Author: Liz Braunstein To the delight of many barefooted, grooving students who filled nearly half of the McCullough Social Space on Sept. 20, Strangefolk performed a two-hour show to promote their newly released live album, "Coast to Coast." Their set began with a rendition of the "Fat Albert" theme ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff It was a hazy, cloudy, overcast, intermittently rainy Saturday afternoon as Middlebury College football kicked off its 2002 season. As the sun started to break through towards the end of the second half the Panthers saw their 14-point lead disappear like parking on campus as the ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's strikingly fitting that Peter Bruntnell's two most recent albums, "Ends of the Earth" and "Normal for Bridgwater," were respectively released under the record labels Back Porch Records and Slow River Records. If you close your eyes and soak in either album, it would be easy ...
Author: [no author name found] Thursday, Sept. 19Keynote Address: Edward Albee: "The Playwright vs. The Theater," Introductory Remarks: President John M. McCardell, Jr., and Mel Gussow '55, New York Times critic and author. Mead Chapel, 8:00 p.m.Friday, Sept. 20Continental Breakfast, CFA, Lower Lobby, ...
Author: Kate Prouty Alex Poe, a senior theater major from Denver, Colo., will probably never be a starving artist. Not because he's not hungry, but because he's so hungry. About to graduate from Middlebury College, Poe has more than taken advantage of the College theater department.Working the intolerable ...
Author: Daniel Wolf Roda This past Friday my friend and I forewent the fresh Middlebury derriere to witness the opening show of Asian Man Records' second annual Plea for Peace / Take Action Tour (PFP/TAT) in Worcester, Mass., featuring the return of modern punk legend Jesse Michaels to the public stage.Michaels ...
Author: Erika Mercer Coldplay's music is like floating several hundred feet above the earth through a bright but hazy morning sky, feeling close to weightless. You're gazing down at the landscape below, which ranges from downy green pastures and quiet, level squares of farmland filled with grass-munching ...
Author: Abbie Beane If you were to climb the stairs of the Middlebury College Museum of Art today, you would find the daunting modernism of the Center for the Arts (CFA) contrasting a dusty, deteriorating barn house, your brand-new tennis shoes contrasting a pair of worn leather boots and an experience ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture a dark, smoky ballroom. Picture it in black and white. It's early morning and there are only a few solitary people left sitting around, each shrouded in smoke and floating in whiskey. The floor is dirty and the windows are draped with heavy, velvet curtains, but the room ...
Author: Colin Penley and Katrina Uhl The week before classes, a few dedicated dancers re-entered the world of the Center for the Arts for a pre-semester workshop with Luis Tentindo, a dancer from New York.Over the next three days, he led us in a test of strength, dedication and will-power. Each morning ...
Author: Kate Prouty Welcome to Middlebury College. Open your door, open your mind, head down the hill and find yourself at the College's own Museum of Art. Tucked in a far corner of the Center for the Arts (CFA), the Museum may be one of the College's most impressive but untapped resources. The Museum ...
Author: Kate Prouty Middlebury College's annual Clifford Symposium scheduled for next weekend has more to celebrate this year than ever before. Designed to launch the academic year into a turbulence of discussion over the selected subject matter, this year's Symposium also gets to blow out birthday ...
Author: Abbie Beane Serving as the perfect venue for experienced performers, artistic hopefuls, unabashed rookies and all those in between, "24 Hours of Art" promises to satisfy anyone with a voracious artistic appetite. Celebrating the Center for the Arts' (CFA) 10th anniversary, "24 Hours of Art" ...
Author: Scott Palmer The brackets for the Division III Men's Tennis National Championships were released on Monday, and the Middlebury Panthers will be hosting one of two New England Regionals this weekend. This is the first time in school history that the tennis team has made the prestigious National ...
Author: Andy Zrike On Friday night, the trio known as Guster returned to Middlebury College to headline the Middlebury College Activity Board (MCAB) spring concert. Playing for an hour and a half, the popular group played a set that included several classics and fan favorites in addition to some new ...
Author: Abbie Beanne On the first clear, warm night in several days, the air was laden with spirited energy, infectious sexuality and Jamaican chicken. Amidst marble-colored clusters of balloons strung with iridescent ribbon, black and silver draperies and tasty foreign food stood an enormous crowd ...
Author: Claire Bourne The collapse of the New York City skyline and the devastation incurred at the Pentagon on the crisp, blue morning of Sept. 11 left many speechless. Some, however, soon found a voice by picking up a pen and jotting down thoughts on paper. Words turned into phrases and phrases into ...
Author: Jen Greenfield 5/7/02 3:37 p.m. (live)Me: "Did 9/11 affect your work as an artist?"Greg: "Nope."Me: "Is Middlebury an apathetic community?"He: "Yup."Me: "Do you read The Campus?"He: "Yeah, uh, no, uh sometimes." 5/7/02 3:43 p.m. (recorded)Me: "Did 9/11 affect your work as an artist?"He: "Nope."Me: ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Things had returned to normalcy in Manhattan for the most part. What was perhaps the greatest tragedy our nation has ever known had, somehow, evolved into an amalgam of Sept. 11 exhibits, concerts and memorials that seemed to have always been part of the city's landscape. Then, ...
Author: [no author name found] Alex Rhinehart '05, Adam Rahal '05, David Bernay '04 and Whitney Whiken '02, members of Assistant Professor of German Bettina Matthias' class Vienna 1900, won the Annual German Theater Competition at Mt. Holyoke College for their performance of "Anatols Groessenwhan" on ...