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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.

Three new big-name albums will be released on Tuesday.a
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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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