Arts

Mastering the art of cooking in college: a step-by-step guide

By Han Vale | September 22, 2017

Experienced cooks know that a good plan is essential to culinary success. The ability to think ahead, work quickly and neatly and manage time efficiently makes both cooking and the completed dish excellent.

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Arts

Telluride at Dartmouth features six films before release dates

By Betty Kim | September 21, 2017

Each year, Telluride at Dartmouth brings hand-selected films from the famous Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival to Hanover.

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Film Review

Visual interest doesn't save boring characters in 'Downsizing'

By Haley Gordon | September 19, 2017

Going into “Downsizing,” all I knew was the major overarching concept. People were shrinking in order to get more bang for their buck, in a strangely practical use of science fiction technology.

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Film Review

Guillermo Del Toro's 'The Shape of Water' touches greatness

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | September 19, 2017

“The Shape of Water” is perhaps best understood as a cap to a thematic trilogy that began with “The Devil’s Backbone” and continued with “Pan’s Labyrinth.” All three films fuse fairy tale narratives and period piece war stories together, highlighting the connections they share to illustrate what does and does not work about each.

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Arts

'Antigone in Ferguson': a classical reading starts conversation

By Emma Guo | September 15, 2017

What does a play written 2,500 years ago and a suburb of St. Louis have in common? The upcoming Theater of War production of “Antigone in Ferguson” at the Hopkins Center for the Arts draws parallels between the events of the ancient Greek play by Sophocles and those in Ferguson, Missouri surrounding the death of Michael Brown in 2014.

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Arts

H and Lodj Croos pull off performances under time crunch

By Kylee Sibilia | September 14, 2017

It’s awkward. People are arguing. You’re looking around, unsure of whether or not this is supposed to be happening. And then they all burst into song.

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Tv Review

For better or worse, “Twin Peaks: The Return” is pure Lynch

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | September 12, 2017

When the original “Twin Peaks” aired over 25 years ago, it was a TV show about a mystery. With its revival this year in the form of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” the show itself has become a mystery.

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Film Review

Childhood nostalgia makes “It” a satisfying end-of-summer flick

By Haley Gordon | September 12, 2017

A jam-packed movie theater at an evening showing of a horror movie on its opening weekend is not an atypical sight in a suburban Pennsylvania town.

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Arts

New York Theater Workshop collaborates with students

By olivia harvey | August 18, 2017

Over the course of this summer, the New York Theater Workshop has presented a diverse array of new and exciting work-in-progress plays to the Dartmouth community.

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Arts

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute features local artists

By Rebecca Flowers | August 18, 2017

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth held a reception celebrating their newest art exhibit, “The Outsiders,” on July 6.

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Arts

Q&A with calligraphy professor Wen Xing

By Anna Staropoli | August 3, 2017

Professor Wen Xing is the director of the Dartmouth Institute for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture in China.

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Arts

“We Are Policed” calls attention to police brutality

By Elise Higgins | August 3, 2017

 To draw attention to the numerous people of color that are killed by police officers every year, Samantha Modder ’17 created an exhibit currently on display in the rotunda of the Hopkins Center for the Arts called “We Are Policed.”

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Arts

Frost and Dodd festival to showcase original student plays this weekend

By olivia harvey | July 27, 2017

This weekend, the Frost and Dodd Student Play Festival will showcase the hard work and creative prowess of three Dartmouth undergraduates who have each produced an original one-act play.

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Film Review

Film Review: ‘The Big Sick’ is a robust rom-com, but not much else

By Joyce Lee | July 20, 2017

As a film, “The Big Sick” is an unconventional addition to a long tradition of romantic comedies with memorable protagonists that include the likes of “When Harry Met Sally,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Notting Hill.” Kumail Nanjiani stars as Kumail, a character based on his early life as a standup comic who falls in love with psychology graduate student and quintessential girl next door, Emily, a somewhat underutilized Zoe Kazan, who is based on Nanjiani’s wife in real life, Emily Gordon.

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Film Review

Film Review: ‘The Vietnam War’ recognizes distinct perspectives

By Ali Hunter and Walker Schneider | July 20, 2017

The Vietnam War doesn’t fit neatly into American folklore.

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Arts

Barbary Coast appoints Taylor Ho Bynum as new director

By Elise Higgins | July 13, 2017

After 40 years of leadership, Donald Glasgo announced his retirement as director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble this spring.

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Arts

"Buoyancy" exhibition, alumni art comes to Hop galleries

By Amanda Zhou | July 6, 2017

The Strauss and Jaffe-Friede Galleries in the Hopkins Center for the Arts are featuring artists at all points of their career, ranging from recently graduated alumni to well established professional artists.

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Arts

Collaborative theater at Voxfest

By Joyce Lee | July 6, 2017

At a 2010 Christmas party in New York, three Dartmouth alumni considered the dilemma of finding both the resources and space in the city to rehearse their new projects and ideas.

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Arts

First performance of “Doggie Hamlet” held on the Green

By Elise Higgins | June 29, 2017

Draped in raincoats and ponchos and toting umbrellas of all colors, people gathered yesterday on the Green to see the first public production of “Doggie Hamlet,” a spectacle combining dance, theater and shepherding.

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Arts

Zenovia Toloudi's "Silo(e)scapes" is art and architecture

By Nalini Ramanathan | June 23, 2017

At Diplareios School in Athens, Greece is studio art professor Zenovia Toloudi’s project “Silo(e)scapes,” which is part of the exhibition “Tomorrows: Urban Fictions for Possible Futures,” and is meant to serve as both an art installation and an architectural model.

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