two short wooden dowels and sang the English alphabet first and then another in his native language. “I represent Africa but the things I
By: RYAN L. GRUENEWALD Staff Writer A sold out audience filled the South Bend Civic Center’s Firehouse Theater on Portage Ave., Feb. 19, for a staged reading of “The False Lie” written by IU South Bend faculty and Notre Dame alum Matt Benedict and directed by David Chudzynski. Benedict started teaching for IUSB’s theatre program
By: RYAN L. GRUENEWALDStaff Writer Your car won’t start. The babysitter cancelled. The paper you haven’t started is due tomorrow. No matter where you go or what you do, stress is a daily part of life. How you choose to cope can deeply impact your education as well as physical and emotional health. The IU
By: RYAN L. GRUENWALD Staff Writer Wolfson Press celebrated the release of their newly published book, “Fine Arts of the South Bend Region, 1840-2000” with an art exhibit at IU South Bend’s Art Gallery. The show highlighted many of the local artists documented in the text. A reception was held at the gallery on Friday,
