On Friday, Feb. 19 the McCullough Social Space was once again the platform used for the annual Winter Carnival stage show. This year the College welcomed comedian and actor Adam Ferrara. Before Ferrara hit the stage, the crowd was treated to the comedic stylings of Greg Dorris ’13. Dorris discussed ...
This Friday, Feb 22, Christian A. Johnson Professor of History of Art Cynthia Packert will lead a discussion about a new painting that will soon be hanging in the College’s Museum of Art. The College recently obtained the painting, “Illustration from the Ramayana,” which depicts an epic event ...
It’s a big week for science. The top New York Times headline Monday morning read: “Obama Seeking to Boost the Study of the Human Brain.” Normally, such headlines are relegated to the Science Times, where only people like me will read them. But this story was deemed front page-worthy. It will change ...
Horror tends to be a divisive genre of film; either you’re an adrenaline junky looking for the next great movie scare, or you can’t stand the thought of being subjected to an hour and a half of blood, gore and cheap screams. I fall in the former group. Whether a beautifully crafted psychological ...
Ex-Girlfriends is a cleverly written story about the perils of tiptoeing around the subtleties of dating as a 20-something in New York City. But do not take the film at face value. Alex Poe’s ’03 first feature-length film delivers a unique spin on a perhaps overused story that is saturated with ...
Valenetine’s Day is here, and even over in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, talk has turned towards love. This past Tuesday, Philip Battell/Sarah Stewart Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeff Byers gave a talk on “Love, Pain, and Chocolate: Musings of a Structural Scientist on the True Meaning ...
I’ve played a lot of video games in my time, and I know that plenty of games are able to tell stories of love, such as Shadow of the Colossus. This game centers on a man named Wander, who must kill legendary colossi to resuscitate a dead girl named Mono. There are also the games where romance manifests ...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Catherine Cabeen, also artistic director of Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC), proves through her work that artistic creation can be an intellectual activity. While many students were enjoying the change of pace offered during winter term, Cabeen was busy creating, ...
If you’re looking for some laughs this weekend, a local production by the Middlebury Community Players won’t disappoint. They are presenting the hilarious show Play On! at The Town Hall Theater Feb 14-17. The local theater company, dedicated to producing musicals, comedies and dramas in Addison ...
One of the many striking images in Toni Morrison’s slim but forceful novel, Home, involves three men playing scat and bebop in a small smoke-filled room. “Clearly,” the narrator writes, “there would be no musical end; the piece would stop only when a player was exhausted at last.” And though ...
Tomorrow evening, the Dance Company Middlebury will begin its tour of Simply Light in the Mahaney Center for the Arts before travelling to Smith College, the Monterrey Institute for International Studies, and various public venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Six students and one alumnus, Paul Matteson ...
The class gathered outside of Voter, looking up at the wire strung between two diverging trunks of an elm. “You see that wire, the slack there? In the summer, when the tree leafs out, it will pull the wire taught. That slack is a good thing this time of year,” explained Tim Parsons, Middlebury College’s ...
Last Friday and Saturday evenings, The Rude Mechanicals (The Rude Mechs) performed their original play The Method Gun at the Seeler Studio Theater. The performance by the Austin, Tex.-based ensemble occurred alongside a week-long residency at the College, in which they provided workshops for and gave ...
At Middlebury, students have access to three dining halls with essentially unlimited food. Whether you’re going vegan or paleo, there are food options for you on a daily basis. Indeed, it’s quite easy to choose from a range of choices in order to properly balance your personal nutritional needs. However, ...
The garage sits on the edge of the fields to the west of campus along Rte. 125. “Henry” the tractor is parked inside. The years have only slightly tarnished the fire-truck red paint job on the 1950’s Ford 8N. It was the top selling tractor in North America in its day, the “tractor that replaced ...
Alpenglow, a five-piece folk band formed in Vermont, will perform in Mead Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19. The band features students Graeme Daubert ’12.5 and Elori Kramer ’13.5. Peter Coccoma '12, Kenneth Root and Colin Weeks complete the group. This is the band’s second concert ...
On Monday, Jan. 14, a solo performance titled MYethiOPIA ran in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. The performance was written and performed by Burlington-born David Schein. It was based on his experiences forming and directing the Awassa AIDS Education Circus (now called One Love HIV/AIDS ...
Quentin Tarantino has proven to be one of the more divisive directors in Hollywood. Three of his films have received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture, one of his films, Pulp Fiction, won him both the Palm D’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Original ...
It seems as though stress is par for the course in college. All of us are loaded up with exams and essays galore, along with expectations of success. However, the semi-permanent sense of dread and anxiety that most students experience should not be a routine feeling. Stress is a function governed by ...
Imagine an acting technique so extreme that it took all those who used it to an entirely new level, a technique designed to inject even the smallest role with a dose of sex, violence and death. Such a technique exists, and is known as “The Approach.” It was created by acting instructor Stella Burden, ...