Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Imagine you're a 17-year-old girl and you spend your days on a rose plantation dethorning flowers. Imagine this job pays almost nothing, and the conditions are terrible. You are surrounded by harsh chemicals, fed almost nothing and barely allowed to use the bathroom. This is ...
Author: Richard Lawless There comes a time in every lo-fi indie rocker's career when they decide it's time to get rid of the tape hiss and actually record an album with normal production standards. Lo-fi originators Pavement gradually cleaned up their sound over the course of their career, eventually ...
Author: Hans Manzke Wyclef Jean is an almost incomprehensible conglomeration of pop-culture sponge, businessman, superstar producer, actor and faithful representative of his native Haiti. The man owns 48 cars, is worth many millions of dollars and produces tracks for some of hip-hop's biggest stars. ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How did you become interested in breakdancing?Yuichiro Mitsutomi: I started breakdancing freshman fall after watching Morgan Alexander Jones (aka Mojo, who graduated last year) breakdancing at a party. I didn't have any prior experience with ...
Author: Josh Axelrod "The stage," writes Richard Romagnoli in his Director's notes to this past weekend's Zoo production of Snoo Wilson's "Vampire," "becomes a literal playground of ideas and theatrical styles, full of possibilities with the only limitation being our imaginations."Taking this complicated ...
Author: SHEILA SELES There is a sport on television that combines men in cowboy hats, arenas of screaming fans, the possibility for serious injury and the best athletes I've ever seen. Those athletes have names like Little Yellow Jacket, Crossfire Hurricane and Red Wolf. The sport is bull riding. The ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Parents of Middlebury students will begin receiving letters from President Ronald D. Liebowitz today announcing a 2005-2006 comprehensive fee of $42,120 - a 4.25 percent increase from the current fee. An e-mail from the President's office will be sent to students in the next several ...
Author: [no author name found] Once upon a time, in a shining city called New York, there lived a handsome man named Alex Hitchinson. Alex, or Hitch, as he was known, helped other men get the women of their dreams, but had yet to find love himself. Also in this city, there lived a beautiful gossip ...
Author: Margaret Ray Students entered the expanse of the new Atwater dining hall in a slow trickle on a Thursday night. Some appeared apprehensive while they took a seat, others made straight for the bagels and coffee in the rear. The lights were dim, and there was a man seated in the front plucking ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: What kinds of art are you involved in at Midd?Anjelika Paranjpe: Well, I'm co-president of Vitality of the Artistic Community (VACA). I've been doing that since my junior year. And then there's Artemis, which is a women's art mag. That was ...
Author: Sheila Seles My fellow TV-watchers, ask not what your television can do for you. Ask what you can do for your television. (I can't hear you asking since this is a newspaper column, so I'll just assume you did ask.) I'll tell you what you can do for your television - join the fight to save ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Simply stated, the Books sound like nothing that came before or after them. You could certainly classify them in a bland, vague sub-genre if you really had to, but this would do their sheer originality a painful injustice. Describing their music proves to be an admittedly difficult ...
Author: Josh Axelrod There can be no question, this past weekend's staging of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" was an impressive and delightful effort on the part of first-time director Brian Siegele '07 and his young cast.Throughout its three hour running time, the play follows ...
Author: SHEILA SELES The Oscars were pretty boring this year. They were pretty boring on all fronts. There were no real upsets in the awards. No one was dressed really terribly. Even Joan Rivers seemed on her best, albeit senile, behavior. Or maybe my Oscar malaise stems from the fact that I seem to ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Bright Eyes, a.k.a. Conor Oberst, is in the middle of a media hurricane as I write this. After a three-year hiatus, he released two albums this January - at the height of the slow album season - and newspapers everywhere are singing his praises, with rumblings of, at long last, ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How did you get your start in acting?Lauren Kiel: I started to dance when I was two, and was such a big ham in dance classes because I was always trying to take over the classes, so my mom saw the actress in me. So she signed me up for a summer ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Paris, 1960s. A black woman wearing a blond wig and a green dress with white polka-dots stands seductively on a street corner. A Jewish boy in his mid-teens watches her from a window above, practicing his lines, "Hello. It's a hot one. How much?" He finally gets up the nerve ...
Author: Lauren Budzyna By the end of last year, Conor Sheldon '06 and his band Larson had toured all over New England and played 17 shows, but they had practically ruined his friend's car by lugging heavy equipment all across the Northeast. By the same time last year, Sheldon had come across scores ...
Author: Hans Manzke I really like underground hip-hop. Let it be known far and wide. This is due largely to one of the top three underground labels - Definitive Jux. This indie label provides a constantly growing and evolving forum for a staggeringly wide array of hip-hop, from Cannibal Ox's real-world ...
Author: [no author name found] Nowadays the NYC dance-punk scene is everywhere. The movement's central figure, James Murphy, released his group LCD Soundsystem's eponymous debut album this January. He now can comfortably charge $6,000 a show and be a rock star. But how did Murphy get to be king of hipper-than-thou ...