Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism.
The Dartmouth
February 13, 2026 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Arts
The Dartmouth Wind Symphony's concert,
Arts

Symphony performs sports-themed 'Games People Play'

|

ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth Wind Symphony director Max Culpepper replaced his baton with a tennis racket, then served and rallied his through a high energy, sports-infused concert Friday night in Spaulding Auditorium. For the first half of the concert, the Wind Symphony stepped aside and The College of New Jersey Wind Ensemble owned the stage.



Arts

BOOKED SOLID: Can the Kindle relight a reading fire?

|

On Feb. 9, Amazon.com unveiled the Kindle 2, the second generation e-book reader, calling it "Still amazing, only better." Amazon extensively promotes the new gadget with short video ads including customer testimonials ("I'm a bibliophile and I love my Kindle!") and voice-over informational clips that demonstrate the Kindle 2's many capabilities. While the e-book reader's features improvements over the first generation model (thinner, sleeker design; faster page turning; sharper display and greater storage space), it also boasts new capabilities, such as the "text-to-speech" option that can read anything out loud. Users can also annotate their texts, send personal documents from their computers to their Kindles and access Wikipedia. More than 230,000 books are available for the device, as well as more than 1,000 blogs, in addition to major newspapers and magazines from around the country. The new model offers about two days' worth of battery life, which is more than the original Kindle, as well as more storage space and a "sharper display," according to the Amazon ad. Curious, but not enough to shell out $350 for the sleek, smart gadget, I sought out an expert to help me get my head around the latest news in the book world. Haley Wauson '09, an English and psychology double major writing her senior thesis on digital print, explained some of the finer points of Kindle technology to me the other night in Collis.


Arts

AS SEEN ON: TV Land runs it back

|

If you've ever had nostalgia for something that you've never personally experienced, you know that it's a wonderful, inexplicable feeling. TV Land, as a channel, banks on this feeling.




Visiting professor Ken Zuckerman has achieved international fame for his work on the sarod, a stringed instrument common in classical Indian music.
Arts

Concert to feature sounds of India

JONATHAN ERDMAN / The Dartmouth Although it is uncommon for a Westerner to become recognized as a virtuoso in the realm of Eastern music, visiting professor Ken Zuckerman has done just that.


Arts

Alumni form new mentor program

|

Dartmouth students interested in media and entertainment careers now have the opportunity to form connections with Dartmouth alumni currently working in the media profession.




Peter Sellars explained art's potential to temper the financial crisis in his Montgomery Fellow lecture on Tuesday.
Arts

Sellars discusses art's social purpose in Montgomery lecture

Zachary Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Artists in the 21st century should create works that are not merely entertaining, but that also enhance social awareness and bring people together, acclaimed opera, theater and film director Peter Sellars said in his Montgomery Fellow lecture in Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday. Sellars, currently a professor of world arts and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, has staged over 100 productions worldwide and is renowned for his modern, and sometimes controversial, interpretations of classic stories.



Arts

'Guide to Getting it On' author discusses keys to intimacy

|

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff From the looks of it, Paul Joannides just might be giving Marvin Gaye a run for his money when it comes to expertise in "getting it on." Though his voice might not have ladies swooning, Joannides, who is best known as the author of the popular sex book "The Guide to Getting It On," is no amateur when it comes to smooth moves and pillow talk. Joannides, this year's SexDay lecturer, spoke to students about "positive sexuality" Tuesday afternoon, before participating in the seventh annual SexFestival, an informational forum that provides students with information about intimacy (and edible personal lubricant for kicks). A research psychoanalyst and an editorial board member of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, Joannides has earned a reputation as one of today's most popular, knowledgeable and approachable authors on sex.




The exhibit uses portraiture, photojournalism and landscape to examine the construction of cultural identities.
Arts

Hood exhibit examines cultural identity with photography

|

Zachary Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff American photographer Eudora Welty once said that a good photograph stops a moment from "running away." The 45 photographs now on display in the "Focus on Photography: Works from 1950 to Today" exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art more than meet that standard, giving viewers a cross-sectional look at events and people from the past 60 years. The Hood has amassed 2,000 photographs and photo-based works over the last decade for use in its permanent collection. In anticipation of a major survey exhibition opening in September 2009, "Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth," curator Emily Burke said she decided to put together a sampling of post-1950 photography to offer insight into the diversity, as well as the commonalities, of contemporary photography. "What [Burke] has done with this exhibition is brilliant," said photographer Subhankar Banerjee, the current artist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center.



Richard Dreyfuss plays journalist Ben Kritzer in professor Joseph Sutton's new play,
Arts

Play written by theater prof. shows in London's Old Vic

|

Courtesy of guardian.co.uk Even after a long string of successes on the stage, playwright Joseph Sutton '76 said he still has the same butterflies on opening night that his students have before finals. Sutton, a Dartmouth theater professor, is the author of the new play "Complicit," which debuted this winter at London's Old Vic Theatre.



Arts

Music dept. plans for new major

The music department's curriculum and major program will be significantly revamped for the 2009-2010 academic year, department chair Theodore Levin announced on Jan.