Mad Men Season 4 recap (Simran Bhalla): As my editor Toren once tweeted, AMC continues “KILLING IT with the serialized dramas.” Mad Men’s penultimate season drew to a close this October. It offered neither a numbing historical backdrop (such as, in previous seasons, Kennedy’s election and later ...
Whether we like it or not, winter is coming: Vermont’s sub-artic, snow-covered, frostbitten, I-don’t-want-to-leave my-warm-bed-ever-again winter. And yes, the same chilled air that quashes many a well-intentioned Friday night trip to the bar also forces us to drown ourselves in squishy down-feathered ...
This past Friday, Mead Chapel was home to a delightful concert that marked the Performing Arts Series’ 1000th performance since its creation. The concert focused on the musical expertise of Diana Fanning, an extremely talented local pianist and teacher, and celebrated her forty years as a performer. ...
Nine different landscapes sprang from the same assignment; their angles and depths, mirroring reality, are soaked with the light and color produced from the mind. Descend into the Johnson Memorial Building’s pit space to find the outside brought inside by means of the drawings, photo collages and ...
According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, a syzygy is “the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system.” One of more obscure words in the English language, when typed into a Microsoft Word document it comes up as a misspelled version of ...
From bagpipes to bassoon, from harmonica to horn, Middlebury College’s private music teachers put together an assorted performance of jazz, blues, classical, folk and new music at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Saturday. Setting the tone of the show, guitarist Dayve Huckett played a series of ...
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Terius Nash. Terius, aka The-Dream, enjoys pursuing women, “Patrónin’” and informing you of his sexual and financial prowess. Oh, and he also has a knack for penning immaculately produced, ludicrously infectious R&B masterpieces. Remember the last time you stumbled ...
“You have one favor, but think it through before you ask me.” Looking through my dialogue options, I could ask for some money, extra items or become a member of the Kings, a gang whose members all dedicate themselves to talking, acting and dressing like the original King himself, Elvis Presley. ...
This year’s Vermont Bookshop Authors Series starts off with a bang with the release of author (and D. E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing)Jay Parini’s newest novel, The Passages of H.M. The novel’s release will be celebrated at Town Hall Theater on Tuesday, November 16. Parini will ...
Artist |Deerhunter Album |Halcyon Digest From the opening bass rumbles of “Earthquake,” we are shaken (how much depends on how loud you crank the volume) out of ourselves and brought to the idyllic past: Deerhunter’s “Halcyon Digest.” The album’s title is satire, though; Bradford Cox, Deerhunter’s ...
As Ellis Professor of English and Liberal Arts John Bertolini mentions in his program notes, “unusual people” of idiosyncratic ambition inhabit Major Barbara. George Bernard Shaw writes the vast disparity between characters with a seamless naturalism that lays the groundwork for both fluid humor ...
Though I am a firm believer in the flexibility and personalization of fashion, there are certain things that will never be in style; socially blacklisted trends most commonly created in the name of comfort that may only ever be worn with the self-awareness that they break all the rules of mainstream ...
It’s an Olio, a four-man wonder featuring the talents of JP Allen ’11, Ben Meader ’10.5 and Gillian Durkee ’11, as well as the multiple abilities of Worth Baker ’12, played at the Heburn Zoo over the course of last weekend. One of its aims was to show other students that they could perform ...
The New York Times has called cellist Sophie Shao “eloquent and powerful.” One might think this is a paradox, but to be a truly exceptional musician of any style, these qualities are necessities. After watching Sophie Shao in her performance on Friday, I was overwhelmed by not only her technical ...
Identity is a broad, even baffling theme. It is intensely personal. It can be painful. It was thoroughly picked apart, laughed over and celebrated at an Oct. 21 event at 51 Main. MOQA -— the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance — organized the event, which featured Verbal Onslaught’s spoken word poetry ...
The Concert Hall was filled with eclectic music Saturday night as musician Dayve Huckett and friends took the stage. An affiliate artist with the College, Huckett’s solo performances included his own original music on classical, steel string and electric guitars. However, Huckett’s impressive repertoire ...
In the most recent installment of the Performing Arts Series, Middlebury College played host to Tamar Rogoff’s Diagnosis of a Faun. The piece focuses on a fantastic reinterpretation of the classical figure of the faun — a satyr with the aspects of both man and goat. It arrives at the interdisciplinary ...
The Castlevania franchise is one of those franchises that anyone who spends any of the time in the realm of gaming can instantly recognize, but it has little to no splash in the mainstream. By diverging from its 2-D sidescroller/ Dracula-hunting predecessors, Lords of Shadow hopes to change this obscurity ...
Generally, when watching the average Hollywood blockbuster, the discerning filmgoer has to resort to deriving pleasure not from the film itself, but from being the person who spites the film most creatively. The Social Network is not the average Hollywood blockbuster. In The Social Network, the characters ...
On Friday, in honor of homcoming weekend, the Grille hosted a special edition of the MCAB-sponsored “Music and Drinks” series, featuring a showcase of four bands with at least one member who graduated from Middlebury. As it was a Friday, the event was not as crowded as it might have been on a ...