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April 8, 2026
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'Phone Booth' answers the call

By Hanna Putnam | April 8, 2003

In Joel Schumacher's latest film, cell phones in Manhattan are like BlitzMail accounts at Dartmouth -- a requirement, a habit and a means of communication that hides our voices behind a faceless wall of technology. The film takes place entirely in midtown Manhattan, land of the cell phone-gripping consumer, the raucous prostitute, the wide-eyed tourist and the last standing phone booth in all of New York City. Doomed to be torn down in T minus 24 hours, the Bell Atlantic booth must first deliver to the chosen citizen a call from hell -- or at least a call from a voice that needs to stay in nightmares and out of reality: "If you hang up, I will kill you." And we're off on a tense, rapid, and tightly fastened ride through the trials, tests, wits, confessions and redemption of one man.

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Kronos continues to push the classical music envelope

By Carl Burnett | April 7, 2003

David Harrington may be a 53-year-old classical violinist, but before he leads the Kronos Quartet onstage he's likely to admonish the group in the following way: "Let's kick ass." "We always kick ass," nodded cellist Jennifer Culp, seated in the lobby of the Hanover Inn last week.

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Ku Na'uka tells a complex tale

By Holly Shaffer | April 4, 2003

"To meet others is to be astonished at the differences and then to try to search for the similarity," Japanese theatre director Satoshi Miyagi claims, "and then at the end to be astonished at the similarity." Miyagi leads Ku Na'uka, the Japanese contemporary theater company that staged a production of the innovative Kyoka Izumi's play "Tensho Monogatari" ("The Castle Tower") in Moore Theater last night and Wednesday. The company's productions are based on bunraku, a type of Japanese traditional puppet theater where the lines are delivered by a narrator and the actions by a puppet, separating movement from language.

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'View from the Top' doesn't ever get off the ground

By Lindsay Barnes | March 31, 2003

Billed as a light comedy, "View from the Top" is the latest in a genre I like to call "diet comedy." Like light cream cheese or low-fat chips, diet comedy bears somewhat of a resemblance to actual comedy, but it's watered-down and not nearly as enjoyable.

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White Stripes are raw and quirky as ever on 'Elephant'

By Carl Burnett | March 26, 2003

On The White Stripes' last album, 2001's "White Blood Cells," Jack White sang a brief ditty called "Little Room." In 50 seconds and 46 words, it managed to capture the band's ethos pretty well: "When you're in your little room/And you're working on something good/But if it's really good/You're gonna need a bigger room/And when you're in the bigger room/You might not know what to do/You might have to think of how you got started, sitting in your little room." The White Stripes' room is no longer little.

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Lewis Black is here -- and man, is he angry

By Lindsay Barnes | March 6, 2003

You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout, I'm telling you why: Lewis Black is coming to town, and if he catches you doing any of the above he's going to make you pay. The comedian of Comedy Central fame will be prowling the Spaulding Auditorium stage tonight, armed to take on pompous, self-righteous, whiny, petty and just plain stupid people in the public eye, just as he's done for decades as a stand-up comedian.

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The Datsuns: proving that rawer isn't always better

By Jessica Spradling | March 6, 2003

Rock is going back to its roots again. Now it is garage that is being hailed as the next "new" flavor of rock that is going to "save" rock from the previous next-big-thing that ruined it. This new breed of garage clawing its way into the air waves is not the kind of music your dad played in junior high after hearing the Kinks on AM radio.

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MTV takes a look at Greek life in two new series

By Jenna Krumminga | February 27, 2003

Beer pong, pledge mothers, and parties. Welcome to the latest breed of MTV's reality television: Greek Life. Last year MTV added to their long list of reality shows by introducing "Sorority Life," which followed the spring pledge class of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi at UC Davis.

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