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New York Theatre Workshop pairs up with student actors

By Leslie Adkins | August 3, 2007

Courtesy of Joan Marcus Sophomore summer is a celebratory time for the theater department at Dartmouth as they prepare to welcome two acclaimed theater companies -- the New York Theatre Workshop and The Elevator Repair Service -- to campus this August. From July 31 until Aug.

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'Sunshine' aims for stars but falls into blackest of holes

By A.J. Fox | July 31, 2007

Courtesy of The New York Times The best thing I can say in praise of "Sunshine" is that, as a disaster movie, it boasts one hell of a disaster.

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Hopper exhibit in Boston celebrates ordinary scenes

By Anna Lotko | July 24, 2007

Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston No clapboard shacks, drugstores or all-night diners have received more appreciation and scrutiny than those depicted in Edward Hopper's artwork.

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Big Apple Circus 'Steps' into town

By Dylan Hume | July 20, 2007

Courtesy of Big Apple Circus There are a number of reasons why New York's Big Apple Circus is unique.

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Marsalis's smooth soul comes to the Hop

By Whitney Buckholz | July 17, 2007

Known for a lively, innovative and fervent sound, multi-Grammy award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis will be bringing his explosive spontaneity to the Hopkins Center on Friday, August 10. Marsalis will perform material from his latest record, "Braggtown," accompanied by quartet members, pianist Joey Calderazzo, drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, and bassist Eric Revis.

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

By A.J. Fox | July 10, 2007

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

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Festival presents adaptation of Metamorphoses

By Lucy Randall | July 6, 2007

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.

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Pink Martini plays great jazz for an older audience

By Dylan Hume | July 3, 2007

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.

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Hood Museum buys 1756 portrait

By Jilian Gundling | June 26, 2007

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.

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Dartmouth Cords sing 'Star-Spangled Banner' at Fenway

By Grace Wyler | June 22, 2007

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.

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Gu project is College's first commission since Orozco murals

By Matthew Ritger | May 30, 2007

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.

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

By Lisa Moon | May 28, 2007

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

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Dratch '88 brings humor to Moore

By Meredith Fraser | May 23, 2007

Courtesy of About.com Female professor: Shouldn't we go upstairs, love-ah? Male professor: No, right here, love-ah. No, this exchange was not overheard between a pair of two Dartmouth professors over Green Key.

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'Idol' finale pits lovable beatboxer against high school diva

By Brittany Coombs | May 23, 2007

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.

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Pinter play packs intensity and politics onto small stage

By Liz Ellison | May 22, 2007

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

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'Spider-Man 3' video game is largely uninspired

By Dylan Hume | May 21, 2007

It is generally accepted by most who play video games that those that are adapted from movies are usually not very good.

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'Shrek the Third' fails to cast a compelling spell

By Joe Indvik | May 21, 2007

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

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Kim '06 sells art to Saatchi Gallery

By Brittany Coombs | May 16, 2007

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?

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Dartcon hosts secretive trial of new video game

By Brittany Coombs | May 16, 2007

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.

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'Black Book' fuses morality and carnage in erotic thriller

By Allison Ruderman | May 14, 2007

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.

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