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‘Winter's Bone' features realist clichés

By Lloyd Miller | July 29, 2010

Courtesy of Roadsideattractions.com Courtesy of Roadsideattractions.com It speaks of the stale critical climate of American cinema today that the winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize is a small, grim movie set in a small, grim town tucked away in a remote corner of America.

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‘Cyrus' offers enjoyable movie-going experience

By Duncan Bryer | July 29, 2010

In a particularly memorable scene, Cyrus (Jonah Hill) assures John (John C. Reilly) that he is "out of [his] league," to which John responds, "If you want to mess with me, I'm gonna mess with you right back." So begins Mark and Jay Duplass' "Cyrus," a hilarious battle of wits that presents a fresh twist on the classic "fight for the girl" storyline. Cyrus and John are fighting over Molly (Marisa Tomei), Cyrus' beloved mother and John's new girlfriend in this humorously bizarre "love triangle." The film is a comedy, drama and romance all rolled into one and makes for an hour and a half of solid entertainment. In this "dromanedy," John a hapless loner recently informed of his ex-wife's engagement falls for the similarly lonely, yet very beautiful Molly.

Pittsburgh-based rock band Rusted Root will perform at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Thursday.
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Rusted Root to perform at the Hop on Thursday

By Tatiana Cooke | July 26, 2010

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center for the Arts Courtesy of the Hopkins Center for the Arts Fans of Rusted Root, a Pennsylvania bluegrass rock group, can look forward to an exciting live concert at the Hopkins Center for the Arts this Thursday.

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Internet Meme of the Week: Paul the Psychic Octopus

July 15, 2010

Earlier this week, Spain beat the Netherlands to capture its first FIFA World Cup title. While many pundits picked the Spaniards as pre-tournament favorites, no expert received the same amount of attention and adoration for their accurate prediction as Paul the Psychic Octopus.

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‘Made in Hollywood' exhibit opens at the Hood Museum

By Duncan Bryer | July 12, 2010

Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff Eternalized in the annals of American popular culture, from the Library of Congress to your local video store and now featured in the Hood Museum of Art, is the so-called "Golden Age" of American cinema.

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Charlie Hunter Trio plays unique jazz songs at Hop

By Lloyd Miller | July 8, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff The Charlie Hunter Trio brought its bluesy, jazz-funk fusion to Spaulding Auditorium Thursday night in one of the most entertaining musical performances presented by the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth in recent memory.

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‘Greek' delivers laughs, thin plot

By Duncan Bryer | July 5, 2010

You could say that the opening scene of Nicholas Stoller's "Get Him to the Greek" the most recent installment produced by the Judd Apatow comedic enterprise sets the tone for the entire movie: The narcissistic yet talented Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) is an aging rock-star who walks through an African guerilla gunfight in his music video for "African Child," a song through which he frames himself as an "African White Christ from space." Stoller employs this sort of satirical self-awareness throughout the film to both pay homage to and mock the music industry. This paradigm is reinforced by various characters in the movie from Snow's equally immature and self-absorbed father (Colm Meaney) to Sergio Roma (played to perfection by Sean Diddy' Combs), a hilariously over-the-top, yet realistic, music mogul.

Comic strips loosely based on White River Junction offer varying interpretations of the town in
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Comics newspaper provides various depictions of WRJ

By Robert szypko | July 5, 2010

Courtesy of Caboosewrj.blogspot.com Courtesy of Caboosewrj.blogspot.com Perhaps an image of a robot tearing down buildings isn't the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of White River Junction, Vt., but this is only one of the zany and outlandish scenarios brought to life in "Caboose: An exhibition of comics about White River Junction," where cartoonists put unusual reimaginations of the town to paper.

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La-33 brings unique salsa arrangements to Green

By Ann Baum | July 1, 2010

Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff For those members of the audience who couldn't see the band members of La-33, the Colombian salsa band that performed at the free outdoor concert Tuesday afternoon, the crowd alone offered a spectacle worth watching.

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