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The man behind the jazz music

By Ken Luallen | February 6, 2001

We've all heard stories of Oliver Stone hanging out at Alpha Delta fraternity or Spike Lee chilling at TriKap, but many people are not aware that most visitors have a wide range of interactions with the Dartmouth community.

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Harper plays from the heart in Leede Arena concert

By David Klein | February 5, 2001

Alternating between electric intensity and gentle acoustic splendor, singer and songwriter Ben Harper transmitted a sense of passion and power during his performance last night at Leede Arena. Harper, along with his band, The Innocent Criminals, delighted the capacity crowd with an eclectic blend of reggae, country and hard-nosed rock.

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Harper anticipates concert

By Ithan Peltan | January 29, 2001

Ben Harper's musical style defies classification, baffling critics and music journalists alike. And that's just the way he likes it. "I hate to be locked into one sound," Harper said.

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'Snatch' falls well short of expectations

By Kathryn Beane | January 29, 2001

Perhaps being British is prerequisite to thoroughly enjoying Guy Ritchie's sophomore directorial release "Snatch." Ritchie's newest film follows in the wake of the rather unexpected global success of 1999's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." Ritchie assembles a solid cast of actors of both British and American fame.

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Ma discusses interest in Eastern music

By Alison Schmauch | January 24, 2001

Yo-Yo Ma spoke informally yesterday afternoon in Spaulding Auditorium about his career, focusing on his most recent experiments in Eastern music with the Silk Road Ensemble. Ma said he first became interested in such music when he attended a fiddle performance by violinist Mark O'Connor.

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Yo-Yo Ma dazzles in Hop show

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 23, 2001

Fingers quivering, elbows swinging and head rocking, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble made a memorable first appearance at Dartmouth in front of a standing-room only audience last night in Spaulding auditorium. The Silk Road Ensemble features a collection of musicians, who, through their Eastern and Western instruments, highlight the contemporary culture of the legendary trading route and make Eastern and Western cross-cultural musical connections. The evening began with a Mongolian song about the Herlen River.

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Udu fuses theater and activism

By Mosopefoluwa Ogunyemi | January 18, 2001

Because the institution of slavery has been eradicated for over a century in the United States and is rehashed only in history lessons, it can be easy to forget that the practice is continued in other parts of the world.

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Orchestra to amplify three silent movies

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 10, 2001

This weekend three silent comedies will be screened in Spaulding Auditorium, but the theater will be anything but silent. Instead, Alloy Orchestra will provide a live accompaniment to the classic American movies and fill the theater with sounds so convincing and synchronized one would think they were coming from movies themselves. Widely considered the premier silent movie band, Alloy is able to manufacture and convey the right mood through its eclectic assortment of instruments that include both conventional, state-of-the-art and highly original items known as the "rack of junk" that are more closely related to junkyard scrap metal than anything sold in a music store. Alloy's ingenuity derives from its ability to convincingly manufacture any sound to match the events in a silent movie, whether it be Martian radio signals or a German bar band from the 1920s, much to the audience's auditory delight. Alloy has existed for 10 years and each year they create a new score, which is performed at the Telluride Film Festival in southwestern Colorado.

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'Traffic' offers chilling perspective on drugs, addiction

By Hank Leukart | January 8, 2001

In Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic," the U.S. drug czar's daughter has a boyfriend who suggests to her, "I want to have sex and do a [cocaine] hit right as we're both coming." In the bleak world of Soderbergh's film, these are the kind of romantic pickup lines prep school kids use when they can obtain crack cocaine more easily than alcohol. Adapted from a 10-year-old, five-part "Masterpiece Theater" series named "Traffik," the film explores the illegal drug trafficking industry in the United States and Mexico.

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Gibson charms in new comedy

By Justin Bow | January 4, 2001

What happens when you take a confirmed male chauvinist and magically grant him the ability to hear everything that happens inside the minds of women?

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