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Ken Burns documentary on Dust Bowl to premiere at Hop

By Katie Tai | July 9, 2012

By Katie taiThe Dartmouth Staff As the heat wave continues to relentlessly bake the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States, many students in Hanover choose to fling themselves into the river or an air-conditioned room in hope of respite.

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Hood curator nationally recognized

By CONNOR WATUMULL | July 2, 2012

Lesley Wellman, curator of education at the Hood Museum of Art, was named the 2012 National Museum Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association in June for her contributions to museum education.

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Work of Van Pelt '11 and De La Cruz '11 exhibited at the Hop

By Lauren Sarner | June 28, 2012

To most people, coffee grounds are not something to be hung on a wall and admired. To Max Van Pelt '11, however, they were the finishing touches to a complex piece of art. Van Pelt's mixed media sculptures, along with a series of paintings by Logan De La Cruz '11, are being displayed in a joint exhibition at the Jaffe-Friede Gallery in the Hopkins Center. The exhibition is the culminating event for the studio art department's annual Perspectives On Design Award.

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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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