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Cuaron's 'Children' captivates

By Hilary Becker | January 16, 2007

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.

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Artist brings socially conscious structures to the Hood

By Matthew Ritger | January 16, 2007

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.

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Tyner and Quartet grace the Hop

By Dylan Hume | January 11, 2007

McCoy Tyner released over 70 albums, helped define a musical genre

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Emerson String Quartet celebrates 30th anniversary

By Laura Romain | January 11, 2007

Praised by the London Times as "hope for humanity," the Emerson String Quartet will perform a program of Beethoven, Nielsen, Rihm and Brahms to a sold out house on Friday, Jan.

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'Viva Pedro' brings auteur's greatest hits to the Loew

By Joseph Debonis | January 10, 2007

If the forthcoming frigid, dark New Hampshire winter inspires bleak and forlorn feelings, Pedro Almodovar prescribes the art of cinema for your wintertime woes.

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DFS presents arresting series of films with 'Villains'

By Allison Ruderman | January 9, 2007

Moviegoers sure love their villains. Superhero movies, for example, have become the most bankable genre for major studios in the last few years -- thanks in no small part to the appeal of outrageously depraved supervillains like Lex Luthor and the Green Goblin.

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Petronio brings evocative music and visual flair to the Hop

By Liz Ellison | January 8, 2007

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The Stephen Petronio Company is not your traditional dance company.

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J.T. impresses, The Who digresses: the best and worst of '06

By Caitlin Kelly | January 4, 2007

While top 10 lists are a nice way to try to summarize a year, no one seriously believes that they accurately reflect the entire gamut of music.

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Bland dragon fantasy film 'Eragon' is all smoke, no fire

By A.J. Fox | January 4, 2007

If you took the Lord of the Rings trilogy, peppered it with liberal helpings of Narnia, Harry Potter and any number of other big fantasy epics, then turned the whole concoction upside down and shook it until every last spark of creativity came tumbling out, the result might look more than a little bit like "Eragon." In an age when the grandeur of fantasy films is limited only by the imaginations of their creators, here is a movie made without the scarcest hint of inspiration or originality.

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'Rick's Underground Gallery' showcases prints by Hasse '80

By Lucy Randall | November 21, 2006

Courtesy of Eric Hasse Stray a little bit off Main Street and you may enter a strange, underground dream world.

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Dartmouth students pick favorite holiday movies for break

By Joseph Debonis | November 21, 2006

When you finally surrender to studying for those miserable finals and tire of sleeping on the couch because of myriad invading family members, the realization hits that with Thanksgiving comes a limited number of joys: football for some, turkey for others, shopping for the brave few and the universal delight sure to warm the hearts of the "grinchiest" folk, the commencement of the holiday movie season. While it is impossible to avoid succumbing to all that holiday cheer, we cannot all erect our Christmas trees before the leftover turkey has even reached the refrigerator.

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Arts

PB faces varied complications in programming big-ticket shows

By Lisa Moon | November 20, 2006

It is easy to hate the Programming Board. Really, it is not even original anymore. The ubiquitous name "Programming Board" is tacked onto everything from concerts to Bingo Night, but most people have no idea what they do or how they work.

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Pinter's 'The Lover' shines with student production

By Liz Ellison | November 20, 2006

Student productions are one of Dartmouth theater's best-kept secrets. Unfortunately, these excellent plays are all too often overshadowed by the (also excellent) mainstage productions, with which they tend to run concurrently.

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Fall Mainstage 'Far Away' puts on a satisfyingly scary show

By Liz Ellison | November 16, 2006

It certainly is not easy to pull off a really scary play, the kind of unsettling performance that stays with you long after you leave the theater.

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Interweaving plotlines fail to keep 'Babel' together

By Allison Ruderman | November 15, 2006

In an age when globalization and mass media have the power to connect us to even the most remote corners of the globe, the story of the Tower of Babel seems a fitting inspiration for cinematic recreation.

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Frisell and Unspeakable Orchestra bring eloquent jazz to the HOP

By Caitlin Kelly | November 15, 2006

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Perhaps due to the midterm madness on campus, there was a noticeable lack of undergraduates in the audience when Bill Frisell and his Unspeakable Orchestra, with special guests Ron Miles and Greg Tardy, took the stage in Spaulding Auditorium last night.

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Spheris Gallery hosts acclaimed Vermont artist's works

By Lucy Randall | November 14, 2006

On Saturday night, prospective buyers, interested artists and fans of local artist Eric Aho gathered in Hanover's Spheris Gallery to hear an informal talk about the artist's work.

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'The Real Animal House' relies on perverse shock tactics

By Matt Ritger | November 13, 2006

Welcome to the world of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1960, where brains scraped from the windshield of a car wreck are a perfect ingredient for the house brew, where the greatest achievement in recent memory was a brother who could shake quarters out of his foreskin, and where urination, defecation and masturbation make up the Holy Trinity. Chris Miller '63 brings this "awesomely depraved" world to light in his new memoir, "The Real Animal House." Miller is one of the screenwriters of the titular movie that made the Dartmouth fraternity scene so notorious.

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Creepy setting lends an eerie intimacy to DTC's 'No Exit'

By Hilary Becker | November 13, 2006

For all those who attended one of the Displaced Theater Company's performances of Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit" this weekend, there was, quite literally, no exit.

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'Antoinette' shows life inside gilded cage

By Leslie Adkins | November 9, 2006

By Leslie Adkins The Dartmouth Staff Few royals were as infamously apathetic about the welfare of their countries as Marie Antoinette.

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