Author: Suzanne Mozes As our nation showers the "Cradle of Civilization" with bombs, the foundations of ancient architecture and archeological sights quake alongside ancient artifacts, threatening 6,000 years of irreplaceable culture with ultimate destruction. "Shock and Awe" only awes me with the shock ...
Author: Lanford Beard What's in a face? A nose in any other shape smells just as sweet.No, that's not quite right.Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose nose is narrowest of them all?Or how about this one?Once upon a time in Gary, Indiana, a long, long time ago (or 1958, as it were), a young prince who would ...
Author: Lucie Greene Contemporary dance, particularly hip-hop, Asian, African and Latino influenced, is a major element of Middlebury College's arts and culture. Not only has break dancing become extremely popular, but concerts put on by troupes such as RIDDIM, as well as other visiting companies, sell ...
Author: Daniel Roda The Boston-based Irish punk rock group, The Dropkick Murphies, continues its tour of New England after quickly selling out the entire St. Patty's Day weekend in Boston. We caught their historic holiday performance last year. Footage from this show will be featured in their upcoming ...
Author: Michael Hatch This past Thursday was a treat. Ani DiFranco, solo, ripping into President Bush, taking on the war and gender divisions -- and, oh yeah, she smiled at me once, too. I rode down to Concord, N.H., with my sister and her high school buddies, and while I arrived newly educated on ...
Author: Christopher Lizotte The last several Fridays at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall have featured pianists of international renown who have performed programs drawn from the works of composers as diverse as classicists like Hayden and post-modernists such as Milton Babbitt. On Sunday, the trend ...
Author: Erika Mercer You might hate the guy who can sing a line as corny as, "I want so badly to believe / That there is truth and love is real," and get away with it. Or the same guy who can put a sweet, soft, Belle & Sebastian-esque voice to a quick, upbeat, 80s electronic dance beat and make ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Understanding that the Hepburn Zoo provides a unique venue for experimental work that otherwise would not be carried by larger, professional theaters, Director Christopher Richards '03 took advantage of this opportunity with "Dyskinesia." Richards' version of Sarah Kane's final ...
Author: Edward Pickering In 1975 an enigmatic Englishman named Bruce Chatwin left his job at The Sunday Times and traveled to Patagonia, a land he had always dreamed of visiting. His trip resulted in a book, "In Patagonia," that launched him on a new career as a travel writer. "In Patagonia" ranks among ...
Author: Lucie Greene The musical, dance and theater-oriented activities at Middlebury College, by virtue of their perfomative nature, are highly visible on campus. It's rare for a weekend to pass without seeing at least one talented student showcase his or her skill in either McCullough, the Center ...
Author: Susan Goehring On Sunday in the Dana Auditorium, Hollywood screenwriter Michael Bender '97 came to speak and show his work to the Middlebury College community. Bender is currently working on his latest film titled "Fist Full of Candy," a Halloween movie due out this October of 2004. He only ...
Author: Alexandra Hay From walking onstage in an ape-suit to dodging bullets "matrix" style, Clyde Evans and his dancers played with the absurdly humorous while delivering an engaging and thoughtful presentation of hip-hop culture. Gathering early outside the Dance Theatre doors on Friday night for ...
Author: Crystal Belle If laughter is the key to one's soul, then many souls were unlocked during the African American Alliance's annual Comedy Jam on Saturday. The McCullough social space was packed at 9 p.m. as Middlebury students piled into the hall, anxiously awaiting the evening events. This year ...
Author: Michael Hatch Students and professors alike flexed their academic brawn at the Fifth Annual Christian A. Johnson Symposium in the History of Art and Architecture, held Saturday in Bicentennial Hall. Asked to present research under the theme, "Envisioning Belief: Art and Religion," six professors ...
Author: Daniel Roda Due to efforts from WRMC 91.1, the Center for Campus Activities and Leadership, social and special interest houses and several other factors, the campus has experienced a revival of live music of all sorts, proving that the Middlebury social scene can in fact foster a community in ...
Author: Michael Hatch The multimedia dance work of Dominique Zeltzman and Selene Colburn, "The Stomach Never Lies: True Confessions and Moving Images," performed this past Thursday and Friday, March 6 and 7, at the Flynn Space in Burlington, tackled topics ranging from the possible war with Iraq to ...
Author: Richard Lawless To its own credit, Middlebury College has always done a remarkable job of attracting talented musicians for its Performing Arts Series. This time, the College's Arts Series organizers have outdone themselves with internationally acclaimed pianist Paul Lewis, who performed at ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture a barren winter landscape: a field masked in snow, several solitary brown, lifeless blades of grass poking through its top white layer. A gray sky and a row of leaning, drooping trees complete the stark, desolate scene -- a scene which threatens to be too stark and cold ...
Author: Edward Pickering Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and continuously in print since its first publication in 1974, Michael Shaara's civil war novel, "The Killer Angels," will appeal to a wide range of readers, not merely history buffs and retired soldiers.Overly enthusiastic commentators have ...
Author: Lucie Greene When sitting or studying in The Grille, it's quite easy to let a lot of the music be a comforting, but distinctly background, entity. It's also easy, with a range of cover tunes, to simply allow the much played lyrics to wash over you, in a haze of biology, physics, political science ...