Arts & Culture
Preservation and Progress: The prints of Piranesi and their journey to Middlebury
By Kiara Dookie | October 23, 2025Yale University Senior Conservator of Works on Paper Theresa Fairbanks-Harris delivered a lecture titled “Piranesi’s Prints: Paper, Process, and Preservation” at the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) on Oct. 16. The event, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Visions ...
Makes Ya Feel: Fall tunes
By Ellie Trinkle | October 23, 2025Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!
New Johnson Gallery exhibit “Finding Hope Within” showcases work by incarcerated artists
By Maya Alexander | October 23, 2025Johnson Gallery’s new exhibition “Finding Hope Within” platforms art that was created within the Vermont carceral system. The exhibit debuted to the public on Oct. 1 and will run until Nov. 14.
Crossword 10/23/2025 Solutions: State of the Union
By Sam Merriam | October 23, 2025Crossword 10/23/2025 Solutions: State of the Union.
Crossword 10/23/2025: State of the Union
By Sam Merriam | October 23, 2025Crossword 10/23/2025: State of the Union.
A metamorphosis: Storytelling event sees speakers emerge from their “Cocoon”
By Lily Jensen | October 9, 2025A collage of the Middlebury community explored the escapable fact of life: mortality. At this year’s Cocoon, which debuted on Oct. 3, this year’s theme, “Before I die…”, invited speakers and audience members to reflect on life’s impermanence and the beauty that comes from embracing it.
“The Truth Remixed” stirs up laughter and reflection for First Year Show’s 30th Anniversary
By Elizabeth Schierman | October 9, 2025Hepburn Hall buzzed with students, faculty and locals who crowded the stairways leading up to the Hepburn Zoo on opening night of “The Truth Remixed,” the 30th annual First Year show. The multi-genre comedy show, directed by Visiting Professor Ashley Nicole Baptiste, ran from Oct. 2-4.
Reel Critic: “One Battle After Another” is a rediscovery of subject
By Nick Penniman | October 9, 2025In retrospect, it makes peculiar sense that, of all contemporary American directors, Paul Thomas Anderson would prove best-equipped to make the decade’s first great “Movie About Our Times.” The cokey, affecting mania of his early films (“Magnolia,” “Boogie Nights”); the strange, libidinal ...
Crossword 10/09/2025: Solutions
By Avery Goldstein | October 9, 2025Crossword 10/09/2025: Solutions!
Forgotten, but found again: Panchiko at Higher Ground
By Norah Khan | October 2, 2025Fate works in mysterious ways. The sound of British band Panchiko was lost for years until it fell into the hands of the internet, simply by chance. In 2016, an individual had discovered their first collection of demos titled “D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L” while sifting through ...
Voices from the silence: The Other Mozart
By Yo Yo Zhang | October 2, 2025A vast white gown spilled across the stage of Wright Memorial Theater this past Friday, introducing audiences to the forgotten prodigy of the Mozart family with“The Other Mozart.” The play, written and performed by Sylvia Milo and directed by Isaac Byrne, features a striking 18-foot dress by Magdalena ...
Garden-fresh grazing: “Knolci" returns
By Madeleine Kaptein | October 2, 2025When someone places a shot glass filled with beet soup in front of you, you take a sip. When you remember the beets were grown less than a mile away, you take another.
Crossword 10/02/2025: Solutions
By Ella Charnizon | October 2, 2025Crossword 10/02/2025: Solutions!
Wednesday’s sixth studio album “Bleeds” oozes with reflection
By Gus Morrill | September 25, 2025Four months after the release of “Rat Saw God”, their “lightning bolt of a fifth album” as described by Pitchfork Magazine, alternative-rock band Wednesday released a mini documentary called “Rat Bastards of Haw Creek.” Shot by filmmaker and friend of the band Zach Romeo, the documentary ...
My college diary
By Christy Liang | September 25, 2025“You are a writer. Don’t tell your parents that.” My English advisor, Professor Robert Cohen, told me these words as I sat in his office, talking about my recent turn towards Buddhist thought and how I’ve unclouded my judgment of the outside world over the summer.
Tampons, tears and totebags: Scenes from the performa-midd male contest
By Devin Santikarma | September 25, 2025Judith Butler is famous for writing that gender is a performance. What the renowned gender studies scholar did not write, though, is that gender can be more than a performance; it can also be a competition.
Crossword 09/25/2025: Solutions
By Avery Goldstein | September 25, 2025Crossword 09/25/2025: Solutions!