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BOOKED SOLID: Natural Balance

By corinne white | January 12, 2010

We've all heard the story before. A troubled rich kid reads a little Thoreau in his 10th grade English class and rebels against his family's lifestyle by becoming (or at least trying to become) a hermit in the wilderness.

Bassoonist Dana Jessen makes up one half of the Amsterdam-based experimental
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Vaughan to feature ‘rare degree'

By sophia archibald | January 11, 2010

Courtesy of DanaJessen.com Courtesy of DanaJessen.com Contributing to the wide variety of music that comes to Dartmouth, an Amsterdam-based experimental electro-acoustic duo will play with instruments from squeaky toys to recyclable objects in the Faulkner Recital Hall Wednesday.

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Grupo de Rua brings U.S. premiere of "H3" to Hop's stage

By sophia archibald | January 10, 2010

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff On a bare stage featuring only a dance floor and sets of fluorescent lights, silhouettes of street dancers raced backwards in circles, jumping in perfect sync and speeding up with every lap.

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‘Bigger is better' according to Film Society's winter series

By Jessica Krug | January 5, 2010

Correction Appended The era of home entertainment of a society in which people more often choose to rent a DVD than to head out to the theater means the movie theater experience is becoming increasingly scarce. This winter, the Dartmouth Film Society will combat the idea that all formats are created equal with the film series "Size Matters." And although the size of the screen in Spaulding Auditorium 24 by 32 feet contributes a great deal to the enormity of the series, it is the movie-watching experience as a whole that DFS hopes to resurrect this term. All of the films on the roster were chosen because they are best experienced in a large format - whether for reasons of renown, plot, aesthetics or ideology. DFS is comprised largely of Dartmouth students, and proposals for series themes often come from students, director AJ Fox '09 said. Fox is a former member of The Dartmouth Senior Staff. This term, however, the idea for "Size Matters" came from Hanover resident and DFS directorate member Dennis Moore.

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Booked Solid: Carnal Knowledge?

By Caitlin Kennedy | January 5, 2010

Even though I have never considered myself a"feminazi," I couldn't help but feel repulsed by the blatant objectification of women old and young, smart and dumb, fat and thin in "The Farmer's Daughter," Jim Harrison's newest collection of novellas. In addition to this, the three novellas "The Farmer's Daughter," " Brown Dog Redux" and "The Games of Night" have a great deal of unused potential.

THE JAY LENO SHOW -- Episode 16-- Pictured: Jay Leno -- NBC Photo: Justin Lubin
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Arts staff considers pop culture hits and misses of 2009

By The Arts Staff | January 3, 2010

Courtesy of EW.com Courtesy of EW.com The Year in Film With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' decision to allow ten nominees for Best Picture this year, the list of 2009's most notable movies has nearly doubled. As usual, many of the year's best films are recent releases, scheduled long ago for last-quarter premieres to remain fresh in Academy voters' minds come Oscar season.

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA: L-R: Glenn Howerton as Dennis and Danny Devito as Frank on IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA airing October 11 on FX CR: Craig Blankenhorn / FX
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AS SEEN ON: ‘It's Always Sunny' spreads the Yuletide cheer

By alex duckles | December 1, 2009

Courtesy of TVGuide.com The usual axioms about the quality of direct-to-DVD movies do not hold true for "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas" (2009), a special, double-length episode of the FX comedy packaged as a standalone DVD. "It's Always Sunny" follows the ridiculous antics of five raunchy Philadelphians called "the gang." The group includes four twenty-somethings, along with Danny DeVito as the father to two of the half-wits. The show is vulgar, tactless and utterly hysterical.

