Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Paris, 1960s. A black woman wearing a blond wig and a green dress with white polka-dots stands seductively on a street corner. A Jewish boy in his mid-teens watches her from a window above, practicing his lines, "Hello. It's a hot one. How much?" He finally gets up the nerve ...
Author: Lauren Budzyna By the end of last year, Conor Sheldon '06 and his band Larson had toured all over New England and played 17 shows, but they had practically ruined his friend's car by lugging heavy equipment all across the Northeast. By the same time last year, Sheldon had come across scores ...
Author: Hans Manzke I really like underground hip-hop. Let it be known far and wide. This is due largely to one of the top three underground labels - Definitive Jux. This indie label provides a constantly growing and evolving forum for a staggeringly wide array of hip-hop, from Cannibal Ox's real-world ...
Author: [no author name found] Nowadays the NYC dance-punk scene is everywhere. The movement's central figure, James Murphy, released his group LCD Soundsystem's eponymous debut album this January. He now can comfortably charge $6,000 a show and be a rock star. But how did Murphy get to be king of hipper-than-thou ...
Author: Lauren Smith Middlebury College's South Asia Club (SAC) filled the McCullough Social Space with the lively sounds of Bhangra Friday night as a dance and music troupe from Tufts University, performed to an animated audience. The performance, co-sponsored by SAC, the Office of Institutional Diversity ...
Author: SHEILA SELES Last Sunday night homosexuality held the spotlight on television. Apparently, sex does sell, and same-sex sex sells even better. The most hyped coming out occurred on the smartest show on television -"The Simpsons." The episode unfolds in typical "Simpsons" fashion. The writers ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Ah, the Academy Awards - an event where beautiful dresses, bad speeches and Hollywood politics come together for one unforgettable night. I will never forget Björk's stint as an egg-laying swan, Whoopie Goldberg's crass jokes about the color of her wind or the year "Titanic" ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell On Saturday, Feb. 19, violinist Gerald Elias performed along with pianist and Assistant in Music Cynthia Huard, in a program entitled "Music of the 21st Century" for a small crowd in the Center for the Arts (CFA). Throughout the night, the musicians performed works by Elias, ...
Author: Virginia Lawton Harper "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."It is with these confusingly contradictory words that Jeffrey Eugenides ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been singing? Jason Grout: I've been singing since I was really little - throughout childhood and high school. I took voice lessons in high school. Joel Wolfram: I never really sang formally until senior year of high school ...
Author: Virginia Harper This past January, several Middlebury students had the unique opportunity to participate in a Winter Term class, "Performing Chamber Music," under the guidance of Su Lian Tan, associate professor of Music. The course, which has been offered in previous years, brings together ...
Author: Sheila Seles Slip on your moccasins, comb your faux-hawk into place and get ready for the show that has fashionistas from coast to coast cheering. "Project Runway", the latest brainchild of entertainment mega-moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein (with help from super-model Heidi Klum), airs on Bravo ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH I am not a wine connoisseur, so after seeing Alexander Payne's "Sideways," I decided to do a little research. A good Pinot Noir, I discovered, is complex and flavorful, yet delicate, full-bodied and rich, but not heavy, has the texture of liquid silk and is high in alcohol. Other ...
Author: Richard Lawless What do you love about New York City? We all love something about it, even if it is the simple act of loving to hate it. It's the city of myth and mystery, and of course, the city that never sleeps. Yes, New York tends to make an enormous and lasting impression on everyone who ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Red Bull - the energy drink that is synonymous with vodka-laced partying and study-filled all-nighters - has never been a big hit with idlers. In fact, it is probably safe to say that those serious enough to guzzle multiple cans of the caffeine-loaded beverage are not looking to ...
Author: Alex Hay Julia Basso '04.5 and Kate Stamper '04.5 presented their collaborative senior work, "Transient Networks," Friday and Saturday nights in the CFA Dance Theatre, choreographing and performing in solos, duets and group pieces that aimed towards "integrating the themes of science, art, and ...
Author: Richard Lawless, Arts Editor Album titles tend to be characteristic of their respective genre. Hip-hop albums revel in gnomic statements ("Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told"); World albums are obsessed with bland, utopian euphemisms ("Surprise Dream"; "Rain Without Boundaries"); Jazz albums ...
Author: Sheila Seles If you happened to pass by a TV in the last week you probably already know that VH1 has unleashed on the world I Love the 90s: Part Deux. The premise of the show is simple - there is one hour-long episode for each year in the decade. A bunch of comedians, actors and musicians talk ...
Author: Josh Axelrod Thought-provoking, hilarious, dramatic. Last weekend's production of Shelagh Stephenson's "An Experiment With an Air Pump" was all this and more. Directed by Professor of Theatre Cheryl Farone, the play follows the lives of two families living in the same house in Newcastle-on-Tyne ...