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Rodrigues and Co. present different side of Brazilian music

By Lucy Randall | October 31, 2005

Brazilian bossa nova singer Virginia Rodrigues performed at the Hopkins Center on Friday night. Although Dartmouth students were sparse, Spaulding Auditorium was still filled with fans from the Hanover area.

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Mountain Goats highlight intimate FNR

By Jessilyn Yoo | October 27, 2005

This Friday, John Darnielle, vocalist and guitarist for The Mountain Goats, will be performing at Fuel along with bassist Peter Hughes, bringing with him a sound generated by personal experiences and pure human emotion.

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Marsalis amazes Dartmouth audience

By Christine Huggins | October 26, 2005

Some may remember Tuesday, Oct. 25 as the day of the first snowfall of the academic year, but more will remember it as the night that world-famous Wynton Marsalis played at Dartmouth. Marsalis' bio took up more than two pages in the program; among other things, he made 40 jazz and classical records, became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammy Awards and co-founded the jazz program at the Lincoln Center.

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Thrice fails to completely avoid emo banalities with 'Vheissu'

By Liz Ellison | October 25, 2005

Orange County quartet Thrice has been hailed as a post-hardcore trailblazing act for several years now, quietly building a respectable cult following with its first three successful studio albums.

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Jazz great Marsalis to play to packed crowd

By Lucy Randall | October 24, 2005

In a strangely appropriate turn of events, while the country struggles to rebuild New Orleans and its surroundings from the wrath of the hurricane that ruined it, Wynton Marsalis will play this Tuesday night at the Hopkins Center.

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'Everything' ends up not as illuminating as its source material

By Christopher Mah | October 24, 2005

Some books just aren't meant to be adapted to the screen, and despite a noble effort by director Liev Schreiber, Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed novel "Everything is Illuminated" is one of them. Foer, a 1999 Princeton graduate, burst onto the literary scene with the aforementioned 2002 novel, a loosely autobiographical chronicle of a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- and his quest to find a woman named Augustine, whom he believes saved his grandfather from the Nazis.

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Franz Ferdinand could have it better but still avoids sophomore slump

By Caitlin Kelly | October 20, 2005

Have you ever found yourself quickly switching radio channels or clicking through a playlist, barely hearing one song before tiring of it and switching to another?

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Stallone plans sixth 'Rocky' installment

By From Staff Reports | October 19, 2005

Yo Adrian! Rocky is planning another comeback. Fifteen years after starring in "Rocky V," Sylvester Stallone is reprising his role as the boxing champ in the sixth "Rocky" movie, publicist Michelle Bega said Monday. The 59-year-old actor will write and direct "Rocky Balboa," which will begin shooting in Philadelphia and Las Vegas next year.

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Claflin Jewelry Studio welcomes both the artsy and the inept

By Laura Romain | October 19, 2005

I entered the Claflin Jewelry Studio without any jewelry-making experience, knowledge or talent. After recovering from the intimidating presence of sharp tools, flame torches, safety goggles and an emergency eye wash, I surveyed the two rows of workbenches for a moment with shop director Jennifer Major, who freely praised the studio's "incredibly varied visitors." Located in the quiet and brightly lit basement of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Claflin Jewelry Studio has provided Dartmouth students with access to jewelling materials and instruction since its inception by Erling Heistad in 1966.

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Festival offers short bursts of inspiration

By Liz Ellison | October 19, 2005

Last night's annual Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Hopkins Center's Bentley Theater showcased, in under 80 minutes, seven plays produced and performed by students.

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Fred Wilson exhibit at Hood abstractly examines Dartmouth history

By Leah Adkins | October 18, 2005

Whether abstract or formally structured, art is difficult to contain. Heated arguments over what can be considered art continue today because a universal definition cannot be applied or accepted.

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Keller Williams wows Boston with creativity

By Scott Muir | October 17, 2005

Keller Williams has achieved success on his own terms, and has been wowing audiences for over a decade with his wholly original approach to solo performance.

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Douglas and Keystone pay intriguing tribute to fallen legend

By Chip Shaffer | October 17, 2005

Dave Douglas and Keystone -- not to be confused with the beer -- is a cool group centered on a cool idea: jazz pieces accompanying a selection of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's silent films.

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Swedish rocker Lekman brings humor, unique style to FNR

By Marki Grimsley | October 13, 2005

Dartmouth students have a great opportunity to rage like they've never raged before this Friday night at Fuel.

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Pop's former 'Brat Queen' impresses with lovely, mature 'Machine'

By Liz Ellison | October 12, 2005

Singer-songwriter Fiona Apple has been noticeably absent from the music scene for the past six years.

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The 'Shoes' don't fit: 'chick flick' or not, Hanson's latest is terrible

By A.J. Fox | October 11, 2005

The term "chick flick" gets tossed around a lot these days. In an era of machismo-laden action spectaculars, almost any film where the lipstick upstages the laser guns is instinctively filed in moviegoers' minds alongside movies like "Legally Blonde," "Miss Congeniality 2" and Hugh Grant's entire filmography.

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Wallace and Gromit make triumphant feature-length debut

By Matt Hill | October 10, 2005

"Consistency," Oscar Wilde once said, "is the last refuge of the unimaginative." Wilde was very perceptive, I think, about a good many things: cynicism, marriage, people who are boring, women who say that they're thirty-five.

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New Sigur Ros album: gorgeous and baffling at the same time

By Caitlin Kelly | October 6, 2005

"Takk ...," the fourth and most recent release from Sigur Ros, is an epic undertaking on many levels.

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Carlton impresses sparse audience

By Lucy Randall | October 5, 2005

Vanessa Carlton played last night in Spaulding, in case you weren't aware and didn't notice the "frickin' huge" sign that the singer and pianist referred to in her introduction.

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Burton's beautiful 'Bride' explores the outcast experience

By Chip Shaffer | October 4, 2005

Directors Tim Burton and Mike Johnson combine the land of the living with the realm of the dead in order to create the visually striking and musically catchy "The Corpse Bride." Yet "Corpse Bride" is not so much a movie as it is a series of beautifully created images set to music, which is not surprising since Burton and Johnson shot it entirely with digital cameras using stop-motion photography.