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09/17/2026: Summer Recap Solutions

By Egan Turner | September 17, 2026

09/17/2026: Summer Recap Solutions

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09/17/2026: Summer Recap

By Egan Turner | September 17, 2026

09/17/2026: Summer Recap

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‘Nafi’s Father’: An authentic and fresh narrative of West Africa

By Maya Alexander | May 7, 2026

Senegalese writer-director Mamadou Dia’s “Nafi’s Father (Baamum Nafi)” is a personal and gripping examination of political, religious, familial and moral intersections in modern-day West Africa. A debut from Dia, a Visiting Assistant Professor in Harvard's Art, Film, and Visual Studies Department, ...

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‘Laylit’ returns: Arab EDM shifts perspectives on the dance floor

By Anna Armstrong | May 7, 2026

Booming beats, colorful flashing lights and crowds of Middlebury College students packed the Freeman International Center (FIC) Bunker in the late hours of April 17. This second edition of ‘Laylit’ at Middlebury — the annual party sponsored by the Arabic Department in collaboration with the student ...

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Makes Ya Feel: And with that…

By Ellie Trinkle | May 7, 2026

Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!

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Crossword Solutions 05/07/26: Mums the Word

By Avery Goldstein and Zora Desilva | May 7, 2026

Crossword Solutions 05/07/26: Mums the Word

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Crossword 05/07/26: Mums the Word

By Avery Goldstein and Zora Desilva | May 7, 2026

Crossword 05/07/26: Mums the Word

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Conversational Art: Liefe Temple

By Christy Liang | April 30, 2026

Christy Liang: Who are you as an artist? Liefe Temple ’25.5: I am a dancer. That is my art. I would say I am fairly new to considering myself an artist. Before I started at Middlebury, I wasn’t. I danced for fun growing up, and I thought I would continue doing that here. But then I met the dance ...

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Nocturne: A testament to Middlebury students’ unmatched talent and creativity

By Maya Alexander | April 30, 2026

Nothing can quite beat the creative energy that floods Middlebury’s campus each year during Nocturne. After two years pushed inside by rain, singers, artists, students, faculty and community members finally had a chance to experience the full potential of the annual arts festival: trees lit with colorful ...

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Noah Kahan is embracing his vulnerable side and some classic New England charm in “Noah Kahan: Out of Body”

By Phoebe Adler | April 30, 2026

When you sell out two nights at Fenway Park and become buddies with Bernie Sanders in the span of a year, you must have done something right. Or maybe you just happen to be well-versed in the places and people who make up New England. Either way, Noah Kahan did both — and he has not stopped there. ...

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Feature: Afghan collective ‘ArtLords’ paints a new mural in Proctor

By Sarah Rogers | April 30, 2026

On April 24 and 25, members of the Middlebury College community joined artists Abdullah Elhan, Negina Azimi, Marwa Azimi, Zuhra Nadem, and Sean Kiziltan, five members of ArtLords. Established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2014, this collective of Afghan artists transformed the city’s blast walls into ...

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Crossword Solutions 04/30/26: Highlight Reel

By Egan Turner | April 30, 2026

Crossword Solutions 04/30/26: Highlight Reel

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Crossword 04/30/26: Highlight Reel

By Egan Turner | April 30, 2026

Crossword 04/30/26: Highlight Reel

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Truth and doubt in ‘Bigfoot’

By Maddy Russell and Zeph Santiago | April 23, 2026

In the middle of a distant forest, two sisters and a man in a Bigfoot costume are looking for the truth. Things quickly fall into disarray as this search for the truth takes a violent turn: the two sisters begin to doubt one another and the bigfoot impersonator is holding the sisters at gunpoint. As ...

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