May 16 | 12:00 am
Tonight’s performance of “Vienna to Hollywood,” a project undertaken by soprano Melanie Henley Heyn and pianist Deirdre Brenner ’01, will showcase the personal and musical journey of a group of Jewish composers who fled Austria to Los Angeles just before the outbreak of World War II. The performance, which will take place in Faulkner Recital Hall in the Hopkins Center, is a part of the Vaughan Recital Series.
More»May 16 | 12:00 am
When I encounter a truly stunning sentence or thought-provoking phrase in a novel, I gently dog-ear whatever page I’m reading so I can later return to the passage and savor its syntax. When I closed the cover after finishing Toni Morrison’s new novel “Home,” I realized I had folded down almost every other page as I devoured the work in a single, one-hour sitting in Sanborn. As one might expect from a novel penned by the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “A Mercy,” Morrison’s “Home” is a stirring story encased in vivid prose and tender narration.
More»May 15 | 12:00 am
The exhibit for senior studio art majors, which features work completed by all 31 students, will host its opening reception this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. The exhibition, located in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery and Upper Jewett Corridor of the Hopkins Center, includes a range of steel sculptures, paintings, charcoal drawings, photography and collages, all of which discuss issues of identity, color contrasts and abstraction.
May 14 | 12:00 am
This past weekend at “Telling Stories for Social Change,” as audience members watched the late afternoon sun reflect off both the barbed wire fence in the foreground and the Green Mountains in the distance, it became clear that performing in the confines of a Vermont prison yard is certainly not a typical theater experience. Yet the performers, part of a program and class run by women and gender studies professor Pati Hernandez, succeeded in creating a theatrical experience in their production “Pros and Convicts” at the Sullivan County Correctional Facility in Claremont, N.H.
May 14 | 12:00 am
In “Soulful Celebration: Gospel Meets Jazz,” the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble and the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir performed their first collaborative performance this weekend in Spaulding Auditorium, celebrating the intersection of jazz and gospel music and the friendship of their respective directors, Don Glasgo and Walter Cunningham.
May 14 | 12:00 am
“Chimpanzee,” the sixth film released by Disneynature, the distributors of “Earth” (2007), is a nature documentary that follows the life of a baby chimpanzee that must learn to survive without his mother in the African jungle. The baby chimpanzee, dubbed Oscar, is narrated by Tim Allen. Oscar’s mother dies due to injuries most likely caused by a leopard, and the baby chimpanzee must learn to develop the necessary skills to survive in her absence. Oscar is eventually adopted by Freddy, the tough leader of the chimpanzee group, but their bond and the entire group of chimpanzees are threatened by vicious attacks from rival gangs of neighboring chimpanzees. —Katie Tai
May 14 | 12:00 am
An inexcusably old hat Tumblr, “Selleck, Waterfall, Sandwich” serves as a contrast to the plethora of today’s internet memes that lack creativity — goofiness and simplicity are key. Created by Greg Szmurlo, a Los Angeles-based ad copywriter, “Selleck, Waterfall, Sandwich” features exactly what you would expect from the title: pictures of the actor Tom Selleck amidst a variety of backgrounds that include waterfalls and sandwiches. The pictures are ridiculous and prominently display Selleck’s trademark mustache.
May 10 | 12:00 am
Notable Chinese-American author and human rights activist Bette Bao Lord, who is in residence this week as a Montgomery Fellow, will engage in a public “conversation” about her personal and professional experiences in Filene Auditorium today at 4:30 p.m., in a talk monitored by English professor Melissa Zeiger.
May 9 | 12:00 am
The first annual Dartmouth Student Digital Arts Exhibition will be held on Thursday at the Nugget Theater to honor and celebrate current and former students’ work in the digital arts. Before the main screenings, the Digital Arts Exhibition will offer a gallery show, live digital music, Kinect games and an interactive drawing program, which will be projected on the exterior of the theater and allow guests to “finger-paint” on the walls using iPads, according to Lorie Loeb, a computer science professor and the co-founder and director of the digital arts minor.
May 9 | 12:00 am
If I were to judge ABC’s new comedy “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23,” which premiered this April, by its title, I would immediately discount it for several reasons: it rhymes, it is too long and am I supposed to replace the “B—-” with what I think? The latter is unclear. After the first couple of episodes, however, the show presents some promise with its quirkiness and attempt to push the envelope.
May 8 | 12:00 am
Natalia Wrobel ’11 is much more than just an abstract painter. She is also somewhat of a peacemaker, mediating the uneasy tension between dualities such as order and chaos; dark and light; and matte and metallic, Wrobel said of her exhibit, currently on display in the Barrows Rotunda in the Hopkins Center. In her exhibit, Wrobel displays her ability to reconcile these contrasting ideas on two canvases, titled “Forgotten Wings” and “Untitled,” which will be featured until May 20. Using broad brush strokes and vibrant colors, Wrobel’s paintings symbolically highlight the conflicts of daily life, she said.
May 8 | 12:00 am
“10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said” by Charles Wheelan ’88, author of “Naked Statistics” and “Naked Economics,” was inspired by his 2011 Class Day speech at the College. The book, released on Monday, contains the advice that he wishes someone had told him upon his graduation from Dartmouth 24 years ago.