Author: LAUREN SMITH Realism is making a comeback. Just wait and see. It will soon be filling the studios of countless college students who, last year, were splattering paint on mud-smeared canvases or sculpturing deformed cows out of paper mache. This artist isn't complaining. Let me tell you why realism ...
Author: Joyce Man If one were to single something out about this year's production of "The Vagina Monologues," it would be the performance's attempt to leave no one singled out. This, after all, is the quintessential play about discovering the female self through community sharing. The formula is simple ...
Author: JASON GUTIERREZ I think it is finally time to set the record straight and clear emo's name. Emo is a sub-genre of hardcore punk. It has enjoyed several waves of popularity, the first of such waves coming out of the Washington D.C. hardcore scene during the mid 1980s. Bands like Rites of Spring ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH Perhaps the most seductive aspect of "Match Point" is that Woody Allen excludes himself from the picture. The absence of that high-pitched, screeching voice, nagging with idiosyncrasies, concerns and anxieties, is certainly a relief. The unlikely hero that Allen always chooses ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Middlebury College is a community renowned for its diversity and commitment to promoting the student body's involvement in many different endeavors and activities, so it was somewhat shocking to discover that it has no formal jazz ensemble. "When I came to Middlebury here as ...
Author: Joyce Man Dick Forman, who began his long, intimate journey with music at a young age by playing classical piano, is a dedicated member of four-man Dick Forman Jazz Group and regularly teaches jazz at Middlebury College and around Vermont. Now, as he embarks on the revival of a project called ...
Author: Tristan Hayes I like to imagine while writing this music column that I work for a bustling metro newspaper circa 1950. Men with names like Frank and Bill are madly shouting at each other about fact-checking the cop beat, their shirt sleeves rolled up on arms gesticulating wildly about ink orders ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Discovering a good museum is immensely fulfilling. Finding it inside a converted turbine hall is even better. But if you combine these two with the chance to see one of modern art's most prodigious works, well then, you're either just plain lucky or, more likely, you've entered the ...
Author: Ellen Grafton On Feb. 1, while most Middlebury students traveled across the country to begin their February break, the cast and crew of "The Bewitched" trekked to Fitchberg, Mass. for the latest performance of their epic show. The performance was part of the 38th annual Kennedy Center American ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Most dorms on campus enclose students in blank, vapid, white walls. At best, the walls exist unnoticed; at worst they stand unfriendly and uninspiring. The walls of Battell Hall used to be among the most lifeless on campus. Recently, however, an explosion of inspiration, zeal ...
Author: Lauren Smith On Tuesday, a 77-year-old Frenchman was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of nearly $300,000. The charge? He attacked the infamous urinal created by Marcel Duchamp during the 1920s Dada art movement with a hammer at an exhibit in Paris, France. This is ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Four of the six band members were interviewed for this article:Conor Sheldon- Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Alto Saxophone, Josh Bookin - Vocals, Lead Guitar, Alex Banys - Percussion, Drums Christopher Nielson - Keys, Piano, Synth.The Middlebury Campus: Who is Larson? When did you ...
Author: Ellen Grafton Artist-in-residence and Artistic director of the Middlebury Dance Program Amy Chavasse along with members of the Middlebury Dance Company, gave a preview Tuesday afternoon of their upcoming performance, "Enemies." The preview included an informal presentation of two pieces from ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE When prompted as to the best that the Canadian music industry has to offer, most Americans would probably identify only Celine Dion, if anyone at all. As far as I can tell, since Robbie Robertson left The Band in 1976, the Great White North has had little to offer their friendly ...
Author: Gabe Broughton "Munich" is Steven Spielberg's second film in a year to deal at least obliquely with terrorism. Spielberg and his star, Tom Cruise, were quite vocal about their shared enthusiasm for the applicability of "War of the Worlds" to global terrorism. Of course, "War of the Worlds" concerned ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Emily Elizabeth, the gender-bending lead singer of Kiss Me Deadly, had the audience chanting "We are all alone" at the end of their show last Friday night. However, no one was alone in the sweltering Coltrane Lounge where music lovers and intoxicated undergraduates, looking ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH As an American studying in London for several months last year, I was exposed to harassment from my flatmates on everything from Bush's questionable relationship with Tony Blair to the way that American institutions like McDonalds and Burger King have made their way across the ocean. ...
Author: Bri Cavallaro Geof Prysirr is a professional acting coach, actor and writer from Los Angeles, Calf. This January, he joins the Middlebury community to teach the class "Acting for Film and Television."The Middlebury Campus: What brings you to snowy Vermont?Geof Prysirr: I became familiar with ...
Author: Benjamin Golze The beginning of the year is the time when lazy music writers across the country take the easy way out for one more week by looking back at the year gone by, and then making wild, unsubstantiated claims about the next year's trends. So, without further ado, I present the all-inclusive ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH "Brokeback Mountain" tells the tragic story of two cowboys who meet and fall in love while ranching sheep in the mountains of Wyoming during the summer of 1963. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), an introverted and simple man, makes every effort to keep to himself. Jack Twist (Jake ...