Author: Jessica Jorge As the lights dimmed, all that could be seen were 23 dark figures wearing neon green glow sticks around their heads as if crowned with halos. Next, black lights illuminated the stage not to reveal the faces of the performers, but rather 46 hands glowing in white musicians gloves. ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Like any music nerd, I love record shopping in New York. What I don't like are annoying trendy poseur music store clerks in Brooklyn who don't know anything about music. Recently I found myself in a fashionable Brooklyn corner record store, akin to Burlington's Pure Pop Records ...
Author: Lauren Smith The Center for the Arts (CFA) concert hall was filled on Thursday, March 17, with the sounds of the Middlebury College Orchestra under conductor Troy Peters. The performance was entitled a "Student Showcase" and featured the world premiere of compositions by Andrew Lindblad '05, ...
Author: Jodie Zhang and Lauren Smith The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been playing violin?Megan Guiliano: About 17 years. I started playing violin when I was three through the Suzuki program organized in my hometown.The Campus: Tell us about your participation in the orchestra. How many hours ...
Author: SHEILA SELES The rough underside of L.A. portrayed on "The Shield" is about as far from our idyllic college campus as imaginable. Yet, this Emmy-winning police drama was created by Middlebury grad Shawn Ryan '88. Ryan visited Middlebury last spring to talk with students and to accept an award ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Imagine you're a 17-year-old girl and you spend your days on a rose plantation dethorning flowers. Imagine this job pays almost nothing, and the conditions are terrible. You are surrounded by harsh chemicals, fed almost nothing and barely allowed to use the bathroom. This is ...
Author: Richard Lawless There comes a time in every lo-fi indie rocker's career when they decide it's time to get rid of the tape hiss and actually record an album with normal production standards. Lo-fi originators Pavement gradually cleaned up their sound over the course of their career, eventually ...
Author: Hans Manzke Wyclef Jean is an almost incomprehensible conglomeration of pop-culture sponge, businessman, superstar producer, actor and faithful representative of his native Haiti. The man owns 48 cars, is worth many millions of dollars and produces tracks for some of hip-hop's biggest stars. ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How did you become interested in breakdancing?Yuichiro Mitsutomi: I started breakdancing freshman fall after watching Morgan Alexander Jones (aka Mojo, who graduated last year) breakdancing at a party. I didn't have any prior experience with ...
Author: Josh Axelrod "The stage," writes Richard Romagnoli in his Director's notes to this past weekend's Zoo production of Snoo Wilson's "Vampire," "becomes a literal playground of ideas and theatrical styles, full of possibilities with the only limitation being our imaginations."Taking this complicated ...
Author: SHEILA SELES There is a sport on television that combines men in cowboy hats, arenas of screaming fans, the possibility for serious injury and the best athletes I've ever seen. Those athletes have names like Little Yellow Jacket, Crossfire Hurricane and Red Wolf. The sport is bull riding. The ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Parents of Middlebury students will begin receiving letters from President Ronald D. Liebowitz today announcing a 2005-2006 comprehensive fee of $42,120 - a 4.25 percent increase from the current fee. An e-mail from the President's office will be sent to students in the next several ...
Author: [no author name found] Once upon a time, in a shining city called New York, there lived a handsome man named Alex Hitchinson. Alex, or Hitch, as he was known, helped other men get the women of their dreams, but had yet to find love himself. Also in this city, there lived a beautiful gossip ...
Author: Margaret Ray Students entered the expanse of the new Atwater dining hall in a slow trickle on a Thursday night. Some appeared apprehensive while they took a seat, others made straight for the bagels and coffee in the rear. The lights were dim, and there was a man seated in the front plucking ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: What kinds of art are you involved in at Midd?Anjelika Paranjpe: Well, I'm co-president of Vitality of the Artistic Community (VACA). I've been doing that since my junior year. And then there's Artemis, which is a women's art mag. That was ...
Author: Sheila Seles My fellow TV-watchers, ask not what your television can do for you. Ask what you can do for your television. (I can't hear you asking since this is a newspaper column, so I'll just assume you did ask.) I'll tell you what you can do for your television - join the fight to save ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Simply stated, the Books sound like nothing that came before or after them. You could certainly classify them in a bland, vague sub-genre if you really had to, but this would do their sheer originality a painful injustice. Describing their music proves to be an admittedly difficult ...
Author: Josh Axelrod There can be no question, this past weekend's staging of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" was an impressive and delightful effort on the part of first-time director Brian Siegele '07 and his young cast.Throughout its three hour running time, the play follows ...
Author: SHEILA SELES The Oscars were pretty boring this year. They were pretty boring on all fronts. There were no real upsets in the awards. No one was dressed really terribly. Even Joan Rivers seemed on her best, albeit senile, behavior. Or maybe my Oscar malaise stems from the fact that I seem to ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Bright Eyes, a.k.a. Conor Oberst, is in the middle of a media hurricane as I write this. After a three-year hiatus, he released two albums this January - at the height of the slow album season - and newspapers everywhere are singing his praises, with rumblings of, at long last, ...