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Moe jams its way through a perfect show in Portland

By Scott Muir | November 17, 2004

After over 12 years of constant touring, Moe* has established itself as one of today's hardest working rock bands. The band has built up an extremely dedicated fan base the old fashioned way: practicing and playing as much as possible.

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Spanish cinema makes waves on American shores

By Kate Carolan | November 16, 2004

With the ever-growing population of Spanish speakers in the United States, the last 10 years in particular have seen an increase in Hispanic, and predominantly Latin, culture, from the Macarena to Ricky Martin. During this time, Spanish-language film has also seemed to grow in popularity, and to many Americans, is mistakenly viewed as a new phenomenon. Much to the contrary, Spanish film has a long, rich tradition rooted in amazing cinematography, surrealist approaches and unparalleled character development that has propelled it to the forefront of the film industry for decades. Luis Bunuel, commonly regarded as the father of surrealist film, was a contemporary of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca and truly revolutionized cinematography.

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'Strangers With Candy' out on DVD

By Kate Carolan | November 15, 2004

The dark comedy "Strangers with Candy," much as its title would indicate, is exactly that television show that parents wish their children would never find. The show was created by and stars the comedic troupe of Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello and Mitch Rouse.

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'Together' displays irony of reality

By Jennifer Garfinkel | November 11, 2004

By now, we all know what happens when seven strangers are picked to live in one house for six months, but what happens when these seven strangers are animated? The concept of animation might seem completely opposed to the idea of reality, but no challenge is apparently too great for Comedy Central, which recently launched a new animated series called "Drawn Together." The show marks a first attempt at combining cartoons with reality TV, but hopefully this first attempt at animated reality will also be the last. The series, which is the story of eight animated characters picked to live in one animated house, most closely resembles MTV's "The Real World." The dialogue can be witty at times and certainly achieves its purpose of exaggeratedly mimicking the behavior of real-life contestants on reality programs.

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'Maria' finds heart-tugging humanism in drug trade

By Linzi Sheldon | November 10, 2004

Like its protagonist, "Maria of Full Grace" leaves a poignant, touching impression on an untouchable subject. One of the taglines for "Maria Full of Grace" reads: "Based on 1,000 true stories." But while drug smuggling's frequency is undeniable, the acclaimed film's greatest attribute is its artful and moving humanization of one drug mule's story.

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Jude Law -- a lasting star power?

By Caroline Maxwell | November 4, 2004

In case you haven't noticed, Jude Law is in just about every movie this season. Moviegoers know him well from films such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Road to Perdition" and "Cold Mountain." What you perhaps did not know is that Law is planning on exploding this season.

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Artists and others raise their voices for the election

By Caroline McKenzie | November 2, 2004

Campaign trail theme songs are nothing new. Celebrity artists were even making a splash back in 1960, when Sinatra himself provided JFK with the tune "High Hopes." Today, Bruce Springsteen -- the politically-conscious "Boss" who famously refused Ronald Reagan the right to use "Born in the U.S.A." on his campaign -- is providing Kerry with the trail theme "No Surrender." And who could possibly forget Al Gore using Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" on his 1992 campaign for veep? So artists' participation in politics is far from a new commodity.

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Cords and Decibelles to sing at Fall Fling

By Kelsey Noonan | October 29, 2004

Although many Dartmouth students may scream themselves hoarse at the Homecoming game this weekend, the Dartmouth Cords and Decibelles will be saving their voices for the biggest a cappella concert of the year. Each year, the Fall Fling a cappella concert fills Spaulding Auditorium with "doo-wops," "didees" and a few hundred students to kick off Saturday night's festivities.

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'Sideways': Wine country with a full bouquet of characters

By Nicholas S. Desai | October 25, 2004

Alexander Payne, filmmaker and self-proclaimed follower of film auteur ideal, visited the Hopkins Center Saturday night to receive the Dartmouth Film Award and to screen his latest film, "Sideways," a darker kind of romantic comedy that makes the adventures of middle-aged wine enthusiasts appealing even to late-adolescent Keystone enthusiasts. Payne's films explore subcultures, whether high school politics in "Election" or abortion activism in "Citizen Ruth." His ability to delineate well-known but rarely depicted situations is in full swing here as he takes on the humdrum existence of hotel living and briefly revisits the world of old people even more hilariously than "About Schmidt" does. The main culture portrayed in "Sideways" is that of a certain kind of Californian whose recreations include wine and divorce.

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Going downriver: 'Creek' a success

By Matt Hill | October 21, 2004

One could approach "Mean Creek" as I did, with a certain set of expectations. Certainly, the advertisements and trailers for the film invoke the feeling that the independent film, being the directorial debut of Jacob Aaron Estes, will ultimately culminate in a convenient and predictably tragic climax that catalyzes the central character's coming of age.

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