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Emmylou Harris performed last at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
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Bluegrass festival preserves San Fran's free spirit

By Anna Lotko | October 10, 2007

Courtesy of FunCheapSF.com SAN FRANCISO -- Though this past weekend's seventh annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, Calif., may have been more than inviting to the Bay Area's peacenik population, the music was far from half-baked.

Zac Efron
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Zac Efron: Hot Heartthob or Teenyboppin' Terror?

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | October 8, 2007

Courtesy of Allocine Blogs Online Editor's Note: In honor of "Hairspray" playing at the Hop and "High School Musical 2" remaining creepily high on the Billboard Hot 200 music chart for, um, seven weeks now (as well as Mr. Efron's ubiquitous presence in supermarket tabloids the world over), we here at the Dartmouth Arts section thought it necessary to weigh in on Zac Efron, in all his audience-dividing glory.

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Now playing in Hanover

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | October 8, 2007

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH Years from now, when Americans shamefully survey the emotional and physical wreckage of the Iraq War, many will look back on "In the Valley of Elah" as the first film to successfully articulate our nation's anguish.

The commissioned Merce Cunningham piece was odd, but very original.
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Cunningham premiere turns both silly and mesmerizing

By Hilary Becker | October 8, 2007

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The world premiere of Merce Cunningham's "XOVER" at Moore Theater Friday night began with a revolution -- at least, in relative terms. After about 45 minutes of watching dancers stretch their arms in unforgiving, solid-colored Rauschenberg encasements, their suddenly sleeveless bodysuits seemed scandalously new.

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Suzan-Lori Parks lends honest advice to Bentley crowd

By Brittany Coombs | October 8, 2007

On a humid autumn afternoon, the sun-bathed atrium above the Bentley Theater in the Hopkins Center was home to the kind of vibrancy that made Hop passersby peer in through the large windows and caused students fresh from Courtyard Cafe to work their way into the buzzing crowd. A throng of people had gathered to hear the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist Suzan-Lori Parks, who is the author of the hit Broadway play "Topdog/Underdog," a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award and the first artist to visit the College via VOICES: The Dartmouth Theater Visiting Artist Program. "Suzan-Lori possesses a brilliant theatrical mind and amazing talent, and she is the perfect artist to help us launch the VOICES program in our inaugural year," said Bryan Joseph Lee '07, the program's associate producer. VOICES aims to create a space that honors and celebrates diversity onstage through student and faculty collaborations with professional artists. "She is a revolutionary artist because she challenges us to think about why we are who we are," Lee said.

Merce Cunningham spoke with students at the Hanover Inn on Tuesday morning.
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'Chance Operations' will shape Cunningham's 'XOVER'

By Lisa Moon | October 4, 2007

Courtesy of Ballet Dance Magazine / The Dartmouth Staff Without even a bit of dance knowledge under my belt, I came to believe in the Merce Cunningham experience. Typical of Cunningham, rather than returning to a celebration of his past works for the seminal 50th anniversary of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he continued on his ceaselessly inventive departure from his experience in traditional dance into a world of glorious experimentation with the most current in a string of innovative collaborators -- Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg are noteworthy past examples. Yet as complicated as his work remains, Cunningham proved that even the most inexperienced audience members could be given a chance to act as participants in the translation of his richly conceived work. To call Cunningham simply a choreographer doesn't do him justice; his work blurs the boundaries between dance, art and music, and makes a commentary on all three. In a way, it is appropriate that I was originally attracted to Cunningham's work through the music rather than any other facet. And the notion of chance is what Cunningham's work is about -- "Chance Operations," to be specific, a term that Cunningham himself branded with his lifelong collaborator and companion John Cage to serve as a formula for the Cunningham experience. Their famed method relies on the completely isolated production of all three forms of music, art, and dance in order for a natural, spontaneous explosion of creativity to occur on stage before the audience's eyes. Each night, a roll of the dice will determine which of the two compositions will go first.

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FNR hosts pair of string-strumming indie darlings

By Leanne Mirandilla | October 4, 2007

Friday Night Rock is known for providing a venue for fans of alternative and experimental music. They have booked bands like the obscurely-named "Menomena," "Frog Eyes," "Holy Fuck" and "The Dirty Projectors." Friday Night Rock's upcoming show, however, features artists with relatively tamer titles and presumably tamer musical styles: Denison Witmer and Marla Hansen. The two will be touring together before their Dartmouth appearance and share a similar background.

Academy Award winners Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron star in director Paul Haggis'
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'Elah' packs emotional punch into murder mystery

By A.J. Fox | October 3, 2007

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes Years from now, when Americans shamefully survey the emotional and physical wreckage of the Iraq War, many will look back on "In the Valley of Elah" as the first film to successfully articulate our nation's anguish.

TOP CHEF -- Episode 313 -- Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke
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'Top Chef' finalists slice and dice toward juicy finale

By Brittany Coombs | October 1, 2007

Courtesy of IMDB.com As we prepare our collective gullets for the showdown of "Top Chef's" Season Three, it is important we obsessed foodies take time to acknowledge one particularly savory morsel of universal truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. It has been a deliciously entertaining ride since June's first episode, but outlasting all the memorable "cheftestants" are Hung Huynh, Casey Thompson and Dale Levitski, Season Three's finalists who in terms of personality profile and culinary aptitude are strangely reminiscent of Season Two top finishers Marcel Vigneron, Elia Aboumrad and Ilan Hall, respectively. For the first time in three seasons of the juicy reality juggernaut, the winner will not be from New York.

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'Promises' mesmerizes with dark and dirty beauty

By A.J. Fox | September 27, 2007

There are some great moments in David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises," but you have to wade through an awful lot of carnage to get to them. The film offers a grim, grisly trip through the London underworld, in which there seem to be only two states of existence: violence, and the threat of violence.

Shapes and Sizes has an indie sound reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens.
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Friday Night Rock will start rockin' on Saturday

By Caitlin Kelly | September 26, 2007

Courtesy of Friday Night Rock Friday Night Rock begins this term with a bang, having already planned a successful show during Orientation week and now setting the final details in stone for another one geared towards the entire campus not Friday but Saturday, Sept.

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