Arts

Li Ying's exhibit highlights landscape and coastal paintings

By Ashley Ulrich | March 27, 2012

Spring artist-in-residence Ying Li's brightly colored oil paintings and austere charcoal drawings will be displayed in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery in the Hopkins Center from April 2 to May 6, highlighting her many landscape and coastal paintings she made on trips around eastern United States and Europe. Li is currently the chair of the arts department at Haverford College, but she has also worked as professional artist after she moved to the United States from China in 1983.

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Picoult's new novel fails to match her bestsellers

By Shannon Draucker | March 27, 2012

Fans of bestselling author and Hanover resident Jodi Picoult will relish racing through the pages of the author's latest book, "Lone Wolf," but they also might find themselves underwhelmed by the plotline.

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‘Mad Men' returns to television after hiatus

By Aarti Kamat | March 26, 2012

Courtesy of Nytimes.com This Sunday, the critically acclaimed AMC drama "Mad Men" premiered its fifth season with "A Little Kiss." The show, which chronicles the advertising business in the 1960s, returned after a 17-month hiatus that left fans without their weekly fix of drama, jealousy, whiskey drinking and glamour shots of protagonist Don Draper (Jon Hamm). Filling this year-and-a-half-long void seemed almost insurmountable, but "A Little Kiss" did so successfully and with true "Mad Men" style (namely drama, jealousy, whiskey drinking and Don glamour shots). Season four left the fate of the ailing ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce up in the air.

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DFS spring film series will focus on literary adaptations

By Kate Sullivan | March 25, 2012

Bookworms and cinema buffs alike might cringe upon hearing about yet another book-to-film adaptation, fearing the lack of attention to plot authenticity and possible lack of on-screen substance.

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Now Playing in Hanover: Friends with Kids

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | March 25, 2012

Written by, directed by and starring Jennifer Westfeldt of "Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001), "Friends with Kids" is a romantic comedy about best friends Julie (Westfeldt) and Jason (Adam Scott) who decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship entirely platonic.

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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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