Author: Liz Braunstein Mead Chapel had everything but a glowing fireplace. The rows of poinsettias housed on the altar, wreaths hanging from the balconies draped with red ribbon and lit candles placed around the room created a warm atmosphere for Middlebury College's annual Lessons and Carols for Advent ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes As the quilts of Gee's Bend, Ala., hang in their unnaturally vertical positions on the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art, I am immediately reminded of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use." Walker's short story depicts Dee, a young citified woman, returning home to her unsophisticated ...
Author: Erika Mercer It is a dark murder mystery on a tropical island. A tale of deceit and remorse, shadows and distorted identities, complete with rushed whispers, furtive glances and disguised appearances. Enemies are passionate lovers and friends are cunning swindlers. Revenge becomes obsession ...
Author: Edward Pickering The British zoologist Gerald Durrell led an itinerant life studying the fauna of Africa, Australia, South America and elsewhere. He recorded his adventures and expeditions in several wonderful volumes of books that permanently endeared him to the reading public. "My Family and ...
Author: Lanford Beard Is Justin Timberlake's solo debut "Justified?" Decidedly not.Timberlake said he wanted to do something "different" and "more me" with his new CD. If by "more me" he means contrived and by "different" he means exactly the same, then Timberlake is right on track.Many have touted ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe The posters for the most recent Hepburn Zoo play, "Laughter Suffering," featured a white skeleton outlined against a black backdrop, as if a flash of light had revealed the hidden form lurking in the darkness. On Nov. 23 in the Zoo, this skeleton was brought to life in horrifying ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson The Dance and Theatre Department's annual production "New Dances" saw an encouraging turnout. Each night, the seven newly choreographed dances by the students of Intermediate Dance (TD260) were showcased. The courses' purpose, according to the program, was to "explore the experience ...
Author: Kate Prouty The World Dance Club Riddim, which is Jamaican patois for "rhythm," always puts on a good show: McCullough is always packed, the moves are always tight and the energy is always high. But how high was it this year?Yeah, it was a great show, but "Guerilla Beats" didn't quite stack ...
Author: Jimmy Jung Forty years ago, when "Dr. No" first hit the screen, audiences around the world were introduced to a new kind of cinematic action hero: James Bond. This debonair Englishman with a taste for well fitted tuxedos, aged Dom Perignon and gorgeous women might well have seemed like any staunch ...
Author: Daniel Wolf Roda Two Fridays ago, Middlebury music aficionados were treated to a captivating performance by the sad-core music minimalism of Bill Callahan. Think of hard-core, slow it down to a crawl, drown it in a birdbath full of self-indulgent teardrops and that's what I mean by sad-core ...
Author: Suzanne Moses In celebration of traditional theater, a red curtain hung at Wright Memorial Theatre Nov. 21 through 23 for "The Illusion," written by Pierre Corneille, freely adapted by Tony Kushner and directed by Visiting Instructor in Theater Claudio Medeiros '90. Gusts of wind blew from beneath ...
Author: Edward Pickering Book: "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" (Penguin 1995)Author: Mario Vargas LlosaThe narrator of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel might resemble you, at least on the surface. Mario is an 18-year-old student, profoundly disinterested in his studies. And to be honest, that is about where ...
Author: Abbie Beane "College is a non-stop whirlwind of excitement and IM, punctuated by hook-ups, drunken hook-ups and failed attempts at hooking-up. There are plenty of aspects of college other than sex and alcohol, but those are the two that result in the most noise.""You will study. You will forget ...
Author: Kate Prouty When reviewing a modern dance piece, you're not supposed to award all of your praise to the dancers (I don't know who said this. It's just one of those insupportable rules). After all, it's the choreographer who decides what his dancers do. He is the puppet master, the mind and organization, ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's like passing by a closed bedroom door, overhearing a conversation from within the room. You don't know who the people talking are, and you know you shouldn't be listening in, but the phrases you gather are too intense and intriguing to turn your ear away. The conversation is ...
Author: Richard Lawless Middlebury College welcomed acclaimed hip-hop group The Roots to its cavernous Nelson Arena last Saturday. Performing for a packed crowd, the group unleashed such favorites as "The Next Movement" and "You Got Me" from their breakthrough 1999 album, "Things Fall Apart." Highly ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Senior Alex Poe's adaptation of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus premiered this past weekend in the Hepburn Zoo, stinging audiences with directorial and authorial innovation on the Algerian Nobel Prize-winning book.Poe, in his last year as a double major in theater and literary studies ...
Author: Richard Lawless Widely-celebrated British organ virtuoso Thomas Trotter took the stage in Middlebury's Mead Chapel last Sunday afternoon, delivering a terrific 90-minute set with pieces ranging from baroque to contemporary on the chapel's powerful organ.Trotter is internationally renowned for ...
Author: Abbie Beane Though he may not be Wes Craven, independent Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven still has a daunting audacity for approaching haunting issues. And why should you care? Because his most recent work, "The Year That Trembled" will be screened at Dana Auditorium on Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Based ...
Author: Suzanne Moses Senior Zoe Anastassiou dared her audience to "veer from what's neutral" in "Tell me Something Pretty," a production of six provocative one-act plays, directed by Claire Wyckoff '03 and Kayte Spector '04. Anasttassiou chose scenes, along with the directors and faculty advisers, ...