Jason Moran provides elaborate multi-media performance

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A red plastic telephone rings on a dark stage and the disembodied voice of Jason Moran answers the call and speaks briefly with an unknown woman.

Bacon Bits: Our favorites

Courtesy of whatwouldtotowatch.com Kevin Bacon will be given the Dartmouth Film Award on Friday at 7:30 p.m., with a private afterparty for tribute ticket-holders at Alpha Delta fraternity.

Scully debuts new works in Hood's 'Art of the Stripe'

Erin Jaeger / The Dartmouth Staff Sean Scully is trying to turn stones into light.

Mraz rocks Alumni Hall with clever banter and witty tunes

Courtesy of The Aegis On my list of musical guilty pleasures -- you know, that category of musicians you scoff at in company but whose songs you sing verbatim whenever they come on the car radio -- Jason Mraz occupies a spot somewhere between Justin Timberlake and Maroon 5. Thus, Mraz's concert Thursday night at Alumni Hall provided the perfect excuse to roll my eyes while secretly taking pleasure in the catchy, funky pop that comprises his eclectic appeal. Sporting a "Dartmouth Surfing" t-shirt and a bizarre fuzzy brown headband, Mraz proved himself to be a very charismatic, audience-friendly performer. He kept the show lively, cracking jokes, responding to every lovestruck or obnoxious shout-out from the crowd, and making clever comments to the audience and his dreadlocks-wearing percussionist, Toka Rivera. One such semi-witty remark came in the form of a shout out to concert-goers. "Thanks for having me here.

Savion Glover's 'Bare Soundz' set to rattle and rock Hop

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff I don't know about you, but when I think about tap dancing, the first thing that comes to my mind is a group of preschoolers in tutus.

'Futurama' switches orbits to Comedy Central in January

Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox In the future, you will be speedily transported through the city via inter-connected tubing!

"Drought and Rain" showcases bizarre energy at Hop

Courtesy of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Ea Sola's stateside premiere of "Drought and Rain, Vol.

Chocolate Drops, Freight Train join forces in Hop fiddlefest

Campaign web aesthetics iconify candidate personalities

Courtesy of BarackObama.com For the past 48 hours, you've probably been passionately discussing the primaries with every articulate bone in your well-informed body.

Kevin Bacon to be honored at DFS ceremony in January

Courtesy of wikipedia.org Kevin Bacon is coming to campus.

Critic's Choice: A guide to the top ten movies from 2007

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes / Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes The practice of anointing 10 personal favorites among the hundreds of films that get released in the United States each year is an exercise in pointless self-indulgence.