Crossword 01/15/2025: Drop an Octave
By Egan Turner | January 15, 2026Crossword 01/15/2025: Drop an Octave!
Arts & Culture
Death by laughter: MCMT’s “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”
By Elizabeth Schierman | December 4, 2025A “murderously” good time occurred on the evenings of Nov. 13-15, when audiences gathered in Town Hall Theater (THT) to see Middlebury College Musical Theater’s (MCMT) performance of the Tony Award-winning musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.”
M Gallery returns with “Etymology of the Self”
By Maya Alexander | December 4, 2025After a several year hiatus, M Gallery, Middlebury’s student-led gallery space, has returned. Over 100 students gathered on Nov. 14 in the Old Stone Mill for the opening of the first 2025 exhibition “Etymology of the Self.”
A guide of arts and happenings in our brave little state
By Lily Buren | December 4, 2025Being from Vermont means going to your town bar on Blackout Wednesday with everyone who graduated from your high school in the last 20 years, never learning world geography in your public school education and hiding from your second-grade teacher at the farmers market. It’s about knowing where to ...
Crosswords 12/04/2025 Solutions: Slippery Slope
By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | December 4, 2025Crosswords 12/04/2025 Solutions: Slippery Slope!
Crosswords 12/04/2025: Slippery Slope
By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | December 4, 2025Crosswords 12/04/2025: Slippery Slope!
Being a writer at the Monastery
By Christy Liang | November 13, 2025I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department gave a workshop on The Buddhist Unconscious: Yogācāra Buddhism and How It Illuminates Bias.
A resistance of form: Zadie Smith’s “Dead and Alive”
By Nick Penniman | November 13, 2025“But perhaps I am asking the question the wrong way around,” Zadie Smith writes at one point in her essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” which can be found in her new collection, “Dead and Alive.” It’s a typically Smithian line: an expression of self-doubt signalling the ...
Be not afeard, the room is full of teeth (and flute)
By Anthony Cinquina | November 13, 2025Full of noise it was, when on the night of Nov. 5 in Robison Hall, the avante-garde acapella octet Roomful of Teeth and composer, poet and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull joined forces to produce 75 minutes of utterly remarkable and deeply moving experimental soundscapes. I have heard nothing like it — ...
Crossword 11/13/2025: Solutions
By Avery Goldstein | November 13, 2025Crossword 11/13/2025: Solutions!
Parini and Us: An exit interview
By Christy Liang, Anthony Cinquina and Ellie Trinkle | November 6, 2025To commemorate Jay Parini’s retirement from his position as professor emeritus of English and Creative Writing, some of the Arts & Culture team sat down with him to chat about his career, life post-retirement and everything in between.
“These Shining Lives” illuminates grief and womanhood in 1920s Illinois
By Elizabeth Schierman | November 6, 2025Powerful depictions of female friendship, American history and grief lit up the Seeler Studio Theatre this past weekend as the cast of “These Shining Lives” took to the stage. The faculty-led production ran from Oct. 30–Nov. 1, with a total of four performances.
Exploitation and evaluation: Guest lecturer Sonja Drimmer on AI and art history
By Rohina Mahadik | November 6, 2025Students and faculty gathered in the Mahaney Arts Center last month to discuss what some describe as the most pressing issue of our time — artificial intelligence (AI) — and how the rise of its industry exploits the arts.
Crossword 11/06/2025: Solutions
By Winter Heaton | November 6, 2025Crossword 11/06/2025: Solutions!
Our new old friends: Public art collections on campus
By Yoyo Zhang | October 30, 2025Since our first day in freshman year, we familiarized ourselves with the campus layout — navigating to classes, planning out the fastest routes and utilizing bikes and skateboards to help us hurry between buildings. As we trace our familiar routes to class each week, we might notice some hidden artworks ...
It's okay to cry: Processing grief through music
By Liam French | October 30, 2025It's the seasonal act: Leaves detach from trees with a last flaming breath, dry wind chills your throat and chest and the sun sets quickly towards the heavens, leaving us aching for more of its intangible warmth. There is an emptiness in fall, yet its warmth is immortalized in the digital world. We ...
Reimagining crime, punishment and healing in Vermont “Beyond Bars”
By Elizabeth Schierman | October 30, 2025The Johnson Exhibition Gallery hosted a screening of the documentary film “Beyond Bars: Reimagining Justice and Healing in VT” on Oct. 24 in collaboration with its exhibit “Finding Hope Within.”
Crossword 10/31/2025: Solutions
By Winter Heaton | October 30, 2025Crossword 10/31/2025: Solutions.