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Makes Ya Feel: Art for the cold

By Ellie Trinkle | January 15, 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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Worshipping sound at Ambient Church

By Norah Khan | January 15, 2026

Supposedly, writing about music is like dancing about architecture — but what about music that is equally architecture and sound?

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Crossword 01/15/2025 Solutions: Drop an Octave

By Egan Turner | January 15, 2026

Crossword 01/15/2025 Solutions!

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Crossword 01/15/2025: Drop an Octave

By Egan Turner | January 15, 2026

Crossword 01/15/2025: Drop an Octave!

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Death by laughter: MCMT’s “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”

By Elizabeth Schierman | December 4, 2025

A “murderously” good time occurred on the evenings of Nov. 13-15, when audiences gathered in Town Hall Theater (THT) to see Middlebury College Musical Theater’s (MCMT) performance of the Tony Award-winning musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.”

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M Gallery returns with “Etymology of the Self”

By Maya Alexander | December 4, 2025

After a several year hiatus, M Gallery, Middlebury’s student-led gallery space, has returned. Over 100 students gathered on Nov. 14 in the Old Stone Mill for the opening of the first 2025 exhibition “Etymology of the Self.”

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A guide of arts and happenings in our brave little state

By Lily Buren | December 4, 2025

Being from Vermont means going to your town bar on Blackout Wednesday with everyone who graduated from your high school in the last 20 years, never learning world geography in your public school education and hiding from your second-grade teacher at the farmers market. It’s about knowing where to ...

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Crosswords 12/04/2025 Solutions: Slippery Slope

By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | December 4, 2025

Crosswords 12/04/2025 Solutions: Slippery Slope!

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Crosswords 12/04/2025: Slippery Slope

By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | December 4, 2025

Crosswords 12/04/2025: Slippery Slope!

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Being a writer at the Monastery

By Christy Liang | November 13, 2025

I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department gave a workshop on The Buddhist Unconscious: Yogācāra Buddhism and How It Illuminates Bias. 

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A resistance of form: Zadie Smith’s “Dead and Alive”

By Nick Penniman | November 13, 2025

“But perhaps I am asking the question the wrong way around,” Zadie Smith writes at one point in her essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” which can be found in her new collection, “Dead and Alive.” It’s a typically Smithian line: an expression of self-doubt signalling the ...

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Be not afeard, the room is full of teeth (and flute)

By Anthony Cinquina | November 13, 2025

Full of noise it was, when on the night of Nov. 5 in Robison Hall, the avante-garde acapella octet Roomful of Teeth and composer, poet and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull joined forces to produce 75 minutes of utterly remarkable and deeply moving experimental soundscapes. I have heard nothing like it — ...

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Crossword 11/13/2025: Solutions

By Avery Goldstein | November 13, 2025

Crossword 11/13/2025: Solutions!

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Crossword 11/13/2025

By Avery Goldstein | November 13, 2025

Crossword 11/13/2025!

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