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June 4, 2026
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Three plays celebrate WiRED anniversary

By Joe Indvik | January 22, 2007

A gay mob boss shrieked, a microwaved guinea pig sizzled and an extraterrestrial babbled in an otherworldy tongue at the Bentley Theater on Saturday. This comic theater showcase featured three hilarious short plays and marked the fifth anniversary of WiRED, a program in which students write, plan, prepare and perform plays within a 24-hour time limit.

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'Flower' impresses with visual flair

By Alison Ruderman | January 22, 2007

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes In the realm of martial arts epics, Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" sits squarely between the lovely "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and the lowbrow "Kung Fu Hustle." It's no revolution in its genre, but its visual beauty is something to drool over: The action is drenched in rich gold, extreme close-ups register faces taut with unease and fury and color-coordinated armies clash in battles that might as well be "Lord of the Rings" in a Skittles commercial. This being Oscar season, it's no wonder that bombast and posturing are all over the silver screen nowadays.

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Student festival celebrates MLK

By Liz Ellison | January 22, 2007

Martin Luther King Jr. Day may have passed a week ago, but Dartmouth's celebration of King's life continued this weekend with a Festival of Student Arts that showcased visual arts, performance and spoken word from an array of student groups at Dartmouth. This year's theme, "Lift Every Voice: Freedom's Artists and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights," found various cultural groups on campus interacting and performing together. The weekend's events gave festival-goers an interesting and varied look at "the ways that students' artistic production and vision serve as commentary on or intervention into social and political issues and realities," said Giavanna Munafo, associate director for training and educational programs in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.

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Hop show charts studio art professor's creative evolution

By Brittany Coombs | January 17, 2007

Last Tuesday, people sat in the aisles, crouched on the floor and crowded the doorway of Loew Auditorium to get a good look at the renowned professor who would briefly introduce her own paintings, pastels and prints that were to be unveiled in the Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries later that evening.

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Films celebrate MLK

By Leslie Adkins | January 16, 2007

This year, Dartmouth's annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration features a series of provocative and groundbreaking films.

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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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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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