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Play 'Woman in Mind' opens Wed. in Bentley

By Jean Ellen Cowgill | May 9, 2006

According to playwright Alan Ayckbourn, "Laughter and seriousness can travel hand in hand ... in fact, one without the other can prove highly undesirable." Dartmouth students have tried to capture both the wit and wisdom of Ayckbourn's work in their production of his play "Woman in Mind," which opens this Wednesday. The play begins when Susan, a middle-aged woman, "steps on a garden rake and has a head injury that causes her to reexamine her life," said Alex Corriea '09, who plays Susan's daughter.

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Gnarls Barkley defies classification, succeeds anyway

By Chris Barth | May 8, 2006

The illustrious rapper Shaquille O'Neill on his brilliant LP "Shaq Diesel," once told listeners "Ali Ali Ali Baba/Go tell yo Pops and yo Mama/That Shaq is the man/Period, Comma." Needless to say, when I heard that an artist named Gnarls Barkley was coming out with his record "St.

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Week-long music festival begins Sat.

By Stefanie Zychowski | May 4, 2006

This Saturday, the beginning of the 28th Annual Festival of New Musics, entitled "Orchestras of Sameness," will introduce Dartmouth to the sound of the future, as the vanguard of contemporary music envelops Hanover with its singular aesthetic. This unique celebration of the latest in modern music combines the original creative endeavors of the talented undergraduate and graduate students of Dartmouth's music program with some of the leading, critically acclaimed musicians of the field, many of them visiting faculty within the department.

As part of her thesis, Kimberly Coppola '06 will be performing works from an
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Music majors wrap up theses with performances

By Laura Romain | May 1, 2006

Courtesy of Kimberly Coppola Editor's note: This article is the third of a four-part series examining senior theses and culminating experiences in the arts. Trailing between windowless practice rooms and the Paddock Music Library, six students conspicuously haunt the depths of the Hopkins Center.

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'The Sentinel' shames thriller genre

By Leslie Adkins | April 26, 2006

I'm no lover of the current White House Administration, but I hope for the sake of national security that the Secret Service is not the organization of bumbling, inept agents that is portrayed in "The Sentinel." If this film shows their procedures and actions with any accuracy, I'd say the Secret Service needs to do some massive housekeeping.

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Visiting artist teaches jewelry making

By Matt Hill | April 26, 2006

One look at Jen Townsend's "Ice Maiden" -- a startlingly detailed and beautifully designed sterling silver pendant depicting a nude woman caught in a web of ice -- and you know you're dealing with an artist of immense talent and visionary precision.

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Bosco and Rubalcaba bring bossa nova to the Hop

By Dylan Hume | April 24, 2006

This past Friday, Brazilian guitarist/singer/songwriter Joao Bosco and Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba visited the Hopkins Center, giving Dartmouth a rare night of Brazilian music and providing a wonderful concert for the public. When I think of Brazilian music, I imagine the gentle piano playing and virtuosic songwriting of Antonio Carlos Jobim and the soft voice of Joao Gilberto.

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Senior film majors wrap up final projects and theses

By Lucy Randall | April 20, 2006

Editor's note: This article is the first of a four-part series examining senior theses and culminating experiences in the arts. As the middle of the term approaches, seniors majoring in every department at Dartmouth are busy wrapping up their projects and theses. Drawing near the end of their college careers, seniors majoring in the Film and Television Department don't have much time for nostalgia before they enter the cutthroat entertainment industry beyond college.

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