Arts

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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Arts

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.

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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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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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'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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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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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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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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