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April 2, 2026
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Beyond the Bubble: Girl Power

By Madeline Taylor | February 3, 2013

The entertainment world is still buzzing with Tina Fey's impact on women in television both on and offscreen following the season finale of "30 Rock." Fey, who both created the show and starred as its leading lady Liz Lemon, is hailed by many critics as a feisty comedic visionary who pushed women to new prominence in the television world.

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Now Playing: Hyde Park on Hudson

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | February 3, 2013

"Hyde Park on Hudson" is an account told through the eyes of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's distant cousin and eventual lover (Laura Linney) of a momentous weekend in 1939 that saw the unprecedented visit by the reigning British monarch, George VI (Samuel West), to the president's home in upstate New York.

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WiRED plays made in 24 hours

February 3, 2013

Cecelia Shao / The Dartmouth Staff "Stalking", "murdering" and "conquering" were the words chosen by three writer-director teams to complete a plot prompt titled "My brain says no, but my heart says (insert gerund here)" for this term's production of WiRED, which took place in Bentley Theater on Saturday. The 24-hour playwriting experience began on Friday night at 8 p.m.

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‘Dartmouth Idol' semis will feature 25 performers

By Marina Shkuratov | January 30, 2013

Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Staff Tomorrow night, 25 of Dartmouth's most talented singers will gather in Spaulding Auditorium to face off in the semifinals of "Dartmouth Idol," a competition modeled after the popular TV show "American Idol." Six of these semifinalists will move on to compete in the finals, which are scheduled to take place in March. The semifinalists were chosen from a pool of 60 who auditioned, according to College Gospel Choir director Walt Cunningham, who is responsible for creating, producing and directing the show. Students were asked to perform a song of their choosing in front of a panel consisting of Cunningham, Hopkins Center student performance programs director Joshua Kol '93 and Kaitlyn Sheehan '09, a finalist in the 2009 "Dartmouth Idol" competition. The audition process also included an interview component that allowed the panelists to learn about the students' motivations for participating in the show. This year marks the largest number of students to advance to the semifinal round of "Dartmouth Idol" in recent history, Cunningham said.

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Q&A with theater prof. and former principal artist Horton

By Caela Murphy | January 29, 2013

Rebecca Burten / The Dartmouth Staff Joining a star-studded cast including Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones and working under famed director Steven Spielberg, theater professor Jamie Horton recently appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film "Lincoln" (2012) playing the part of Rep.

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‘Art + Activism' links poverty and sustainability

By Simone D'Luna | January 28, 2013

Featuring a perhaps unexpected combination of sustainability, poverty and art, the student art show "Art + Activism" will open this Thursday in the student gallery of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The show, which will run until the end of the term, is the result of collaborative efforts between the Office of Sustainability, the "A Monstrous Octopus: The Tentacles of Poverty" symposium team and "This Is Not a Group," a student organization responsible for running, curating and installing exhibits in the gallery. The theme "Art + Activism" originated when the Sustainability in the Arts interns and representatives from the "A Monstrous Octopus" symposium approached student gallery co-managers Luca Molnar '13 and Sabrina Yegela '13 about combining the arts with their respective focus areas. Both student groups were especially eager to incorporate their ideas with the arts to align with the Hopkins Center's Year of the Arts initiative, Sustainability in the Arts intern Anna Morenz '13 said. "We really felt that the arts can be a form of activism in terms of providing powerful visual images that get people thinking about social issues or raise consciousness about issues in a different way than say, a lecture or some of the other opportunities on campus," Morenz said.

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Curating workshop demonstrates how Hood selects works

By Caela Murphy | January 28, 2013

Works of transgressive photography were the focus of yesterday evening's Museum Collecting 101 workshop, the second in a series of five to be held at the Hood Museum of Art this term. Students are given the opportunity to view and discuss a wide selection of artistic works, and then vote on one object to be bought and put on display at the Hood. The workshop is as interesting to the museum's staff as it is to the students involved, according to Amelia Kahl, the coordinator of academic programming at the Hood. "It's very exciting for us; we love to see what the students choose," Kahl said.

