Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt Associate Professor of American Literature & Civilization Will Nash plays bass in the Doughboys, Middlebury's all-faculty band which will be rocking the Grille scene tonight from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m.The Middlebury Campus: How did the group start?Will Nash: We started playing ...
Author: Zachary Hecht-Leavitt From the haunting, dreamlike cascade of notes that marked the beginning of Company's opening number, it was clear that this was not your ordinary musical. Sure, there were the occasional tap dances and kick lines, but throughout the production flowed an undercurrent of ...
Author: [no author name found] I was first introduced to My Morning Jacket with their third full-length "It Still Moves," which is the band's seminal album. I immediately loved the Kentucky 5-piece band. They had a big, classic southern rock sound that soared but never seemed to hit anything. For those ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL In the past I have felt that Middlebury lacked a solid selection of literary magazines, or the ones that did exist were not extensively publicized. However, much to my gratification, the tides seem to be changing this year. Several new magazines have come out and old ones are ...
Author: JOYCE MAN In the face of disaster, or rather because of the necessities it poses, people enterprise. We've all seen them - news of hurricanes, reports on riots and photographs of devastating tsunamis and earthquakes. Death tolls in Indonesia and Pakistan, curfews in France, arrests in Iraq ...
Author: Ellen Grafton This weekend under the direction of Professor of Theatre Richard Romagnoli, the Middlebury Theatre Department will present the American premiere of "The Bewitched" by Peter Barnes. "The Bewitched" is one of the largest projects the Department has ever undertaken. At Tuesday's Behind ...
Author: Sara Jameson The Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) exhibited great musical and comedic talent in the group's performance of "Little Shop of Horrors." Last weekend's production of the hit 1982 Broadway musical, which was adapted from the film original by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Kevin Buckland is a senior Independent Scholar and co-president of Middlebury's Vitality of the Artistic Community Association (VACA) from Westfield, NJ. His paintings can be seen at www.TheRevolutionFactory.com.The Middlebury Campus: When did you start painting and why?Kevin ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Last Wednesday Dana Auditorium filled with people eager to see Diego Velásquez's sumptuous masterpiece Las Meninas come to life. No, no waving wands or murmured incantations enlivened Velásquez or conjured the spirits of the Hapsburg family depicted in the famed painting. ...
Author: Grace Duggan Chris Lizotte is a junior from Nashua, NH, with a passion for jazz. He has played in numerous bands, including Larson.The Middlebury Campus: When did you start playing saxophone?Chris Lizotte: When I was in fifth grade, and there's no cool story behind it. It was just sort of starting ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH This past Saturday night, students, faculty and visitors poured into Dana Auditorium and after filling the chairs, they sat on the floor and even stood in the corners to see the remarkable documentary, "Born into Brothels." Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ...
Author: Sara Jameson Powerful, sensual and surging with energy, the performances by Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers reflected the true art of choreography, grace and vigor. The performances of the company's two works, "Rein, Bellow" and "Ripe for Hysteria," ranged from displays of other-worldly ...
Author: Joyce Man The Italians should be disturbed. From now until 2025, a giant pink bunny will lie prostrate and rotting from the inside out on the Coletto Fava mountainside with its arms, legs and ears flopping spread-eagled at its side, its entrails curling out and its mouth frozen in a tragic, ...
Author: Ellen Grafton "Wabeno," a student show being put up in the Zoo, opens on Nov. 9 and promises to be something very different for the Middlebury theater scene. Produced by senior Jeff King, it seeks to break the rules associated with traditional theater and to create an exciting, new experience ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA Perhaps I have just been studying for the GRE Literature for too long, but I could not help equating Homer and Virgil to the artists Pavement and Guided by Voices, and Holopaw to the neo-classicists. When I first began listening to what is now known as "indie rock," it was due ...
Author: Ian Thomas Fleishman The Muir String Quartet's performance on Sunday afternoon met with one of the warmest receptions ever experienced at Middlebury. The constant visual communication between the players was reflected as a unity of sound rarely achieved by even the most skilled and experienced ...
Author: Tristan Hayes Eight years ago, emerging from a pivotal experience at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, David Weinstock founded The Otter Creek Poets. The group, free and open to all, meets weekly to workshop poems. This past week, I interviewed David on the role of the writing workshop and the ...
Author: Penny Chen Following the sold-out run of "Falsettos" last year, the Music Department is producing its second musical. This year, they have chosen "Company," a "concept musical," or a musical made up of short vignettes connected by one theme that breaks all the rules of traditional music theater. ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE "Accept the insanity...convince the others it's a dance party...embrace the distortion...try to 'control' the 'confusion'...make sure ghosts doesn't sound like goats."So read the liner notes to "Broken Social Scene," the long-awaited third album from the Canadian band of the same ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL "They ate hot cereal made out of whole wheat that was literally whole and slightly boiled ... Ivan's crew once had to wash their excrement in salt water and sift it with a sieve. What remained was cooked again." -From April Fool's Day, by Josip Novakovich ...