Silverman debuts on Comedy Central
Forget about Dave Chappelle. Comedy Central has a new comic hitting the small screen who isn't inclined to mysteriously jet off to South Africa anytime soon.
Forget about Dave Chappelle. Comedy Central has a new comic hitting the small screen who isn't inclined to mysteriously jet off to South Africa anytime soon.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, three juniors will perform the lead roles in the ensemble play "Betrayal," written by Harold Pinter. "Betrayal" is a psychological drama set in England.
Last year was a good year for music and classics professor Christian Wolff. His most recent recording, "Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises," has been named among the 50 best albums of the year in the annual list compiled by The Wire, a popular alternative music magazine.
"Friday Night Rock ... wait, does that even happen anymore?" Yes, ignorant freshman, Friday Night Rock is alive and well. "But wait, isn't that just for, like, hipsters?" No, ignorant freshman, Friday Night Rock is for everyone.
For improvised music to have real aesthetic value, not just hints of earnest beauty, takes more than talent.
Courtesy of Rockpaperscissors As naive freshmen are just beginning to realize, winters in Hanover can be a bit chilly -- sub-zero chilly.
Recently there has been a rising market for horror films that boast unprecedented levels of gore and violence.
Courtesy of Amazon Four days after publishing an official track listing and three full months before the planned release date, The Shins' newest album, "Wincing The Night Away," was leaked onto the interwebs.
A gay mob boss shrieked, a microwaved guinea pig sizzled and an extraterrestrial babbled in an otherworldy tongue at the Bentley Theater on Saturday. This comic theater showcase featured three hilarious short plays and marked the fifth anniversary of WiRED, a program in which students write, plan, prepare and perform plays within a 24-hour time limit.
Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes In the realm of martial arts epics, Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" sits squarely between the lovely "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and the lowbrow "Kung Fu Hustle." It's no revolution in its genre, but its visual beauty is something to drool over: The action is drenched in rich gold, extreme close-ups register faces taut with unease and fury and color-coordinated armies clash in battles that might as well be "Lord of the Rings" in a Skittles commercial. This being Oscar season, it's no wonder that bombast and posturing are all over the silver screen nowadays.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day may have passed a week ago, but Dartmouth's celebration of King's life continued this weekend with a Festival of Student Arts that showcased visual arts, performance and spoken word from an array of student groups at Dartmouth. This year's theme, "Lift Every Voice: Freedom's Artists and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights," found various cultural groups on campus interacting and performing together. The weekend's events gave festival-goers an interesting and varied look at "the ways that students' artistic production and vision serve as commentary on or intervention into social and political issues and realities," said Giavanna Munafo, associate director for training and educational programs in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.
Last Tuesday, people sat in the aisles, crouched on the floor and crowded the doorway of Loew Auditorium to get a good look at the renowned professor who would briefly introduce her own paintings, pastels and prints that were to be unveiled in the Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries later that evening.
This year, Dartmouth's annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration features a series of provocative and groundbreaking films.
The year is 2027, and the world's youngest person, 18-year-old "Baby Diego," has been killed. This inauspicious opening is the introduction to Alfonso Cuaron's "Children of Men," a dark vision of a world in which the human race has lost the ability to reproduce. What immediately turns me off about sci-fi movies like this one is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that their conceits require.
These days, hundreds of artists are creating intricate installations out of found objects. On paper, "Gawu," the new El Anatsui exhibit at the Hood Museum, could easily be lost in this category.
McCoy Tyner released over 70 albums, helped define a musical genre