Ayllon will spice up Spaulding, then party with fans

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center If you're anything like me, your primary exposure to Latin music has come through the likes of pop stars such as Enrique Iglesias and Shakira.

Campus band Filligar matures with latest album

'Band' show sticks to Idol's formula

Courtesy of nationalledger.com / The Dartmouth Staff From the wonderful minds that brought you the cultural sensation "American Idol" comes the latest foray into the mentally carcinogenic realm of declaring superlative entities of questionable talent on national television.

'Jesse James' epic gives elegant insight into bandit icon

Courtesy of RottenTomatoes Imagine a movie that stars Brad Pitt as the legendary outlaw Jesse James.

Radiohead sticks it to The Man, impresses fans

Courtesy of Harp Magazine "How come I end up where I started?" sings Radiohead's Thom Yorke to kick off their newest album, "In Rainbows." In many ways it is a signal of what is to come over the next ten tracks, in Radiohead's most accessible and simple album since 1995's "The Bends." On "In Rainbows," Yorke and company return to making music for the sake of music, instead of allowing experimentation or politics to rule the record. Still, despite being more lyrically accessible and in many ways more mainstream, "In Rainbows" does not ignore Radiohead's technical and stylistic expansion over the past 12 years.

Arts Ambassadors breed excitement for Hop events

Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth In the battle to maintain student involvement in the arts on campus, these guys are the special forces.

'2 Days in Paris' depicts lovers as both caustic and cuddly

Courtesy of outnow.ch "2 Days in Paris" is a romantic comedy dipped in acid.

Installations examine history, politics and island identity

Bluegrass festival preserves San Fran's free spirit

Courtesy of FunCheapSF.com SAN FRANCISO -- Though this past weekend's seventh annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, Calif., may have been more than inviting to the Bay Area's peacenik population, the music was far from half-baked.

Jazz show was wacky but melodious

Courtesy of willdoo.com Jazz should be heard and not seen.

Zac Efron: Hot Heartthob or Teenyboppin' Terror?

Courtesy of Allocine Blogs Online Editor's Note: In honor of "Hairspray" playing at the Hop and "High School Musical 2" remaining creepily high on the Billboard Hot 200 music chart for, um, seven weeks now (as well as Mr. Efron's ubiquitous presence in supermarket tabloids the world over), we here at the Dartmouth Arts section thought it necessary to weigh in on Zac Efron, in all his audience-dividing glory.

Cunningham premiere turns both silly and mesmerizing

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The world premiere of Merce Cunningham's "XOVER" at Moore Theater Friday night began with a revolution -- at least, in relative terms. After about 45 minutes of watching dancers stretch their arms in unforgiving, solid-colored Rauschenberg encasements, their suddenly sleeveless bodysuits seemed scandalously new.