A deep dive into “Deeper Well”
By Daisy Innes | April 11, 2024Kacey Musgraves is embracing simplicity on her new album “Deeper Well.”
Arts & Culture
“Found Dog Ribbon Dance” barks up the right tree
By Edith Mauch | April 11, 2024“Found Dog Ribbon Dance,” a play by Brooklyn, N.Y.–based playwright Dominic Finocchario, opened at the Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre on Thursday, April 4, as the first of the two spring faculty theater productions.
Reel Critic: “Dune: Part Two”
By Jack Torpey | April 11, 2024Denis Villeneuve has never been shy about his adoration for “Lawrence of Arabia.” The 56-year-old Canadian filmmaker first saw David Lean’s 1962 epic when he was 19, and the film, which Villeneuve calls “the perfect movie,” has held a grip on his imagination ever since.
The Prism Center for Queer and Trans Life opens its doors
By Nathan Bernazzani | April 11, 2024The Prism Center for Queer and Trans Life. Located in the Farrell House at 24 Hillcrest Road, the building was packed from wall to wall with students, faculty, and town residents and task force members who played a major part in the building’s development and construction. Attendees were eager to ...
From the Archives: Viola Chittenden White, the college’s first Abernethy Library Curator
By Charlie Keohane | April 4, 2024During the 2022-2023 school year, over 2,000 students visited Special Collections with a class, but few know the history of the collection and the woman who began curating it.
Proc playlist: dinner and a song
By Acadia Klepeis | April 4, 2024When we think about music at 58 Hepburn Road, minds jump to the WRMC radio station. But let us not overlook the other musical hub at the same address: Proctor Dining Hall itself.
Popping the question: Middlebury staff’s defining pop culture memories
By Jack Torpey | April 4, 2024Popular culture. It’s the music we listen to, the movies we watch and, in this media-saturated twenty-first century, it seems to be the very air we breathe. There’s no escaping pop culture — just ask the Middlebury staff.
The staff who review the New England Review
By Catherine Goodrich | April 4, 2024Across from the swing set outside of Twilight Hall, in the New England Review office, a box of newly minted issues of Volume 45.1 sits beside a shelf of archival issues dating back to the magazine’s founding in 1978. Led by Editor Carolyn Kuebler ’90 and Managing Editor Leslie Sainz, NER delicately ...
With a pinch of Saltveit
By Acadia Klepeis | April 4, 2024“Good afternoon, the Davis Family Library will be closing at 5 p.m. today. Should you want to continue working, Crossroads Cafe is open 24/7, although I don’t know why you would want to continue working when it’s such a beautiful day outside,” his voice bellows across the library intercoms on ...
Makes Ya Feel: time to get crafty
By Ellie Trinkle | March 14, 2024Gallery 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! Check back every other week for recommendations, reviews and discussions. ...
Reel Critic: “The Zone of Interest”
By Jack Torpey | March 14, 2024The Hirschfield International Film Series returned to Dana Auditorium on March 7, bringing an audience of Middlebury College students, faculty and community members an exclusive screening of one of 2023’s most celebrated films: “The Zone of Interest.” Written and directed by British filmmaker ...
From the Archives: “The Lesbian House”
By Catherine Goodrich | March 14, 2024Shuffling through the Davis Family Library atrium crowded with students on the way to study and tour groups taking in said students on the way to study, a black-and-white photograph caught my eye from a display case. The photo pictured a young Bee Ottinger lying in bed, her hair artfully outlining her ...
“Small Island Big Song” promotes climate awareness through music
By Norah Khan | March 14, 2024The musical group “Small Island Big Song” celebrated the beauty of Pacific and Indian Ocean islands and their perspectives on the climate through music in Wilson Hall on Friday, March 8. The night began with a unique introduction to each artist; the dark stage was illuminated by the screen behind, ...
Middlebury Discount Comedy travels “Off Campus”
By Izzy Ronda | March 14, 2024For the first time ever, student sketch comedy group Middlebury Discount Comedy (MDC) hosted a show off campus — appropriately titled “Off Campus” — at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. On the evening of March 7, Middlebury students and town residents alike filed into the theater in anticipation ...
Crossword 03/14/2024: Solution!
By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | March 14, 2024Crossword 03/14/2024: Solution!
