‘Half-Blood Prince' entertains with light-hearted romance

Courtesy of RottenTomatoes.com / The Dartmouth Staff Tuesday night, the Lebanon movie theater played host to the most magical movie event of the summer the release of the sixth installment of the Harry Potter franchise, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." I arrived at the theater for the midnight premiere adorned in my house colors, a lavish array of Hufflepuff's signature yellow and black.

Montgomery Fellow Jules Feiffer presents political cartoons

Music Box showcases eclectic acts

Courtesy of Christine Fiedler This summer, the Hopkins Center will bring three musical acts to campus for its Music Box in the Moore series, which provides an intimate performance by seating the audience on the stage.

Spheris summer exhibit showcases variety of media

Ballet company mixes classical and modern dance

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The contemporary dance company Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will take center stage on Thursday and Friday night at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, showcasing their eclectic blend of classical ballet infused with modern dance as part of this year's Summer Arts Festival, "eMotion." ASFB's founder, Bebe Schweppe, wanted an ensemble that showcased the native talent of Aspen, Colo., to give the people in the Aspen Valley a dance troupe they could call their own, she said.

Arts staff shares summer TV picks

DFS film series to feature tourists, spies and singing sailors

Courtesy of rottentomatoes.com This winter, as Hollywood film moguls were busy cramming their summer release schedules with the usual American-friendly franchise reboots, blockbuster action flicks and raunchy comedies, the members of the Dartmouth Film Society chose to forego such conventional apple-pie flicks in favor of a more worldly collection of films. The DFS summer series, "Tourists," proposed by Lloyd Miller '10, plays off of the intricate and sometimes tenuous relationships that travelers establish with the foreign places they encounter.

Sierra Leonean refugees to bring upbeat rhythms to Green

Courtesy of The Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars In times of war, culture and humanity often take a backseat to the killings and devastation that take place; yet Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars demonstrate that even in the midst of destruction, art can subsist and even thrive.

HEAR AND NOW: Mandy Moore grows up

Courtesy of popchunch.com From appearing in well-received films such as "A Walk to Remember" (2002) and "Saved!" (2004), to releasing her sixth studio album, "Amanda Leigh" (2009), on May 26, Mandy Moore has had a storied career and she's still only 25.

Festival showcases exceptional student-written plays

Courtesy of Mark Harris / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended Audiences in the Hopkins Center's Bentley Theater last weekend were treated to a triple bill of student-written theater, as the Hop played host to the winning plays from the 82nd Annual Eleanor Frost Contest and the 34th Annual Ruth and Loring Dodd Contest. Taking the audience from tears to laughs, the Frost showcase began with the dramatic and deeply emotional "The Minute Hand" by Liz Ellison '09, which was followed by the hilarious, over-the-top "Tennessee Sabotage" by Danny Rangel '09. In writing "The Minute Hand," Ellison, an English and theater double major, said she drew inspiration from unsolved missing person cases. "It's the most terrifying experience I can imagine," Ellison said.

BOOKED SOLID: Eliminating distractions

Courtesy of Amazon.com Look around this campus, and you'll see legions of the constantly distracted.

New ‘Trek' triumphs aesthetically

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Animator shows films about Iran