Author: ALISON LACIVITA (Smog), formerly known as Smog, is the name adopted by singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, a pioneer of the lo-fi revolution. He debuted in 1988 with a cassette-only released entitled "Macrame Gunplay" and signed with Chicago-based label Drag City in 1991 after the release of the ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson Theatre major Rachel Dunlap '06 certainly got to know her department better this summer. For seven weeks, Dunlap and eight other Middlebury students, including Rebecca Martin '04.5, Andrew Zox '05, John Stokvis '05, Meghan Nesmith '06, Julia Proctor '06.5, Lucas Kavner '06.5 ...
Author: Joyce Man Last year, Harvard University junior Anthony Fonseca was found dead after apparently killing himself in the University's Winthrop House. His was the second suicide there in 14 months. In the fall of 2003, 33 people were arrested in an elaborate drug bust at the University of Virginia. ...
Author: Benjamin Golze Not to be confused with the Mexican pop star of the same name, Lucero is a Southern rock band from Memphis, Tenn. Though the band itself has never been punk, Lucero's members all milled around in the Memphis punk rock scene before taking a quieter, alt-country route that dominated ...
Author: Joshua Axelrod Continuing the celebration of Hillel's 50th anniversary at Middlebury College, as well the 350th anniversary of American Jewry, this past weekend's production of Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" was a shining blend of true-to-life comedy framed ...
Author: Richard Lawless The role of a music critic is to act as a Virgil to the musical Dante as they journey through hell together. Though most people find critics to be bitter, angry pricks, they still read and listen to them, even if it's only for the sheer entertainment value. I hope that, if anything, ...
Author: Megan O’Keefe After winning laughs on stage last weekend as Joe Farkas in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," Andrew Zox '05 will try his hand at comedy once again this weekend when he presents "In a Pig's Valise," his senior directing work, in the Hepburn Zoo. The play, a parody of the 1940s detective ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH It's summer 1978, and 10-year-old Michele just wants to be a kid. In the idyllic setting of southern Italy, he and his friends run through the wheat fields and make mischief in their remote village. But when this perfect world is suddenly shattered, Michele soon learns that ...
Author: — By Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: Tell us about your film.Dan Smarg: I started a film here at Midd sophomore year, but we didn't get to finish it because the two leads went abroad. I ended up going abroad to England the following year. At York University, I didn't ...
Author: Ben Salkowe While Middlebury's Theatre department has made a name for itself putting on first-rate dramas and even the occasional comedy, musical theatre has long been largely absent from the College's performing arts scene. Director Doug Anderson, visiting assistant professor of Music, and ...
Author: Lauren Smith Painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking are all represented this week at a Senior Student exhibit in Johnson Gallery. The show, with works by Tyne Pike-Sprenger '05, Stina Marshall-Parr '05 and Sydney Atkins '05 is the culminating exhibit of the three Studio Art majors.The ...
Author: Alexandra Hay For the Dance Company of Middlebury's performances Friday and Saturday nights, April 22 and 23, the entire Dance Theatre was rotated 90 degrees and risers of chairs wrapped around two sides of the stage. With the traditional black velvet wings and back curtain replaced with a white ...
Author: Alexandra Hay In celebration of Earth Day 2005, Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen presented the Birdhouse Project, a collaboration of over 20 dancers intended to perform outside by the Center for the Arts pond last Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Those who went Friday were lucky enough ...
Author: Andre Estanislao Existentialism and the confrontion of death, two very somber and serious subjects, were rendered light-hearted and more palatable in last weekend's staged theatrical performance of Eugène Ionesco's "Le Roi se meurt" ("Exit the King") at the new Château Performance Space. The ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Oh, Canada, where would critically acclaimed music be without you? There would be no Arcade Fire, no Godspeed You Black Emperor, no New Pornographers and no Cowboy Junkies. And most importantly of all, there would be no Leonard Cohen or Neil Young. Yes, Canada, that mysterious ...
Author: Eliza Hulme "This is what we want to show you. An exploration." So went the production notes in the program of this past weekend's Zoo offering, "Culture Shock." The show, encompassing the senior work of Liz Hammett, investigated themes of language, isolation and connection using material that ...
Author: [no author name found] Last Saturday, Hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean came to Middlebury College for the annual spring concert. With 1,500 ticket sales and 1,200 fans in attendence, the concert was called a big success by members of the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB).The concert ran ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH If you want a go to the movies but can't decide what mood you're in, "Kung Fu Hustle" might be for you. Combining live-action and computer-generated martial arts, slapstick comedy, Tarantino-style blood and guts, a dash of cartoonishness and a little Buddhist mysticism, Stephen ...
Author: Jodie Zhang and Lauren Smith The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been creating art?Jackie Laryea: I've been drawing since I was seven, so it's been more than half of my life. My sister Alice was always drawing and doing art and because I wanted to be around her, I started to draw too. Then, ...
Author: Lauren Smith Aliens, decapitations, Cupid and Greek mythology all figure into the work of Christian A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence Will Villalongo in his current Johnson Gallery exhibition of work completed during his residency. The show consists of five cut velour pieces, one acrylic and cut ...