Author: Penny Chen Walking out on stage in an oversized button-down shirt on top of a black t-shirt, dress pants and shoes, Vusi Mahlasela, seemed just as poised and at ease as any of the usual guests of classical music performing at the Middlebury College Center for the Arts. After settling in on the ...
Author: Zmira Zilkha Alex Hay '05 recently received an exclusive internship opportunity at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Dc. The reputable institution, founded in the early 1970's, produces a variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, multi-media performances ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Contemporary art is hot. Think lying on an asphalt high-rise rooftop, mid-day, mid-June; a 1920s forbidden French cabaret; or Sean Connery circa very early James Bond. Hot. Sizzling in fact. Just one step into a top New York, London or Paris gallery causes even the most expert ...
Author: Sara Jameson A clever and compelling conclusion to the winter carnival weekend, the Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont offered three interesting workshops and performed their eccentric work entitled, "National Circus of the Correct Moment." The show was funny, unconventional and inspiring in ...
Author: Alison lacivita Oh, Belle and Sebastian. So cute. So Scottish. I saw them for the first time at Pearl Street in Northampton two and half years ago when Dear Catastrophe Waitress was released. This is nothing against the band, but I fell asleep (the chairs were quite comfortable - theater seats ...
Author: Ellen Grafton Stepping onto McCullough stage last Wednesday, Claudia Stevens let out an eerie, crooning alien noise that reverberated through the audience. So began Stevens' one-woman show, "Dreadful Sorry Guys." "Dreadful Sorry Guys" combined vocals, piano and monologues to explore genocide ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Emmie Donadio is the Chief Curator of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Co-Faculty head of Atwater Commons. Donadio has worked in the museum since its inception in 1990, first as assistant director, then as associate director and, since 2004, as chief curator. Her most ...
Author: JOYCE MAN "Punch is nothing without lemon." So read the masthead motto for Punch, a British satire magazine famous for its caricatures that gave the word "cartoon" its modern usage. The saying began as a joke on the magazine's first editor, Mark Lemon, but, stretch its meaning out (exaggeration ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH Realism is making a comeback. Just wait and see. It will soon be filling the studios of countless college students who, last year, were splattering paint on mud-smeared canvases or sculpturing deformed cows out of paper mache. This artist isn't complaining. Let me tell you why realism ...
Author: Joyce Man If one were to single something out about this year's production of "The Vagina Monologues," it would be the performance's attempt to leave no one singled out. This, after all, is the quintessential play about discovering the female self through community sharing. The formula is simple ...
Author: JASON GUTIERREZ I think it is finally time to set the record straight and clear emo's name. Emo is a sub-genre of hardcore punk. It has enjoyed several waves of popularity, the first of such waves coming out of the Washington D.C. hardcore scene during the mid 1980s. Bands like Rites of Spring ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH Perhaps the most seductive aspect of "Match Point" is that Woody Allen excludes himself from the picture. The absence of that high-pitched, screeching voice, nagging with idiosyncrasies, concerns and anxieties, is certainly a relief. The unlikely hero that Allen always chooses ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Middlebury College is a community renowned for its diversity and commitment to promoting the student body's involvement in many different endeavors and activities, so it was somewhat shocking to discover that it has no formal jazz ensemble. "When I came to Middlebury here as ...
Author: Joyce Man Dick Forman, who began his long, intimate journey with music at a young age by playing classical piano, is a dedicated member of four-man Dick Forman Jazz Group and regularly teaches jazz at Middlebury College and around Vermont. Now, as he embarks on the revival of a project called ...
Author: Tristan Hayes I like to imagine while writing this music column that I work for a bustling metro newspaper circa 1950. Men with names like Frank and Bill are madly shouting at each other about fact-checking the cop beat, their shirt sleeves rolled up on arms gesticulating wildly about ink orders ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Discovering a good museum is immensely fulfilling. Finding it inside a converted turbine hall is even better. But if you combine these two with the chance to see one of modern art's most prodigious works, well then, you're either just plain lucky or, more likely, you've entered the ...
Author: Ellen Grafton On Feb. 1, while most Middlebury students traveled across the country to begin their February break, the cast and crew of "The Bewitched" trekked to Fitchberg, Mass. for the latest performance of their epic show. The performance was part of the 38th annual Kennedy Center American ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Most dorms on campus enclose students in blank, vapid, white walls. At best, the walls exist unnoticed; at worst they stand unfriendly and uninspiring. The walls of Battell Hall used to be among the most lifeless on campus. Recently, however, an explosion of inspiration, zeal ...
Author: Lauren Smith On Tuesday, a 77-year-old Frenchman was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of nearly $300,000. The charge? He attacked the infamous urinal created by Marcel Duchamp during the 1920s Dada art movement with a hammer at an exhibit in Paris, France. This is ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Four of the six band members were interviewed for this article:Conor Sheldon- Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Alto Saxophone, Josh Bookin - Vocals, Lead Guitar, Alex Banys - Percussion, Drums Christopher Nielson - Keys, Piano, Synth.The Middlebury Campus: Who is Larson? When did you ...