Arts & Culture
New museum exhibit showcases African photography
By Gage Schrier | March 9, 2023The Middlebury College Museum of Art opened its new exhibit, “Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa” on March 2.
Reel Critic: “Tár”
By Jack Torpey | March 9, 2023At the 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Martin Scorsese made one of his regular pronouncements on the state of cinema when he presented writer-director Todd Field with the Circle’s Best Film award. “The clouds lifted when I experienced Todd’s film, ‘Tár,’” Scorsese said. Referencing ...
Crossword 3/9
By Josh Harkins | March 9, 2023Here is this week's crossword! Solutions will be posted here on Friday, 3/10 on noon. Good luck!
3/2 Crossword Solutions
By William Reed | March 3, 2023Here are the solutions for this week's crossword!
An interview with the missionaries on campus
By Joshua Glucksman, Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri, Rach Peck and Liam Morris | March 2, 2023Who are these three well-dressed young gentlemen who I have seen standing outside Proctor Dining Hall for the last few weeks, handing out pamphlets and talking to Middlebury students?
Reel Critic: “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”
By Jack Torpey | March 2, 2023 “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange,” a 2020 Sundance-award-winning documentary about a Ukrainian mother and her children trying to live a normal life amidst the devastation of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
From the Archives: On divine love and the book as an artifact
By Tulip Larson | March 2, 2023Enveloped in deep maroon velvet, with ornate embroidery weaving floral patterns across the cover, spine and back, “Les Spirituelles Délices de L’Âme Pénitente en L’Amour Divin” is a pleasure to look at. This stunning book was published in Paris in 1608, and Middlebury received it as an anonymous ...
Niche Reads: Novels for Gender Studies Majors
By Sylvie Shure | March 2, 2023If you struggle to find time for fun reading, this is the spot for you. Niche Reads recommends novels that relate to academic (or other) interests so you can explore a new book while still feeling productive. Check back each week for more cool books!
3/2 Crossword!
By William Reed | March 2, 2023Here is this week's crossword! Solutions will be posted here at noon on Friday, March 3rd. Good luck!
It starts with the egg –
By Lucia Snyderman | March 2, 2023Uncertain and starving across this wondrous white They trust and remember
From the Archives: In defense of Valentine’s Day
By Eliza King Freedman | February 23, 2023In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the Special Collections team offered a collection of old Valentine’s Day cards that have been acquired throughout history for this week’s “From the Archives.” These cards not only showcase the evolution of Valentine’s Day as a holiday, but also the evolution ...
Halftime Show Review: Reduce, reuse, recycle, Rihanna?
By Eric Burchill | February 23, 2023The Super Bowl Halftime Show is the zeitgeist of our time — the last true spectacle that can provide years of conversation fodder for people with even the tiniest pop culture inclinations. In September of last year, when Rihanna, one of the biggest artists of all time, was announced as the Halftime ...
Reel Critic: “The Pale Blue Eye”
By Jack Torpey | February 23, 2023When “The Pale Blue Eye” was first announced in early 2021, the film’s most immediate appeal was its fusion of subject matter and setting. Cooper intended to bring Gothic atmospherics to bear on a 19th-century military school in the remote Hudson Highlands, an eerie pairing that would evoke Poe’s ...
The most important things we learned over J-Term
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri | February 23, 2023By the end of the fall semester, winter break is much needed. However, the rest we enjoy over those three weeks can easily turn into boredom. A restlessness to get back to campus sets in even though students might not be quite ready to manage the stress of a full-blown semester.
Valentine’s Day Arts Roundup
By Edyth Moldow | February 23, 2023In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I bring to you the artistic representation of love in all its forms — platonic, romantic and self-love — through music and film. Whether or not you had a Valentine, it’s not too late to appreciate love’s omnipresence in our lives here on campus.
Slipin Sips: introduction to natural wine
By Sam Lipin | February 23, 2023Yes, I may have discussed beer and mead in the first edition of “Sip on this” — and I will continue to in the future — but I don’t want to stray too far from what I want this column to be about: wine. The world of wine is vast and confusing, and the goal of this column is to connect budding ...
1/26 Crossword Solutions!
By Josh Harkins | January 27, 2023Here are this week's crossword solutions! How'd you do?
Freedom Dreams turn to Reality with Some Progress on Campus Anti-Racism
By Joshua Glucksman | January 26, 2023“Freedom Dreaming: Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury,” a spoken word performance, was presented by Faculty Director of Equity, Justice & Inclusion Tara Affolter and a group of students with the aim of examining the potential for an antiracist Middlebury on Jan.18. The group’s work began ...
From the Archives: A glimpse into gender politics at Middlebury in the early 1900s
By Tulip Larson | January 26, 2023This proposed layout for an updated Middlebury campus from 1909 provides a snapshot into the complicated gender politics plaguing Middlebury — illustrating a drastically different college than the one that students know today.