Author: Edward Pickering Autobiographies rarely attain 'classic' status. Most are of the airport newsstand variety. Retired generals and politicians transcribe blow-by-blow testimonials and actors and athletes fill pages with self-pity. The life of these autobiographies is short: they fly off the shelves ...
Author: Chris Richards Three college students endure an icy Middlebury day in a film that intertwines their stories to explore relationships immersed in the awkward, alienating and quirky social world of a small liberal arts college. Clever, subdued performances, striking use of color and images and ...
Author: [no author name found] War debt (on taking my son to college) Amy McGill, associate director of the Center for Educational TechnologyYesterday, it seems, you watched the world heavily from my hip: across the lawn, an old Hmong woman tended her plot, her terraced fields reduced to a tiny square ...
Author: Richard Lawless The 2002-2003 Middlebury College Performing Arts Series went out with a bang with Arnaldo Cohen's brilliant performance this past Friday at the Center for the Arts. Entering the hall with a personable demeanor, Cohen took a few moments to collect his thoughts before commencing ...
Author: Lucie Greene Andrew Bishop '05 seems to be one of those people who simply epitomizes "cool." You know? The sort of person who, with casual indifference, manages to display a skill for singing and performance, possess a distinct gritty voice with amazing stage presence and then - almost by accident ...
Author: Michael Hatch Studio art majors Dave Sharp '03 and Gigi Gatewood '03 opened an exhibition of their independent work titled "Again, For the First Time," last Friday in the Johnson Gallery. On display until Wed., April 30, the exhibit showcases Sharpe's paintings and site-specific sculptures and ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller The production of "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" that went up in Hepburn Zoo Theater last weekend was dominated by the incredibly intense and compelling performance of Damian L. Washington '03. He was on stage from the very second that the audience entered the theater, but he ...
Author: Lucie Greene The first thing that strikes you after meeting Sara Stranovsky '04 is her energy. When you contemplate the member of groups she's involved in, it's difficult to imagine how one person could participate in and be talented at quite so much. It was refreshing to meet someone like her ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes The African American Alliance (AAA) brought Motown to the Middlebury campus this past Saturday evening in McCullough.At their spring show, co-sponsored by The Office for Institutional Diversity, PALANA, Women of Color and Middlebury Open Queer Alliance, AAA presented "Joining Together ...
Author: Vlad Lodoaba You'd think that people learn something from the experience of banging their head really hard against a wall, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Steven Spielberg. His "A.I." was a crash-and-burn movie, mainly because of its unjustified length and the soporific attempts at ...
Author: Erika Mercer "If I try to forget something, that's when I end up remembering it."Pete Yorn's recent release, "Day I Forgot," puts this statement to music. It is the snapshot memory that is indelibly marked on your consciousness, the image or scene from long ago that recurs in your mind. Perhaps ...
Author: Lanford Beard At this particular moment in pop history, we seem to have transcended pre-fabrication. One too-soon-to-tell, pre-pre-fab success story is Kelly Clarkson, who earned her fame courtesy of a nationally televised talent contest in which she formed a musical persona before releasing ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Saturday afternoon I wandered happily into the Hepburn Zoo Theater and was surprised and delighted to find coffee and a delectable assortment of cookies laid out on a table next to the entrance. I poured myself a much-needed cup of java with plenty of sugar and quickly claimed ...
Author: Edward Pickering John le CarrÈ cuts a patrician figure in the world of spy writing. He has been in the game for a long time - since 1974, in fact, when "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" topped bestseller charts across the globe. The novel, the first in a trilogy, is simply sensational. Le CarrÈ, ...
Author: Pascale LaFountain "We would just like to note that no birth control was used in this performance." Although Richard Lutjens' '03 statement was shocking, it was in no way out of line given the themes of the German Department's play about sexuality and relationships in 1900 Vienna and today. ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture a tawny desert floor, a bare sweep of never-ending dust and dirt. Above it all, a pervasive stretch of sky, a boundless expanse of blueness. Solitary bushes withhold the scorching heat, standing stagnant, determined, caked with dust. Somewhere, a scorpion scuttles hastily ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This weekend in Seeler Studio Theater, five extraordinary women re-examined their experiences of friendship, passion, heartbreak, betrayal and hope in the first of this semester's two faculty directed shows, "Taken in Marriage."The play, directed by Professor of Theater Douglas ...
Author: Edward Pickering Elspeth Huxley's "The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood" brings to mind a book previously reviewed in this column, "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell. In content and sensibility, the two books mirror one another. For readers looking for nonfiction ...
Author: Richard Lawless It's a safe assumption that most students at Middlebury College view their time here as an excellent opportunity to expand their horizons. The College's radio station, WRMC, which resides at 91.1 FM on your radio dial, uses this same credo through its promotion of unheard music, ...
Author: Alexandra Hay On Thursday and Friday evenings, a devoted Francophile audience filed into the McCullough Social Space for the presentation of the French circle's play, "Fantasio." As the play was performed entirely in French, spectators were mostly limited to French professors, students and exchange ...