Mariah Carey: undeniable success or obnoxious diva?
/ The Dartmouth Staff The unthinkable "One Fine Day" has finally arrived for pop diva Mariah Carey.
/ The Dartmouth Staff The unthinkable "One Fine Day" has finally arrived for pop diva Mariah Carey.
With the issue of racial identity common fodder for the increasingly politically minded and socially conscious avant-garde movements since the mid-'60s, the theme of "Black Womanhood" has long established itself in the rhetoric of the art world.
For the first time since Justin Timberlake regifted what his mother gave him, Saturday Night Live is in the news. In a presidential debate last month, Hillary Clinton brought up SNL sketches that satirized overt Obama favoritism in the media, and all the blogs got to chattering.
Carly Silverman Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a biweekly column on the art and culture of Rome by Hilary Becker, who is spending Spring term on the art history Foreign Study Program. Sitting uncomfortably in the coach seat of my Continental flight, I was gawking across the aisle at some bambina sandwiched cozily between her parents.
Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The Upper Valley seems like that picturesque community nestled in the hills where all idyllic, heartwarming stories begin and end.
After a winter that featured such acts as Awesome Color and Phosphorescent, FNR is set to kick off Spring term with a bang, welcoming John Vanderslice to the stage for Saturday's show. Vanderslice's songs are never dreary.
It's a very, very serious year in Student Assembly politics. Pressing issues on our candidate's agendas include: providing staples at Greenprint stations (Lee Cooper '09)and making dining facillities "more conducive to social interaction" (Molly Bode '09). Both our candidates seem to know that the media is a politician's best friend, but Cooper hasn't abandoned man's best friend: Cooper's campaign video, posted on YouTube, begins with a shot of hm petting two fraternity dogs by a roaring fire. Bode has yet to stoop to such hokey comedy and seems determined to take the high road, despite her Facebook group and auto-replies, which claim she "Bodes well" for the Dartmouth campus.
Matthew Ritger / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Dartmouth Film Society director Bailey Massey '08 still remembers her first Film Society meeting. "There was a whole table of older males," she said.
Set in the inter-war years in London, "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" starts with a look at the title character, Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), as she struggles to find work after being canned by the drunken matron of the house where she had previously nannied.
Courtesy of Americansuperstarmag.com In the eponymous 1960 film, Pollyanna sagely quotes Abe Lincoln to the dour minister: "If you look for the bad in man you'll be sure to find it." That said, let's take a look at the completely horrific -- in music, that is. Ali Lohan If celebrity is contagious, then Ali Lohan, kid sister to Lindsay, has been living in a leper colony.
Courtesy of Idahostatsmen.com The characters in "Stop-Loss" (2007), which opened nationwide this past Friday, seem to have trouble making eye contact with one another.
It's a good thing the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble only recently learned how to handle a poi. A ball spun rapidly by an attached rope, this traditional object used for dance by the Maori -- the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand -- is sacrosanct ("tapu" in Maori) and must not be dropped.
Madonna has officially broken my heart. Once, it seemed her reign as the most incisive interpreter of pop culture's cutting edge could never end: Her spot-on 1980s mutations from "Like a Virgin" to "Material Girl" to the burning crosses and dogma bashing of "Like a Prayer" were matched only by the next unexpected decade.
Courtesy of Heidrun Lohr Award-winning Chinese-Australian photographer and storyteller William Yang brings his latest show "Shadows" to Dartmouth this weekend.
/ The Dartmouth Staff Some call it torture pornography.
When 17-year-old front runner David Archuleta began to effortlessly honey out a Beatles classic in order to atone for what had been an unforgettable razing of "We Can Work It Out" the week before, pop culture fanatics everywhere -- or rather, the ones who could hear themselves think over the panting bevy of tween girls who screamed as though he were formerly part of the Fab Four -- no doubt noticed how uncannily his song choice reflected, once again, the predictable unpredictability of American Idol season seven. It has indeed been a long and winding road.
In our brave new digital world, music news can get broken -- and swept away -- before a band has even released a full-length album.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Spaulding Auditorium hosted the finale of the unprecedented "Dartmouth Idol" on March 6, and I have to say that the show left me sorely disappointed -- in one regard.
Larkin Elderon / The Dartmouth Staff If you assumed that the theater department's resources were exhausted this term by the colossal undertaking that was "Julius Caesar," you were mistaken.
There is light at the end of Hanover's winter tunnel. Finals are almost upon us, which means Dartmouth's Winter term is nearly finished.