Reel Critic: “Petite Maman”
By Emily Hogan | November 4, 2021“Petite Maman,” the latest movie in the Hirschfield International Film Series, uses a minimalist approach to tell a poignant story of family and friendship bound through loss and love.
Arts & Culture
Radio Roundup: Don’t break out your christmas playlists just yet
By Wrmc | November 4, 2021If you’re looking for an album to rip your heart out, this is it. I don’t think I will ever get sick of James Blake’s voice or his carefully composed instrumentals. In “Friends That Break Your Heart,” Blake abandons his usual fragmented and disrupted sound for something more linear, leaving ...
Reel Critic: “No Time to Die,” Bye-Bye Bond
By John Vaaler | October 28, 2021The datedness of James Bond is a puzzle “No Time to Die” tries to address. As Dame Judi Dench’s M once put it, Bond really is a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War.”
007 Double Feature: Craig’s Emotional Farewell to Bond
By Jack Torpey | October 28, 2021“No Time to Die” is a big movie — big in budget, big in story and big in spectacle. But for the 25th film in the 007 series, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and featuring the last of five turns as James Bond for star Daniel Craig, nothing plays a larger role than the beating heart at its center: ...
Conjuring Spirits in “The Dreaming”
By Yardena Carmi | October 28, 2021Words may not be able to describe how I feel about Kate Bush, but I can still try. A breakout star in Britain at age 19, Bush made her name with thematically sprawling concept albums and interpretive dance.
Radio Roundup: Sonic delights for Halloweekend
By Wrmc Exec Board | October 28, 2021My favorite album to listen to at Halloween has to be “Impeccable Blahs” by Say Hi. Not only is it perfectly melancholy to compliment the rainy autumn weather, but it is also almost entirely about vampires. Think “Juno” soundtrack meets “Twilight.”
“The Deli People”: a slice of cold cult comedy coming soon
By Keziah Wilde | October 28, 2021From May through August of 2021, recent Middlebury graduates Cole Merrell ’21 and Jacob Morton ’21 spent their days driving around Vermont, writing, filming, directing and editing a web series titled “The Deli People.”
Middlebury College Art Museum aims to increase accessibility and inclusion with thematic rehang
By Ideal Dowling | October 14, 2021In January 2021, the Middlebury College Art Museum began an extensive rehang — installing a new organization concept that displays permanent collection art by theme rather than based on region and chronology, as is typical of most European and American museums. With this rehang, along with the implementation ...
Like moths to a flame: parents and students flock to 9th annual Cocoon
By Acadia Klepeis | October 14, 2021The 9th annual Cocoon featured many of the constants that have marked its past decade. A faded paisley rug. A single microphone. A winged logo. And, once again, the gentle hum of a packed crowd. Compared to last year’s heavily-modified Cocoon event, the energy in the lobby before Friday night’s ...
Language Tables return to Redfield Proctor after 18 months on Zoom
By Alexandra Burns | October 14, 2021“Hi, everyone, and welcome to Language Tables,” a cheery voice called from the top of the stairs in Redfield Proctor. “We are back for the first time since March 10, 2020.” The voice belonged to Amanda Coccia ’22, one of the co-managers of Language Tables. On Monday, September 27, she was ...
Students off campus face transportation and communication troubles
By Charlie Keohane | October 14, 2021For the cohort of students living off campus this year, getting to class is not a breezy five-minute stroll from their dorm room. Many juniors living at the Marriott, the Inn on the Green or Bread Loaf have felt let down by inconsistent transportation to campus and a lack of clear communication from ...
Reel Critic: “The Year of the Everlasting Storm”
By Shane Silverman | October 14, 2021At this week’s Hirschfield International Film Series screening, audiences were transported back to the brink of the Covid-19 pandemic to relive its uncertainty. An anthology film of seven distinct shorts by seven global directors, “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” chronicles the human condition ...
Controlling chaos in “Dishonored: Death of the Outsider”
By Nicholas Jaccaci | October 14, 2021The satisfaction that comes from watching a Rube Goldberg machine in motion is something that is hard to properly replicate. A window slams shut, causing a tennis ball to bounce off a table into a cup that pulls a string, lifting a seesaw just enough to knock a line of dominos over until one falls off ...
Radio Roundup: Can’t help falling in love with a new autumn playlist
By Wrmc Exec Board | October 14, 2021*RIYL (recommended if you like) Co-Concert Manager Exec Pick — Luke Robins ’23 Album: “Sometimes I Might Be Introvert” — Little Simz Genre: Hip-Hop RIYL: Noname, Slowthai, Tierra Whack Blurb: Little Simz had my favorite verse of 2019 with her feature on “New Breed” and I was still ...
(Not So) Special Interest Houses
By Sylvie Lyu | October 7, 2021A unique part of the Middlebury experience is the opportunity to live in an academic or special interest house where students pursue a common interest and share it with the campus community. These include 10 language houses, the Queer Studies House, Self-Reliance and InSite, as well as special interest ...
Spin Doctor: Feeling fatigued
By Yardena Carmi | October 7, 2021If one were looking for a word to sum up 2021 so far, “fatigue” would be a good candidate. It is also a fitting title for the second album from classically-trained polymath L’Rain, a New York City native and associate curator at the nonprofit arts center MoMA PS1 by day. A sonic collage of samples, ...
‘Makerspace’ for Sewing and Sustainable Fashion unveiled
By Maggie Reynolds | October 7, 2021Molly Grazioso ’23.5 spent the final months of this past summer renovating a room in The Annex to become a makerspace for sewing and clothing upcycling projects. The space opened for the first time this past Saturday, Oct. 2. Grazioso got the idea for The Studio, as she is calling the room, when ...
Art Museum unveils new exhibit on Protest Art
By Orly Berke | October 7, 2021After seeing “An Incomplete History of Protest,” an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Middlebury’s Chief Curator & Director of Engagement Jason Vrooman began thinking about curating an exhibition surrounding Protest Art in the Middlebury Museum of Art.Unfortunately, 2020 became ...
New faculty comment on move to Middlebury, return to in-person teaching
By Rain Ji | October 7, 2021Assistant Professor of Black Studies Viola Huang, teaching African American Activism in Education and Beginning German this semester, missed the new faculty group photo because she arrived at the Middlebury campus only a week before classes started. She moved from Passau, Germany to Vermont after finishing ...
Reel Critic: “Transition”
By Sartaj Singh | October 7, 2021Sas Carey’s “Transition,” the latest showing in Middlebury’s Hirschfield International Film Series, is a documentary that details the intense urbanization that Mongolia has experienced through the story of a mother and daughter and their journey from the countryside of Mongolia to its capital ...