Editor's Note appended One day I'm going to write a memoir. Hopefully I'll be middle-aged, rich and successful by then.
Television is a grab bag of highs and lows. Some shows are unfortunately abysmal. Other programs are of the standard caliber, consistently meeting expectations and delivering genuine content.
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Courtesy of londonkoreanlinks.net Celebrated as a "polished ensemble that produces beautiful sounds and projects high spirits" by Daniel Cariaga of The Los Angeles Times, the Sejong Soloists is a vibrantly talented music ensemble that has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall to Lincoln Center, Suntory Hall to Salle Gaveau.
Michael Jackson may be dead, but he definitely isn't gone. Although the pop sensation bid the world farewell on July 25, his death seems to have sparked a craving for all things MJ. The latest example of Jackson's immortality is Sony Music's release yesterday of "This Is It." Insiders speculate that the track was recorded sometime around 1991 when Jackson was working on "Dangerous" (1991). This song might actually be it: the fruition of Jackson's aspirations to stage a comeback in 2009.
A number of familiar obstacles stand between Mark Bellison (writer-director Ricky Gervais) and his beautiful date, Anna McDoogles, (Jennifer Garner) in the first scene of "The Invention of Lying" (2009). They include Mark's lack of financial assets, his soon-to-be lack of employment, his lack of any apparent talent that could remedy those situations and the obstacle that proves most difficult to overcome his chubby, snub-nosed exterior. It is, perhaps, in recognition of our own superficial tendencies that we are first introduced to Mark through a voice-over.
Courtesy of Last.FM "In and Out of Control" (2009) is something of a misnomer for the new Raveonettes album this extremely streamlined selection of tunes never feels out of control in the slightest.
Courtesy of Betterworldbooks.com Long before the boys of "Hangover" (2009) roofied it up in Las Vegas or Chad Kultgen had his hero dump his fat girlfriend in the novel "The Average American Male" (2007), Tucker Max was the original all-American a-hole. A Duke Law School graduate, Max gained legions of fratastic fans by recounting his alcohol-addled fornication adventures on the web.
/ The Dartmouth Staff Pairs of photographs currently line the walls of the Upper Jewitt Corridor in the Hopkins Center.
Courtesy of Newsday.com As busy college students, it's understandable that we might find it hard to fit a daily TV commitment at 11 p.m.
Correction Appended With Halloween quickly approaching, it seems to be an appropriate time to watch movies about death.
Courtesy of spherisgallery.com Featuring collage-like pieces defined by abstract use of color and expressive brushstroke, Doug Trump's "Mixed Breed," the newest exhibit on display at Spheris Gallery in Hanover, brings an interesting and diverse form of art to Main Street.
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GEOFF HOLMAN / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### Reggae, a gritty, rhythmic invocation against social and political injustice, has at various points been appropriated by traveling agencies and marketed as sappy background music for commercials aimed at luring tourists, according to Carolyn Cooper, a professor at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.
DOUGLAS GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Staff The Spanish realist painter Cristobal Toral took faculty and students away from the everyday reality of Dartmouth and into the imaginative reality of his critically acclaimed art a place where the rules of time, space and movement are often suspended to surprise and move the viewer in a lecture on Thursday in the Haldeman Center. Toral conducted his lecture translated for those in attendance in Spanish. Jose del Pino, chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department, introduced Toral as "one of the most renowned Spanish painters alive," an artist whose success is even more notable in light of his difficult upbringing in rural Andalucia, Spain, del Pino said.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin has many critics who claim she's a humorless and insufferable bore. Unfortunately, her memoir "Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin," which hit bookshelves on Sept.
ANDY MAI / The Dartmouth Staff This week Spaulding Auditorium, and theaters worldwide, were besieged by lethal spaghetti and meatball tornadoes; graced by gigantic Jell-O castles resplendent with gelatinous Venus de Milos and solidified swimming pools; overrun by sentient and incredibly violent roasted chickens; and protected by a police officer whose chest hairs visibly tingle in the presence of danger. These fanciful images come from the collective imagination of Phil Lord '97 and Chris Miller '97, the inspired minds behind "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," the top-grossing film in the United States for the past two weeks.
Courtesy of middlebury.edu Retold in books, movies and documentaries, the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina is now being presented in true tragedy form on the stage.
The FOX network has long been synonymous with its animated sitcoms, and these classic shows had an enormous impact on my childhood development.
It is such a tiny pedal. Gray, bland and unassuming, it seems almost invisible on the floor next to the welded, steel motor concoction that is Jean Tinguely's "Iwo Jima." In fact, it is so tiny that I barely registered stepping on it until "Iwo Jima" started loudly, grinding away with all the subtlety of a charging rhinoceros.