Professor of Literary Studies and editor of the critically acclaimed New England Review (NER) Stephen Donadio welcomed the room of literary enthusiasts at 51 Main on Tuesday, April 19 to the first night of the NER Vermont Reading Series. He spoke of the project as an endeavor of the NER, in partnership ...
The poster set the bar pretty high: three stylish musicians standing against a rugged backdrop, wielding instruments and sporting aviators. And then there was the program, claiming “we we we so excited to be performing.” Yes, last Sunday’s recital featuring the musical styling of Sarah Harney ...
You’d be hard-pressed to find two film genres more different than romantic comedies and boxing movies. Professor of Film and Media Culture Leger Grindon strives to examine and analyze these genres in two new books, Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History, Controversies and Knockout: The Boxer ...
Chaz Bundick makes music with the sensibility of a DJ more than that of any conventional songwriter. He is a skilled manipulator of mood, texture and ambiance, and both of his albums as Toro Y Moi have been very well sequenced, each track flowing naturally into the next, just like a good DJ set. This ...
The original Portal was something of an anomaly in the gaming world. What started as an independent project by some students turned into a small game that came packaged in Valve’s “Orange Box,” a collection of the Half Life games, Portal and the multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. Portal became ...
I go to a show to be convinced. It doesn’t have anything to do with good faith, or believing that something has meaning because I paid six bucks to watch it. It’s the respect for a performer’s ability to do their job: to make me think, not tell me what to think. In return, I don’t pretend it’s ...
Low Level Panic ran in the Hepburn Zoo from Apr. 14-16. The senior 700 work of Ele Woods ’11, Jess Spar ’11 and Lindsey Messmore ’11, the piece was written by Clare McIntyre during the decline of the feminist movement in 1987 Britain, and explored the tenuous dynamic between women, sex and objectification. ...
Anna Gallagher ’12, Alex Geller ’12, Maya Goldberg-Safir ’12, Mori Rothman ’11 and Bella Tudisco ’13.5 didn’t have high expectations when they traveled to Yale University on the first weekend of spring break for the northeast regional poetry slam qualifying tournament. They had heard about ...
Though Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now was written in 2004, it remains one of my favorite books of all time. This book is so powerful because of the unassuming voice of the narrator, fifteen-year-old Daisy, and the casual but poignant observations that she makes. Because of Daisy’s candid way of speaking, ...
An Earth Day celebration at the Town Hall Theater on April 16 explored how writers and songwriters throughout the centuries have thought about our relationship to the planet. Natural Selections: An Earth Day Celebration in Prose and Song featured folksinger Geoff Kaufman ’69 alongside Assistant Professor ...
Musically speaking, 2009 was a dying year. But thanks to a team of indie superheroes including Animal Collective, Passion Pit and The Dirty Projectors, humanity was saved from the soul-sucking clutches of Susan Boyle and auto-tune. Although no definitive list of music’s heroes exists, one thing’s ...
Najla Said presented “Palestine,” her one-woman show, to an intimate audience April 11 at the Chateau Theater. The performance was the first in a series of guest-lectures that comprise the Women’s and Gender Studies Program’s focus on Palestine, with additional support from the Arabic department, ...
“Forget the names — the names make you remember,” are the simple words of a father left in the underworld too long, remembering the love he has for his daughter. They are words reminding us that remembering can be the worst fate of all. Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice was a play that, on the surface, ...
On Monday, April 4, the Middlebury College Choir performed in the CFA Concert Hall. The program included compositions by Brahms, Duruflé and Whitacre, as well as sacred liturgies, comical ditties and amorous traditional songs. With soaring vocals and a varied repertoire, the performance marked the ...
I rarely see plays in which there are no weakly-presented characters and all actors fuse seamlessly with the spirit of their reproductions. In Vanya, written by Sam Holcroft and directed by Charles Giardina ’12, the exemplary performances from all sides made for a beautifully tight show. In thyis ...
Few could disagree that in the past decade the practice of music sampling has become over-hyped, even over-used. No longer a technique exclusive to producers of hip-hop, the borrowing of song elements is a method that has been adopted by artists running the gamut of musical styles. Canyon Candy, the ...
Warning: this article contains spoilers pertaining to the games BioShock, Braid and Limbo. But honestly they’ve all been out for more than a year, so if you haven’t played them yet you probably don’t have the intention to. This week, I wanted to do something different — hopefully something ...
On Friday, March 18, Tiffany Rhynard, artistic director of Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) dance, introduced the troupe’s most recent performance in the Town Hall Theater in downtown Middlebury with the following rules: everything is intentional, and the piece will be performed as it was ...
Did Ariel Ritchin’s ’11 vibrant photographs catch your eye on the way to your mailbox through the McCullough Social Space last month? How about the art on the walls at 51 Main during the last Spoken Word? Do you have your own artwork that you want on display? The person responsible for bringing ...
If religion is the opiate of the masses, then Reilly Steel ’11 is the crack of the American People, as proven in his performance of Drinking in America. The one-man show by Eric Bogosian explores various characters’ reliance on drugs and alcohol as a mechanism for coping with society today. Reilly ...