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Beyond the Bubble: Culinary Cravings

By Kate Sullivan | January 27, 2013

If you are facing artistic and aesthetic cravings, the week ahead should have some scrumptious delights to quench your dry palate. On Tuesday, "Fresh Off the Boat," a rowdy memoir from chef Eddie Huang of New York City restaurant Baohaus, will be released by Spiegel & Grau.

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African works on display at Hood

By Ashley Ulrich | January 27, 2013

Cecilia Shao / The Dartmouth Staff Walking into the Hood Museum of Art's latest exhibit titled "Evolving Perspectives: Highlights from the African Art Collection" the most striking object is an enormous carved door mounted on one of the gallery's main walls.

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Now Playing: The Impossible

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 27, 2013

Inspired by the events of the 2004 Thailand tsunami, director Juan Antonio Bayona's "The Impossible" details one family's incredible fight for survival amidst a country in chaos.

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Josefowicz concert featured rich variety

By Madeline Taylor | January 27, 2013

On Saturday evening, violinist Leila Josefowicz and accompanying pianist Pedja Muzijevic treated an audience at Spaulding Auditorium to a rich variety of classical pieces, ranging from works by contemporary composer Gyorgy Kurtag to a Beethoven sonata. The program opened with Johannes Brahms' Scherzo in C minor, an intensely rhythmic piece that began the concert on a passionate note. This intensity demonstrated itself not only through the music, but also through Josefowicz's dynamic movements and facial expressions.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returns to the Hop tonight

By Kyle McGoey | January 23, 2013

Tonight, Spaulding Auditorium will come alive with the sounds of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The world-famous group, which will be directed by legendary jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, will take the stage to a sold-out audience at 7 p.m. The return of Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to campus was carefully chosen as part of the Hopkins Center's 50th anniversary and the Year of the Arts, according to programming director Margaret Lawrence.

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Students at costume shop design behind-the-scenes

By Margot Byrne | January 23, 2013

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff When a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" required a costume dress that would fit comfortably around two people standing on stilts, costume shop manager Jennifer Bilbo decided to utilize Tyvek, a synthetic construction material used to insulate houses, to construct a lightweight hoop skirt for the characters. The costume shop in the basement of the Hopkins Center is home to a group of students and designers responsible for dressing the actors and actresses who perform in Dartmouth's many plays.

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Clark Moore '13 will appear on tomorrow's ‘Glee'

By Kristina Mani | January 22, 2013

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff While Clark Moore '13 is no stranger to some serious singing competition, he may be facing his toughest opponents on the stage yet: Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) and Rachel Berry (Lea Michele). On Thursday, Moore is set to appear on the hit Fox TV show "Glee." From the Dartmouth classroom to "The Sing-Off" stage and now to a Hollywood set, Moore makes his debut on the popular show as a new recurring character who is a member of the Adam's Apples, a competing glee club at the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts, where Hummel and Berry attend. Moore a history major modified with art history and a member of the Dartmouth Aires said he has always dreamed of working in entertainment and signed with his first talent manager at the age of seven.

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Burns' documentary exposes past injustice

By Gavin Huang | January 21, 2013

As the lights dimmed on a packed Spaulding Auditorium for the Saturday night showing of "The Central Park Five" (2012), a relaxed Ken Burns in a gray sweater and khaki pants walked onstage and told the audience something rather unexpected. "I hope this is not a film that you will enjoy," the Emmy Award-winning director said.

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"Ganesh" provokes thought

By Kate Sullivan | January 21, 2013

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Leaving the Hopkins Center with a feeling of awe or bewilderment is a familiar occurrence:theater at Dartmouth tends to err on the side of thought-provoking, regardless of its performative merit. "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich," which was performed at the Hop on Friday and Saturday, however, is not only stimulating, but also remarkable and impressive in its ability to upend the conventional standard of watching a play. If your standard theater performance is roughly the equivalent of a gin and tonic delicious and enjoyable yet rather ordinary "Ganesh" is a complicated, expertly crafted cocktail, perhaps containing two types of alcohol whose names you do not know, a dash of absinthe and a sprig of something that you will certainly be wondering about in the morning. "Ganesh" was created by Back to Back Theatre, a 25-year-old Australian company Back to Back Theatre and is directed by Bruce Galdwin.

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