On March 17, Alexander Twilight Artist-in Residence Francois Clemmons will debut his 10th and final annual St. Patrick’s Day Concert, an exploration of traditional Irish music, brimming with skirling bagpipes, penny-tin whistles and tweeting flutes. Clemmons will retire after this semester at the ...
The Aliens, a play written by Massachusetts-based playwright Annie Baker, premiered in Hepburn Zoo last Thursday and drew packed crowds during its three-night run. The show starred improv actors from both Otter Nonsense and Middlebrow: Greg Dorris ’13, Adam Benay ’14 and Tom Califra ’14, with ...
The 2013 Solar Decathlon, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Oct. 3-13 in Irvine, Calif., is a competition challenging 20 student teams from universities all around the world to construct the most affordable, reproducible, energy efficient and attractive solar-powered home. Middlebury fields only ...
What happens when you take the genius fourth wall breaking moments, boss design and plot of industry veteran Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear series and combine it with Platinum Games talent of removing every inch of subtlety and realism from combat systems? You get something like Metal Gear Rising (MGR). MGR ...
The Escher String Quartet dazzled a packed house on Friday, March 8 at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall. The group derives its name from the contemporary graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by his use of individual components working together to form a whole. The free concert, ...
Creating a stimulating introductory-level science course is challenging. There’s a host of information thrown at students: terms to memorize, concepts to learn, lab techniques to familiarize oneself with. The prospect is daunting for some, terrifying for others. These courses are challenging and rigorous, ...
I appreciate what you are trying to do, Lynn Coady. Making your protagonist a large, scary-looking, yet sympathetic man was bold. Rank could easily have come across as whining about winning the genetic lottery, but instead he presents a frank account of what life is like for a peaceful man to be stuck ...
What does it mean to possess the genetic information of something or someone? Is the genetic code – the foundation of life from bacteria to homonids – a patentable product? Or is there a line somewhere, because genetic information is the stuff of life and life is sacrosanct, and patent law only ...
From March 14-16, theatre majors Sumire Doi ’13 and Rachel Goodgal ’13 will be performing their senior acting thesis in the Hepburn Zoo. The show, ambiguously titled 17 ½, will be a collection of scenes culled from several modern plays, designed to explore themes of regeneration and starting anew. “We ...
Foxygen’s new release We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic is an album like you’ve never heard before in that, one way or another, it sounds like everything you’ve ever heard before. These two 20-something-year-olds hailing from the comfy suburbs of northwestern Los Angeles County ...
In its mad dash to complete the 34 panels set to comprise the InSite house in the 2013 Solar Decathlon competition, the Middlebury team, while somewhat familiar with construction and carpentry, needed some outside help. Enter Lance Waterman, a Middlebury-born contractor and University of Vermont ...
Next weekend, March 15 and 16, Professor of Dance Christal Brown’s dance company INSPIRIT will premiere their new work, “The Opulence of Integrity.” Choreographed by Brown, the performance draws its inspiration from the spirit and legend of Muhammad Ali, featuring elements of boxing, hip-hop and ...
This past Saturday the Hirschfield International Film Festival screened Tuesday, After Christmas, a Romanian movie that was not only selected for the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, but also received rave reviews from critics across the country. It has been touted as “deeply affecting, brilliantly ...
Nature Transformed, which is on display in the Museum of Art through April 21, presents a selection of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of the Vermont quarry industry in the 90s. Burtynsky, a Canadian 2005 TED prize-winner, is a photographer who has achieved international recognition for his ...
Trickling water echoes softly through the glass room overflowing with a riot of lush green vegetation. In one corner, potted orchids perch alongside an old hot tub in which goldfish placidly float. A Norfolk Island pine towers to the sloping ceiling. The McCardell Bicentennial Hall greenhouse is a tropical ...
There are two very specific genres of video games that I love above all others: third person hack-and-slash games that have no regard for realism (Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, God of War etc.) and grid-based turn-based strategy role playing games (Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Advance ...
Although I knew she was recently a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel Swamplandia!, I hesitated, at first, to read Karen Russell’s new collection of eight stories. This was mostly out of fear that a collection with “vampires” in the title would be too whimsical, too ...
Snapping, crying, shouting and, if they weren’t bolted to the ground, throwing some chairs onto the stage. Speaking to a packed Dana Auditorium, award-winning performance poet Joshua Bennett invited an audience of over 300 students, faculty and Middlebury community members to react actively ...
On Feb 8, the Middlebury College Museum of Art opened their new exhibit, Linear Thinking. The exhibit features pieces by artists such as Matisse and Picasso, and its focus on starkly contrasting shapes, repeating patterns and sharp edges demonstrates a wide variety of artwork from the 20th century. ...
We probably all know Gotye as the guy who sings “Somebody That I Used to Know”—the song that permeated radio, commercials and karaoke nights in 2012. The Belgian-Australian independent artist couldn’t have expected the massive international success of the single, which topped the charts in 26 ...