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Isbin astounds audiences on guitar

By Marielle Battistoni | January 14, 2008

Grammy Award winner Sharon Isbin happily captured audiences during her spellbinding classical guitar performance Saturday night at the Spaulding Auditorium.

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Various a cappela groups tour world during winter break

By Marielle Battistoni | January 14, 2008

While the rest of the student body was celebrating the end of finals on Dec. 10, campus musical and a cappella groups were preparing for a whole new set of stressful performances -- their annual winter tours.

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Chocolate Drops, Freight Train join forces in Hop fiddlefest

By Liz Ellison | January 10, 2008

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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

By 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

By 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

By 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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