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December 24, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Class Divide attempts to instigate tough discussion

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Class issues have always interested Lisel Murdock '09. Even as a teenager in Washington state, she was observant of the divides that existed between fellow students; the concept of "some people having to work so much more than others" was both fascinating and troubling to her. Now, as a sociology major and Class Divide Intern for the Hopkins Center, she has put together the Class Divide Student Creative Project - collections of photographs, paintings, stories and poems from different student artists that examine economic and social class.




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Two bands rock FNR for prospies

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The tiny lights of FUEL will twinkle especially for the prospective members of the Class of 2011 this Friday, when Friday Night Rock will host both Enon and The Dirty Projectors.





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Water, phallic symbols featured in DDE's 'Cistern'

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Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff When the stage went dark about halfway through the show and the dancers returned equipped with strap-on dildo contraptions, I said to myself, now this is my kind of dance! The dildos, which director Ford Evans referred to as "a moment of levity" during a post-performance discussion, were inspired by the practices of French farmers, who use one-legged strap-on stools to sit on while milking cows.




Rose McGowan shows off her assets as Cherry, a stripper-turned vigilante in Robert Rodriguez's
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Blood, boobs and bad guys fill the screen in 'Grindhouse'

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Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes Let me begin by saying this: If you go see "Grindhouse" expecting two plotless, gore-filled excuses for movies, well ... you'll be satisfied, more or less, but you'd be missing the point. I went into "Grindhouse" expecting nothing.





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Iranians' political fury on stylized "300" misplaced

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In the touchy world of today's international politics, even 2500-year old issues can become ammunition for cultural outrage. "Hollywood declares war on Iranians," read a headline in Iran's Ayende-no newspaper soon after the release of "300," a stylized action flick based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller which depicts the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.


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Kings of Leon lose their trademark twang -- and appeal

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Despite press peppered with adjectives like "deep-fried," influences in the rock realm of Lynyrd Skynyrd and a back story as American as apple pie (the three Followill brothers crossed the country with their preacher father, spread the Holy Word and listened to classic rock until forming a band with their cousin), Kings of Leon never struck me as a "Southern" band.




Jacinda Barrett and Kal Penn star in
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DFS bends laws of time and space with new film series

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Photo Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes In movies, time can take on a flexibility that just isn't possible in the real world (if you just forget about the little time trip we all took a few weeks ago called daylight savings). Through editing and simple dramatic license, moviemakers can do whatever they want with temporal construction.