'Words' authors speak out on international tensions

Courtesy of Amazon The world we know through the media comes to life in "Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers" In this collection, the anonymous faces we hear about in news reports share their experiences.

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

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.

Spheris Gallery hopes to lure students downtown

/ Courtesy of Spheris Gallery Most people only brave the crazy crosswalks that connect Dartmouth's campus to Main Street if they have desperate plans involving books, paychecks or food.

New Brother Ali album lives up to past work, doesn't best it

/ Courtesy of Amazon.com It's impossible to write a review of Brother Ali's music without mentioning three facts that are rarely found in the rap world at all, let alone together in the same performer.

Blood, boobs and bad guys fill the screen in 'Grindhouse'

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.

Audiences catapult talentless 'Idol' to farcical fame

Courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald There are many things in this world that are so hideously awful they downright defy you to love them.

Pilobolus brings home a spellbinding evening of dance

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center That Pilobolus is a Dartmouth-born company seemed immediately evident as the curtain opened on their April 4 Hopkins center performance.

DFS bends laws of time and space with new film series

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.

'Breach' and 'Dreamgirls' act as film special double-header

Photo Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes Have you ever wanted to see Ryan Phillippe don a sparkling blue dress and belt out a show-stopping Motown number with Beyonce Knowles singing backup?

FNR opens Spring term with a Bang -- Bang Camaro

'Black Snake Moan' fails to instill meaning into sick, silly premise

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