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Internet Meme of the Week: "The Hunger Games" Game

By Varun Bhuchar | March 25, 2012

This past weekend, the film adaptation of the first book in Suzanne Collins' vastly popular "Hunger Games" trilogy opened with a bang.

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Dean Office staff member performs in country music band

By Rohail Premjee | March 25, 2012

Courtesy of Ed Leavitt Juggling working at Dartmouth and performing in an up-and-coming band, Ed Leavitt has a busy life.

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Sleigh Bells finds success in ‘Treats'

By Dana Venerable | March 6, 2012

Sleigh Bells, the Brooklyn duo comprised of musician and producer Derek Miller and singer-songwriter Alexis Krauss, hits hard yet again in their new album "Reign of Terror," which was released on Feb.

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Environmentalist Bass presents from his book on the Arctic

By Marina Shkuratov | March 6, 2012

Christina Chen / The Dartmouth Staff Accomplished environmental author and activist Rick Bass read an excerpt from his book "Caribou Rising" in a Tuesday lecture in Haldeman Hall to emphasize the importance of communication about the environment and climate change.

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Simmons' memoir gives taste of her life outside of ‘Top Chef'

By Shannon Draucker | March 5, 2012

Although I am far from culinarily inclined, I was ecstatic to learn that "Top Chef" judge and "Top Chef: Just Desserts" host Gail Simmons had written a memoir.

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Max Raabe and Palast Orchester return to Hopkins Center

By Varun Bhuchar | March 5, 2012

Four years after a wildly successful performance at the Hopkins Center, Max Raabe and his group the Palast Orchester return to Hanover to delight students and residents of the Upper Valley with their performance of 1930s cabaret music to perform this evening.

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Now Playing in Hanover: 'Project X'

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | March 4, 2012

Produced by Todd Phillips, the director of "The Hangover" (2009), "Project X" is a comedy about a group of three anonymous high school best friends determined to throw the craziest party ever.

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Monte Reed places first in this year's ‘Idol' competition

By Anisha Mohin | March 4, 2012

Correction appended On Friday, eager audience members at the finals of "Dartmouth Idol" were handed multicolored ballots listing the six finalists as they entered Spaulding Auditorium to decide who would be this year's victor.

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Internet Meme of the Week: Jim Rash Begins "Jolieing" Craze

By Varun Bhuchar | March 4, 2012

At the 84th Academy Awards, Angelina Jolie wore a black Versace dress with a split revealing her leg.

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Ruhl's play comments on our cell phone dependent society

By Ashley Ulrich | March 4, 2012

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A tale of estranged love and errant cell phone waves, the student production of Sarah Ruhl's "Dead Man's Cell Phone" premiered over the weekend at the Bentley Theater in the Hopkins Center.

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Multimedia film event opens Friday Night Rock concert

February 29, 2012

Tomorrow night, Friday Night Rock will join the film and media studies course "Curating and Microcinema" to put on a live music and film event called "Silent Films, LOUD Music" in Fuel.

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‘Ghostory' succeeds even after the departure of a vocalist

By Matt Garczynski | February 29, 2012

Told through swelling instrumentals and gossamer vocals, "Ghostory," the third album from indie-pop band School of Seven Bells (or SVIIB), which was released on Feb.

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‘Vagina Monologues' confronts taboo issues of sexuality

By Lauren Sarner | February 28, 2012

At an institution that began as all-male and whose social scene is still largely dominated by fraternities, almost 60 female Dartmouth students are bringing the taboo discussion of vaginas into the spotlight in "The Vagina Monologues" beginning tonight.

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Five Oscars for ‘The Artist' reflect dated Academy preferences

By Varun Bhuchar | February 27, 2012

To almost no one's surprise, "The Artist" (2011) became the 84th film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first (mostly) silent film to win since the inaugural ceremony in 1927.

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Hopkins screens ‘The Lorax' before nationwide release

By Kate Sullivan | February 27, 2012

Break out your Lorax costume a special sneak-peek screening of the animated 3-D feature film "The Lorax" (2012) will come to the Hopkins Center tonight at 7 p.m.

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Internet Meme of the Week: Timeflies Tuesday

By Julian Danziger | February 26, 2012

Every Tuesday, the band Timeflies releases a fun music video featuring either a short preview of a song they are working on or a catchy freestyle rap melody.

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DSO reinvigorates Tchaikovsky and Nielsen's compositions

By Katie Sinclair | February 26, 2012

A grand piano took center stage in Spaulding Auditorium on Saturday for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra's termly concert, which performed to a nearly full auditorium.

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Now Playing in Hanover: "The Secret World of Arrietty"

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | February 26, 2012

The newest offering of Studio Ghibli, which previously presented "Spirited Away" (2001) and "Ponyo" (2008), "The Secret World of Arrietty" is an animated Japanese fantasy film based on Mary Norton's young adult novel "The Borrowers." Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the film illustrates the friendship that develops between Arrietty, a tenacious 14-year-old Borrower, and Shawn, a human boy with a critical heart condition.

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Staff members' preferences prove close to the Academy's

By Kate Sullivan, Varun Bhuchar and Julian Danziger | February 26, 2012

Editor's note: Before the winners were announced for the 2012 Academy Awards, staff members Kate Sullivan, Varun Bhuchar and Julian Danziger gave their opinions on who the winners should be. Best Picture: "The Artist" Kate: The imagination and whimsy of "Midnight in Paris" may not beat out the kitsch of "The Artist." Regardless, Woody Allen's delightful film features an inventive script and spot-on acting by Owen Wilson, in a great impersonation of Allen.

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New Hop rotunda art features steel

By Patrick Chen | February 22, 2012

The rarity of steel structures in New Hampshire's wilderness is offset by the new Barrows Rotunda exhibit at the Hopkins Center, which is now filled with a stunningly intricate metal structure.

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