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June 16, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Sexuality takes flight in ‘Angel'

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Courtesy of the Hopkins Center A performance about the Shaker movement, the religious group known for its strict ways of life and emphasis on celibacy, seems like a surefire candidate for family-friendly entertainment.


Elle s'appelait sarah" (2009)
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Now playing IN HANOVER: Sarah's Key

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Courtesy of Celebritywonder.ugo.com American journalist Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas) learns that her husband's grandparents' apartment came into their possession during the Vel d'Hiv roundup, a mass arrest of Jews by the French during Nazi occupation.


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Film festival offers up indie foreign selections

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While accounts of life under oppressive dictators and stories of different cultures and world views may seem ubiquitous, the reality of these accounts can at times be difficult to grasp without watching them unfold visually.




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Booked Solid

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Even as the cliche signs of fall such as brisk breezes and tinting leaves begin to arrive, readers can still extract some final drops of summer by indulging in J.



Dream House
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Now playing IN HANOVER: Dream House

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Courtesy of Daemonsmovies.com *New York City book publisher Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) decides to move his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz) and family to an idyllic New England home in the thriller "Dream House." They soon learn that a brutal crime was committed against the house's former tenants and that the neighborhood is far from perfect.



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Wu animates study of science

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Courtesy of YouTube / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### "Welcome to Science World, Adam!" intones a disembodied voice at the beginning of the short video "Adam and Stereochemistry's Big Adventure." Adam, like many Dartmouth students before him, finds himself baffled by the nuances and subtleties of organic chemistry.





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Hear and Now

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In last week's review of Wilco's "The Whole Love," which drops on Tuesday, I used the term "alt-country" multiple times to describe the band's early sound.


Professor Jeff Sharlet seeks to instill a sense of empathy in his creative nonfiction, even for those subjects with whom he disagrees.
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Sharlet captures diversity of American faith systems

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Courtesy of Joe Mehling '69 Correction appended### One of the most fascinating things about professor Jeff Sharlet's new book, "Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between," which features, among others, a holocaust survivor, a new age guru and a fundamentalist Christian, is that these stories all happen to be true. Sharlet, who considers himself a "literary journalist," said his goal is to find the riveting stories that exist in everyday life.


Takashi Miike's
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‘Hear This!' considers sound in film

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Courtesy of Tien-Tien Jong For most of film history, sound designers and composers have worked behind the scenes to craft sounds that are now part of our cultural lexicon the roar of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, an iconic tapping of dancers in the rain and the screeching violins now synonymous with terror.