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(09/24/12 2:00am)
From the first loud bellows of the larger-than-life character of the Barker, the only humanoid puppet featured in the puppet adaptation of George Buchner's play "Woyzeck on the Highveld," the Handspring Puppet Company captivated its audience, drawing attention and bringing intensity to the puppet-driven adaptation of the iconic play.
(09/12/12 2:00am)
This fall's season brings a hearty crop of new television shows, though it is hard to really pick out which rookie might hit it big. The networks bring a standard variety of already-been-done sitcoms with only a few promising looking programs. "Nashville," airing Oct. 10 on ABC, seems to be less of a superficial, sappy Southern tale about an aging star and more of a deeper emotional drama. The show stars Connie Britton of "Friday Night Lights" as an older star forced to go on tour with a sparkly young singer played by Hayden Panettiere. The fact that the pilot doesn't repeat "Country Strong" (2010) makes it more likely to appeal to a wider variety of viewers. NBC has a few new comedies premiering, including "The New Normal," a twist on traditional family roles, "Guys with Kids," your stereotypical, dude-bashing romp and "Animal Practice," a sitcom that undoubtedly will include far too many puns about animal and human behavior. Between "The New Normal" and "Guys with Kids," which both deal with nontraditional family dynamics, following in the footsteps of "Modern Family" success, "The New Normal" appears to be the most exciting lineup addition. NBC will also premiere "Revolution," a new drama that seems to star a Katniss Everdeen-type heroine in a "Hunger Games"-esque world, but slightly less entertaining. Of course, none of NBC's premiering options come close to surpassing the excitement that will inevitably come on Oct. 4, when "30 Rock" premieres for its final season. This season, CBS will also premiere new series, including "Made in Jersey," a legal drama following a New Jersey-born lawyer who works in a top New York law firm. The constant network obsession with New Jersey is getting a little old, though this show, which is essentially "Jersey Shore" meets "Legally Blonde" (2001), might be as entertaining as going to a country music concert in the Meadowlands.
(09/10/12 2:00am)
In January 2012, major American museum director Maxwell Anderson '77 took over as director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Prior to his work in Dallas, he established himself as an individual unafraid to take risks during tenures at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He is well respected within the art community and known for his bold stance on increasing research, educational and technological initiatives within his museums. Anderson shares his name with his grandfather, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "Key Largo." While at Dartmouth, he was associate editor of the Jack-O-Lantern and enjoyed a rich exposure to art and art history in Carpenter Hall.
(05/29/12 2:00am)
"It's hard to get a Portuguese muffin out here in Los Angeles," Lord said.
(05/24/12 2:00am)
While it may be hard to imagine a noise level louder than a whisper occurring in the space that now houses the Rauner Special Collections Library, the now iconic jam band Phish performed a raucous concert full of its signature trampoline bouncing and party-like antics in the now silent Webster Hall on Jan. 21, 1990. The four-man band from Burlington, Vt. is well known for encompassing many different musical styles and improvisational jams.
(05/14/12 2:00am)
An inexcusably old hat Tumblr, "Selleck, Waterfall, Sandwich" serves as a contrast to the plethora of today's internet memes that lack creativity goofiness and simplicity are key. Created by Greg Szmurlo, a Los Angeles-based ad copywriter, "Selleck, Waterfall, Sandwich" features exactly what you would expect from the title: pictures of the actor Tom Selleck amidst a variety of backgrounds that include waterfalls and sandwiches. The pictures are ridiculous and prominently display Selleck's trademark mustache.
(05/09/12 2:00am)
If I were to judge ABC's new comedy "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23," which premiered this April, by its title, I would immediately discount it for several reasons: it rhymes, it is too long and am I supposed to replace the "B----" with what I think? The latter is unclear. After the first couple of episodes, however, the show presents some promise with its quirkiness and attempt to push the envelope.
(05/09/12 2:00am)
The winners of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science's "Seeing Science" competition, comprised of the top three submitted videos to display excellence in video production and scientific visualization, will also be announced on Thursday. There will be a question and answer session with students and alumni immediately following screenings of the three winning videos.
(05/01/12 2:00am)
Halberstam is a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and gender studies at the University of Southern California, but he is also USC's Director of the Center for Feminist Research. His books "Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters" and "Female Masculinity" have made significant contributions in redefining subcultures and "low theory," a means of using varying levels of discourse to appeal to a variety of different audiences.
