West African musician and music department resident Mamadou Diabate tells the students in his Music 17.06 course “The Language-Music Connection” the origin story of the balafon, which is a wooden West African instrument similar to a xylophone.
October 31, 2018 6:12pm
It’s the day after Halloween, which obviously means we’re ready to plunge headfirst into the holiday season.
October 31, 2018 5:43pm
The Ethics Institute of Dartmouth hosted author Ted Chiang for a talk entitled “Technology and the Narrative of the Self” on Tuesday as part of the Dorsett Fellowship Lecture Series, which seeks to bring “practitioners and scholars of ethics” to campus, according to government professor Sonu Bedi, director of the Ethics Institute. “We have brought philosophers, lawyers and politicians here as part of the Dorsett Fellowship in years past,” Bedi said.
October 30, 2018 12:34am
Director Damien Chazelle is quickly making a name for himself as the rightful heir to the throne of dramatic cinema.
October 29, 2018 8:17pm
Michael Myers and Laurie Strode deserve more in the new “Halloween.” When one thinks of the quintessential film serial killers, several names come to mind: Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, Leatherface, etc.
October 29, 2018 8:26pm
An hour before Dartmouth Sings commenced in Spaulding Auditorium this past Saturday, the eclectic group of students and community members that comprise the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir were passing around brightly colored scarves and laughing.
October 29, 2018 8:25pm
In anticipation of the College’s 250th anniversary, a group of Dartmouth faculty and students has teamed up to create “Hindsight is 20/19,” a 26-episode podcast series celebrating Dartmouth’s history. “It’s kind of coming out of the 250th, but also just out of a desire we’ve had for a long time to more widely share the cool stories that come out of Dartmouth,” head of Special Collections at Rauner Library Jay Satterfield said.
October 24, 2018 7:24pm
I love my Saturday afternoon naps. I really do. Six of the seven Saturdays that I’ve been on campus, I’ve spent buried under a pile of blankets in a coma-like state that I don’t emerge from for at least three hours.
October 22, 2018 9:39pm
Over the past two years, no band has had a more meteoric rise in the world of rock and roll than the Michigan quartet Greta Van Fleet.
October 22, 2018 9:39pm
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” – Colette In the present moment of the Time’s Up movement, Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the Trump presidency at-large, the age-old narrative of man silencing woman is especially resonant.
October 24, 2018 10:42am
“You can’t heal someone who has gone through hell,” says Georgianna, a Wabanaki woman who is also the face of the documentary “Dawnland,” presented in the Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center this past Friday.
October 18, 2018 9:26pm
Airing in July this past summer, HBO’s “Sharp Objects,” an adaption of “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn’s book of the same name, sets out to remind its audience of what is unique to the identity of the Midwestern United States and what is possible within the supposedly limited format of the miniseries.
October 18, 2018 9:26pm
“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 of poultry and livestock.
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.
The Dartmouth: Through the Ages presents a curated collection of the newspaper's archives from 1900 to the present.
