Arts

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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Arts

Edgy contemporary poets jam at the Hopkins Center

By AnnMary Mathew | October 20, 2004

To a campus that generally looks like J. Crew upchucked on it, Def Poetry Jam, with its inner-city spirit, seems anomalous and far-off.

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Arts

'Motorcycle Diaries' presents the man who would be Che

By Linzi Sheldon | October 19, 2004

His face is found on posters, T-shirts, stickers and hats -- an immediately recognizable face, almost always in black against the red backdrop of communism.

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Arts

The Likely Lads take to the stage in Montreal

By Caroline McKenzie | October 18, 2004

Even without one of the boys in the band, the Libertines put on a spectacular show in Canada

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Asking around campus: Frat sounds

By Jaime Padgett | October 14, 2004

It's Friday night and the Daniel Webster in you is just rearing to go. Go? "Go where," you ask? Why would a party aficionado such as yourself waste precious nighttime hours wandering in search of the hottest spot?

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Arts

Jam band widens its reach with accomplished second album

By Scott Muir | October 13, 2004

When popular artists and record companies are complaining about declines in album and ticket sales and fans are complaining about rising prices, it is refreshing to see a band that just wants to be heard.

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Arts

New R.E.M. album disappoints

By Carl Burnett | October 12, 2004

For band's fans, 'Around the Sun' provides none of the successes of yore

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At College, Bad Plus offers more pluses than minuses

By Scott Muir | October 11, 2004

The Bad Plus brings an eclectic and contemporary blend of jazz and rhythm to the Hopkins Center

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Asking around campus: Arts on the streets and in the dorms

By Frances Cha | October 7, 2004

Two of Dartmouth's ultimate Frisbee players like spinning discs just as much as throwing them

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Arts

Friday Night Rock takes music to a new level, literally, by expanding into Common Ground

By Caroline McKenzie | October 7, 2004

When Enon played the Friday Night Rock scene last weekend, FNR managers said the performance was, musically, their biggest show yet.

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Arts

'Wimbledon' serves and faults

By Alex Friedman | October 6, 2004

First Preview: 6:40 p.m. First Watch Glance: 7:25 p.m. Director Richard Loncraine attempts to win a Grand Slam with his aptly titled film, "Wimbledon." Unfortunately, what he serves up is more of a double fault.

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Arts

'Palookaville' finds Cook closer to the gutter than the stars

By Nick Desai | October 5, 2004

I'm going to go out on a limb here and advance the oft-debated contention that if there were devised a grand artistic sequence of musical deeds that needed to be accomplished, remaking Steve Miller's surreal anthem "The Joker" as a hip, psuedo-dance song would not have been scheduled in the year 2004.

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Arts

Tune in, turn on, drop out, but maintain your GPA

By John Kim | October 4, 2004

Fall's television lineup comes up with hits and misses, but nothing much to keep you from studying

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Arts

Yes, 'the actual Enon' to headline Friday Night Rock

By Caroline McKenzie | September 30, 2004

A little 'Hocus-Pocus' and some other magic gets New York band into Fuel this Friday evening

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'Death' brings literary experience to Moore

By Christopher McMullen-Laird | September 30, 2004

They made something out of nothing. What exactly it was they made out of "Death and the Ploughman," was, at best, unclear.

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What's so funny 'bout peace, love and zombies?

By Nick Desai | September 29, 2004

British film 'Shaun of the Dead' defies the horror genre by adding humor and intelligence

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Arts

Interpol returns with second album

By Carl Burnett | September 28, 2004

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard recently suggested that Interpol should have spent less time touring last year and more time writing the songs on "Antics," the group's second album. That's hardly a surprising comment from Gibbard, who is known for lyrics that are witty, even precious.

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Arts

Wot you know about London (or New York) scene?

By Caroline McKenzie | September 27, 2004

Dizzee Rascal and Northern State emerge from the underground with two sophomore albums

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The Roots shine on new album, 'The Tipping Point'

By Sam Lederer | September 23, 2004

The Roots are by far the most diverse and innovative group to join the ranks of hip-hop's greats since A Tribe Called Quest.

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Arts

Hilton has a mind as simple as her life

By Jaime Padgett | September 23, 2004

The steamy details of that sex tape, behind-the-scenes dirt on walking the famous runways of Milan, what it's like to party with rock gods and movie stars, and, of course, what it feels like to be filthy rich: that's what the reader expects to get when they delve into Paris Hilton's new book, "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose." The book was recently released by Simon and Schuster and was hardly greeted with a line around the block.

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