Arts & Culture
Le Consort in concert
By Makeda Hevrin | February 29, 2024Music lovers from the college and Middlebury community alike gathered on Thursday, Feb. 22 at the Mahaney Arts Center for an evening of Baroque chamber music brought to Middlebury by Le Consort, a quartet of talented French string musicians that formed in 2015.
Middlebury Art Museum unveils new spring exhibits
By Aine Powers | February 29, 2024Staff, students and faculty recently gathered at a reception on Thursday, Feb. 22 to celebrate the opening of The Middlebury Museum of Art’s two new spring exhibitions: “David Plowden: Portraits of America” and “Derrick Adams: Sanctuary.” Both exhibitions will run until April 14, offering ...
“Either/Or,” a student’s patchwork search for how to live
By Madeleine Kaptein | February 29, 2024In the summer after my first semester at Middlebury, I read “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman, the novel to which “Either/Or” is the sequel. Both books center Selin, a Turkish American woman at Harvard beginning in the year 1995.
Makes Ya Feel: February New Music Roundup
By Ellie Trinkle | February 29, 2024Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, book worms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel! Check back every other week for recommendations, reviews and discussions. ...
Reel Critic: “Human Flow”
By Charlie Deichman-Caswell | February 29, 2024On the plush red seats of Axinn 232, attendees perched last week for a screening of “Human Flow,” Ai Weiwei’s 2017 visual exploration of human displacement. Co-sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Middlebury History of Art and Architecture department, the event drew a mix of community ...
Mutual Friends plays final concert at Middlebury
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri | February 22, 2024The much-loved and uniquely long-lasting student band Mutual Friends played their final show on Saturday, Jan. 28, just a week before five of the band’s eight members skied down the Snow Bowl for the Feb celebration. In addition to lead singer Annabelle Iredale ’23.5, guitarist Andrew Grossman ’23.5, ...
United for Ukraine: Showcasing Ukrainian resistance through art
By Norah Khan | February 22, 2024Students and community members packed the Mahaney Arts Center to witness the third annual United for Ukraine event. The show was organized by Middlebury College’s Ukrainian students in partnership with the Mahaney Arts Center and the Music department, with support from the Office of the President, ...
Reel Critic: “Maestro"
By Jack Torpey | February 22, 2024He is only two films in, but Bradley Cooper seems to have already found his thematic sweet spot as a director. “A Star is Born,” the 49-year-old actor’s 2018 directorial debut, swept audiences away with its music-centric retelling of a classic Hollywood romance, making a movie star out of Lady ...
Beyoncé’s boots were made for strutting
By Catherine Goodrich | February 22, 2024During an otherwise unremarkable third quarter of Super Bowl LVIII, Beyoncé announced a forthcoming album, identified as “Act II,” to be released on March 29. The Queen used a cheeky Verizon ad appearance to prove the internet can “B broken” when she said the commercial’s closing words: “Release ...
Author Emily St. John Mandel stirs discussion of art and humanity at Middlebury
By Aidan Amster | February 22, 2024Canadian novelist and essayist Emily St. John Mandel brought the larger Middlebury community together for an event full of laughter and insights into her work and creative process. The Middlebury student body sat alongside members of ‘book clubs’ from the college, a high school class, the Vermont ...
“Next to Normal” delivers message of hope for audience and for the future of Middlebury theater
By Arthur Martins | February 13, 2024Put on in late January, "Next to Normal" was the sixteenth J-term musical performed at Town Hall Theater in downtown Middlebury. The musical told the story of a woman living with bipolar disorder and psychosis and her family as they sought a path toward healing.
New England Review Student Poetry Night draws community together through vulnerability
By Joshua Glucksman | January 31, 2024The New England Review held its Student Poetry Night on Monday, Jan. 22. Over 40 students, New England Review staff and community members gathered to hear the work of ten student performers on topics including nirvana, parental relationships and adjusting to college life.
Takacs Quartet impresses listeners of all ages
By Charlie Deichman-Caswell | January 25, 2024The arrival of the Takács Quartet, heralded by The New York Times as “one of the world’s greatest string quartets,” has been highly anticipated since the group’s genre-bending performance as a part of the Middlebury Performing Arts Series nearly two years ago. The group made its return to campus ...
Coffee and Art: Catie Raishart at Little Seed
By Acadia Klepeis | January 25, 2024At Little Seed Coffee Roasters, the specialty latte flavors aren’t the only things that change with the seasons. Along with the shift from sweet potato pie to sugar and spice, Little Seed regularly swaps out the artwork that adorns its walls. This month, the artist in the spotlight is Catherine “Catie” ...
Feb Nostaligia: Will's final crossword solution
By William Reed | January 25, 2024Feb Nostaligia: Will's final crossword solution!