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Festival showcases exceptional student-written plays

May 31, 2009

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.

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Leaden new ‘Terminator' lacks originality, excitement

May 31, 2009

Correction appended When it was announced that the one-named director McG of the frothy "Charlie's Angels" movie franchise had been tapped to helm the latest "Terminator" film, many message-board fanatics openly called for his head.

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Students Plan to revive TV station

May 27, 2009

Seeking to improve the content on DarTV's Channel 13 which currently only displays "No Program Scheduled" a group of students is working to revive Dartmouth Television, a student-run, closed-circuit campus television network that has been defunct since 2007. Sam Peck '10, Ethan Lubka '10, Mike DiBenedetto '10 and Jared Zelski '10 became interested in resurrecting the channel after brainstorming alternative uses for the television screens installed last fall in Food Court, Peck said. Originally founded in 1991, DTV was discontinued after one year due to a lack of audience and poor management, The Dartmouth previously reported The channel later made a return in 1999, broadcasting digital content using a specialized computer program.

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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.

Eleven graduating theatre majors will perform
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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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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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