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Actors bring life to one-act plays
By
Katie Sinclair
| March 6, 2011
DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Although present day New England and mid-20th century Italy may seem worlds apart, last weekend's student production in the Bentley Theater proved that even a Jacobean tragedy and a contemporary play can find common ground.
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Campus music runs the gamut from boomboxes to blogs
By
Lauren Sarner
| March 2, 2011
Courtesy of Miles Suter Editor's Note: This is the last in a three-part series investigating the College's campus music scene. In the age of iTunes and Youtube, music sharing among college students is nothing short of inevitable.
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Musicians speak out about limited alternative music scene
By
Lauren Sarner
| March 1, 2011
Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Editor's Note: This is the second part in a three-part series investigating the College's campus music scene. From Dartmouth Idol competitors to a cappella group members, musical theater veterans to up-and-coming composers, Dartmouth draws scores of talented young musicians to its snowy hills.
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Student DJs deliver basement beats, dance party remixes
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Lauren Sarner
| February 28, 2011
DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Editor's Note: This is the first part in a three-part series investigating the College's campus music scene. When students open their inboxes to find a blitz about a fraternity foam party, they typically react with either enthusiasm or indifference certainly not terror.
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SHEBA dancers enter national talent search
By
Gavin Huang
| February 27, 2011
GAVIN HUANG / The Dartmouth Staff BOSTON In a sequence of coincidences fitting of the self-coined phrase "SHEBA is always late," the dance group met the first obstacle in the journey to its Boston audition for a nationwide talent competition before it even left Hanover on Sunday. After spending 40 minutes digging out a car from under the snow, nine members of SHEBA, along with this reporter, split off to pile into two cars.
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Azeda braves tragedy through art
February 27, 2011
Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Correction appended### Rwandan director and actor Hope Azeda uses performance to deal with tough issues like genocide and domestic violence, coping with the negative impacts of these events through her art.
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Sunday's Oscars promise typical glamour but few surprises
By
Alec Brodsky
| February 23, 2011
Courtesy of EW.com By Alec BrodskyThe Dartmouth Staff With the Oscars fast approaching, anyone writing about the awards show must make a heartfelt decision: Do you jump on the bandwagon or prepare to get hit?
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AS SEEN ON: 'Community'
By
Allison Levy
| February 22, 2011
By Allison LevyThe Dartmouth Senior Staff I usually try to do more with this column than to give a simple thumbs up or down, discussing individual shows in order to reach some quasi-intellectual conclusion about the state of television or its audience.
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Smart Crew channels Ivy League in Queens graffiti project
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Matt Garczynski
| February 22, 2011
Courtesy of Smart-Crew.com In an abandoned lot in Queens, N.Y., a stark grey brick wall is splashed with spray-painted images in striking shades of crimson, brown, green and white.
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‘HIMYM' goes kitschy for Valentine's episode
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Aarti Kamat
| February 21, 2011
Valentine's Day is a hard holiday for singles, and it doesn't help when traditionally escapist TV shows air themed Valentine's Day episodes. Such was the case with last Monday's episode of "How I Met Your Mother," a popular CBS sitcom currently in its sixth season.
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HEAR AND NOW: Britney Spears
By
Dana Venerable
| February 21, 2011
Courtesy of Britneyspears.Hollywood.com Last week's premiere of Britney Spears' new single "Hold It Against Me" led me to wonder why established artists have to adapt to popular trends in the music industry in order to remain popular and successful. Although I am not the biggest Spears fan, I do respect the charming, catchy pop music that she pioneered in the '90s.
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‘Eurydice' captivates audiences with tragi-comic tone
By
Liz Faiella
| February 20, 2011
DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Striking an impressive balance between the macabre and the whimsical, the Dartmouth theater department's surreal production of "Eurydice" which opened on Friday effectively blurs the lines between life and death, the bizarre and the mundane.
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‘Eurydice' stages re-interpretation of classic Greek myth
By
Liz Faiella
| February 16, 2011
DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Presenting a bizarre world in which Orpheus plays an electric guitar and a lively trio of stones acts as a Greek chorus, the theater department's production of "Eurydice" promises to bring a new level of originality to Sarah Ruhl's modern interpretation of the classic Greek myth. Based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, "Eurydice" which opens Friday night at the Moore Theater explores classic themes such as love and longing, life and death.