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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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Concert kicks off ‘Big Read'

By Trevelyan Wing | February 7, 2010

Sunday afternoon, the Lebanon Opera House kicked off "The Big Read Upper Valley" with "A Celebration of Emily Dickinson," a musical tribute to the New England-born genius of American poetry.

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Inconsistent, stale ‘Eli' falls short

February 3, 2010

Courtesy of AllMoviePhoto.com Courtesy of AllMoviePhoto.com At least it's fun to watch Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman tear around the Hughes brothers' grim vision of post-apocalyptic America. "The Book of Eli," the first flick in nine years from Albert and Allen Hughes, seems pretty cool on the surface: Washington's character, Eli, journeys westward across the barren landscape in pursuit of some ethereal goal.

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Undeterred, ‘Sun God' shines on

By Dana Venerable | February 2, 2010

Courtesy of Johnathan James Recor Courtesy of Johnathan James Recor Few colleges can say that one of their students views the entire campus as his stage, but thanks to "Sun God" Johnathan James Recor, Dartmouth can.

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Anand '89 pens inspiration for film

By Jackie Donohoe | February 1, 2010

Courtesy of AllMoviePhoto.com Courtesy of AllMoviePhoto.com Before Geeta Anand '89 had even finished the manuscript to her book "The Cure" (2006), actor Harrison Ford and film producer Michael Shamberg (best known for 2000's "Erin Brockovich") optioned the rights to make a movie based on the true story of "How a Father Raised $100 Million and Bucked the Medical Establishment in a Quest to Save his Children," according to the book's subtitle. Shamberg's adaptation of the book resulted in "Extraordinary Measures," which was released Jan.

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HEAR AND NOW: Grammys prove irrelevant

By Divya Gunasekaran | February 1, 2010

As a self-proclaimed music enthusiast and the weekly music columnist for the Arts & Entertainment section of The Dartmouth, staying on top of music news, recent releases, upcoming festivals and notable awards is the most well-defined responsibility I have and one of the easiest to carry out.

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Campus groups collaborate for Haiti relief concert

By Joseph Debonis | January 31, 2010

Edie Wu / The Dartmouth Staff Edie Wu / The Dartmouth Staff Edie Wu / The Dartmouth Staff Edie Wu / The Dartmouth Staff Over 200 student performers from nine a capella groups, four dance troupes and several Hopkins Center ensembles came together in "Compas: The Haiti Relief Benefit," a 90-minute concert that took place in Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center Sunday afternoon.

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Alum. band Midnight Spin sees sudden rise in popularity

By sophia archibald | January 31, 2010

Sipping on Keystones and cracking jokes at Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity on Friday night, the five members of the band Midnight Spin played a three-hour concert for what the band described as "one of the best audiences we have ever played for, hands down" in a Facebook status update.

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Mezzotints at Hood depict celebrity

January 27, 2010

Kasia Vincunas Kasia Vincunas Mezzotints, though not a very well-known form of printmaking, have recently garnered attention in the art world following the British Museum's acquisition of over 7,000 examples of the medium, collectively valued at 1,250,000.

According to Medha Raj, Peter Jackson's adaptation of
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‘The Lovely Bones' fails to impress

By medha raj | January 26, 2010

Courtesy of AwardsDaily.com Courtesy of AwardsDaily.com Humans are naturally attracted to morbid events a fact that both the book (2002) and film (2009) versions of "The Lovely Bones" exploit and develop.

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Exhibit champions green design

By Caitlin Kennedy | January 25, 2010

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff A striking arrangement of transparent blocks tinged blue by lights lining the edges is illuminating the Strauss Gallery in the Hopkins Center this term as the key feature of an architecture exhibit by studio art professor Karolina Kawiaka.

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Bostonian trio Alloy Orchestra draws sound from silence

January 24, 2010

What could accompany a silent Russian film with no discernible plot better than 70 minutes of banging on scrap metal? Friday evening saw the Boston-based Alloy Orchestra prove that nothing else could, in their rendition of "The Man with the Movie Camera" (1929). This was not the first time, however, that the three-man ensemble and their self-described "Wall of Junk" graced the Spaulding stage to update silent classics with new and exciting scores. "I went into [the Alloy Orchestra's 2006 performance of] The Phantom of the Opera' ten minutes late and I had no idea what I'd walked into," Dartmouth Film Society director A.J.

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Internet Meme of the Week

By sophia archibald | January 24, 2010

Israeli singer-songwriter Oren Lavie's video for his song "Her Morning Elegance" has attracted over 10 million views on YouTube with its impressive use of stop-motion animation.

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