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(12/01/10 4:00am)
As the holidays approach, it's time for students across the country to catch up on relaxation, sleep and drum roll, please pleasure reading. There's nothing more satisfying than curling up by the fireplace with hot cocoa, a plush blanket and a book. The question is, which book?
(11/17/10 4:00am)
On Thursday night, college students across the country will don festive attire and gather to celebrate our generation's most beloved book series, corrupted in movie form. That's right, the first part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final book in the series, hits theaters this week and I could not be more excited.
(11/15/10 4:00am)
In large part, the show owes its success to several innovative choices made by director and theater department chair Peter Hackett, who is responsible for shifting the play's location from Verona to Hanover. Though toying with notions of time and place in Shakespeare's plays is not unheard of (see Baz Luhrmann's 1996 "Romeo + Juliet"), the maneuver is always risky, particularly when a director chooses to move the play to the present day. Modern-day adaptations run the risk of coming off as trite or cheesy (again, see Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet"), but Hackett exercises admirable restraint, coupled with a keen sense of humor, in his modern reimagining of Shakespeare's tale.
(11/10/10 4:00am)
My favorite place to read at Dartmouth is not actually on campus. Lounging on the Green with a book is nice, of course, but when it comes to curling up on a cushy sofa with a great view and a good book, the Howe Library Hanover's charming and impressive public library has simply got campus beat. No offense, Baker-Berry, but you kind of kill my soul.
(11/03/10 3:00am)
In recent years, dozens of books both fiction and nonfiction have been released about the negative effects of bullying. Probing children's capacity for cruelty, these works denigrate the sometimes unspeakable actions young people engage in to become more popular or preserve their own self esteem. But rarely are these stories told from the perspective of the bullies, rather than the bullied. Memoirs and moralistic exposes abound, but seldom do these tales allow the bullies to explain themselves. Myla Goldberg's new novel, "The False Friend" released Oct. 5 takes a different approach.
(10/27/10 2:00am)
In the high-pressure world of higher education, where the reading load is basically infinite, students (and, erm, certain columnists) may not have time to read a book every week or if they do, they may not want to spend their previous free time further destroying their eyesight. Luckily, in the age of modern technology, it's now possible to get the delight that comes from reading in an audio format. Podcasts, you see, are pretty much the coolest thing since sliced bread.
(10/25/10 2:00am)
Thursday evening, the Hopkins Center offered the Dartmouth community an opportunity to see this week's performance of "A Prairie Home Companion" as a live HD broadcast in Spaulding Auditorium. The program which included all of the traditional segments of Garrison Keillor's weekly radio variety show, as well as performances by Sara Watkins, Joe Ely and the roots quintet Old Crow Medicine Show provided the audience with a host of comic and musical delights.
(10/20/10 2:00am)
I read "I, Emma Freke" (2010) after a painful midterm, and I really couldn't have asked for a better way to get my mind off the fact that math and I are never going to get along. The young adult novel, penned by MALS graduate Elizabeth Atkinson '95, is a charming and uplifting story about finding and accepting yourself strengths and weaknesses, talents and flaws.
(10/13/10 2:00am)
Ian Minot the protagonist of Adam Langer's newest novel "The Thieves of Manhattan" is, to be blunt, annoying. He whines, he mopes, he pities himself. He needs to get a life. Thankfully, in "Thieves," that's what Langer forces Ian to do.
(10/11/10 2:00am)
Feeling eco-neutral today? "No pressure," but if you don't agree to cut your carbon emissions by 10 percent in 2010, then the 10:10 global campaign is going to press a big red button of doom that will cause you and your fellow eco-abstainers cute children included to be blown to a bloody pulp. At least that's the message touted by a promotional video recently posted on the 10:10 campaign's website. The video begins with a creepy elementary school teacher asking her students if they will participate in 10:10. A couple of children say they won't, and the teacher, muttering incoherently about that being "absolutely fine," presses a red button that causes the children to explode. Three similar scenes follow, with more of the eco-neutral meeting a similarly bloody end. Understandably, the video has recently been removed from the 10:10 website (not soon enough to keep it from going viral, apparently), demonstrating that threatening to blow up adorable children is not, in fact, an effective marketing ploy.
(10/11/10 2:00am)
Stella's relationship with the College began in 1963, when he came to campus as an artist-in-residence, the artist said in an interview with The Dartmouth. During his tenure at Dartmouth, Stella created the "Dartmouth Paintings," a series of abstract works named after cities in Florida. Similarly, he named the works in his 1965-66 "Irregular Polygon" series after small towns in New Hampshire, which the New England-born artist remembered from trips he took with his father in his childhood. In 1985, the year when the Hood Museum first opened its doors, Stella spoke at Dartmouth's annual convocation ceremony and received an honorary degree. Thus, his return to campus this October for the opening of the exhibit and as a Montgomery Fellow provides a nice symmetry in the artist's career.
