“Eating Animals” is an important film. Based on the 2009 book of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, the documentary explores the subject of the American agricultural industry, a topic that’s often neglected in public discussions, and focuses on the highly troubling issue of the factory farming ...
October 17, 2018 9:46pm
Simultaneously making readers want to revel in the narrative as long as possible while also powering on to the end of the tangled story, “Providence,” by Caroline Kepnes is a novel about love and obsession, full of gripping emotional detail and a compelling New England narrative backdrop. The thriller begins in small-town New Hampshire, the day of Jon Bronson’s kidnapping.
October 17, 2018 9:44pm
Costumes for theater characters reflect their personas and emphasize their individuality. Armando Ortiz Jr.
October 16, 2018 2:13pm
One of my fondest memories of my senior year of high school is when my English class read, performed and studied William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “King Lear.” At that time, the play captivated me with its stark and honest portrayal of human fallibility and tragic loss and it quickly became one of my favorite works of literature.
October 15, 2018 9:41pm
“The Front Runner” directed by Jason Reitman of “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Tully,” stars Hugh Jackman as U.S.
October 15, 2018 9:40pm
Is it possible to capture the essence of a city in a film? Director Tamer El Said’s film “In the Last Days of the City” attempts to do just that.
January 22, 2019 10:37am
Jazz and comedy are two very different art forms, yet they share many similarities. Both are free form and improvisational.
October 10, 2018 10:59pm
This Thursday night at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, audiences can see a different and intimate performance of one of the most formal art forms possible: opera.
October 8, 2018 11:17pm
When I was eight years old, I begged my mom for weeks to let me see “Iron Man.” I remember the excitement I felt when she finally relented and said yes.
October 8, 2018 11:17pm
There’s crazy, there’s satire, there’s dystopian, and then there’s “Sorry to Bother You.” Musician Boots Riley’s 2018 directorial debut takes place in an alternative-world Oakland — but don’t let the term “alternative-world” fool you.
October 10, 2018 11:01pm
Across from the Hinman boxes in the Hopkins Center for the Arts stand a pair of twin phone booths, which have remained out of service and neglected for years.
October 10, 2018 7:35pm
“I have a hangover that is a real museum piece,” Lee Israel writes, imitating writer Dorothy Parker in a particularly famous forgery of Parker’s letters.
October 3, 2018 5:19pm
Is it indie pop? Techno? R&B? Hip-hop? Blood Orange’s new album “Negro Swan” revives Devonte Hynes’s genre-transcending sound with an earnest meditation on the state of those existing on the fringes of society.
October 10, 2018 10:59pm
Nan Darham is a graduate student in Dartmouth’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program whose artwork was most recently exhibited in the Nearburg Gallery of the Black Family Visual Arts Center.
October 1, 2018 10:07pm
Spike Lee’s latest film, “BlacKkKlansman” is very much a movie created for and about the current American political and racial environment.
October 1, 2018 10:06pm
Directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, and featuring pop supernova Lady Gaga, 2018’s “A Star is Born,” a remake of William Wellman’s 1937 film of the same name, breathes new life into the music drama genre.
October 10, 2018 11:00pm
The lights go down on an audience sitting in silent anticipation, and white sparks rain down the black screen.
September 27, 2018 10:56pm
“Late at night, my mind would come alive with voices and stories and friends as dear to me as any in the real world.
October 10, 2018 11:00pm
It’s an exciting time for film at Dartmouth: Ulrike Ottinger, the avant-garde German filmmaker, will be this fall’s Montgomery Fellow.
October 10, 2018 11:01pm
In March of 1998, Dartmouth witnessed a historic summit on black theater, intended to address specific strategies to build and maintain black theater companies and institutions.
