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AS SEEN ON: Networks finalize fall lineups
By
Leslie Adkins
| May 26, 2009
Three weeks ago, I wrote briefly about what NBC's fall television lineup will look like ("NBC reveals new pilots, returning programs," May 6). Now the rest of the results are in, as last week signaled the end of the "upfronts," when the networks announce the next season's lineups.
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HEAR AND NOW: M.I.A.'s political overtones
By
Rebecca Wall
| May 25, 2009
With two well-received albums, a plum role on the "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008) soundtrack and an appearance at the Grammys mere days before giving birth, M.I.A., born Maya Arulpragasam, is getting a lot of credit for her too-cool cultural cachet.
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BOOKED SOLID: Becoming Steve Martin
By
Lucy Randall
| May 21, 2009
Although it kills me to say it, I have to admit that the book I read this week, John Haskell's "Out of My Skin," was very postmodern.
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Theater students 'pool' together
By
Allison Levy
| May 21, 2009
ZACH KUSTER / The Dartmouth While on the fall 2006 theater foreign study program in London, England, Victoria Toumanoff '09 and Stephanie Morales '09 went to see a performance of English playwright Mark Ravenhill's "pool (no water)," written in 2006.
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AS SEEN ON: Fed up with the flu frenzy
By
Leslie Adkins
| May 20, 2009
While I normally use this column as a forum for discussing reality shows or scripted series, a recent phenomenon has demanded my attention this week.
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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.
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Handel Society gives concert in honor of those lost in war
By
David Jiang
| May 18, 2009
On Jan. 3, 2009, Israeli troops launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip following several months of heightened tension in the region.
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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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Raymer '09 melds theater and music in fellowship project
By
Cyra Kang
| May 13, 2009
NICHOLAS ROOT / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is part two of a two-part series profiling student musicians at Dartmouth. Will Raymer '09 has been working on a project.
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AS SEEN ON: My new addiction: 'How I Met Your Mother'
By
Leslie Adkins
| May 12, 2009
Courtesy of IMDB.com My television preferences have tended to involve premium channels such as HBO and, within the major network quadrangle, ABC and NBC.
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HEAR AND NOW: Jewel's latest is like Ambien for the ears
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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.
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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.
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BOOKED SOLID: New novel explores the coded messages written into lyrics
By
Lucy Randall
| May 7, 2009
We listen to music while we walk to class, from personal playlists streaming through headphones or the bells of Baker Tower.
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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.