Author: Benjamin Golze The beginning of the year is the time when lazy music writers across the country take the easy way out for one more week by looking back at the year gone by, and then making wild, unsubstantiated claims about the next year's trends. So, without further ado, I present the all-inclusive ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH "Brokeback Mountain" tells the tragic story of two cowboys who meet and fall in love while ranching sheep in the mountains of Wyoming during the summer of 1963. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), an introverted and simple man, makes every effort to keep to himself. Jack Twist (Jake ...
Author: Sara Jameson January is an exciting month for the cast and crew of "The Bewitched" as they prepare to take their show to the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF). When the show went up this fall, it stunned viewers with its intense content, witty humor and tremendous acting. This February, ...
Author: BRI CAVALLARO Bruce Davis is an Architectural Light Design major from Norwich, Vt. with a passion for spinning. The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been DJing for WRMC?Bruce Davis: I started halfway through my first term.The Campus: And what kind of thing do you play on your show?BD: It's ...
Author: JOYCE MAN At about the time when the first snow came and the proposal to lower campus building temperatures by two degrees arrived in our e-mail inboxes, I realized that my heater was broken. Luckily, also at the same time, Wallpaper Magazine published a small yet lightening blurb about Luigi ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Middlebury College's dancers are not professionals, but they do take their dance seriously. And so, it seems, does the audience. Last Friday's sold out performance, one of two showings of a dance course's culminating Fall Dance Concert, showed what its advertisements promised-"energy, ...
Author: [no author name found] 1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral 2. Iron & Wine - Woman King E.P. 3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 5. Beck - Guero 6. Interpol - Antics 7. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike 8. The Books - Lost and Safe 9. Low - The Great Destroyer 10. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt On Thursday, for the second weekend in a row, Hepburn Zoo opens its doors to reveal an entirely student directed and acted theatrical production. This week, "The Dining Room," a collaborative directorial endeavor of Myra Palmero '07, Ben Salkowe '07 and Lisa Zaval '07, takes ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Take a look at one of the brightly-colored pamphlets decorating the tabletops of the dining halls on Monday mornings and anyone can see that the music scene at Middlebury is flourishing. From the increasingly popular Thursday night Pub Nights at The Grille, which host student-assembled ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL The word "Wright" can be substituted for both its other spellings, "write" and "right." It is for this reason that, given her occupation, Nancy Means Wright's name is a fitting, double-barrel pun.Wright is author of 11 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, five of which are ...
Author: BRI CAVALLARO I'll be the first to admit I met my first big crush at the stage door of "Rent" when I was 12. When I met the only boy waiting for autographs, I knew it was meant to be. (He came out a year and a half later.) We both loved the show for the bright spot it put in our mundane middle-school ...
Author: ELSPETH PIERSON Every year around this time, my mother starts listening to the "Nutcracker." She pulls out her scratch-free carefully guarded disc and slips it into the hungry velvet slot of the CD player and the sounds of the London Philharmonic spill through the kitchen, down the stairs and ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Great art, funk, more art, interpretative dance, some breakdancing, more funk and even more great art. So flowed the opening of the annual student art show, organized and curated by VACA (Vitality of the Artistic Community Association), in Lower Forest on Nov. 19. It was the ...
Author: JORDAN NASSAR I like Scandinavia. I like kings. I like convenience. I feel like most people do. I also like remixes by many-a-favorite band of mine. And I especially like when it's all on one CD. What's this, you say? A CD exists that mixes the sound of the wind from the top of Sandviksfjellet, ...
Author: Joyce Man Given that the International Students Organization Cultural Show is performed every November, making it an extravaganza for everyone who is not a first-year student is a tall order indeed. Yes, the diverse hodgepodge of cultures represented at Middlebury College ensures a certain number ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL Some of you might know Gary Margolis as the director of counseling over in Centeno House. Others of you might know Margolis as the part-time Associate Professor of English. Still others of you might know him as the published poet. A jack of many trades, Gary Margolis simultaneously ...
Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt Associate Professor of American Literature & Civilization Will Nash plays bass in the Doughboys, Middlebury's all-faculty band which will be rocking the Grille scene tonight from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m.The Middlebury Campus: How did the group start?Will Nash: We started playing ...
Author: Zachary Hecht-Leavitt From the haunting, dreamlike cascade of notes that marked the beginning of Company's opening number, it was clear that this was not your ordinary musical. Sure, there were the occasional tap dances and kick lines, but throughout the production flowed an undercurrent of ...
Author: [no author name found] I was first introduced to My Morning Jacket with their third full-length "It Still Moves," which is the band's seminal album. I immediately loved the Kentucky 5-piece band. They had a big, classic southern rock sound that soared but never seemed to hit anything. For those ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL In the past I have felt that Middlebury lacked a solid selection of literary magazines, or the ones that did exist were not extensively publicized. However, much to my gratification, the tides seem to be changing this year. Several new magazines have come out and old ones are ...