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Hop places pianos across campus

By Lauren Sarner | June 21, 2012

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff An intricately graffitied piano, propped casually on the lawn outside of the Blunt Alumni Center, has attracted many curious glances and prompted spontaneous music since its installation earlier this month.

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Summer's releases will feature indie films and blockbusters

By Varun Bhuchar | May 29, 2012

This coming summer's crop of movie releases contains the usual big-budget extravaganzas like "The Avengers" (released on May 4), "Prometheus" (June 8) and Pixar's new film "Brave" (June 22), but what makes this year so unique is its slate of relatively lower-budget and lesser-known films, which will be released in the upcoming months. Director Wes Anderson returns with his latest film "Moonrise Kingdom" (May 25), the story of two prepubescent children who run away together and the ensuing search for the duo.

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Lord and Miller return to the College with ‘21 Jump Street'

By Kate Sullivan | May 28, 2012

Courtesy of Slate.com The thing that acclaimed directors and general funny men Phil Lord '97 and Chris Miller '97 are looking forward to during their visit to Hanover today is an EBAs chicken sandwich. "It's hard to get a Portuguese muffin out here in Los Angeles," Lord said. Lord and Miller are the directors of the recently released "21 Jump Street" (2012) and the Golden Globe-nominated "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" (2009). "21 Jump Street" was the first live-action feature film that the duo directed, having come from an extensive animation background that began at Dartmouth.

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Martin and Steep Canyon mix stand-up with bluegrass

By Varun Bhuchar | May 22, 2012

When Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers took the stage in front of an excited and sold-out crowd last night in Spaulding Auditorium, Martin remarked that it had always been his dream to play bluegrass music in Hanover, eliciting uproarious laughter.

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Students form on-stage mob during The Clash's 1984 concert

By Varun Bhuchar and Anisha Mohin | May 22, 2012

Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series profiling popular music concerts at Dartmouth over the last four decades. At the height of their popularity and before the release of their final album, The Clash performed a sold-out concert at Thompson Arena on April 19, 1984 to a "raucous" Dartmouth crowd comprised of students that had not seen a major concert since The Allman Brothers band in 1981, according to an article in The Dartmouth written by Nick Armington '84. "Pandemonium isn't a bad word for it," Armington wrote.

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Erdrich's works examine Native American, mixed heritage

By Anisha Mohin | May 21, 2012

Louise Erdrich '76, who is the acclaimed writer of 13 novels and is in residence at the College as a Montgomery Fellow, will engage in a public conversation with Native American studies professor Bruce Duthu this afternoon to discuss the themes in her works and read from her recently published book "Shadow Tag." Erdrich is a significant contributor to the field of contemporary American literature.

The Grateful Dead performed on May 5, 1978 i to a packed audience of Dartmouth students, many of whom camped outside Thompson Arena in preparation for the concert.
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Deadheads camp outside Thompson Arena for 1978 concert

By Jenny Che | May 21, 2012

Ken Horowitz / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series profiling popular music concerts at Dartmouth over the last four decades. Improvisation and unity in sound and energy that was what the Grateful Dead brought to Dartmouth for one Green Key weekend over 30 years ago. The Dead descended on campus on May 5, 1978, bringing with them a legion of hardcore fans who camped outside of Thompson Arena.

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Kelly's play choice examines race

By Kunyi Li | May 20, 2012

Internationally renowned actor and scholar Baron Kelly stirred up campus discourse on racial identity with his production of Carlyle Brown's "The African Company Presents Richard III" in Bentley Theater over the weekend. Kelly was brought to campus last fall by VOICES, the Dartmouth theater visiting artist program, which aims to present dramatic works that are relevant to Dartmouth's minority communities by inviting accomplished theater artists to campus, according to the theater department's website. A three-time Fulbright Scholar, Kelly studied at the London Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has produced and acted in productions of theater, film and television around the world.

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Springsteen performed to a sold-out Spaulding in 1974

Courtesy of Brucebase.wikispaces.com *Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a four-part series profiling popular music concerts at Dartmouth over the last four decades.**## On the eve of the Dartmouth-Harvard football game in 1974, Dartmouth students were introduced to Bruce Springsteen, an up-and-coming artist who only attracted a small, local following in his home state of New Jersey.

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‘Vienna to Hollywood' concert reflects Jewish diaspora

By Kunyi Li | May 15, 2012

Tonight's performance of "Vienna to Hollywood," a project undertaken by soprano Melanie Henley Heyn and pianist Deirdre Brenner '01, will showcase the personal and musical journey of a group of Jewish composers who fled Austria to Los Angeles just before the outbreak of World War II.

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Now Playing in Hanover: Chimpanzee

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | May 13, 2012

"Chimpanzee," the sixth film released by Disneynature, the distributors of "Earth" (2007), is a nature documentary that follows the life of a baby chimpanzee that must learn to survive without his mother in the African jungle.

Dartmouth students and inmates hold up cardboard signs as part of their theatrical production.
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‘Pros and Convicts' gives voice to the ‘socially invisible'

By sophia archibald | May 13, 2012

Courtesy of Signe Taylor This past weekend at "Telling Stories for Social Change," as audience members watched the late afternoon sun reflect off both the barbed wire fence in the foreground and the Green Mountains in the distance, it became clear that performing in the confines of a Vermont prison yard is certainly not a typical theater experience.

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