Arts

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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Arts

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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Arts

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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Arts

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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Arts

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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Arts

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.

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Arts

'Paris and Paris' end fairy-tale courtship

By From Staff Reports | October 3, 2005

Paris Hilton said she ended her five-month engagement to a Greek shipping heir because she's "not ready for marriage" and didn't want it to end in divorce.

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Arts

Wayne Shorter and crew set Spaulding ablaze Friday night

By Jessilyn Yoo | October 3, 2005

On Friday night, I had the wonderful opportunity to hear the Wayne Shorter Quartet, led by renowned saxophonist Wayne Shorter and featuring Danilo Perez on piano, John Patitucci on bass and Brian Blade on drums.

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Arts

'Yunnan' reveals beauty of culture in danger

By Erin McDonald | October 3, 2005

Last Thursday, students, locals, and those visiting Hanover filled Spaulding Auditorium as a weeklong celebration of arts and culture culminated with "Yunnan Revealed," a show featuring a mix of indigenous instruments and music from a southwestern province in China. The Yunnan province -- an area slightly smaller than the state of Texas -- is a predominantly mountainous area in southwestern China that is comprised of 25 different ethnic groups and is thus widely regarded as one of the most culturally diverse places in the world.

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Arts

FNR prepares for Chromeo's offbeat, danceable stylings

By Sarah Givner | September 29, 2005

Lately, a strange yet invigorating '80s-esque dance song has been blaring out of what at first seems to be your standard-fare McDonald's commercials designed to appeal to an urban demographic.

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Arts

Hi-Fi, local stores to greet students with block party this Friday

By Ansley Watson | September 28, 2005

This Friday, the streets in downtown Hanover will be closed to vehicles. A large structure will be erected, a band will play, people will flood the streets with spending money and school spirit will be everywhere No, it's not Homecoming yet.

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Arts

Fall DFS series offers glimpse into the heart of America

By Chetan Mehta | September 27, 2005

For much of the last month, a nation of millions has been glued to the television, awestruck as it witnesses the destructive power of nature and, in its aftermath, the shameful exposure of our society's inadequacies.

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Arts

25 years later, Led Zeppelin's influence can still be felt

By Matt Hill | September 26, 2005

There's a certain element of mysticism and magic to the music of Led Zeppelin: it's an intangible quality that, even back in 1969 -- when their phenomenal self-titled debut album was released -- distinguished the band from its varied and eclectic influences, ranging from blues to British folk.

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Arts

Telluride delves into memory, repression

By Christopher Mah | September 26, 2005

The six films chosen by the Dartmouth Film Society from the Telluride Film Festival were picked not necessarily because they were the festival's best films, but rather because they were considered the most representative of Telluride's entire collection.

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Arts

Hoffman, transvestites ignite Telluride

By Matt Hill | September 22, 2005

Telluride is a rare breed among film festivals: a true celebration of international cinema featuring everything from forgotten old gems to the newest works by both world-renowned and promising amateur directors. Founded in 1974 by Tom Luddy and Dartmouth's own Bill Pence, the event -- "like Cannes died and went to heaven," Roger Ebert once mused -- has always focused on bringing more idiosyncratic works to the attention of the filmmaking world.

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Arts

Kanye West avoids sophomore jinx with 'Registration'

By Caroline McKenzie | September 21, 2005

It is somewhat ironic that the two heaviest hitters to guest star on Kanye West's sophomore effort, "Late Registration," unwittingly emphasize the divide between West and the bulk of mainstream American rap.

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Arts

New Pornographers' experiment only a partial success

By Brendon Bouzard | August 23, 2005

Few musical idioms have proven as commercially unsuccessful, or as cultishly followed, as power pop.

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Arts

'Raid' offers only tired formula

By Caroline Maxwell | August 18, 2005

Taking place in the Philippines in 1945, "The Great Raid" claims to be a dramatic reenactment of the 6th Ranger Battalion's attempt to free 500 men from the Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp.

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Arts

Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit to perform at Spaulding

By Meredith Fraser | August 16, 2005

A hesitant Hanover resident edges to the window of the Hopkins Center box office. "This may be a stupid question, but -- do you all, by any chance, have any Jane Monheit tickets left?" asks the resident. When the ticket seller nods, a look of surprise comes over the resident's face. "Really?" the resident replies. His disbelief is understandable.

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Arts

Workshop brings six unfinished plays to Dartmouth

By AnnMary Mathew | August 11, 2005

The New York Theatre Workshop will bring the East Village to Hanover for the 14th consecutive year this month, showcasing six works-in-progress at the Hopkins Center.

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