All is not well in Derry, Maine. Luckily for those of us from Maine, Derry does not actually exist. “It,” published in 1986, has already seen one adaptation, in the form of a 1990 miniseries with Tim Curry taking up the mantle of the clown, Pennywise. Twenty-seven years later, Andres Muschietti ...
Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer is liaison to the Anderson Freeman Center, the Arabic department, the French department, the Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS Program), the Language Schools, Linguistics and the Spanish & Portuguese departments. These affiliations are ...
I blessed myself inside your arms one day/Swear to God there I was when the dress/ And the silver buttons fade away/ Miss Mary Mattress geriatrics, f’*** me into open caskets/ I wanna die with this/ I wanna stop seeing my psychiatrist/ She said “pill pop, baby girl/ ‘cause I promise you, you tweaked/ ...
This fall, the Mahaney Center for the Arts will celebrate its 25 anniversary in style, bringing to the College an exciting schedule of events showcasing a variety of artistic disciplines. The scheduled performances, exhibits, talks, and film showings are emblematic of the MCA’s vibrant history at ...
Jonathan Kemp, telescope and scientific computing specialist at the Middlebury College Mittelman Observatory, was thrilled and surprised by the immense national popularity of the August eclipse. “I expected a lot of interest, but I think it was even more than I expected,” Kemp said. “The amount ...
The Champlain Valley is prime real estate for stargazing. The technician at the Mittelman Observatory explains why.
As the 2016–17 academic year slowly draws to a close, McCardell Bicentennial Hall remains abuzz with activity, as senior thesis presentations are in full swing. Many soon-to-be graduates of the biology, neuroscience, chemistry & biochemistry, molecular biology & biochemistry and conservation ...
Samuel Beckett’s absurdist tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot” is a notoriously difficult piece, and a group of students took on the challenge.
On Wednesday, May 3, the students of MUSC0240: Performing Chamber Music held their culminating recital in Robison Hall. The program included songs by Johannes Brahms, a string quartet movement by Dmitri Shostakovich, an aria by Johann Sebastian Bach and a piano quartet movement by Gabriel Faure. The ...
As the semester comes to a close, you may be looking for ways to center yourself before digging into finals. “I think that quieting oneself to listen is a lovely way to close out the last day of classes, especially for those who miss being sung to at night,” said Gloria Breck ’18, a physics major ...
“Like the mother bird at her plundered nest,” Hecuba says. Grieving, suffering Hecuba. “Do you even remember, King of the gods, that we exist, while the very air explodes around us, and fire reduces our city to ashes and stone?” Troy is to be burned. The most agonizing of Hecuba’s wails ...
“The Women of Troy,” a new adaptation of Euripides’s play from more than two thousand years ago, is a lyrical poem of grief and savage irony that is as relevant today as it was then. “Contemporary playwright Don Taylor’s evocative translation is a relentless song of suffering, capturing the ...
Prasanna Vankina’s ’18 radio show page on the WRMC website boasts a series of puns, which light-heartedly demonstrate the profound connections between music and political movements. The description reads as follows: “How do ya address a broken system that perpetuates power and VIOLINS? What’s ...
The Brentano String Quartet performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” on Saturday, April 29, in Robison Hall as the first part of the Middlebury Bach Festival, which also included a performance of Handel’s Esther. The Art of Fugue commands its place in the repertoire of classical ...
In China, a country with the world’s second largest economy, women create 41 percent of the GDP. In 1990, Chinese women’s annual salary was about 80 percent of their male counterparts. Six years ago, the number became 60 percent. Simple statistics like this, regardless of the complex reasons behind ...
On Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30, the Middlebury College Department of Theatre and Dance, along with the Department of Music, the Johnson Visual Arts Residency Performance Fund and the Natatorium, co-hosted “Breathe,” an underwater opera and dance event that aimed to connect with the audience ...
Let me paint you a picture. The canvas is blank. The colors are pink, purple, yellow and black. The artist is in a particularly gay mood and has about an hour to paint butterflies, roses and all things good and happy. It is the Midd Masti show, guys. Last Saturday on April 22, Wilson Hall was caught ...
On Earth Day (Apr. 22), scientists and lovers of science alike came together in Washington D.C. to celebrate science and its relevance in our everyday lives. Its mission, according to the March for Science website, was for people to “unite as a diverse, nonpartisan group to call for science that upholds ...
I have never seen a film as big as director Abel Gance’s “Napoleon” (1927). In light of the recent French elections, this movie — with its nationalist themes, cinematic innovations and durable quality — appears especially relevant. A major factor in its nationalist themes is the film’s ...
This week’s MiddMouth poet is Tyler Belmont ’17. Tyler is from Colorado Springs and is majoring in International Politics and Economics. He enjoys playing bass, writing poems, and advancing the empathy that derives from enlightened cultural exchange, among other things that generally never come ...