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Campaign web aesthetics iconify candidate personalities
By
Matthew Ritger
| January 9, 2008
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.
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'Darmouth Idol' provides students with a chance to shine
By
Leanne Mirandilla
| January 9, 2008
Do you sing in the shower? Were you rejected from the Dodecs after staying up until 3 a.m. through a long and arduous audition process?
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Kevin Bacon to be honored at DFS ceremony in January
By
Lucy Randall
| January 8, 2008
Courtesy of wikipedia.org Kevin Bacon is coming to campus.
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Golden Globe nominees foretell peculiar awards season
By
Meredith Fraser
| January 7, 2008
This is no typical awards show season. Only one thing will positively happen on Jan.13, the night slotted for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to hand out their annual Golden Globe awards: A bunch of celebrities will get completely plastered.
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Critic's Choice: A guide to the top ten movies from 2007
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A.J. Fox
| January 7, 2008
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.
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'Rock Band' players head bang to top of awesomeness charts
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Brittany Coombs
| December 4, 2007
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WGA strike wreaks havoc on TV networks, industry
By
Allison Ruderman
| December 3, 2007
Get ready for your eyes to bleed. Come early next year, the major offerings on network television will include a new batch of Sanjayas and a few desperate D-listers vying to work for Donald Trump.
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NOW PLAYING IN HANOVER
By
The Dartmouth Staff
| December 3, 2007
MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM Is this what has become of Dustin Hoffman? After rewriting the book on Hollywood sexiness in "The Graduate" 40 years ago, he has since been reduced to playing an overgrown Oompa Loompa in Zach Helm's colorful bit of family-friendly treacle.
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Nasser '08 authors a night of one-acts at the Hop
By
A.J. Fox
| December 3, 2007
The posters for "Short, Sweet and Supernormal" feature a large erect phallus pointing at the title of the show.
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Yamato gives Hop a 'heartbeat'
By
Maria Fillas
| December 3, 2007
Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Pulses are sure to intensify tonight as Yamato: The Drummers of Japan rock the Hop's Moore stage with the pounding rhythms of "Shin-on." Yamato, whose name is derived from the Japanese city where the group is based, is comprised of young male and female musicians.
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Cool Kids headline scaled-down PB show at Alumni Hall
By
Sarah Frostenson
| November 29, 2007
Courtesy of skratch.wordpress.com Pump up the volume with a heavy base line, a wicked turntable, some old school hip-hop and you've got The Cool Kids -- a retro-rap duo hailing from the Chicago underground music scene.
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Chick lit hits a new low with brainless 'Big Boned'
By
Marielle Battistoni
| November 28, 2007
Courtesy of The Library of Congress Just as "big boned" is a cliched way of saying overweight, "Big Boned" is a cliched excuse for a book.
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Main Street Museum provides a quirky getaway
By
Anna Lotko
| November 26, 2007
Courtesy of the Main Street Museum Although my previous two excursions to White River Junction, Vt., had involved facial piercing and a shady tattoo parlor, I knew this third trek -- to the Main Street Museum -- would require more of an open mind.
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'August Rush' weaves a story of music and nothingness
By
A.J. Fox
| November 25, 2007
Courtesy of RottenTomatoes If you ever have the unfortunate luck to find yourself in the same theater as "August Rush," here's my advice: Shut your eyes.
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Prison Theater project produces an emotional show
November 20, 2007
Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Perhaps you think of orange jumpsuits, or maybe you prefer the black-and-white striped variety.
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Now Playing in Hanover
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The Dartmouth
| November 19, 2007
Lions for Lambs A sanctimonious piece of political propaganda, Robert Redford's new movie will disturb liberals who agree with its politics and delight conservatives who will tear it apart.
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Discussion on visual humor turns out one-sided, flat
By
Divya Gunasekaran
| November 19, 2007
Courtesy of Assumption College On Nov.
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'Beowulf' delivers impressive, thrilling CGI action
By
A.J. Fox
| November 19, 2007
Courtesy of RottenTomatoes.com There are two ways to watch "Beowulf," Robert Zemeckis's eye-popping action spectacular.
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Britney may be a disaster, but her album is brilliant
By
Matthew Ritger
| November 15, 2007
Courtesy of Stuff Media NZ Last Wednesday night circa 12:30 a.m., "Everybody" -- a bonus track off the new Britney Spears album -- came thumping over the speakers in the basement of Bones Gate fraternity.