The start of a captivating night from artists Twisted Teens and Greg Freeman began with the Middlebury College’s very own campus radio station WRMC. The Start of School (SOS) Festival has been a tradition for 14 years at Middlebury, and they delivered this year with another high energy pair of performances. ...
It was a windy day when a friend and I joined a voice call to play Life is Strange. As we drifted into the deep end of the story, nothing remained on either end of the line save for a long, heavy silence and the quiet sound of us both weeping. Stepping into this world for the first time, I never imagined ...
Molly Johnsen MA ’14 and Haley Hutchinson ’24 first met through their shared publisher, Green Mountain Press, and it is a good thing they did. Both are Middlebury alumni; Johnsen graduated from Bread Loaf in 2014 and Hutchinson from Middlebury in 2024. They entered the Abernethy Room for a reading ...
Matt Johnson is not tight-lipped about his approach to filmmaking. Discussing his 2023 film on the creation of the revolutionary mobile device, “BlackBerry,” the director stated, “I can only speak for my own experience, I think that it’s all the same. I look at ‘BlackBerry,’ and I look at ...
Claudia Rankine, known for genre-defying work that blends free-form prose, critique, essay writing and art, published her newest work “Triage” in Aug. 2026. She is an expert at beading forms, which I first discovered in 2022, when I read “Citizen: An American Lyric”, the most successful of Rankine's ...
As an international student and a passionate traveler, I have moved a lot— packing up, settling somewhere new, then doing it all over again after a few months. But after a while, I noticed my mental picture of any city usually boils down to the same few things: a couple of go-to restaurants, traffic ...
09/17/2026: Summer Recap Solutions
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, ...
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 ...
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!
Crossword Solutions 05/07/26: Mums the Word
Crossword 05/07/26: Mums the Word
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Crossword Solutions 04/30/26: Highlight Reel
Crossword 04/30/26: Highlight Reel
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 ...