Nov 24 | 12:00 am
“The Blind Side” (2009) tells the story of a hopeless and homeless black teenager fighting desperately to overcome obstacles correlated with race, poverty and his mother’s drug addiction — and it starts with a Sandra Bullock voice-over about football. More»
Nov 24 | 12:00 am
Susan Boyle, Scotland’s frumpiest 48-year-old, became this year’s biggest Internet sensation after she stepped onto the stage of “Britain’s Got Talent.” In her faded ankle-length frock and graying Orphan Annie fro, Boyle left even the sharp-tongued Simon Cowell speechless with her angelic rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables.” More»
Nov 23 | 12:00 am
Alexis Monroe ’13 and Bill Calder ’12 brilliantly acted out their characters’ dueling approaches to fate and political philosophy in the Shakespeare Alley Showcase’s performance of Jean Anouilh’s 1943 adaptation of “Antigone” this weekend,
Nov 23 | 12:00 am
Hopkins Center pianist-in-residence and music professor Sally Pinkas will be joined by mezzo soprano Erma Mellinger, a lecturer in music, for a performance about the vicissitudes of love on Monday in Spaulding Auditorium.
Nov 19 | 12:00 am
When computer science professor Hany Farid released a study affirming the legitimacy of an oft-disputed photograph of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald earlier this month, the College’s Office of Public Affairs posted a press release online — and also uploaded a video on Farid’s findings to YouTube.
Nov 19 | 12:00 am
Full disclosure: I have a crush on Chuck Klosterman. It started the first time I laughed out loud reading “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto” (2004). I became full-blown schoolgirl-worthy when I glanced at his picture on the back cover — I have a thing for guys with glasses.After reading “Eating the Dinosaur,” released on Oct. 20, I am even more smitten.
Nov 18 | 12:00 am
The speaker-busting dance montage that accompanies the opening credits of “Pirate Radio” (2009) is a rousing tribute to the joy and liberation that rock and roll music brought to a generation in the 1960s.
Nov 18 | 12:00 am
This past Sunday, AMC premiered a six-part miniseries, “The Prisoner,” a remake of a 1960s series of the same name. The original was a historical landmark in science fiction television — perhaps best known among members of our generation for its repeated parodying on shows like “The Simpsons.”
Nov 17 | 12:00 am
When Wale performed at Dartmouth two months ago, I lost count of how many people I heard pronouncing his name like the marine mammal rather than the correct “WAH-lay.”
Nov 16 | 12:00 am
“The Rocky Horror Show” has a long tradition of audience participation, with audience members throwing props onto the stage and shouting out lines not written in the script. While Friday’s audience at the College’s Mainstage production of “Rocky Horror” was not well-versed in many of the expected so-called “call-backs,” that did not deter the cast from putting on a rollicking and entertaining show before a sold-out crowd in Moore Theater.
Nov 16 | 12:00 am
Adding a new chapter to Dartmouth Television’s tumultuous history, the student-run organization was temporarily disbanded earlier this month, and then resurrected with new leadership and a redefined mission three days later.