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Frost fest showcases range of original plays and ideas

By AnnMary Mathew | June 1, 2004

Loving two people at once, black men loving black men and infanticide were the major themes in the plays presented in this year's 77th annual Eleanor Frost Playwriting Festival. The first play, "Complex Mathematics in the Backyard," was ambitious but often came off soap-operatic.

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Kieslowski's 'Killing' released in U.S. after 17 years

By Caroline McKenzie | May 27, 2004

Perhaps the most ridiculous financial extravagance of my young adult life was spending $80 on a Facets Video three-DVD set of 10 hours of Polish film that I had never even seen before.

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Second Streets album doesn't live up to the 'Original'

By Carl Burnett | May 25, 2004

The first time most Americans listen to the Streets, they have one of two reactions: laughter or embarrassment.

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'Door In The Floor' gives emotional look at love and loss

By AnnMary Mathew | May 24, 2004

Special Film Society screening gives students chance to preview one of the summer's upcoming dramas

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Leffler '04 gives campus a new look at the Holocaust

By John Kim | May 20, 2004

Television legend Carol Burnett once observed that "comedy is tragedy plus time." This weekend, Rebecca Leffler '04 will host a film festival based on her thesis that explores this theme of finding humor in pain.

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'Apple Tree' tackles American culture and thought

By Christine Huggins | May 19, 2004

In 1966, "The Apple Tree" opened at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Conn. This musical consists of three one-act musicals.

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'Troy' sails in on high expectations, but lacks epic quality

By Caroline Maxwell | May 17, 2004

Movie, a Wolfgang Petersen production, will most likely be forgotten once out of the theaters

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'Lenin' makes unique statement on post-Soviet politics

By Mignon Lamia | May 13, 2004

With a personal touch and a statement about life far beyond Socialist Germany, "Good Bye, Lenin," playing at the Nugget this week and slated to show at the Hopkins Center later this month, is one of few films documenting one of the most important political and geographic shifts in the past 25 years: the fall of the Berlin Wall. In East Germany in October 1989, the protests that would eventually lead to the toppling of the wall and the end of socialist party power have begun.

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DFS brings film culture to Dartmouth's silver screens

By Christine Huggins | May 12, 2004

The Dartmouth peeks behind the scenes at the inner workings of the Dartmouth Film Society

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The nonexistent interview: Naked woman in Novack

By R. Lance Martin | May 11, 2004

After I was awoken by chirping birds at an early hour, I knew that today was going to be different.

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Prince returns in royal form with new album, 'Musicology'

By Mark Sweeney | May 10, 2004

After a five-year hiatus, Prince's newest release shows less experimentation and more success

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Byrne's performance in Paris is a 'once in a lifetime' experience

By Lindsay Barnes | May 10, 2004

PARIS May 5 -- In 1977, the soon-to-be-legendary quartet Talking Heads appeared at Le Bataclan opening for The Ramones on their first European tour.

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'Phantom' star to visit Dartmouth

By From Staff Reports | May 6, 2004

This Saturday, May 8, Broadway star of "Phantom of the Opera," Ted Keegan will join conductor Max C.

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Fall in 'Love' again on DVD

By Caroline McKenzie | May 5, 2004

"We'll just chat our way through and slurp tea." So begins Richard Curtis's commentary on his direction of "Love, Actually," recently released on DVD.

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Violent 'Man On Fire' shoots, but misses its target

By AnnMary Mathew | May 4, 2004

Denzel Washington plays a ruthless, revenge-bent bodyguard in "Man on Fire," -- a movie that, in terms of plot, script, direction and length, is every bit as histrionic as its title. Washington stars as John Creasy (a name jarring enough to the ears), a washed up, depressed, alcoholic, ex-government assassin.

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Shoghaken Ensemble brings a little Armenia to Spaulding

By Mignon Lamia | May 3, 2004

Exotic instruments and traditional dance make Armenian folk ensemble's performance memorable

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'Thieves' to steal the show at Fuel on Friday night

By Jaime Padgett | April 29, 2004

Dartmouth, you're going to go insane -- not because of midterms or papers, though. This Friday night, Rightly Guided Thieves' sexy sounds are going to seduce you and drive you over the edge. Rightly Guided Thieves is the only all-freshman band on campus.

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Theater majors seek advice from stage star Ty Jones

By Jonathan Smolian and Amanda Posner | April 28, 2004

Last weekend, Dartmouth's senior theater majors traveled to New York City to view Broadway and Off-Broadway performances.

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First comes love, then comes carnage: Tarantino's Bride returns

By Caroline McKenzie | April 26, 2004

The final installment of 'Kill Bill' is more fun than a five-tipped-palm-exploding-heart technique

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Maroon 5 hosts sold-out musical performance in Leede

By Linzi Sheldon | April 26, 2004

Maroon 5 began in 1995 as a four-piece ensemble known as Kara's Flowers. They released an album on Reprise Records in 1997, but remained relatively unknown.