Author: Alison Lacivita This year is a particularly special one for Sepomana - it's the 10th anniversary! Since its advent, the annual music fest hosted by WRMC has certainly had a spectacular array of bands including Yo La Tengo, (Smog), Josh Ritter, Calla, Clearlake, Enon, The French Kicks, Animal ...
Author: MELISSA MARSHALL In a life full of tedious e-reserve readings, maliciously assigned papers all due the same week and daily sunbaths on Battell Beach, one rarely has time to fit in 10 rounds of beirut a week, let alone delve into the murky waters of the Indie Scene (capitalizing it makes it more ...
Author: Michael Jou Saturday, May 8, marked the end of yet another year for the Riddim World Dance Troupe, led by Charzetta Nixon '06, as the student organization put on its spring show entitled "Riddim Nation." Centered around dances involving mostly hip-hop elements, the show's theme reminded spectators ...
Author: Joyce Man Beau Baldock '06 may be a more recognizable presence on the ski slopes as part of Middlebury College's Nordic ski team. Just this January, he came in third overall at the Colby Challenge - while nursing a dislocated shoulder. But Baldock's ambitions run far beyond the ski runs. This ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH Censorship is a delicate topic on campus these days, as students debate the "newspaper insert" and SGA elections, etc. On another campus not too far away, graduate students are also facing censorship from the very institution that is supposed to protect our freedoms - the government. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Daniel Houghton '06 is a studio art major from Brunswick, Maine. At Middlebury, Houghton is the first studio art major to use video art as his senior project. Entitled "Everything Glowed" (look out for the beautiful, enigmatic ads that are speckling campus), Houghton's video ...
Author: Alex Gilman Saturday, April 29, the Nelson Arena played home to the largest spring concert in Middlebury history, as hip-hop titans Naughty By Nature, Jurassic 5 (J5) and Rahzel put on a show that impressed both Middlebury students and the hip-hop loving Middlebury community at large. Sponsored ...
Author: Ellen Grafton In a Zoo season already brimming with sinister shows, "One Flea Spare" brought its own particular brand of dark drama to the Hepburn Zoo May 27-29. Written by Naomi Wallace and directed by Evan Dumouchel '06.5, it tells the story of four people trapped in a house during the 1665 ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Leave it to a Chinese person to do it: artistic outsourcing. This is exactly what one Shanghai artist, Zhou Tiehai is going for. The concept is simple: Zhou thinks up the ideas, then his minions, who are expensive and well-trained artists in their own right, carry out his every whim. ...
Author: Sara Jameson Whirling into the surrealist world of dreams and memory, Middlebury's production of Nelson Rodrigues's "The Wedding Dress" or"Vestido de Noiva", which opens today and runs through Saturday, strives to create a theatrical journey that will take the audience on a suspenseful ride ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE Friday, May 12, is WRMC's annual spring concert-fest, Sepomana. In seeming anticipation of the event, I received this letter about its origins from a crazy-man/former-WRMC-ringleader Pauls Toutonghi '98, and I decided to run it:We came up with the word "sepomana" in a Monday-afternoon ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH The Internet is fast becoming as important of a tool to artists as a paintbrush. Undeniably, it is changing the way artists do business. Dealing with this side of things, though most right-brained visual artists despise the task, is absolutely necessary if one wants to get ahead ...
Author: EMILY THOMPSON "Lucky Number Slevin" wishes it were as good, or as lucky, as Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." Directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Jason Smilovic, "Lucky Number Slevin" illustrates a caricature of the elite crime world, found in many of Tarantino's films. The characters, ...
Author: [no author name found] "The Arctic Monkeys are burning up the charts" or "There's nothing chilly in fans' responses to the hottest new band out of the UK." Those are just a few very unfortunate taglines that manifested themselves in my head as I listened to The Arctic Monkeys' February release, ...
Author: Shannon Gymrek Over-achieving is something Middlebury Students know a lot about. Even taking that into mind, however, Kevin Vélez '06 has got to impress. Velez's senior 700 work, a new original musical entitled "The Legend of Cofresí," debuted on the McCullough stage last Friday. Velez not ...
Author: Joyce Man Beginning from the first week of January this year, Vermont has turned into what has been called the largest exhibition space ever, with a total 7,000 maple wooden palettes and an additional 30,000 paper palettes being manipulated in all kinds of artistic ways and displayed. Through ...
Author: Melissa Marshall It is a common occurrence for Middlebury students as well as faculty to read a poem or listen to a piece of music once a day, if not more. Sometimes one even gets adventurous and combines the two - just check out the numerous students in the library balancing a heavy volume ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Ryan Abernathey '04 (drums/guitar) Andrew Bishop '05.5 (vocals/guitar), Matt Longo '04 (keyboards/glockenspiel), Andy Lynch '03 (bass) and Allen Wilcox '05 (guitar/vocals) make up Penelope, the melodious, ever-rocking five-piece born on Middlebury's campus. Now relocated to ...
Author: Joyce Man At the confluence of art and politics is a choice: construction or destruction. In war, the division becomes starker, as nations assert their own identities through art and try to eradicate the culture of the "other" by reducing it to negative simplifications. In his critically-acclaimed ...
Author: JOE BERGAN It is rare to come across a good satire in these days of safe plot lines and characters who flirt with the edge but do not jump right in. "Thank You for Smoking," however, takes the full plunge. Once you get the courage to go to Burlington to see this gem, desensitize yourself first. ...