Author: Gabe Broughton The subjects of David Foster Wallace's new book of essays, "Consider the Lobster," include the porn industry, John Updike's undying narcissism and the general awfulness of "Towards the End of Time," Franz Kafka's under-appreciated "funniness," the "seamy underbelly of U.S. lexicography," ...
Author: Melissa Marshall In our culture, where a "good" song is seen as something with a distinguishable refrain, it was refreshing to see the Middlebury College Center for the Arts Concert Hall reasonably full on a Monday night with highly entertained spectators. The Tengir-Too Ensemble, whose musical ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE I feel horrible. The only thing keeping me awake right now is a cup of coffee I had with lunch. I have that awful feeling of being held above the brink of sweet, sweet sleep by a necessary chemical high. This is because I just arrived back at school from a red-eye flight from ...
Author: Joyce Man At one point, as a sea of red light filled the background and an excited flurry of wind chimes and Tibetan chants rolled across the stage, Anita Ratnam ignited the stage with her swirling, grooving movements. Her arms, snakelike, slithered through space. In the dimmed atmosphere of ...
Author: Joyce Man Mallika Rao '05 is passionate about classical Indian dance and growing up, she was trained in the Bharatnatyam style. While a student at Middlebury, she performed in the International Students Organization Cultural Show as well as in Riddim dance troupe and Middance performances.The ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH An interactive exhibit opened at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington last Friday night. The exhibit, entitled Another Side of In: Mike Gordon and Marjorie Minkin, explores the linkage between sound, movement and visual art. Gordon, most widely known as the bass player of Phish, ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE Built to Spill"You in Reverse" PreviewRelease: Aprill 11, 2006I toyed with this topic for a while, mostly about whether to write it now or in April. But in the end I decided that I was just way too excited to sit on it until April 11. To what am I referring, dear reader? Why, ...
Author: Melissa Marshall This past Thursday or Friday, students could wander into the upper level of Johnson and immerse themselves in an interactive rainforest. Anyone could play a bicycle wheel using a violin bow to create astonishingly realistic bird and amphibian noises between their eleven and ...
Author: Ellen Grafton The Hepburn Zoo hosted a new sort of production last weekend. On March 10 and 11, audiences filled the house for "The Petting Zoo: A Workshop," which featured six new plays written by Middlebury students. Each play lasted about 10 minutes and had its own cast and director. Similar ...
Author: Bri Cavallaro Visiting Professor of English Michael Collier is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (BLWC), teaches English at the University of Maryland, College Park and was named the Poet Laureate of Maryland in 2001. His books of poetry include The Ledge (2000), The Neighbor ...
Author: Benjamin Golze "WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!"If some caveman had been frozen for the past 10,000 years and woke up today, and I ran into him as he stumbled out of the Green Mountains, that is what I might say to him. A caveman deserves as much warm-hearted hospitality as anyone else. Then again, I ...
Author: Emily Thompson Almost every week, someone, somewhere on the Middlebury campus screens a movie. The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) shows recent hits like "Brokeback Mountain" or "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" on Fridays. The French Department screens films like "La Haine" to expose students ...
Author: Penny Chen Walking out on stage in an oversized button-down shirt on top of a black t-shirt, dress pants and shoes, Vusi Mahlasela, seemed just as poised and at ease as any of the usual guests of classical music performing at the Middlebury College Center for the Arts. After settling in on the ...
Author: Zmira Zilkha Alex Hay '05 recently received an exclusive internship opportunity at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Dc. The reputable institution, founded in the early 1970's, produces a variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, multi-media performances ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Contemporary art is hot. Think lying on an asphalt high-rise rooftop, mid-day, mid-June; a 1920s forbidden French cabaret; or Sean Connery circa very early James Bond. Hot. Sizzling in fact. Just one step into a top New York, London or Paris gallery causes even the most expert ...
Author: Sara Jameson A clever and compelling conclusion to the winter carnival weekend, the Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont offered three interesting workshops and performed their eccentric work entitled, "National Circus of the Correct Moment." The show was funny, unconventional and inspiring in ...
Author: Alison lacivita Oh, Belle and Sebastian. So cute. So Scottish. I saw them for the first time at Pearl Street in Northampton two and half years ago when Dear Catastrophe Waitress was released. This is nothing against the band, but I fell asleep (the chairs were quite comfortable - theater seats ...
Author: Ellen Grafton Stepping onto McCullough stage last Wednesday, Claudia Stevens let out an eerie, crooning alien noise that reverberated through the audience. So began Stevens' one-woman show, "Dreadful Sorry Guys." "Dreadful Sorry Guys" combined vocals, piano and monologues to explore genocide ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Emmie Donadio is the Chief Curator of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Co-Faculty head of Atwater Commons. Donadio has worked in the museum since its inception in 1990, first as assistant director, then as associate director and, since 2004, as chief curator. Her most ...
Author: JOYCE MAN "Punch is nothing without lemon." So read the masthead motto for Punch, a British satire magazine famous for its caricatures that gave the word "cartoon" its modern usage. The saying began as a joke on the magazine's first editor, Mark Lemon, but, stretch its meaning out (exaggeration ...