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Kid pens keen, funny dating guide

By Lauren Dowling | January 6, 2009

Courtesy of HarperCollins.com Dartmouth boys, take note -- a new dating guru is on the scene to help you win over girls of all ages with his new guide, "How to Talk to Girls." Clearly, starting young is part of the strategy because author Alec Greven is only nine years old. The book, which began as a project for Greven's third grade class, offers simple, specific advice to help boys of all ages "win victory" with girls.

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'PRFORM' plays musical matchmaker

By Lauren Dowling | May 15, 2008

The halls of East Wheelock were uncharacteristically noisy last Friday afternoon. With instrument cases, extension cords and empty pizza boxes strewn about, Brace Commons came alive with PRFORM's Musicians Meet Jam Session. PRFORM was conceived by Alex Lloyd '10, a member of the campus band, Occam's Razor, as an "on-campus performing artists' union." Frustrated by the various difficulties facing Dartmouth bands, Lloyd and bandmate Max Bogren '10 formed PRFORM last winter as a means of uniting musicians, facilitating band formation and solving common problems with the campus music scene.

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'PRFORM' plays musical matchmaker

By Lauren Dowling | May 15, 2008

The halls of East Wheelock were uncharacteristically noisy last Friday afternoon. With instrument cases, extension cords and empty pizza boxes strewn about, Brace Commons came alive with PRFORM's Musicians Meet Jam Session. PRFORM was conceived by Alex Lloyd '10, a member of the campus band, Occam's Razor, as an "on-campus performing artists' union." Frustrated by the various difficulties facing Dartmouth bands, Lloyd and bandmate Max Bogren '10 formed PRFORM last winter as a means of uniting musicians, facilitating band formation and solving common problems with the campus music scene.

Kristen Vallacher '08 and Carmen Kilpatrick '09 rock as The Razorbloodz.
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Student bands crop up across campus

By Lauren Dowling | May 5, 2008

Joanne Cheung / The Dartmouth Staff From the Collis Campus Bands Showcase to the Festival of New Music, from the Battle of the Bands to Lone Pine Tavern, Spring term has brought about not only a return from general hibernation but also an explosion of activity in the campus music scene -- and everyone from unsuspecting frat-goers to New York Magazine is taking note. Despite widespread complaints about the difficulties of forming a band, most notably the lack of spaces to practice and perform, the restrictions imposed by the D-plan, and the overall hectic nature of student life, six new bands have been making it work in a major way all over Hanover. Kristin Vallacher '08 and Carmen Kilpatrick '09 combine powers as DJ Tanner and DJ Playschool to create the madcap lyrics and catchy beats of Razorbloodz.

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Winehouse dominates

By Lauren Dowling | February 18, 2008

Amy Winehouse has the entire world dangling in front of her. If she weren't seeing double, trying to avoid jail, publicly fighting and smoking crack for YouTube audiences everywhere, she just might be able to reach out and grab it. Incidentally, the troubled singer, who made her name in America for saying "no" to rehab on the first single of "Back to Black" (2006), entered a treatment facility just two weeks before her astonishing five Grammy wins.

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Alston screens 'Family Name," explores southern family identity

By Lauren Dowling | February 5, 2008

Homosexuality, racism, religion, murder -- it seems as if Macky Alston has never found a touchy subject he didn't like. After attending the screening and discussion of his award-winning documentary "Family Name" (1997) at the Tucker Foundation, however, it becomes clear that Alston's subject matter is chosen precisely for the discomfort it evokes. In "Family Name," Alston returns home to the deep south from New York City to examine a quandary that has haunted him since his youth -- the relationship between black and white Alstons in the area. "Is something a secret if everyone knows it but nobody talks about it?" Alton asks in the film. Clearly racism was a source of unease in his hometown of Durham, N.C., and Alston was completely aware of the stigma associated with this topic. "I think the fascinating thing is that those things that we have never talked about, those things that we are taught not to talk about, breed a lot of fear," Alston wrote on the documentary's website. Winner of the 1997 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award, "Family Name" is certainly more a dark horse than a flashy fan favorite.

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