Author: Melissa Marshall Las Vegas: shiny lights, scantily-clad women and excess. New Jersey: flat landscapes, industrial towns and weary diners. The Killers: part 80s new wave, part new-millennium post-punk and one hundred percent androgynous synth-rock for the suburbanite Caucasian masses. Bruce Springsteen: ...
Author: Maddie Oatman Charles A. Dana Professor of History of Art & Architecture Kirsten Hoving has been an important Art History scholar at Middlebury ever since she joined the faculty in 1983. Originally from Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Hoving received her undergraduate degree at Ohio Wesleyan ...
Author: Kelsey Smith Thursday evening ushered in the beginning of another season for the Hepburn Zoo with a collection of provocative student productions directed by Rishabh Kayshap '08 and Leah Day '07.5 entitled Naked Slash Truth. The evening began with a selection of four short pieces, each directed ...
Author: Will Ceurvels The Florestan Trio is a chamber group for whom musical performance is as much intellectual as it is aesthetic. Take Susan Tomes, pianist and founding member, whose professional activities extend beyond the group to her regular contributions as a musical commentator for The Financial ...
Author: Emily Temple It's undeniable that music and fashion are inextricably linked. We are unable to help ourselves from making assumptions about those around us based on the clothes that they wear - not only assumptions about what kind of music they listen to, but also whether they have a lot of money, ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki '08 has infiltrated the Middlebury College rock music scene with a new and unconventional sound - the fiddle. Tirrell-Wysocki, a joint Theatre and English major from Canterbury, N.H. has performed in folk concerts around New England since he was a child. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Countless ball point pens, pots of sumi ink, 47 feet of paper and draftsmanship extraordinaire fuse together in former Middlebury artist-in-residence Dawn Clements' Travels with Myra Hudson, the latest manifestation of the Art Now series on display at the Middlebury College ...
Author: Maddie Oatman The name Georgia O'Keeffe often evokes images of sensual flowers or desert vistas saturated with vibrant colors. The Shelburne Museum's exhibit of 25 O'Keeffe paintings, entitled Simple Beauty, touches upon some of these sumptuous floral abstracts, but also offers a unique perspective ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE
Author: Melissa Marshall There is something horribly poetic about the autumn months. Maybe it's the clear October nights. Or perchance it's the crisp breeze, the "wind scurrying scarlet dry leaves like they were dust." But most likely (spoken like a true emo-child), autumn attributes its elegiac nature ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Middlebury College community members gathered in Dana Auditorium on Sunday, Oct. 1 as Dan Smarg '05.5 debuted his feature length film, "Endzone." The completion of the film was a significant accomplishment for both Smarg and Middlebury actors Daniel Di Tomasso '06, Macleod ...
Author: [no author name found] This past Friday, Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence Dr. Francois S. Clemmons and Director of Choral Music Jeff Rehbach led a choir of community singers, students, faculty and staff in "A Celebration of American Song." The concert kicked off Fall Family Weekend, overflowing ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Secondhand shopping is a sport. To be more precise, there are three variations of the sport, all demanding their own carefully mastered skill set. Think of it like "football." The word is misleading since its meaning depends on your continent of origin. For you Americans, ...
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 ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE
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 ...