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HEAR AND NOW: Adam Lambert's debut: A little Gaga

November 30, 2009

Courtesy of Amazon.com Music these days is a lot less about an emotional connection with the audience and a lot more about shock and awe. We see this trend with Rihanna, whose constantly changing hairstyles and bold outfits bring her just as much if not more attention than her songs. Another case in point is Lady Gaga, who has taken avant-garde performance art to the next level I am still trying to get over the bird's nest she wore on her face at the VMAs. Now it seems Adam Lambert of "American Idol" fame is the latest entertainer to adopt provocative antics. Lambert's solo debut album, "For Your Entertainment" (2009), dropped on Nov.

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Handel Society to tour in Europe

By sydney ayers | November 30, 2009

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel's death, the Handel Society of Dartmouth College will kick off its fourth international concert tour over the winter interim, performing a series of 10 concerts in prestigious venues throughout England, France and Germany. Robert Duff, director and conductor of the Handel Society, said in an interview with The Dartmouth that he designed the European itinerary as an homage to the group's namesake. "I created a tour that follows Handel's career path through Europe, following the venues where he would have worked," he said. The composer, born in Halle, Germany in 1685, trained in Italy and traveled around Europe before spending most of his adult life in London.

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Anhalt '11 debuts with novel ‘Freefall' in December

By Caitlin Kennedy | November 29, 2009

Courtesy of Ariela Anhalt In her first two years at Dartmouth, Ariela Anhalt '11 has already landed a literary agent, received book offers and fielded copy-edits (during midterms, no less), while also juggling the academic and extracurricular commitments that come with being a Dartmouth student.

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Lack of grit, nuance handicaps feel-good football movie

By kelly o'brien | November 23, 2009

Courtesy of aceshowbiz.com "The Blind Side" (2009) tells the story of a hopeless and homeless black teenager fighting desperately to overcome obstacles correlated with race, poverty and his mother's drug addiction and it starts with a Sandra Bullock voice-over about football. If that isn't indicative of the movie's flaws, I don't know what is. There's nothing particularly bad about "The Blind Side" except that it could have been so much better.

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HEAR AND NOW: Boyle extends her 15 minutes

November 23, 2009

Susan Boyle, Scotland's frumpiest 48-year-old, became this year's biggest Internet sensation after she stepped onto the stage of "Britain's Got Talent." In her faded ankle-length frock and graying Orphan Annie fro, Boyle left even the sharp-tongued Simon Cowell speechless with her angelic rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables." Boyle's exaggerated popularity was due only in small part to her voice mostly it was her status as the underdog. Boyle with her perpetually aw-shucks smile and optimistic personality made us feel good about ourselves.

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Leads shine in student production of ‘Antigone'

By Caitlin Kennedy | November 22, 2009

EUNICE LEE / The Dartmouth Alexis Monroe '13 and Bill Calder '12 brilliantly acted out their characters' dueling approaches to fate and political philosophy in the Shakespeare Alley Showcase's performance of Jean Anouilh's 1943 adaptation of "Antigone" this weekend, The student-produced play, directed by Sarah Laeuchli '11, was performed at the Bentley Theater in the Hopkins Center. As in the original Greek tragedy, conflict arises in Anouilh's revisionist adaptation when Antigone played by Monroe attempts to bury her brother Polynices, who killed her other brother in a duel. Antigone faces execution for this act because Creon, her uncle and the new king played by Calder, has declared Polynices a traitor and prohibited his burial. Anouilh adapted "Antigone" in the context of the Nazi occupation of Paris.

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Pinkas and Mellinger to perform duets in Hop concert

By Trevelyan Wing | November 22, 2009

Hopkins Center pianist-in-residence and music professor Sally Pinkas will be joined by mezzo soprano Erma Mellinger, a lecturer in music, for a performance about the vicissitudes of love on Monday in Spaulding Auditorium. Beginning with Felix Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words," the concert will move into two cycles written by Romantic composers Robert Schumann and Gabriel Faure at the height of their respective musical careers. The performance brings Pinkas and Mellinger together for their first ever joint recital. "In recent years I've been very involved with the music of Faure, performing works by him in Boston," Pinkas said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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