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Geduld discusses dance as protest

By Marina Shkuratov | October 30, 2011

Amanda Geduld / The Dartmouth Barnard College visiting professor Victoria Phillips Geduld went beyond the traditional introductions and question-and-answer session of a lecture by adding two dance performances to her talk on Friday to bring her ideas about dance as social action to life.

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Prof. explores take on history in Orozco 'Epic'

By Ashley Ulrich | October 30, 2011

By ASHLEY ULRICH Entering the Orozco Room of Baker-Berry library might make you feel like you are on sensory overload: Jose Clemente Orozco's panoramic mural confronts the viewer with scenes of war and torture, organized labor and ancient Aztecs.

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Now Playing: Moneyball

By The Dartmouth Staff | October 30, 2011

Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) looks for an advantage while stuck with the one of the lowest payrolls in baseball.

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Linyekula brings dance to the DRC

By Anisha Mohin | October 26, 2011

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth After escaping the war-torn nation of Zaire and living abroad for eight years, dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula decided that his life of exile was no longer artistically inspiring.

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As Seen On: When Television Reached Its ‘Peak'

By Rena Sapon-White | October 26, 2011

Amidst the stagnation of this season's abysmal selection of new shows, I implore you to journey back nearly two decades with me to find the retrospective light at the end of the television tunnel.

Rising star Yelawolf, who hails from Alabama, will offer up his southern-inspired rap at Collis Common Ground on Saturday.

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Yelawolf, Total Slacker to headline weekend concerts

By Kate Sullivan | October 25, 2011

Courtesy of Killerhiphop.com Students expecting a tame Halloween weekend to follow Homecoming's hype should think again the concert scene this weekend will provide more than a fair share of alternative fun.

French electronic duo Daft Punk lent their club music credentials to the soundtrack of

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Hear and Now: Electronic Soundtracks

By Matt Garczynski | October 24, 2011

Courtesy of Collider.com The chill synth-pop soundtrack of the movie "Drive" (2011) blew me away.

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Internet Meme of the Week: The Fancy Crab

By Carrie Wolf | October 23, 2011

Courtesy of Buzzfeed.com Political rallies for Occupy Wall Street that began in the middle of September are arguably the first social-media-driven demonstrations in United States history.

David Kant and Alex Dupuis perform in Fuel during the

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Green Orpheus makes some noise

By Lauren Sarner | October 23, 2011

Courtesy of David Kant Every Dartmouth student has had the experience of hearing the same song played one too many times.

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Now playing IN HANOVER: 50/50

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | October 23, 2011

Courtesy of Collider.com "50/50" is a hilarious and poignant comedy that chronicles 27-year-old Adam's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) battle with a rare form of cancer.

Real Estate's second full-length release,

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New Real Estate album evokes sleepy suburbs

By Justin Burris | October 23, 2011

Courtesy of Feelguide.com By Justin Burris "Days," the follow-up to Real Estate's 2009 eponymous debut, should have a subtitle "songs for private moments on the New Jersey Turnpike." Though laminated with higher production values and crisper notes, the hypnotic melodies and naive positivity of each of the 10 songs on the album are unmistakably derived from hazy American surf rock. Throughout the album, airy vocals wax and wane, transporting the listener into a narcotic lull as each note is woven into a dream-like whole.

Rembrandt produced more than 90 self-portraits that serve as examples of what Heffernan says is a disconnect between reality and representation in art.

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English prof. discusses self-representation in art

By Katie Sinclair | October 19, 2011

Courtesy of Ibiblio.com The goal of art may be to "hold a mirror up to nature," but English professor emeritus James Heffernan suggests that the divide between self-representation and reality is broad.

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Booked Solid: 'Blueprints for Building Better Girls'

By Shannon Draucker | October 18, 2011

Elissa Schappell's collection of short stories, "Blueprints for Building Better Girls," released in September, provides a fiercely honest and darkly witty glimpse into the lives of women from the 1970s to the present day.

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Casey gets into ‘Groove' with interdisciplinary research

October 18, 2011

KATIE TAI / The Dartmouth Some researchers clearly march to the beat of their own drum, as music professor Michael Casey's focus on collaborative research has led him to study subjects ranging from internet technologies and brain scans to Alfred Hitchcock films.

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Hood exhibit explores Native American identity

By Carrie Wolf | October 17, 2011

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Given the enormous influence that Native American culture has had on Dartmouth's history, it is no wonder that the Hood Museum of Art is devoting its entire second floor to selections from its Native American art collection.

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Hear and Now: Pandora

By Matt Garczynski | October 17, 2011

Last year I experienced a minor addiction to Pandora Internet Radio. I would create stations upon stations of my favorite artists, discover new artists on those stations and create new stations based on those artists in an endless chain reaction.

Kevin Macdonald, who has garnered acclaim for both his documentaries and feature films, was honored Saturday.

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DFS honors Macdonald's work

By Varun Bhuchar | October 16, 2011

Courtesy of Imdb.com Scottish director Kevin Macdonald, whose work in film has ranged from 45-minute hotel interviews with terrorists to working with Channing Tatum on his role as a Roman soldier in "The Eagle" (2011), was honored on Saturday by the Dartmouth Film Society in Spaudling Auditorium.

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Now Playing IN HANOVER: Drive

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | October 16, 2011

Courtesy of Filmofilia.com Driver (Ryan Gosling) leads a double life.

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Undergrads WiRED on coffee write, direct, act

By Ashley Ulrich | October 16, 2011

Eleven student-writers and directors were up late Friday night real late. The students were brainstorming, writing and producing five original plays for WiRED, the 24-hour playwriting event that culminated in a performance at 8 p.m.

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Internet Meme of the Week: Joey Quits

By Lauren Sarner | October 16, 2011

Courtesy of YouTube YouTube videos fall into a variety of categories, such as cute animal videos, cute children videos, dangerous-sports-stunts-gone-wrong videos and American-Idol-hopefuls-who-will-forever-keep-hoping videos.