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April 1, 2026
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“Steve Jobs” (2015) dazzles audiences in true Sorkin style

By Andrew Kingsley | October 11, 2015

Since Steve Jobs’ death in 2011, we have entered a post-Jobsian landscape, where films such as “Jobs” (2013) and “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” (2015) are presented like fleurs du mal upon his gravestone, simultaneously tarnishing and mythologizing Jobs’ status in technology. Each director aims his cinematic arrow at Jobs’ Achilles’ heel, his supposed inhuman side, to portray the brute behind the black turtlenecks.

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Casual Thursday will perform at Bentley Theater tonight

By Katherine Schreiber | October 7, 2015

The improv comedy group Casual Thursday will have the chance to take their act to a bigger stage this week. The group, which generally performs in Greek houses and other social venues on campus, will be performing in Bentley Theater on Thursday as part of the theater department’s “Your Space” program that aims to bring non-majors into the Hopkins Center.

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Strauss Gallery exhibition features visiting faculty

By Haley Gordon | October 5, 2015

The first of two visiting faculty exhibitions — which together will feature works by the 14 visiting professors that have taught at the College since the opening of the Black Family Visual Arts Center — opened in the Strauss Gallery on Sept. 22nd, director of exhibitions and studio art professor Gerald Auten said. It features the work of professors Sarah Amos, Paul Bowen, Ariel Freiberg, Hein Koh, Julie Puttgen, Edward del Rosario and Jessica Tam.

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“The Martian” finds Ridley Scott new life on Mars

By Andrew Kingsley | October 4, 2015

With “Gravity” (2013) and “Interstellar” (2014) firmly dominating the epic extraterrestrial disaster genre, it is a suicide mission to enter their orbit for fear of entering that black hole of comparison. Director Ridley Scott takes on this challenge with his “The Martian” (2015), based on Andy Weir’s eponymous 2011 novel and crafts a light-hearted thrill-ride with enough pace and levity to escape the genre’s event horizon.

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One-woman show explores Muslim-American identity

By Amelia Rosch | October 4, 2015

Contemporary comedians have increasingly explored political and social issues. From comedian Amy Schumer’s critiques of popular culture) to “The Daily Show” (1996) correspondent Aasif Mandvi’s social commentray a range of topics from religion to relationships have been worked through in comedy. Iranian-American comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh explores how politics intersects with comedy in her one-woman show “All Atheists are Muslim,” which she performed on Friday at the Hopkins Center.

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Gabriel Barrios ’15 explores nostalgia, being alone in new piece

By Joyce Lee | September 30, 2015

On a rainy night, the middle of the Green is devoid of noise or activity save for some stragglers headed to their residence halls and the sound of rain on gravel. And then — a light flicks on in the distance. The previously empty rotunda at Hopkins Center glows under a warm lamp. In the space where during the day there was only a blank wall, is a painting.

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Student Spotlight: Avery Feingold '17

By Maya Poddar | September 29, 2015

Some people hate reading Shakespeare in high school. Some people love it. Some people love his works so much that they want to bring his words to life on stage. Avery Feingold ’17, president of the Rude Mechanicals, falls into the latter category.

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Arts groups integrate new members after fall auditions

By Amelia Rosch | September 28, 2015

As the fall term continues along, so does the process of student groups welcoming in new members. While all groups have their own rituals and traditions for how they bring new members into the fold, theater and improv groups use a mix of classic methods like wakeups and crazier tactics — think a trip to Everything But Anchovies and bowling.

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"Black Mass" bores without Bulger

By Andrew Kingsley | September 27, 2015

With the 2013 arrest and incarceration of Federal Bureau of Investigation fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious crime boss of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, his canonization as a mass criminal and escapee had begun.

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Student Spotlight: Adenrele Adewusi ’15

By Haley Gordon | September 22, 2015

When Adenrele Adewusi ’15 stepped onto campus her freshman fall, she felt that she only saw three academic options for students — “pre-med, pre-law and pre-Wall Street.” Adewusi went with the third option, and she planned to leave the College with a degree in mathematics.

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Theater department offers range of student involvement chances

By Haley Gordon | September 21, 2015

For students who have wondered about how to get involved with theater at the College but have no idea where to begin or have had no previous experience, the College’s theater department has a series of events and programs meant to help them. The two most prominent options are the termly showcase and the “Your Space” productions.

Freshmen stretch during auditions for SHEBA, Sugarplum, Ujima and Fusion this Sunday.
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Performance groups hold auditions over the weekend

By Amelia Rosch and Maya Poddar | September 20, 2015

They begin early, before noon and go late into the night. Sometimes, decisions are not made until the sun rises on Monday. Over the weekend, students had the opportunity to audition for performance groups. While dance groups held group auditions, a cappella groups held both individual and group auditions.

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“Grandma” explores female experience

By Andrew Kingsley | September 20, 2015

“Grandma” (2015) opens on Ellie (Lily Tomlin), a former poet, college professor and widow, bitterly breaking up with Olivia (Judy Greer), her much younger girlfriend of four months. Ellie has been largely forgotten by life beyond a few anthologized poems.

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Telluride at Dartmouth returns for a 30th year

By Haley Gordon | September 16, 2015

In 1972, Bill Pence and his wife Stella Pence transformed an old opera house into a functional theater and screened two movies there. The opera-house-turned-theater was in Telluride, Colorado, and the Telluride Film Festival was born.

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“Mistress America” (2015) is too zany for its own good

By Andrew Kingsley | September 15, 2015

Director Noah Baumbach’s latest feature “Mistress America” (2015) is a screwball comedy about the humor and perils of saying “yes.” Without a voice of reason and the sense that everyone should go with the flow, the viewer gets terrific farce, at the cost of vulnerability and pain.

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Students seize artistic opportunities

By Maya Poddar | September 8, 2015

While the arts at Dartmouth can take many forms, one of the most accessible is student performing groups. From a Shakespeare troupe to multiple a cappella, improv comedy and dance groups, there is almost always an opportunity to watch a performance. All the groups may have different focuses, but they are all the same in one respect — all have dedicated seniors who have put years of hard work and love into them.

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