Ruby Bowman ’21.5 exhibits photo series “Behind Her Bedroom Door”
By Maria Kaouris | December 3, 2020“Scream in agony,” Ruby Bowman ’21.5 said in our FaceTime interview. “That’s what I’d tell the women I photographed.”
Arts & Culture
RIDDIM World Dance Troupe Zooms in on Hip-hop, Kathak, and more
By Rain Ji | November 19, 2020Audiences joined the RIDDIM dance crew for their fall end-of-semester show “RIDDIM World Dance Troupe Zooms In” on Saturday, Nov. 14.
Direct Your Attention: Dave Chappelle isn’t joking anymore
By Owen Mason-Hill | November 19, 2020It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of comedian Dave Chappelle’s imprint on our zeitgeist. Even calling him a comedian feels like the wrong title; perhaps activist or social commentator is more apt. This week, for the second time, Dave Chappelle hosted “Saturday Night Live” immediately ...
Reel Critic: “Objector”
By Nina Ng | November 19, 2020“Objector” provides a new view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following 18-year-old Atalya Ben-Abba.
Direct Your Attention: Ludovico Einaudi’s most intimate concert
By Owen Mason-Hill | November 12, 2020One day when I was scrolling through Apple Music and happened upon an album with a beautifully simplistic design that demanded my attention.
‘finally’: Production with an all-Asian cast spotlights issues of representation
By Edyth Moldow | November 12, 2020“finally” turned a spotlight on the lack of Asian representation in the media and the performing arts.
Continuing a five-decade tradition, pianist Gilbert Kalish returns to Middlebury on a virtual stage
By Yardena Carmi | November 12, 2020Audiences found themselves enjoying the work of award-winning pianist and educator Gilbert Kalish, who performed on the virtual stage.
College Choir to celebrate songs of tolerance and decolonization in Sunday debut
By Olivia Mueller | November 12, 2020Despite the barriers to group performances this semester, the Middlebury College Choir will be premiering their fall choral concert performance this Sunday.
Reel Critic: ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
By John Vaaler | October 29, 2020Around an hour and a half into “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” clean-cut antiwar activist Tom Hayden stares down rabble-rouser Abbie Hoffman.
Drawing near, 2020 election permeates classrooms across disciplines
By Nina Ng | October 29, 2020In races as divisive as those in the 2020 general election, professors are faced with deciding whether to broach the topic in the classroom.
‘Landslide Lyndon’: Robert Caro’s accounts of a president with a penchant for showmanship and voter fraud
By John Vaaler | October 29, 2020“Years of Lyndon Johnson” is not only one of the most stylishly written accounts of a modern U.S. election but is also an electrifying thriller.
Direct Your Attention: At the October Apple Event, come for the tech, stay for the cinematic spectacle
By Owen Mason-Hill | October 22, 2020Every few months, when Apple hosts one of their world-renowned events, I find myself eagerly counting down the seconds until the start.
‘Clover Magazine’ creates space for the fashionable intellectual
By Charlie Deichman-Caswell | October 22, 2020Clover Magazine, Middlebury’s only student-run fashion publication, aims to serve as an outlet for the stylish mind within academia.
New magazine ‘To Whom it May Concern’ spotlights student curiosity
By Edyth Moldow | October 22, 2020This semester, a new magazine is making its way to the Middlebury Campus.
Cocoon continues the tradition of storytelling amid the pandemic
By Acadia Klepeis | October 15, 2020Masks were on, but the audience reacted enthusiastically to the highs and lows of each story at the eighth annual Cocoon storytelling evening.
“Together Apart” celebrates first year talents in a 24-hour play festival
By Nina Ng | October 15, 2020The 25th annual First Year Show was aptly titled “Together Apart.”
"The Agitators": A play reading of rebellion and revolution
By Rain Ji | October 15, 2020“The Agitators” explores the relationship between two rabble-rousers whose tales of rebellion and revolution remain culturally significant today.
Direct Your Attention: Music’s biggest stage is actually quite small
By Owen Mason-Hill | October 15, 2020There’s a moment in each NPR Tiny Desk Concert when the hairs on the back of my neck stand up in applause because something truly remarkable has just happened.
Did you spend your quarantine getting into TikTok? You’re not alone.
By Emma Auer | October 8, 2020TikTok has captured the zeitgeist of Gen Z.
Reel Critic: ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’
By Nina Ng | October 8, 2020In one image from the historic 1965 Civil Rights march, the activist John Lewis kneels, pushed to the ground with his hand cradling the back of his head.