Adorable rodent warms the palette in Pixar's "Ratatouille"

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes "Ratatouille" is probably the best movie of the summer, but I'll get to that in a minute.

Festival presents adaptation of Metamorphoses

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff On any temperate day you will see unusual things happening on the green, but thanks to the Summer Arts Festival there are more reasons than ever to stop and gawk.

Pink Martini plays great jazz for an older audience

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center / The Dartmouth Staff What is it about Pink Martini that makes it so appealing? I cannot put my finger on it, but here are two things that I do know for sure: Pink Martini plays a wonderful selection of songs that few people born after 1980 have ever heard.And if Sunday night's performance in the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium was any indication, they play these songs well and with sensibilities almost too refined for their repertoire. Pink Martini is a band, sort of.

Hood Museum buys 1756 portrait

Courtesy of the Hood Museum The Hood Museum of Art purchased a renowned portrait of Dartmouth's benefactor and namesake, the second Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, on behalf of the College on June 6.

Dartmouth Cords sing 'Star-Spangled Banner' at Fenway

Courtesy of the Dartmouth Cords Adam Green '02 has always harbored a dream that his a capella group, The Dartmouth Cords, would sing the national anthem on the field of Boston's historic Fenway Park.

Gu project is College's first commission since Orozco murals

Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia Seventy-three years ago, on the walls in the basement of Baker library, a Mexican artist laid his last brush strokes on the damp plaster, leaving his signature: "J.C.

Student documentarians capture the world of Wenda Gu: his art, his city and his project made from Dartmouth hair

Courtesy of Rebecca Treat Ward The frenzy over Wenda Gu's "the green house" died down by fall 2006.

'Idol' finale pits lovable beatboxer against high school diva

Courtesy of jordinsparks.com With this latest season of American Idol poised to come to a head tonight -- not unlike a pimple on the face of behemoth seventeen-year-old Jordin Sparks -- now is a time for reflection, wonderment and debate.

Pinter play packs intensity and politics onto small stage

Courtesy of jameswagner.com Harold Pinter's "One For the Road" is the shortest one-act play I've ever seen.

'Shrek the Third' fails to cast a compelling spell

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes The Big Green hit Hanover this weekend.

Kim '06 sells art to Saatchi Gallery

Courtesy of Sydney Kim How much more quickly might Van Gogh or Michelangelo have ascended the throne of greatness had there previously existed a worldwide network designed for the promotion of aspiring artists?

Dartcon hosts secretive trial of new video game

Danny Gobaud / The Dartmouth Staff This past weekend kicked off with a nerdish flair that ensured the hopeless stretching of finger-sinew and the irreversible obliteration of once-perfect vision.

'Black Book' fuses morality and carnage in erotic thriller

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes In one scene from "Black Book," a blonde-bobbed, lipsticked woman flirts with a Nazi officer in his bedroom, wearing little but her garters.

Comedienne-author to take the stage with sex advice, honestly

Courtesy of Cindy Pierce Clitoris!

Jewelry studio inspires Paris internship and career dream

Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Most people who indulge in a passing flirtation with jewelry-making extend their productivity only as far as embroidery floss friendship bracelets, mother's day macaroni necklaces and kindergarten seed beads are no longer fashionable.

Jazz giant Sonny Rollins to shake up the Hop on Sunday

Courtesy of Jazz Vision Photos los Santana has his guitar.

Handel Society seniors hit final crescendo College careers