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April 13, 2026
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Winehouse dominates

By Lauren Dowling | February 18, 2008

Amy Winehouse has the entire world dangling in front of her. If she weren't seeing double, trying to avoid jail, publicly fighting and smoking crack for YouTube audiences everywhere, she just might be able to reach out and grab it. Incidentally, the troubled singer, who made her name in America for saying "no" to rehab on the first single of "Back to Black" (2006), entered a treatment facility just two weeks before her astonishing five Grammy wins.

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Klipple '92 gets funky with Coast

By Rebecca Wall | February 7, 2008

Courtesy of hop.dartmouth.edu What do you get when you combine the explosive power of funk with the colossal sound of a big band? "Ferocity," according to keyboardist Adam Klipple '92.

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Alston screens 'Family Name," explores southern family identity

By Lauren Dowling | February 5, 2008

Homosexuality, racism, religion, murder -- it seems as if Macky Alston has never found a touchy subject he didn't like. After attending the screening and discussion of his award-winning documentary "Family Name" (1997) at the Tucker Foundation, however, it becomes clear that Alston's subject matter is chosen precisely for the discomfort it evokes. In "Family Name," Alston returns home to the deep south from New York City to examine a quandary that has haunted him since his youth -- the relationship between black and white Alstons in the area. "Is something a secret if everyone knows it but nobody talks about it?" Alton asks in the film. Clearly racism was a source of unease in his hometown of Durham, N.C., and Alston was completely aware of the stigma associated with this topic. "I think the fascinating thing is that those things that we have never talked about, those things that we are taught not to talk about, breed a lot of fear," Alston wrote on the documentary's website. Winner of the 1997 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award, "Family Name" is certainly more a dark horse than a flashy fan favorite.

Kevin Bacon discusses his career after receving the Dartmouth film award.
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Bacon honored with film award

By Astrid Bradley | January 28, 2008

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff With laughter and a somewhat convincing brand of celebrity humility, Kevin Bacon took the reigns of his own interview in a sold-out Spaulding Auditorium last Friday night after a retrospective of his work was shown. "To make fun of yourself is a great honor," Kevin Bacon said onstage at one of the highlight's of the Dartmouth arts calendar, "A Tribute to Kevin Bacon." During the tribute Bacon received the Dartmouth Film Award after an hour-long compilation of scenes from various Bacon appearances that began the event. The compilation provoked a number of laughs at scenes not deemed traditionally funny, especially the infamous "Footloose" warehouse dance routine.

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