(04/25/12 2:00am)
I first became familiar with Lena Dunham when I watched her on an episode of "The Late Show with David Letterman," on which she divulged to the audience a number of fiercely personal moments, including the details of her spontaneous, in-a-friend's-living-room-administered tattoos, a la the female roommate of Kristen Wiig's character in "Bridesmaids" (2011). Dunham's appearance on Letterman was to promote her independent indie flick "Tiny Furniture" (2010), in which she played a whiny and unemployed girl named Aura who was living with her parents in a TriBeCa loft.
(04/12/12 2:00am)
Dratch returned to the College to promote her recently published memoir, "Girl Walks into a Bar... Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle." While the book briefly chronicles Dratch's career in show business, its main focus is on the many comical disasters that led to her unexpected pregnancy two months shy of her 44th birthday.
(04/11/12 2:00am)
"Bob's Burgers" chronicles the life of Bob Belcher and his family, who own and operate a sparsely frequented burger joint where they are constantly competing with Bob's across-the-street pasta-serving rival Jimmy Pesto.
(04/09/12 2:00am)
Cameron, who previously used 3-D video in "Avatar" (2009), revisits the popular, screen-popping technology with his re-release of "Titanic" (1997), which was already a successful film in its own right it has grossed over $600 million since its original release.
(04/02/12 2:00am)
After seeing the Wes Anderson-directed advertisement for Sony's Xperia Smartphones, you'll wonder why all ads can't be influenced by his creative genius. It features Anderson's trademark quirkiness, only this time instead of eccentric humans or foxes, tiny robots with jetpacks bop around and act out an eight-year-old's vision for what makes smart phones work. The ad uses stop-motion animation, and just like in "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (2009), the effect is magical.
(03/26/12 2:00am)
Bookworms and cinema buffs alike might cringe upon hearing about yet another book-to-film adaptation, fearing the lack of attention to plot authenticity and possible lack of on-screen substance. Fortunately, this term's Dartmouth Film Society series will bring a variety of classic and recent films that offer both substance and authenticity in their spring series "Writ Large: From Page to Screen." The series will run from March 28 to May 30 in Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center.
(02/28/12 4:00am)
"The Lorax" is based on the titular 1971 book "The Lorax," which tells the tale of a gruff, orange and fuzzy creature of the same name who cares for his land of Truffula Trees, Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swomee-Swans and Humming-Fish. When the business-driven Once-ler chops down the Truffula Trees in order to manufacture Thneeds, the Lorax and his friends are forced to move away from their home.
(02/27/12 4:00am)
Best Picture: "The Artist"
(02/20/12 4:00am)
This term's production of the musical is originally based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name, which subsequently ran as a Tony Award-nominated Broadway production for over 2,500 shows following its 2002 opening. The 2007 film adaptation of the musical broke the record for biggest opening weekend sales for a movie musical, according to the Hopkins Center press release. In keeping with its enduring popularity, the Friday and Saturday performances of Dartmouth's "Hairspray" were completely sold out.
(02/15/12 4:00am)
"Angry Boys" connects a seemingly unlikely set of individuals, all played by Lilley, including Daniel and Nathan Sims twin brothers, one of whom is partially deaf and all of their so-called "Legends." These Legends, whom the twins look up to, include the twins' grandmother, who is also the warden of a juvenile justice center; S.mouse, an extremely offensive and largely untalented rapper; Blake Oakfield, an endearing but idiotic surfer; Tim Okazaki, a gay skateboarding prodigy; and Jen, Tim's overbearing Japanese mother. While Lilley expertly portrays all of his characters and presents believable storylines, having to fit six characters' lives into 12 episodes ends up seeming compressed for such a short project.
(02/08/12 4:00am)
The show operates largely as a parody of NBC, and the first episode wasted no time in poking extreme fun at the large crop of singing-themed reality television shows currently on the airwaves. Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), star of the fictional sketch comedy program "The Girly Show," has risen to B-level fame as a malicious judge for the show "America's Kidz Got Singing!" where she perpetually makes children cry in a Simon Cowell-like fashion. Maroney tells a small girl to seal herself "in a barrel, then fall off of a waterfall" and even to crawl back up her mother.