Arts & Culture
Photo shot down from display
By Middlebury Campus | March 5, 2008Author: Melissa Marshall Students leaving the McCullough Social Space after a late-night dance party or prospectives taking a tour of the Student Center may be shocked to find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. Aaron Gensler's '08 exhibit featuring eight photographs of students posing with ...
Students share secrets in the library
By Middlebury Campus | March 5, 2008Author: Eleanor Johnstone Last week, Middlebury students checking their mailboxes found invitations to share their secrets à la PostSecret, a Maryland-based community art project that invites people to anonymously share private thoughts or moments - funny or serious - in an artistic fashion. Cards ...
for the record
February 27, 2008Author: Melissa Marshall Bradford Cox of last year's lauded experimental psych-rock quintet Deerhunter has never been accused of conformity. A sufferer of Marfan syndrome - a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that gives him unnaturally long and spindly limbs - the front-man's stage performance ...
The reel critic Special Edition
By Middlebury Campus | February 27, 2008Author: Jason Gutierrez So here we are, three weeks into a new semester. The excitement of new classes has passed and the luster of this new semester has worn a bit. At this point, or if not now perhaps later on in the semester, I suspect a few of you might be sitting around one weekend night thinking ...
CFA channels past for 15th anniversary celebration
By Middlebury Campus | February 27, 2008Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Rewind about a hundred years. The early 20th century was a time of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and also a whole lot of avant-garde artistic innovations. Art schools in Paris and New York were brimming with young pupils ready to take on the world with their wild ...
Spotlight on...Emily Kim Goldsmith '08
By Middlebury Campus | February 27, 2008Author: Andrew Throdahl Emily Kim Goldsmith '08, winner of this year's Alan and Joyce Beucher Concerto Competition, will be playing the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in the College Orchestra concert on April 25. The Middlebury Campus caught up with the violinist on how she got started ...
Middlebury students snow their stuff
By Middlebury Campus | February 27, 2008Author: Andrew Throdahl Are snowmen and igloos the limits of snow's artistic horizons? Did you never think of a winged pig could be crafted from the harvest of winter? 2008's Winter Carnival witnessed the reinstitution of the Snow Sculpting Competition, enabling Middlebury students to see their wildest ...
Guitarist strums to classical beat
By Middlebury Campus | February 20, 2008Author: Andrew Throdahl The guitar has a comparable range, flexibility and variety of timbre to any other popular solo instrument. Why then, is its repertoire limited to every imaginable pop song, volumes of Spanish and Latin American music and a splattering of Baroque music? When push comes to shove, ...
for the record
February 20, 2008Author: Emily Temple The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle is a musician's musician. If I had any doubts in my adoration for him and his projects, I would be reassured by the knowledge that I was in good company. All my other favorite bands like him too. A personal favorite reference: in "Girls Like Status,",a ...
The Synesthesiac Arts and Letters With Ashley Gamell
By Middlebury Campus | February 20, 2008Author: [no author name found] syn·es·the·sia from the Greek (syn-) union, and (aesthesis) sensation; is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds - and taste tactile sensations.A small group of bedraggled Middlebury constituents pulled up to the ...
artsbrief
By Middlebury Campus | February 20, 2008Author: Melissa Marshall 91.1 FM WRMC has tuned-in to a new semester, and is living up to their mission statement of bringing original programming to the Champlain Valley. Online, in the car or in the dorms, dare to set the dial to this spring's most inventive shows. Alphabet SoupTime: Sunday 2 p.m. ...
"Monologues" returns with same potency
By Middlebury Campus | February 20, 2008Author: Eleanor Johnstone Last week's Day of Romance was uniquely celebrated on the Middlebury campus with Middlebury's annual student production of Eve Ensler's '95 "The Vagina Monologues," directed by Aaron Gensler '08 and Maegan Mishico '09. First compiled and written in 1996, the collection of ...
Spotlight on...Yina Ng '09 and Simon Thomas-Train '09
By Middlebury Campus | February 20, 2008Author: Melissa Marshall A petite girl from Hong Kong and a tall boy raised just across the lake in Keene Valley, N.Y., Yina Ng '09 and Simon Thomas-Train '09 sit comfortably side-by-side, their physical differences only hinting at the powerful dynamics manifested in their duet "It Needs What You Don't ...
baubles for the ball a guide to Winter Carnival fashions
By Middlebury Campus | February 20, 2008Author: [no author name found] Don't want to wear your prom dress to Winter Carnival? The Middlebury Campus heats up winter formal wear with festive fashion finds from Main Street. Whether you're feeling like a stylish sophisticate or a confident coquette, we've uncovered accessible accessories and ...
"St. Crispin's Day" features a feast of laughs
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Grace Duggan This Winter Term, Visiting Professor of Theatre Alex Draper '88 took a page from his own acting past - he chose to direct "St. Crispin's Day," a sharp and bitingly witty antiwar comedy in which he played Henry almost five years ago. On its most basic level, playwright Matt Pepper's ...
for the record
February 13, 2008Author: Melissa Marshall Today is the 14th of February - a marked day designed to make the middle of the month as whimsical and just about as uplifting as dirty snow - those charming enough to corner the elusive on-campus relationship will bring dates to the retirement-inspired ambience of Proctor, ...
Vista vision
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Alexxa Gotthardt In the advent of photography, the United States was continuing to explore the west. A collection of extraordinary photographs, the subject of the spring semester's exhibition in the Museum of Art, is a testament to that age of artistic and geographic discovery.There was a time ...