Wolff's Montgomery talk highlights his literary influences

Percussion group redefines traditional music parameters

Christina Chen / The Dartmouth Staff During So Percussion's performance on Friday night, kitchen timers went off, wind-up toys marched across the stage and cell phone alarms went off in the audience at exactly 8:38 p.m.

Visiting professor Thalheim screens his film ‘Westwind'

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center German filmmaker Robert Thalheim, who screened his latest film "Westwind" (2011) in Loew Auditorium on Friday, is a man of many talents.

Sanchez and eight-piece ensemble bring Latin jazz to Hop

Courtesy of jazzinphoto.com Tonight, world-renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez dubbed the "symbol of Latin jazz" by the Los Angeles Times and his eight-piece Latin jazz ensemble will grace the Spaulding Auditorium stage to pay tribute to the origins of the Latin jazz genre.

Hoodie Allen's ‘All American' rightfully tops the charts

A few days ago I was getting ready to write this review on the new and pretty darn outstanding debut album, called "My Head Is An Animal," of the Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men.

Online publication editors discuss the ‘death of the book'

Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff When the Los Angeles Review of Books first began as a Tumblr almost exactly a year ago, its first post was titled, "The Death of the Book." It sounds like they might as well have given up right there.

‘Men of Fire' exhibit shows off works by Orozco, Pollock

Courtesy of the Hood Museum The Hood Museum of Art's newest exhibit "Men of Fire: Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock" powerfully demonstrates the influence that Orozco's "Epic of American Civilization" mural located in the basement of Baker Library had on Pollock's early work, affecting his choice of subject matter, imagery and formal design for years to follow. The exhibit was planned to commemorate the centenary of Pollock's birth and highlights a number of recent acquisitions by the Hood Museum, including Pollock's early works and Orozco's drafts for the mural, according to visiting curator for the show Sarah Powers. "I hope that viewers come away seeing a new side of both of the artists, especially an interesting side of Pollock they might be unaware of," Powers said. While scholars have long been in agreement that Mexican muralists like Orozco heavily influenced Pollock when he was in his 20s and 30s, they recently found evidence confirming that Pollock traveled to Dartmouth in 1936 to see Orozco's mural, Powers said.

Dratch reads from ‘A Girl Walks Into a Bar' at book signing

Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff As a small audience at the Dartmouth Bookstore waited eagerly for Rachel Dratch '88 of "Saturday Night Live" fame, guests in the front row could see her chuckling and hiding behind a nearby bookcase as she waited to take the floor. Dratch returned to the College to promote her recently published memoir, "Girl Walks into a Bar... Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle." While the book briefly chronicles Dratch's career in show business, its main focus is on the many comical disasters that led to her unexpected pregnancy two months shy of her 44th birthday. The book is hilarious from start to finish, avoiding superficiality.

Second season of ‘Bob's Burgers' follows deadpan comedy trend

<img alt=""Bob's Burgers" attempts to match the slapstick styles of Fox's other animated comedies, but its deadpan humor is funnier." title=""Bob's Burgers" attempts to match the slapstick styles of Fox's other animated comedies, but its deadpan humor is funnier." src="http://static.thedartmouth.com/2012/04/11/photos/8420articlephoto.jpg" /> Courtesy of AVclub.com The second season of the Fox animated comedy "Bob's Burgers" is just as eclectic and deadpan as the first.