English novelist David Mitchell has been known to tailor to everyone’s taste, be it traditionalist, postmodernist, realist or fantasist. A superb writer and storyteller, he understands how to please his readers. As he stated in an interview in The New Yorker, “One of the questions I always try to ...
This week’s Performing Arts Spotlight features guest writer Su Zheng, Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. She previews the upcoming concert by Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet, Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCA). “The pipa is a lute-like instrument ...
A rainbow of cloth ribbons dotted the trees around Mead Chapel this past Thursday, Oct. 8. A group of students and faculty paced around very slowly, trancelike, intertwining the ribbons and wrapping them around the trees. Passersby could not help but stop and stare at this mesmerizing first performance ...
Every single seat in the lecture hall was taken. A huge cluster of students stood in the back. The lecturer even jokingly offered to let people sit on the floor next to his podium. Unlike most other popular talks on campus, this lecture was not about a pressing social or political issue, nor was the ...
Alcatraz-1259 by William G. Baker is the autobiographical account of a former Alcatraz inmate. Alcatraz Island, located in the San Francisco Bay, was a federal prison for approximately thirty years in the mid-20th century until it was abandoned and eventually converted into a museum. A thriving tourist ...
According to Cocoon organizer August Hutchinson ’16.5, “You’ll hear about inner-city ballet and Picasso erotica, middle-aged thieves of little pink bikes and cultural clashes from across the globe. You’ll learn how these people met lovers, found success, overturned their beliefs and, of course, ...
On Friday, Oct. 2, the Paul W. Ward ’25 Memorial Prize was presented at Twilight Hall auditorium, honoring 74 members of the classes of 2018 and 2018.5. Led by Writing Center director, Mary Ellen Bertolini, Friday’s hour-long ceremony highlighted the many ways in which students are taught to communicate ...
More than 400 people visited the observatory to watch the lunar eclipse. The eclipse coincided with a supermoon, a rare event that only happens once every twenty years. The roof deck telescopes were open and looked at Saturn, the moon and the Hercules globular cluster of stars – an ancient group of ...
A Place Called Winter is a tale of heartbreaking hardship, a book that seems to combine Pride and Prejudice with E.M Forsters’ Maurice, against the backdrop of the 1908 settlement of Winter, Saskatchewan, Canada – which is, in fact, a real place. Protagonist Harry Cane’s adventure is loosely ...
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be the captain of a spaceship carrying the Federation’s last hope on the run from an evil rebel fleet? Of course you have. That’s why programmer Matthew Davis and artist Justin Ma of Subset Games created FTL: Faster Than Light. In FTL, you are in complete ...
“Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light,” Michael Caine intoned, bringing the great words of the 20th-century poet Dylan Thomas into the cultural mainstream as mankind’s last hope shudders through space and time. This Wednesday, Oct. 7th, adventurers ...
Andrea Olsen gives me hope. If you are anything like me, you have also spent countless hours deliberating over various premade professions, wondering which hole fits your peg best, only to be frustrated by incompatibility at every turn. Nothing seems to match that idyllic happiness we have always been ...
When the name Annie Lennox is mentioned in conversation, it invariably leads to someone providing their perceived best take on “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” which no one had asked for. When Eurythmics released their second album in 1983, which shares its name with the song, the soaring and ...
On Sunday, Sept. 20, Ingoma made its first appearance at the Middlebury A Cappella Jamboree. But rather than mmm-bopping through a Billboard Hot 100, the group performed music from another source: the African continent. Ingoma, which gets its name from an African drum, was created in the fall of 2013 ...
One. Two. Three. Four. Motions repeated, counting up to 60, restarting, repeating, repeating. How long will this continue? When will it finally end? These were the questions evoked by “reRace: a movement study,” the first piece of Barack adé Soleil’s keynote performance of this year’s Clifford ...
“Guys! Look! The onion root tips… they’re making sister chromatids!” Thrilled that the way we had pressed cells onto glass slides had recreated DNA replication across an arrangement of cells, I stepped back from the microscope and made room for the other T.A’s to gather around. By chance, ...
The first Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) was held this summer and ran from August 27-30. MNFF is tailored for new filmmakers, the underdogs of the film industry. The festival only accepts the first and second films of new filmmakers. MNFF received over 300 film submissions, of which 90 were ...
The beginning of the new school year brings excitement and anxiety, and this disposition provides the perfect atmosphere for an event to bring the campus community back together. The S.O.S. Music Festival, put on by WRMC on Sept. 19-20 filled that slot well. Over the course of two nights, the folks ...
You and your men crest the hill to find the enemy in a mad dash climbing up steep terrain. You give the signal and your men hold their position while your archers rain a volley of arrows onto the enemy’s vulnerable position. When the survivors begin to gain ground and encroach on your position, you ...
This year’s Clifford Symposium “The ‘Good’ Body” will take place Thursday, Sept. 24 - Saturday, Sept. 26. Bodies are like opinions; everyone has one. Unfortunately, the conversation doesn’t stop there. Countless pressures strive to dictate body image and create spaces that alienate comfort ...