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Gessen responds to Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and others of their kind with this light, farcical critique of men like the founders of both groups, while pleading guilty himself to the maudlin narcissism of young, Ivy League intellectuals. Looking closely at the personal lives and private self-reproachments of Mark, Sam, Keith and the women they love, the chapters alternate among their stories.
The competition will be judged by Tim Chingos '08, Brittany Crosby '09 and Max Ross '11 as well as the professional actress and comedian Aisha Tyler '92. Shayla Mars '11 will host. A ten-piece band including professional horn and percussion musicians will accompany the vocalists.
I heard about the Irish author's surprising award of the 2007 Man Booker Prize while studying in Dublin this fall. Enright, a Dubliner herself, has written three other novels in addition to many essays, short stories and the compilation of essays, "Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood" (2004).
Chast, a cartoonist famous for her work in The New Yorker, will be in residence at the College as a Montgomery Fellow from Jan. 28 to Jan. 29.
On Thursday, Jan. 16, 2008 the author Jennifer Haigh will be reading from her upcoming novel, "The Condition in the Wren Room," in Sanborn House as part of the English Department's Creative Writing Poetry and Prose Series.
While you may have had your fill of gawking at celebrities after the frenzied sweep of presidential candidates coming through this week, make sure you pencil in one more star for later this month. Call it your antidote to all the stumping, or just blatant hero-worship for the children of the Clinton Nineties, but you cannot miss Kevin Bacon's appearance in Spaulding Auditorium when The Dartmouth Film Society awards him the Dartmouth film award on Jan. 25.
In keeping with the Summer Arts Festival's theme of Metamorphoses, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra will debut at the Hopkins Center this Saturday, August 18 at 8 p.m. Its performance, "Metamorphosis: From Myth to Music" features the Canadian actor R.H. Thompson narrating a script based on Ovid's classic text as adapted by Alison Mackay.
The film opens with Kate, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, giving a sensuous discourse on quails, which we come to learn are the stars of her most famous recipe as the head chef at the New York restaurant 22 Bleeker. "There's no greater sin than to overcook a quail," she pronounces, and the rest of the screenplay doesn't get any less contrived than that.
The tragic images of corpses, mass graves and other atrocities from the genocide in Darfur have come to the big screen with "The Devil Came on Horseback," a documentary directed by Ricki Stern '87 and Annie Sundberg '90.
The show comes to Dartmouth thanks to a collaboration between The Northern Stage, a professional theater company based in White River Junction, Vt., and the British company Developing Actors. The companies selected two professional American actors, two actors from Mexico City and one from Zimbabwe to act in "The O Myths" before holding auditions last Thursday for Dartmouth students who will also star in the production.
Every day from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in a space below street-level, Dartmouth alumnus Eric Hasse '80 shows five rooms of his print work. The exhibition, which began Oct. 6 and will run until the end of December, features both the sumi ink works that Hasse produced in the 1980s and his newer, digital images from the past few years.
On Saturday night, prospective buyers, interested artists and fans of local artist Eric Aho gathered in Hanover's Spheris Gallery to hear an informal talk about the artist's work. Aho lives and works in Vermont, where he grew up, and has returned to teach after studying in Massachusetts, England and Finland.
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of their installation in Hanover, the reliefs will be the focus of this collaborative symposium, which, thanks to the sponsorship of the Fanny and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, will be free and open to the public. Faculty members from Dartmouth's art history, Jewish studies and religion departments, as well as guest scholars from around the world, will present their scholarship by means of open dialogue, taking advantage of the small size of their panel by hosting more of a discussion than a seminar.
Kidman's publicist, Wendy Day, told the press that "Nicole has never met David Thomson. She has only spoken to him briefly on the phone about her acting processes and various films. He's a well-respected film writer and she accepted the interview only because she was under the impression he was writing a series of film essays."
This weekend, Dartmouth's Handel Society will challenge its audience's expectations with two consecutive concerts. The Society has dedicated this spring's repertoire to the contrasting pair of Composers Beethoven and Benjamin Britten.
In Wendy Wasserstein's socialite New York City, as portrayed in Elements of Style, nothing changed after Sept. 11 except people's excuses. In the first few chapters, every single page will hold some clunky reference to that day, but don't worry, that won't last. My personal favorite instance shows just how close to offensive Wasserstein dares step before neglecting the topic in the pursuit of more outright trivia: "Since 9/11 Judy had made few obvious changes her life. First of all she never let her nannies take her children in taxis anymore... and perhaps the biggest change was she always wore her good jewelry in the event she'd have to trade it for easy passage off Manhattan." The author and her characters compulsively refer to the historical tragedy as casually and as often as they name-drop designers and plastic surgery procedures, to an absurd and offensive extent. I wondered while reading the new Knopf novel whether there was any purpose for the mindless, predictable melodramas of Frankie Weissman, Samantha Acton and Adrienne Strong-Rodman to be set so insistently in the wake of the terrorist attack. All I could arrive at was that that moment in time lent some supposed relevance to a plot that could otherwise have been distilled from "Sex and the City" episodes, Jane Austen novels and the tiniest droplet of imagination.
Editor's note: This article is the first of a four-part series examining senior theses and culminating experiences in the arts.
Lord's photography has been showcased in various mediums and publications around campus. His work is currently on sale to benefit Asia Relief and the images themselves prove the global outlook his works portray.
To continue the celebration of movies that began last night with the Oscars, the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra will perform a program called "John Williams -- Master of the Motion Picture," at 7:30 tonight in Collis Common Ground. The Chamber Orchestra's program includes the Orchestral Suite from "Star Wars" and music from "Raiders of the Lost Ark."