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‘Reggae tourism' hurts Jamaican identity, prof. says

October 4, 2009

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.

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Spanish realist artist focuses work on theme of emigration

By Kimmie Solomon | October 4, 2009

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.

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BOOKED SOLID: Snark your heart out, Kathy Griffin

September 30, 2009

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.

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With ‘Cloudy,' alums. score box office sensation

By annie zhang | September 30, 2009

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.

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Hood's new modern art exhibit crosses genre boundaries

By Evan Lambert | September 28, 2009

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.

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Trisha Brown brings unconventional dance to Hop

September 27, 2009

Although Friday night's performance by the Trisha Brown Dance Company in Moore Auditorium did not draw boos like the Metropolitan Opera's much-derided production of "Tosca" did last week in New York City, two of the ensemble's pieces drew little more than a tepid response from the audience, while the third was received with slightly more enthusiasm. The company's third and most successful piece, "L'Amour au theatre" (2009), broke from Brown's usual aesthetic.

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New ‘Top Model' lacks realism

By Allison Levy | September 23, 2009

After enough seasons on the air, any television series reality or scripted runs the risk of becoming repetitive, and Tyra Banks appears to know that her reality TV brainchild, The CW's "America's Next Top Model," is not immune.

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BOOKED SOLID: Matthew Shepard's Mom Speaks Out

September 23, 2009

In the first few pages of "The Meaning of Matthew," Judy Shepard recounts a story that has been chronicled in countless other works over the course of the last 11 years: the grisly and disturbing tale of how her son, Matthew Shepard, was kidnapped, brutally beaten and left to die in a remote Laramie, Wyo.

The dance troupe Pilobolus, founded at the College in the early 1970s, performed at the Monday arts event.
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Dratch '88 headlines arts event

September 22, 2009

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In many ways, Monday night's "Dartmouth and the Performing Arts" event in Moore Theater surprised no one.

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Muse's latest is ‘self-indulgent'

September 21, 2009

Muse's latest album, "The Resistance" (2009), is unabashedly epic, from the acid-trip-through-space cover artwork to the lush orchestration of its songs.

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