Crossword Solutions 04/16/26: Data Query
By Egan Turner | April 16, 2026Crossword Solutions 04/16/26: Data Query!
Arts & Culture
‘The Last Waltz’ turns 50
By Nick Penniman | April 9, 2026There’s a moment in “The Last Waltz” that comes at about the 34 minute and 53 second mark, at the onset of the last chorus in Neil Young’s performance of “Helpless,” which a friend of mine once singled out, when we were arguing the film’s best scenes, as a jib door to transcendence. He ...
“Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette”: A compelling story, even if accuracy falls flat
By Phoebe Adler | April 9, 2026Ryan Murphy’s newest drama has everything a fan of his would expect – dramatic storylines, heavy extremes and any opportunity to invoke his key “baroque” style. “Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette” is a nine-part series about the high-profile marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. (Paul Anthony ...
Bread & Puppet brings ‘cheap art’ and a rallying cry for justice
By Lily Jensen | April 9, 2026Local Vermont Bread & Puppet theatre, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (GSFS) Department’s annual Gensler Symposium and the Chellis House (Feminist Resource Center), brought their signature craft of humorous but heavy mixed-media puppet performance pieces to campus on Tuesday ...
Crossword Solutions 04/09/2026: The Tribe has Spoken
By Avery Goldstein | April 9, 2026Crossword Solutions 04/09/2026: The Tribe has Spoken
Crossword 04/09/2026: The Tribe has Spoken
By Avery Goldstein | April 9, 2026Crossword 04/09/2026: The Tribe has Spoken!
Water under the bridge: Visiting architect Aurelie Frolet
By Lizi Schierman | March 19, 2026Aurelie Frolet is an architectural designer and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. This past week, from March 9-13, she visited Middlebury through the Cameron Visiting Architect Program. The program offers a short-term residency for architects and designers, ...
“Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally”: A rejuvenated Harry Styles embraces his inner free spirit
By Phoebe Adler | March 19, 2026It is without a doubt that Harry Styles is back — and feeling refreshed. After a two-year hiatus, the British pop phenomenon has returned with his fourth album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.” Following a three year hiatus after wrapping up his world tour in the summer of 2023, the former ...
You needed this: M Gallery hosts zine release party
By Christy Liang | March 19, 2026The newly revived M Gallery has become a hub of alternative artistic and cultural events on Campus. Small, intimate and thoughtfully curated, the space invites art-centered dialogues and offers a refreshing respite from the often homogenous campus dynamic.
Take a trip to Texas: ‘Valentina’ brings El Paso to Middlebury
By Ella Steere | March 12, 2026“Valentina” chronicles 48 hours in the life of a fictional young woman in the border city of El Paso, Texas, as director Tatti Ribeiro describes it, “a plotless hangout.” The film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) this past fall, where she was awarded the Mind the Gap Creation ...
Five photographers who kill time and give life to it
By Maya Alexander | March 12, 2026Photography may have always been the most contested art medium: criticized for depicting the world simply as it is, for documenting mere facts that do not require an artistic eye. Yet photography is never neutral. It is meticulously constructed to relay a certain narrative; it is biased; it chooses ...
Our preference for male tears: the case of Cameron Winter
By Sailor Kabeary | March 12, 2026Cameron Winter, Gen-Z’s most recent alternative-rock-indie-folk, sunken-eyed, socially awkward, too-cool-for-instagram, boyishly charming, musical darling, has risen to the coveted rank of being called a genius by both elite music critics and youthful fans. From what he has shared with the world so ...
Crossword Solutions 03/12/2026: Shamrock 'n' Roll
By Egan Turner | March 12, 2026Crossword Solutions 03/12/2026: Shamrock 'n' Roll!
Crossword 03/12/2026: Shamrock 'n' Roll
By Egan Turner | March 12, 2026Crossword 03/12/2026: Shamrock 'n' Roll!
“How to Get to Heaven From Belfast”: A mysterious thriller disguised in Irish humor and early 2000’s smash hits
By Phoebe Adler | March 5, 2026Picture this: you’re watching the final minutes of episode six of Netflix’s newest murder mystery – and after 45 minutes of suspense, you’re on the edge of your seat. Dead silence on screen – until t.A.T.u’s “All the Things She Said” starts blasting and the credits start rolling.
Recontextualizing and reckoning: Middlebury Black film series screens “Foxy Brown”
By Kiara Dookie | March 5, 2026“The film(s) the man doesn’t want you to see” is printed boldly across the poster, cueing a familiar logic in Black film history: exposure does not guarantee legitimacy. It gestures toward the 1970s film landscape, a decade often canonised through the rise of New Hollywood auteurs, even as a parallel ...
Conversational art: June Su
By Christy Liang | March 5, 2026Conversational Art is a column of artist interviews (faculty & students alike) that foregrounds the personal voice, the creative process and moments of insight springing from the resonant space in between.