Author: Melissa Marshall Local is the word. Whether it is in reference to vegetables, paintings, or knick-knacks, homegrown is hip. Unfortunately, the type of love students demonstrate for Happy Valley apple cider, is lacking when it comes to the on-campus band scene. The College is chock full of overwhelming ...
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Author: Emily Temple I fear that our generation has become materialistic and amoral, and it's because we do not, as a group, believe in a higher power. We have no spiritual leader. I'm talking about Dylan, obviously. But you knew I was.Paul Simon once wrote, "Every generation throws a hero up the pop ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach This past Saturday, the four lovely "ladies"from the House of LeMay slipped into their sequins, strutted into their stilettos and teased their tantalizing tresses to the max in preparation for their much-anticipated Proctor performance. The beloved dining hall, usually home ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach This past summer, Maegan Mishico '08.5 returned home to New York City to participate in an incredible internship opportunity at The Atlantic Theatre Company (ATC). Working beside Middlebury College alum and Associate Artistic Director of the ATC, Christian Parker '93, Mishico ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt If museums are about range, rarity, resonance and visual resplendence, then the Middlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA) continues to follow beautifully in step. The most recent manifestation of MCMA's ever-increasing strength comes in the form of the recently reinstalled permanent ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Brett Foreman '07 is an Environmental Science major with a focus in fine art. Last spring, hoping to explore more fully his passion for photography, Foreman enrolled in University College London's Slade School of Fine Art. Manned with a studio all his own, a non-stop stream ...
Author: Melissa Marshall "Take me down to the river. Take me down to the lake. Yes, we'll all go together. We're gonna do it for the good Lord's sake." A smoky voice slid around the enraptured bodies whose collective hushed breathing hung heavy in the air of McCullough Social Space on Friday night. ...
Author: [no author name found] English and Theatre professors around the world rejoice! This Monday's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream stormed the Middlebury College campus with exclamatory cries - Shakespeare is not dead. The words of the literary god were celebrated with hoots and hollers ...
Author: Melissa Marshall "Something dies when you grow older/But you do the best you can/I am glad/I am/You found a good man."A startling statement from a band who once sang with contempt, "I hope you come down with something they can't diagnose/Don't have the cure for" to an ex-lover. But, surprisingly, ...
Author: Astri vonArbinAhlander My name is Astri and I've scored big. After all, I have my own column in this illustrious newspaper - a column with few editorial guidelines other than "Write what you want." How did I get it? I'm not a trendsetter. Rather, I belong to a fast on-coming trend - Sweden. ...
Author: Sara Jameson Featuring pieces ranging from the pervasive energy of Beethoven to the exotic nostalgia of Bartók, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra combined musical grace and vigor in its stunning performance last Friday night. Under the musical direction of world-renowned violinist Jaime Laredo, ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Making the move to New York City, The Potomac Theatre Project hopes to take on a new location with as much power and professionalism as they did in the District of Columbia. Constantly striving to better Middlebury's already nationally recognized Theatre department, both Professor ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Last Thursday, the Middlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA) threw open its doors to reveal an exhibition of dazzling, epic proportions. Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, traveling from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, presents nearly 200 ...
Author: Emily Temple So here's some of what I expect will be cool this fall. Check it out, kids.The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America. Vagrant Records. Release date: October 3. If you've heard the first two Hold Steady albums, you're probably thinking (or you should be thinking, if you have any ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Lauren Kiel '07, a senior Theatre major with a Psychology minor from Simsbury, CT., speaks adoringly of her summer at The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP). Founded in 1987, PTP has been exposing young Middlebury College actors to the Washington, D.C. theatre world for almost ...
Author: Will Ceurvels Amid the hedonistic revelry of the first weekend of the new academic year, a congregation of students, professors and townsfolk all gathered in Mead Chapel this past Friday to witness one of the greatest chamber ensembles in the world, The Tokyo String Quartet. Watching the quartet ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Gena Schiffenhaus '06 is an English major with a focus in creative writing from Key West, Fla. Shiffenhaus was one of 11 Middlebury College students accepted to attend the renowned Breadloaf Writers' Conference at the close of the summer. Schiffenhaus was accompanied by Mike ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt This June, the Middlebury College Museum of Art's (MCMA) collection swelled with the addition of celebrated American landscape photographer Robert Adams' portfolio Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration. The acquisition of this impressive set of 164 photographs, ...