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Hear and Now: Rock Geeks

By Matt Garczynski | November 7, 2011

With vocals often as high and nasally as Urkel, and lyrics about subjects as eclectic as lighthouses and the 1964 World's Fair, They Might Be Giants is far from the coolest rock band out there.

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Quartet offers traditional a cappella

By Katie Sinclair | November 6, 2011

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center New York Polyphony, a four-man ensemble that specializes in traditional a cappella, has performed in venues ranging from theatres to churches over the years, but the group's residency at Dartmouth presented it with a new set of challenges. "It was the first time we had ever performed in a sorority house," New York Polyphony member Geoffrey Williams said, describing his ensemble's performance with The Decibelles at Alpha Xi Delta sorority on Thursday. New York Polyphony, which sings unamplified arrangements of early modern religious and folk songs, has spent the past week working with numerous groups on campus and in the surrounding community.

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Three-piece composes score for ‘The General'

By Jane Cavalier | November 6, 2011

The range of emotional expression that Buster Keaton accomplishes with his constantly furrowed brows might be, on its own, somewhat limited in the slapstick comedy, "The General" (1926). However, the film was brought to new heights in Spaulding Auditorium on Sunday night by the Alloy Orchestra's meticulously scored live musical accompaniment.

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Novack '94 gets ‘Inside' scoop on changing news climate

By Jenny Che | November 2, 2011

Courtesy of Fromthefrontrow.net By JENNY CHEThe Dartmouth Staff "Page One: Inside The New York Times," produced by Kate Novack '94 and directed by Andrew Rossi, offers an innovative look into news giant The New York Times as it responds to the challenges posed by a rapidly changing media industry.

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As Seen On: 'High' times for comedy television

By Kate Sullivan | November 2, 2011

During my senior year of high school, Chris Lilley's HBO show "Summer Heights High" hit it big, and the hallways were filled with the sounds of people trying to quote Ja'mie, Mr. G or Jonah three characters on the show all played by Lilley.

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Frisell and Morrison explore 1927 flood's impact on music

By Varun Bhuchar | November 1, 2011

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center A giant flood brought unprecedented destruction to the Mississippi River floodplain in 1927, but despite the physical chaos it caused, the flood inadvertently paved the way for the popular music of today. This unusual cause and effect is the subject of "The Great Flood" (2011), a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician Bill Frisell.

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Students engage with prison community in ‘Telling' ways

October 31, 2011

DANI WANG / The Dartmouth Staff "My whole life, I had this stereotype about pearl earrings," Malika Mitchell said of the first time she met Georgia Bird '12 at the Sullivan County Department of Corrections in Sullivan County, N.H., in June 2010. Now she looks fondly across the room at Bird, who is wearing her pearls, with a teary smile. "I had thought that what I had to say wasn't important no one had listened for 37 years," Mitchell said. But Bird listened and shared her own hardships with Mitchell.

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Geduld discusses dance as protest

By Marina Shkuratov | October 30, 2011

Amanda Geduld / The Dartmouth Barnard College visiting professor Victoria Phillips Geduld went beyond the traditional introductions and question-and-answer session of a lecture by adding two dance performances to her talk on Friday to bring her ideas about dance as social action to life.

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Prof. explores take on history in Orozco 'Epic'

By Ashley Ulrich | October 30, 2011

By ASHLEY ULRICH Entering the Orozco Room of Baker-Berry library might make you feel like you are on sensory overload: Jose Clemente Orozco's panoramic mural confronts the viewer with scenes of war and torture, organized labor and ancient Aztecs.

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Linyekula brings dance to the DRC

By Anisha Mohin | October 26, 2011

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth After escaping the war-torn nation of Zaire and living abroad for eight years, dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula decided that his life of exile was no longer artistically inspiring.

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