Author: Chase Kvasnak Dimiter Daphinoff's speech on Monday, titled "Shakespeare in the 21st Century," focused on the not-always-recognizable contemporary relevance of Shakespeare's almost five centuries-old works. Daphinoff said that "Hamlet's wonderful reflection on the waste of human life, compared ...
Author: Erika Mercer While Spoon has been busy stripping down to a sound that is spotlessly clean and decidedly minimalist, their music has been growing and advancing exponentially with the release of each album. They have reached an all-time high with their most recent release, "Kill the Moonlight," ...
Author: Liz Lathey Something happened last Thursday night at the Higher Ground in Winooski, Vt. Something happened between Robert and Marcus Randolph, Danyel Morgan and John Ginty. The musical chemistry between these four musicians, who together make up the Family Band, was undeniable as they played ...
Author: Abbie Beane The old farm of Conrad Ormsby remains an imposingly handsome panorama, just as it looked 60 years ago in the photographs taken by Fritz Henley. Henley was one of the nine photographers sent on assignment by the U.S. government to capture proof of a 1930s and '40s Vermont in need ...
Author: Chris Richards As the keynote speaker of this year's Clifford Symposium, "Art Matters: Visions for the Arts in the 21st Century," theater legend Edward Albee commanded a Mead Chapel audience to get into the trenches and fight against what the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright described ...
Author: Kate Prouty Memory playing tricks on you is not necessarily the worst thing in the world, unless maybe you can't remember why it is you walked into a room. But when material from a performance two years ago reinvents itself into an original dance piece, then it's somewhat of a mental blessing.All ...
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 ...