Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Rik Reppe has that sort of biting comedic insight that can take an everyday situation and tear it apart into little anecdotal chunks that define, condemn and compliment human nature all at once -- and in a delightfully vulgar manner. Reppe worked for a time in the World Trade Center during early 2001, and after the Sept.
Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth In the battle to maintain student involvement in the arts on campus, these guys are the special forces.
Courtesy of willdoo.com Jazz should be heard and not seen.
Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes The Big Green hit Hanover this weekend.
/ Courtesy of New York Public Library "We're all little Caesars expecting tribute, expecting exhibitions that come to us 50 [masterpieces] at a time," Michael Kimmelman said during his lecture entitled "From Wonder Cabinet to Department Store: Thoughts on the American Museum" at the Loew Auditorium last Friday evening. The head art critic of the New York Times and former Dartmouth professor delivered an energetic commentary on the origin and destiny of the museum in American society. Full of high-strung denunciations of museums around the world in typical art critic fashion, Kimmelman's comedic barrage of criticisms ultimately revealed something deeper about the philosophy of art in American society. He kicked off the lecture with a virtual tour (via PowerPoint) of the Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Courtesy of Downet The real-time strategy genre sprang to life when Westwood Studios released "Command and Conquer" for the PC in 1995, establishing a simple, successful formula that countless game developers have since tried to match and improve upon.
In the touchy world of today's international politics, even 2500-year old issues can become ammunition for cultural outrage. "Hollywood declares war on Iranians," read a headline in Iran's Ayende-no newspaper soon after the release of "300," a stylized action flick based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller which depicts the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
The spirituality-versus-religion debate is controversial territory for any filmmaker, but Adam Belanich '08 confronted it head-on with his animated short "Deus Ex Plume" at this year's SunDeis Film Festival.
The Second World War rages. Enemy bombers pummel a group of soldiers the audience has come to understand and love.
When most people want to spark discussion about cultural diversity, they do it with speeches or essays.