Author: Maddie Oatman Set in Kalimpong, India and Manhattan in the mid 1980's, Desai's "Inheritance of Loss" presents a sharp satire that addresses larger political issues, cultural misunderstandings and social injustices in both India and the United States. She resists a flat portrayal of globalization ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh The Ingmar Bergman film series sponsored by Brainerd Commons, the Scandinavian Student Organization and the Film and Media Culture Program has brought the best of Swedish Culture and Film into a month long adventure. The series began on January 6 with one of Bergman's most famous ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander There is something of the fairy-tale prince in Evan Dumouchel's face, a genuine sweetness that his scruffy cheeks, bad-boy swagger and love for action flicks can do nothing to subvert. His enchanting blue eyes are probably already familiar to you. As a double major in ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander This past summer, I read the writer David Shield's manifesto, "Reality Hunger," which argues in favor of contemporary society's ever increasing hunger for "the real," whether through non-fiction writing, documentary film, reality TV, etc. As individuals flooded on an ...
Author: Sara Jameson With tremendous boldness and musical command, the renowned Meridian Arts Ensemble surprised and challenged its audience with its boldly experimental program last Saturday night. Covering compositions ranging from the vintage sound of "Ocho por Radio," by Mexican composer Sylvestre ...
Author: Grace Duggan This past weekend marked the end of one of the more ambitious J-term classes available this year, as the cast of "When I Was A Child" gave three performances in the Hepburn Zoo. These performances were inspired by an intriguing concept: the use of presentational theatre to reflect ...
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Author: Melissa Marshall Since man first banged those two stones together to create sound, music has been an integral part of praising something greater than one's self. Since then, rock music has evolved quite a bit from its humble beginnings, but it is still somewhat surprising to witness the adverse ...
Author: Sara Jameson Andrew Throdahl '09 is an accomplished pianist who recently performed three pieces in a concert at the end of semester. Throdahl has been playing the piano for almost twelve years and won the 2006 Concerto Competition. He is happy to be attending Middlebury College, where he studies ...
Author: Emily Temple A new year has arrived and along with the confetti, champagne and plastic noisemakers inevitably must come the "best of" list of every self-proclaimed music connoisseur, online news source and music magazine. It's tiring, I know. But get prepared for yet another, because what would ...
Author: Sara Jameson At eight o'clock last Friday night, five playwrights, five directors and sixteen actors gathered in the Hepburn Zoo ready to challenge their creative ingenuity and alacrity. Twenty-four hours later, five fresh, creative and engaging plays were performed. The event, created and hosted ...
Author: Astri Von Arbin Ahlander On December 31, 2006 we rang in the New Year. Personally, I choked on my champagne as I stood on the roof of a building in central Stockholm as artillery-like fireworks went off all around me. 2007? This is the number I have written after my name for the past three and ...
Author: Josh Wessler The hit Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" makes a flashy transition onto the silver screen in Bill Condon's adaptation. It tells the tale of the beginnings of Motown Records from gospel funk to its national success with smooth R&B. In this loosely fictionalized account, the singing ...
Author: Grace Duggan Born and raised in Vermont, Ana's Mitchell '04 began writing songs when she was seventeen years old before going on to study political science here at Middlebury College. "It wasn't really my 'spirit department,'" Mitchell said. "It would have been more of a natural choice to study ...
Author: Emily Temple By now, it's a rather stale story: the indie artist vaulted to stardom via intense internet popularity, but for Lily Allen it was truly a self-motivated, unprecedentedly fast rags-to-riches story. After signing with Regal/Polygram in the UK, Allen set up her own MySpace account ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt This past weekend's Fall Dance Concert, held in the Center for the Arts Dance Theatre, was marked by intoxicating contradiction. The eclectic range of student and faculty dancers and choreographers were not aiming for coherence. There was no obvious, defined theme to the night; ...
Author: [no author name found] Dynamic vocals and rocking beats captivated concert-goers last Friday in McCullough Social Space at Sepomana, the annual music festival sponsored by Middlebury College's student radio-station, WRMC. After careful debate by the Board of Directors, WRMC brought three up ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Exams are rapidly approaching, meaning so are all-nighters at the library and, invariably, unflattering sweatsuits. Is it too much to ask to stay hot during the peak of stress? I think not. But just like you can't expect to take two-hour lunch breaks come mid-December, ...
Author: Kelsey Smith Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz," the senior work of Caitlin Dennis '06.5 and Julia Proctor '06.5, opened Thursday evening at the Hepburn Zoo. Director Dennis continued the Zoo's long-standing tradition of presenting challenging student-designed and produced work with a powerful ...