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Country's Swift breaks into pop

By Amy Davis | November 20, 2008

Taylor Swift's 2006 self-titled debut album, a smash hit in the country world, earned her multiple wins at both the Country Music Television Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards, but merely flirted with the mainstream pop audience. Two years later, Swift now finds herself firmly entrenched in the crossover from country to pop. Her sophomore effort, "Fearless"(2008), is as cute as she is. Though she nods to her country compatriots with occasional banjo and violin and her ever present twang, this album sonically strikes the listener as more like Carrie or Kelly than like Dolly, Reba or Lee Ann. Yet Swift's charm as singer-songwriter country darling is more than reminiscent of old-time Nashville chanteuses who also wrote their own material.

This term Dartmouth's Mainstage production features a cast of seven, compared to last Winter term's production of Julius Caesar, which featured 42 student actors.
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Review: 'Stop Kiss' premieres at the Hop

By Allison Levy | November 17, 2008

Courtesy of Jennifer Lopez Walking out of the Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts Saturday night, after that evening's performance of this Fall term's Mainstage production "Stop Kiss," audience members were left to grapple with the the play's handling of difficult issues and intense, raw emotion. "Stop Kiss," which premiered Thursday night, explores the coexistence of love and hate through the story of two women who identify as straight but slowly discover their attraction to one another, only to be torn apart by a heinous act of violence that interrupts their first kiss. The play's strength comes partly from the realism that dominates the script.

Students put on a set of headphones and become actors in the interactive show,
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'Etiquette' brings interactive theater to Bookstore

November 13, 2008

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Passing by the Dartmouth Bookstore this week, you might have noticed something out of the ordinary: pairs of students sitting at a table with headphones on, deeply engaged in conversation while playing with miniature figures and eye droppers. You may recognize their faces through the window, but these students have stepped out of their roles as students to participate as actors in "Etiquette," an innovative interactive theater piece by the London-based group Rotozaza that blurs the lines between performing, acting and observing. Each participant in the performance wears a set of headphones that supplies verbal prompts for conversation and interactions.

Members of the Barbary Coast, led by Donald Glasgo, perform on Collis Porch this summer.
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Flutist Mitchell adds spark, breadth to Barbary Coast's sound

November 10, 2008

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The term may be winding down, but The Barbary Coast's season reached its feverish climax Friday night with the spirited addition of guest flutist Nicole Mitchell for the group's first concert of the year. Mitchell, an acclaimed flutist from Chicago, was named the "No.

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Canadians to invade Fuel for FNR show

November 6, 2008

In 2005, the Canadian edition of Time Magazine said that The Arcade Fire "helped put Canadian music on the map." Musician Brendan Reed is a former member of The Arcade Fire, and his new project Clues has benefited from the increased exposure to Canadian audiences. After the Powder Kegs and Castanets show on Oct.

Shultz bases her artistic work on observations of Dartmouth culture, creating jewelry that mocks and puns.
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Shultz '09 explores College class divide with jewelry

November 5, 2008

Joanne Cheung / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part series profiling senior honors candidates in studio art. Since her freshman year, studio art major and honors candidate Dulce Shultz '09 noticed that many Dartmouth students strive to seem well connected by "name-dropping." She often saw students from lower- and middle-class families concealing their backgrounds in order to fit in with their wealthy peers at Dartmouth.

Having never studied art before Dartmouth, Collins-Fernandez expected to major in English and Spanish.
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Stumbling into art, Collins-Fernandez '09 deconstructs painting

November 4, 2008

Joanne Cheung / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series profiling senior honors candidates in studio art. When she was a child, Gabriela Collins-Fernandez '09 often brought her friends to New York museums for three- or four-hour playdates. Now as an artist at Dartmouth, she rebels against the masters she admired in those days, stripping paintings down to their basic elements and piecing them back together in her work. Collins-Fernandez '09, a candidate for honors in studio art, strives to redefine the medium of painting by separating the traditional elements such as oils, acrylics and finishings.

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