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AREA brings ‘frat art' to the gallery

By Dana Venerable | February 21, 2010

Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Visitors to AREA's latest exhibit opening at the Top of the Hop at the Hopkins Center on Saturday evening were greeted not by the expected conventional paintings, drawings and sculptures, but by a selection of fraternity paraphernalia.

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AS SEEN ON: No medals for NBC's Olympic programming

By Alicia Kim | February 17, 2010

While NBC's seemingly endless coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics relieves viewers of the tedious task of channel-surfing, it has inspired a wave of disapproval from both casual viewers and the press, who are upset by the lack of live telecasts of Olympic events. Even my parents living in Seattle which happens to share a time zone with Vancouver are not treated to the luxury of live programming.

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Theater dept. brings Ibsen to stage

By Caitlin Kennedy | February 17, 2010

Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth theater department's Mainstage production of Henrik Ibsen's "Lady from the Sea" which begins its seven-show, two-weekend run this Friday, Feb.

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Film relates story of movie criticism

By Duncan Bryer | February 14, 2010

Courtesy of ForTheLoveOfMovies.net Courtesy of ForTheLoveOfMovies.net At its most recent film special, the Dartmouth Film Society screened "For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism" (2009) on Friday, a documentary by longtime Boston Phoenix film critic and member of the National Society of Film Critics Gerald Peary.

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Coast concert ‘No Bounds' to host celebrated jazz musicians

By Tatiana Cooke | February 10, 2010

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, along with guest performers Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum, will bring a variety of different musical genres to the stage of Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center during their concert "No Boundaries: Big Band Now!" on Saturday, Feb.

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‘Mass Effect 2' improves on original

By Alec Brodsky | February 9, 2010

Just one month into this new decade, video game mogul Bioware famous for such classic titles as "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" (2003), "Baldur's Gate" (1998) and "Neverwinter Nights" (2002) has already released a game that will form the standard against which future games will be judged.

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‘Dartmouth Idol' semifinals narrow field to six finalists

By Caitlin Ardrey | February 9, 2010

Eunice Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Eunice Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Tuesday night, 18 Dartmouth students performed a range of songs from Christina Aguilera to James Morrison to Norah Jones to N'Sync as they competed in the third annual, bigger than ever "Dartmouth Idol" competition. In front of a packed Alumni Hall, the contestants, representing all class years and a range of musical backgrounds, competed for a spot as one of the six finalists.

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BOOKED SOLID: ‘Roses' capitalizes on ‘Twilight' paradox

By corinne white | February 9, 2010

On the inside cover of Leila Meacham's debut novel "Roses" (2010) the summary proclaims that the new novel "reads like a Texas Gone with the Wind.'" The publishers probably shouldn't have done that. "Roses" does not even begin to live up to the expectations set by Margaret Mitchell's epic saga.

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HEAR AND NOW: The Who-were-those-old-guys?

By Divya Gunasekaran | February 8, 2010

Courtesy of Sun-Sentinel.com Courtesy of Sun-Sentinel.com There are three reasons people watch the Super Bowl: the football game, the commercials and the halftime show, roughly in that order. For the game, viewers got to see this year's underdogs, the New Orleans Saints, defeat the Indianapolis Colts to gain their first Superbowl victory.

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Internet Meme of the Week: "Take U to Da Movies" by Bangs

By sydney ayers | February 7, 2010

With almost two million views on his first video, Sudan-born, Australia-based Bangs is just beginning his rise to Internet fame.According to the 19-year-old artist's official web site, Bangs8.com, "[Bangs] writes about life, love and hope and his music grows with him till the end of life." A YouTube search for "Take U to Da Movies" the most popular track off his first professional album "Hard to be Up" yields a music video replete with cheesy backgrounds, plenty of bling, awesome visual effects, an oddly high voice and tons of Bangs.

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