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Shao and Kim Dazzle Bach Festival Audience

Cellist Sophie Shao and violinist Soovin Kim were the stars of the 2014 Middlebury Bach Festival opening concert on Friday, Apr. 25. The performance, presented by the Middlebury Performing Arts Series, was held at the Concert Hall of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. Very few seats remained ...


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Students Bring Stories Alive

Throughout the past semester, brightly colored posters calling for writers, illustrators, graphic designers and “any other interested parties or persons” have graced bulletin boards across campus on behalf of “The Storytold Project”, a student initiative born out of The Old Stone Mill. While ...


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The Reel Critic: Noah

The Rotten Tomatoes description of Noah says that it succeeds in “… bringing the Bible epic into the 21st century.” That’s a case of damning with faint praise if I’ve ever seen it. What does it mean to “modernize” an old, canonical story? What sorts of prejudices are inherent in that kind ...


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Politics of Power

Since 2011 the United States has increased its hydrocarbon production faster than any other country. As mentioned in this column before, this tremendous growth has been driven almost entirely by the combination of two independent drilling technologies, as well as the practices of horizontal drilling ...


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Bach Festival Returns Better Than Ever

Now in its fourth year, The Middlebury Bach Festival is aiming to offer its most diverse and ambitious program to date when the inaugural festival’s guest scholar Christoph Wolff returns for a three-day extravaganza of events April 25-27. Students, affiliate artists, faculty and professional musicians ...


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Guerrilla Girls Bring Radical Message

As Museum curator Emmie Donadio began her introduction to the talk given by Frida Kahlo in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts last Thursday, she amended the cursory warning to turn off cell phones with the consolation, “There’s a good chance you won’t be able to hear them anyway.” ...


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'Clockwork Orange' Thrills and Disturbs

On April 10-12, the Middlebury Theatre and Dance departments presented A Clockwork Orange in Wright Memorial Theater. The play was directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Andrew Smith ’97.5 and starred over twenty Middlebury students. Adam Milano ’15 led the cast as anti-hero Alex, a ...


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Students Practice Comedy With Molière

A group of 11 students have been combining the rigorous time commitments of staging a theatrical production with the unique challenges of acquiring a new language in the Spring term course FREN 306: Study and Production of a Play, and the culmination of their work will be presented Apr. 18 and 19 at ...


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Middlebury Parent Talks About Gravity Wave Discovery

Regardless of your scientific background, you’ve probably heard of the Big Bang. Approximately 13.7 billion years ago, all of the energy in the Universe was concentrated at a single point and then suddenly underwent a rapid expansion, sending matter, energy and the fabric of space and time itself ...


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Science Spotlight: BiHall's New Telescope Operator

When I tell people I go to Middlebury, the second most frequent question I’m asked, after “Where is that?” is, in its blunt variation, “Why did you chose a school in the middle of nowhere?” One of my friends from the West Coast once remarked sarcastically that he chose to come to Middlebury ...


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One Life Left: Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

I had tracked the dragon all the way to the outskirts of the Volcano, and now it was time for our final showdown. Sulfurous fumes blew into my eyes, and the heat of the air made me grateful for the Cool Drinks I had brought in my pack. I shifted my grip on my Gunlance, checking it for ammunition. Breathing ...


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Musical Players Rock with RENT

Following the highly anticipated J-term production of Les Miserables, members of the College community will have another opportunity to enjoy a popular piece of musical theater when The Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) presents their Spring Term musical, RENT, at the Town Hall Theatre on Apr. ...


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Clockwork Orange Promises Excitement

On the surface, A Clockwork Orange is a standard dystopian text, in the same line as classics such as Huxley’s Brave New World. It is complete with suitably wicked teenage males, beautiful young women and gratuitous violence. It is not so simple though; it is an intricate work. It is freedom and choice, ...


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Booking It: Leaving the Sea

Forgive me, psych majors, if I am wrong in this, but I seem to recall learning in my Psych Disorders class two years ago about several studies which proved that the life-outlook of individuals suffering from Depression is, in fact, not overly pessimistic, but rather fairly realistic compared to the ...


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"The Swing Express" Promises Excitement

If there is one thing to remember about the end of the roaring ’20s, besides the collapse of the economy, it is the Lindy Hop. Jazz was flourishing and swing dance was already on its way. While the general population often imagines the Lindy Hop as the definition of swing, a plethora of other complex ...


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Students Read People's History

The stories we tell ourselves about our own past are the result of hundreds of voices — both named and otherwise — coming together to paint a picture. Each voice has its own volume and each listener comes with their own biases, so these pictures of our past are just that: only pictures. As time ...


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One Life Left: Dragonfall

In 2013, Harebrained Schemes kickstarted Shadowrun: Returns, their first title. Billed as a successor to the classic SNES game, Shadowrun Returns offered up two main options for players: they could create their own content using the built-in story editor, or they could play the campaigns released by ...


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Politics of Power

As the political situation continues to develop in the Crimean peninsula, there have been frenzied calls among American politicians to break Russia’s energy dominance in the region.  The principle idea is to leverage the burgeoning North American shale revolution by exporting natural gas to continental ...


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Lecturer Talks Experience Through Art

What is art, and what defines art as worthy to be in a museum? These are the crucial questions Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Catherine Cabeen will raise in her gallery lecture-performance “Embodied Experience: Creating/Witnessing/Dancing” this Friday, March 14 at 12:15 p.m. in the Middlebury ...




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