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HEAR AND NOW: New releases by three legends

By Rebecca Wall | April 27, 2009

Courtesy of Amazon.com Correction appended Dylan, Ben Folds singing a cappella and a Streisand retrospective -- with all three of these albums being released today, it's like Christmas, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving all falling on your birthday. Bob Dylan: "Together Through Life" Multiply my age by two, add six for good measure, and you'll have the number of albums Bob Dylan has released (46). Dylan's newest album, coming after the well-received "Modern Times" (2006), focuses on seductive romance and struggling relationships. Highlights include accordion playing -- the instrument is included on every track -- and the song "Life is Hard," which was produced for French director Oliver Dahn's forthcoming film "My Own Love Song." Also included in the album is a disc containing an episode of Dylan's radio show. Will Dylan once again prove he's still the same bard he was over four decades ago? Has his trademark gravelly voice deteriorated from passionate croon to I-spent-the-day-at-the-concrete-factory? The answers to these questions remain to be seen, but I believe there is every reason to believe that this dinosaur of American music might just have done it again. Ben Folds: "Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella" On his official web site, Ben Folds explains the genesis of his newest effort. "Music education has been atrophying," Folds said.

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BOOKED SOLID: Zombies terrorize in Austen comedy of manners

By Lucy Randall | April 23, 2009

Zombies dressed in empire-waisted gowns and riding pants are attacking bookstores everywhere, and they're hungry for young brains. A fixture on The New York Times' paperback trade fiction bestseller list for the last two weeks, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith's "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!" (Quirk 2009), transports us to 19th century England, where life is just like a scene from America's favorite BBC mini-series starring Colin Firth, except for one small detail: a plague of zombies has overtaken the country.

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One-woman show addresses issues of identity, diversity

By Divya Gunasekaran | April 23, 2009

Courtesy of Wesleyan.edu Correction appended During a performance of her self-written work "Trans Plantations" in the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center last Thursday, writer, performer and filmmaker Janis Astor del Valle invoked the age-old adage "the show must go on," even though it meant being stuck in a straitjacket for an hour -- a straitjacket that she started out the show wearing, but was supposed to remove four pages into the piece's script. The autobiographical one-woman show chronicles del Valle's difficulty in dealing with her family's move from the Bronx to rural Connecticut during her childhood and in establishing her identity as a Puerto Rican lesbian.

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AS SEEN ON: "Greek" takes on college complexities

By Leslie Adkins | April 22, 2009

I've often wondered what a television series about Dartmouth students might look like. I suspect that athletes and hippie artists would be depicted in one-dimensional stereotypes, while Dartmouth Outing Club members and politician types might be drawn with more complexity. Members of Greek organizations, however, are perhaps most likely to be portrayed with broad-stroke oversimplifications.

The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble will perform at the Hopkins Center on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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Classical Indian dance hits the Hop

April 21, 2009

Courtesy of Voiceofdance.com In 1990, the late Indian dancer Protima Gauri decided that an ashram -- a small, spiritual village -- would be the perfect setting for an idealized dance community.

Colleen Randall explores color and texture in her exhibit,
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Exhibition showcases prof.'s art

April 20, 2009

NICHOLAS ROOT / The Dartmouth Staff Professor Colleen Randall relies on multiple layers of paint, a variety of textures and a certain level of artistic subtlety to visually balance calm and turbulence in her collection, "Livia's Walls: New Paintings and Works on Paper," currently on display at the Strauss Gallery in the Hopkins Center for the Arts. A member of the Dartmouth studio art faculty for 20 years, Randall currently teaches Painting 2 and 3, as well as a senior seminar. Randall was abroad last Spring term in Italy studying Roman paintings, which she said served as an inspiration for the pieces now exhibited in the Strauss Gallery. "I began to be interested in wall paintings and knew about these garden paintings from the House of Livia in Prima Porta from the first century B.C., so I wrote a grant and received a writing fellowship to go to Rome to study these paintings," Randall said. Randall applied several layers of rich, earthy color to each of her works, creating paintings that evoke a sense of nature.

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Show provides a mind-numbing look at college

By Alicia Kim | April 16, 2009

At the start of MTV's new reality series "College Life," a disclaimer warns, "The following program is not endorsed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison." The miserably lackluster 20 minutes and 53 seconds of the first episode provide more than enough justification for this message. The concept of the show is simple: four freshmen at Madison are each given video cameras to document their adjustments to college life. The first student is Jordan, an aspiring writer from Illinois.

Seth Rogen at the premieres of
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Rising star Rogen trades in 'schlub' image for mature roles

By A.J. Fox | April 16, 2009

Courtesy of About.com When "Observe and Report," a wickedly dark comedy about a sociopathic mall cop, opened last weekend to mixed reviews and an indifferent box office, the few brave souls who ventured out to see it were united on a single point: Seth Rogen, the movie's formerly jovial star, had suddenly gotten all serious on us.

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Alum. donates Asian tapis for Hood exhibit

By Sarah Frostenson | April 15, 2009

The Hood Museum's newest exhibit, "Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia," showcases the handiwork of generations of women from Lampung, a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with an array of embroidered silk cloths and tunics traditional to the region.

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HEAR AND NOW: Going gaga for Lady Gaga

By Rebecca Wall | April 14, 2009

After eight seasons of unparalleled ratings success, superlatives come easily to "American Idol:" 'most popular talent competition of all time' and 'emblem of the reality TV world' are just two examples that come to mind.

Spheris Gallery's exhibition of children's book illustrations, which debuted April 4, showcases both classic works and recently produced illustrations.
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Spheris 'Picture Books' exhibit merges inner child, fine art

April 14, 2009

Courtesy of Spheris Gallery With picture book illustrations hanging on the walls and crayons and paper available downstairs, the Spheris Gallery currently seems more like a children's bookstore than an art gallery celebrating the opening of an exhibition.

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