Jazz and comedy are two very different art forms, yet they share many similarities. Both are free form and improvisational.
November 13, 2018 11:18am
The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra is tired. The students and community members that make up the group have rehearsed intensely in preparation for their concert, which was held this past November 10, and the next item on their agenda, a tour of Italy, is this upcoming interim period.
November 12, 2018 8:40pm
In Yosemite Valley, a massive rock formation looms over the sweeping vistas of picturesque splendor.
November 12, 2018 8:46pm
This coming interim period, the play “Coriolanus” will be performed in the Hopkins Center for the Arts by the acclaimed Stratford Theatre Company based in Stratford, Ontario.
November 8, 2018 7:21pm
Aaron Lit ’19, a math student from Hong Kong, has a mission to smooth out any wrinkles in your preconceived notions of fashion while also saving marine life.
November 7, 2018 7:22pm
When I saw “The Old Man and the Gun” last weekend at The Nugget, I was easily one of the youngest people in the audience.
November 7, 2018 7:21pm
In May of 2016, Carene Mekertichyan ’16 made her dream into a reality when her senior project, a production of the late Ntozake Shange’s Obie Award-winning play and choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” was performed for the greater Dartmouth community.
November 1, 2018 7:37pm
West African musician and music department resident Mamadou Diabate tells the students in his Music 17.06 course “The Language-Music Connection” the origin story of the balafon, which is a wooden West African instrument similar to a xylophone.
October 31, 2018 6:12pm
It’s the day after Halloween, which obviously means we’re ready to plunge headfirst into the holiday season.
October 31, 2018 5:43pm
The Ethics Institute of Dartmouth hosted author Ted Chiang for a talk entitled “Technology and the Narrative of the Self” on Tuesday as part of the Dorsett Fellowship Lecture Series, which seeks to bring “practitioners and scholars of ethics” to campus, according to government professor Sonu Bedi, director of the Ethics Institute. “We have brought philosophers, lawyers and politicians here as part of the Dorsett Fellowship in years past,” Bedi said.
October 30, 2018 12:34am
Director Damien Chazelle is quickly making a name for himself as the rightful heir to the throne of dramatic cinema.
October 29, 2018 8:17pm
Michael Myers and Laurie Strode deserve more in the new “Halloween.” When one thinks of the quintessential film serial killers, several names come to mind: Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, Leatherface, etc.
October 29, 2018 8:26pm
An hour before Dartmouth Sings commenced in Spaulding Auditorium this past Saturday, the eclectic group of students and community members that comprise the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir were passing around brightly colored scarves and laughing.
October 29, 2018 8:25pm
In anticipation of the College’s 250th anniversary, a group of Dartmouth faculty and students has teamed up to create “Hindsight is 20/19,” a 26-episode podcast series celebrating Dartmouth’s history. “It’s kind of coming out of the 250th, but also just out of a desire we’ve had for a long time to more widely share the cool stories that come out of Dartmouth,” head of Special Collections at Rauner Library Jay Satterfield said.
October 24, 2018 7:24pm
I love my Saturday afternoon naps. I really do. Six of the seven Saturdays that I’ve been on campus, I’ve spent buried under a pile of blankets in a coma-like state that I don’t emerge from for at least three hours.
October 22, 2018 9:39pm
Over the past two years, no band has had a more meteoric rise in the world of rock and roll than the Michigan quartet Greta Van Fleet.
October 22, 2018 9:39pm
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” – Colette In the present moment of the Time’s Up movement, Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the Trump presidency at-large, the age-old narrative of man silencing woman is especially resonant.
October 24, 2018 10:42am
“You can’t heal someone who has gone through hell,” says Georgianna, a Wabanaki woman who is also the face of the documentary “Dawnland,” presented in the Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center this past Friday.
October 18, 2018 9:26pm
Airing in July this past summer, HBO’s “Sharp Objects,” an adaption of “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn’s book of the same name, sets out to remind its audience of what is unique to the identity of the Midwestern United States and what is possible within the supposedly limited format of the miniseries.
October 18, 2018 9:26pm
“Eating Animals” is an important film. Based on the 2009 book of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, the documentary explores the subject of the American agricultural industry, a topic that’s often neglected in public discussions, and focuses on the highly troubling issue of the factory farming of poultry and livestock.
October 17, 2018 9:46pm
Simultaneously making readers want to revel in the narrative as long as possible while also powering on to the end of the tangled story, “Providence,” by Caroline Kepnes is a novel about love and obsession, full of gripping emotional detail and a compelling New England narrative backdrop. The thriller begins in small-town New Hampshire, the day of Jon Bronson’s kidnapping.
