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HEAR AND NOW: Star Dreck

By Rebecca Wall | May 18, 2009

Courtesy of Amazon.com Despite a substantial cult following and widespread acclaim for his work in innumerable Priceline.com advertising campaigns, one must admit that William Shatner's career is light years away from its heyday when Shatner was on the Starship Enterprise. It would seem that he has been too busy cultivating his music career to care about the widely hailed new "Star Trek" film. Yes, you read that right.

Filmmaker Liz Canner is the 2009 Visionary-in-Residence at the Center for Women and Gender at Dartmouth.
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Film exposes pharma profiteering from female sexual health

By Sarah Frostenson | May 18, 2009

Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff Over 40 percent of women suffer from female sexual dysfunction, or FSD. At least that's the statistic put forward by many pharmaceutical companies and some of America's largest advertising agencies, according to documentary filmmaker Liz Canner, the Dartmouth Center for Women and Gender's 2009 Visionary-in-Residence. "I kept hearing the number 43 percent, 43 percent, being quoted as the number of women affected by FSD," Canner said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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BOOKED SOLID: Stressed? Just reach for a cold one

By Lucy Randall | May 13, 2009

Even during the Bacchic frenzy that is Green Key, the average Dartmouth partygoer would admit that he or she considers beer -- especially of the Keystone variety -- as more of a vehicle than a destination. If I got one thing out of reading Tom Robbins' latest book, the strange amalgam of a public-service announcement and marketing strategy gone dreadfully awry titled "B is for Beer," it's that we're not doing anything wrong if we only think of brewskis as a means to an end.

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HEAR AND NOW: Jewel's latest is like Ambien for the ears

By Rebecca Wall | May 11, 2009

Jewel, the renowned songstress of the late 1990s, takes on a soft and unassuming tone in her newest effort, "Lullaby" (2009). Not the unforgettable firebrand feminism of "Pieces of You" (1995), nor destined to become the background music to a razor commercial (remember "Intuition" from "0304" (2003), made famous by Schick razors), "Lullaby" is a pleasant listen, but ultimately skippable. Released in partnership with Fisher Price, "Lullaby" is a collection of children's music and lullabies (though in interviews, Jewel has said she prefers to call it "mood music"). Although there is value behind many of tracks, especially those in which her voice shines through, the almost waif-like quality of most of the songs reminds the listener how far Jewel has fallen. Take "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," the 12th track on the album.

Tica Douglas '10 performed for the last time at Lone Pine Tavern on Thursday night.
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Douglas '10 finds own music niche

By Allison Levy | May 11, 2009

SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series profiling student musicians at Dartmouth. Last spring, Tica Douglas '10 and Ryan Dieringer '09, who had been told by several mutual friends that they would get along well, began to play music with each other.

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ESPN and TNT go head-to-head for NBA coverage ratings

May 11, 2009

Courtesy of NiceKicks.com At the start of this year's NBA playoffs, ESPN analyst Tim Legler offered his insight on the Los Angeles Lakers, statistically the league's third-best offensive team. "LA gets it done on offense," Legler said, in a vintage piece of banal ESPN wisdom. As the NBA playoffs get underway, ESPN has once again brought out its arsenal of analysts, commentators and sideline reporters.

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Robots, spandex and Christian Bale hit screens this summer

By AJ Fox | May 11, 2009

Someday in the not-too-distant future, when the ravages of industrial pollution have permanently destroyed the planet's ozone layer and driven global temperatures up to cataclysmic levels, the survival of the human species will depend on plentiful air conditioning.

Harry and the Potters will perform in Fuel on Saturday.
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Harry and the Potters to cast a spell on Fuel

May 7, 2009

Courtesy of Torontoist.com Correction appended Although a shirt created by the 2008 Dimensions team claimed that the College is equivalent to "Hogwarts + Disneyland," Dartmouth is now finally living up to the moniker.

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AS SEEN ON: NBC reveals new pilots, returning programs

By Leslie Adkins | May 6, 2009

NBC became the first network to announce its summer and fall lineup on Monday, starting off a several week period during which networks will announce which shows make the cut, and which are destined for the chopping block. Some of the highlights include "Community," a comedy about slackers trying to improve themselves at community college, and "Mercy," a drama about the lives of nurses, featuring television veteran Michelle Trachtenberg ("Gossip Girl," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). Next winter, look for the premier of "Day One," a miniseries about the residents of a southern California apartment complex who must come to terms with living after a cataclysmic event. NBC also announced, as expected, that the popular network series and critical love-hate object "Heroes" was renewed for a fourth season, as was the new mid-season drama "Southland." "Southland," already holding its own in the ratings after just four episodes, should help reinvigorate the network's waning dramatic power. NBC also gave the green light to Amy Poehler's newest comedic feat, "Parks and Recreation," which is penned by the creators of "The Office." Seasoned ratings winners such as "30 Rock," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" and "The Office" have already been renewed, but more than a few critical gems have uncertain futures.

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Cast of Poehler's 'Parks and Recreation' lacks chemistry

By Kimmie Solomon | May 6, 2009

Courtesty of NBC.com In the opening scene of the second episode of NBC's new series "Parks and Recreation," a bunch of toddlers wielding baskets and dressed in their Sunday best scour a park for Easter eggs, growing ever more disgruntled when they realize there seem to be no eggs hidden at all. While watching this scene, I found myself empathizing with these cranky kids -- for the entire length of the half-hour episode, I could not shake the distinct feeling that something essential was missing. Produced by the same people who brought us "The Office," and starring Amy Poehler, formerly of "Saturday Night Live," "Parks and Recreation" takes the now familiar pseudo-workplace documentary and brings it to the arena of local government.

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Film brings conflict in North Korea to campus

By David Jiang | May 5, 2009

courtesy of koreatimes.co.kr After hearing that the non-profit organization "Liberty in North Korea" had launched a national tour of the Korean film "Crossing"(2008), Tricia Jo '09 jumped on the opportunity to use the film to expose the reality of life in North Korea to Dartmouth students. "Whatever we know about North Korea here at Dartmouth is maybe through a nuclear weapons class, or just from what we hear in the news," she said, adding later, "It's the most closed-off country in the world, but there is an insane human rights crisis [right now], a famine throughout the 1990s and utter economic devastation.

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HEAR AND NOW: Idol today, gone tomorrow

By Rebecca Wall | May 5, 2009

In the storied annals of the FOX hit reality show "American Idol," there are the Jennifer Hudsons and the Kelly Clarksons, for whom life after Simon, Paula and Randy has led to extraordinary success and fame.

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