(10/07/10 2:00am)
I believe that the adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" is not merely pretentious, but also just plain wrong. Book jackets, I would argue, are far from irrelevant. Books need covers. To state the obvious, covers are necessary to the structural integrity of the codex as a physical object (whoa there, and I just claimed to be repulsed by pretentiousness). But there's also something more there is an intrinsic emotional link between reader and book. It is the comfort that can be drawn from the concrete act of possessing a book, cover and all, which keeps people returning to libraries and bookstores in the age of modern technology. The Kindle, as one librarian explained to me vehemently this summer, is just not the same. "And," she raised her eyebrows and wagged her finger, "it never will be. Mark my words."
(10/06/10 2:00am)
Visitors to the Hood Museum's current exhibit should search for signs of the vibrancy and unique wisdom of Native life in the art displayed, Colin Calloway, professor of history and Native American studies at the College at a panel on Friday. The panel, moderated by Calloway, featured Joe Horse Capture, assistant curator at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, and University of New Mexico art professor Joyce Szabo.
(09/29/10 2:00am)
Writing in a wistful, melancholy style, Ishiguro uses the pages of his book to demonstrate both the darker aspects of musical devotion and the unexpected joys that music can provide. A love for music, he shows us, can bring people together, transforming the unlikeliest of pairs into friends or confidants. In "Crooner," the first story in the collection, a guitar player in Venice works up the nerve to talk to famous singer Tony Gardner when he spots the celebrity dining in a piazza. The guitarist, Jan, feels drawn to the singer due to black-market records by Gardner helped his mother survive a hard life of single motherhood under Cold War communism. This shared connection fosters a bond between the two men, and Gardner hires his new friend to play guitar as he serenades his wife.
(09/22/10 2:00am)
Readers who are only interested in plot will not be impressed by the works of Julia Glass. The events that transpire in her novels are utterly unremarkable as banal as everyday life. But Glass chronicles the daily grind with grace and skill, deftly employing shifting points of view to explore the relationships among her characters and the characters' complex emotions. Slowly, elegantly, Glass fosters a connection between the reader and her fictional characters. This is what Glass does well the literary form she mastered in her National Book Award-winning debut "Three Junes" (2003) and utilized effectively in her subsequent two novels. This is what Glass should continue to do.
(09/15/10 2:00am)
Within the first five minutes of the pilot for Showtime's new comedy "The Big C," suburban mom Cathy Jamison tells her doctor she'd prefer not to treat her stage four melanoma with chemotherapy. Defying dramatic conventions, she proclaims her choice flippantly, explaining "I've always really loved my hair." On the other hand, she tells us, she'd be all for chemo if it would do away with her nose.
(06/02/10 2:00am)
I'm assuming that almost every Dartmouth student (yes, that means you!) will be able to set aside at least a little time for that lovely habit which was ingrained in us as wee, over-achieving tykes and that we haven't been able to cut ever since: that addiction we refer to most affectionately as summer reading.
(05/24/10 2:00am)
Since their first "Auto-Tune the News" video went viral in April 2009, the Gregory brothers have gained a cult-like following on YouTube. Their musical additions to TV news coverage are catchy and humorous, and their latest video "Pure Poppycock" (released in April) does not disappoint. Recurring characters "Angry Gorilla" and "Bolverk the Viking" are back for more musical mayhem, as is Katie Couric, the only news figure to have been featured in every video so far. This time, Couric sings a duet about a "rip tide of lies" the completely made-up news stories that circulated the Internet earlier this year with guest star Joel Madden posing as one of the hackers who posted the stories. The video also includes a revival of the "Best Unintentional Singer" award, whose recipient is ... well, you'll just have to watch to find out.
(05/19/10 2:00am)
So, being a house creeper, I felt a sense of kinship with Meghan Daum the moment I heard the title of her new memoir: "Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House," released May 4. The witty, contemplative narrative chronicles Daum's search for a physical and emotional home, exploring how she got caught up in (and eventually became a financial victim of) the housing bubble, and how she "came to care more about owning a house than committing to a partner or doing my job or even the ostensibly obvious fact that the sun would rise and set regardless of whether my name was on a mortgage."
(05/17/10 2:00am)
Housed in the multi-story, LEED Gold-Certified Carter Kelsey Building, AVA is a non-profit organization that offers upwards of 50 art classes, workshops and camps each season in addition to exhibiting artwork in its four galleries, according to AVA promotional materials. The four galleries, located on the ground floor of the Carter Kelsey Building, are interconnected. Each gallery is defined by strategically placed walls but not closed off completely from the other three spaces, allowing free movement between the galleries.