As a fan of Sherlock Holmes books ever since I read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was 13 (the sound of dogs barking in the forest can still make my heart race), Graham Moore’s The Sherlockian quenched my thirst for a new Sherlock Holmes story. However, unlike other Sherlock Holmes mysteries, ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, students who had studied in a number of different counties last semester gathered together at 51 Main to hear stories from their friends and classmates. Going abroad for a semester is a once-in-a-lifetime experience which many students at Middlebury are lucky enough to enjoy. ...
It’s not too often that we get a chance to see a production of student-written play here at Middlebury, but this weekend provided one of those opportunities. Noah Mease, a double major in Spanish and Theater (with a Playwriting focus), spent the fall writing Green Eden as his 700-level project, a ...
Game |9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors Platform |Nintendo DS Rating | Mature For those of you who read my column, you may have noticed an unsettling trend: I have only reviewed sequels or new additions of long-standing franchises. This deeply bothered me, as someone who advocates strongly for the independent/small-developer-based ...
Last Thursday, Verbal Onslaught kicked off Winter Carnival by pairing up with non-profit organization Reclaim Childhood in an evening dedicated to self-empowerment. The event was held at 51 Main and as the night went on, the space became progressively more packed with students and other enraptured ...
Journalist Eric Schlosser delivered an address titled “The Future of the Food Movement” and took questions from a capacity crowd at McCullough Social Space last Tuesday night, Feb. 15. In addition to being the executive producer of There Will Be Blood and Food Inc. and producing two plays in ...
Blue Valentine Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance, was notorious well before its release: after screening to high praise at both the Cannes and Sundance Film Festival, the MPAA bestowed an NC-17 rating on it, the most restrictive rating short of that reserved for pornography (the rating is ...
Orange Crush by Deirdre Sackett, Arts Editor On Thursday, Feb. 17, the McCullough Social Space was filled with bright neon leggings, copious amounts of spandex and vibrant glowsticks as Orange Crush kicked off the first night of the College’s 88th Annual Winter Carnival. The ’80s cover band is ...
A few months ago, senior Simran Bhalla changed my life with a single text message — the context of which has long since faded with each passing Four Loko. Yet what remains, two simple words emblazoned forever upon my very soul, has made a world of difference: “Man Repeller.” For those of you ...
Affiliate artist Pete Sutherland performed at the Mahaney Center for the Arts this past Friday night, entertaining the audience with a rousing concert of both original and classic folk music. Joined by a slew of friends and family, including his wife Karen, the multitalented instrumentalist, singer ...
After he graduated last May, Dan Sheron ’10 packed up and left the States to spend some time in Russia. He ended up writing a set of songs that would become the forthcoming album October’s Road, performed by a newly-formed group they dubbed Balto. We talked to him about writing music in Russia, ...
“Breaking the Huddle,” a lecture on the opening of a new gallery at the Middlebury College Art Museum, existed in my mind as something very stereotypical. The new gallery, Mixed Signals, seeks to discuss “popular notions of masculinity and sport.” As perhaps the least athletic person you could ...
Chicago’s Smith Westerns showed up late for the party — about 40 years late. The teenage quartet’s home-brewed combination of garage-rock guitars, Beatles melodies, T-Rex and Bowie-esque glam-rock throws us right back into 1971. But this is no revivalist cover band. Smith Westerns’ sophomore ...
While Dominique Young Unique might not live up to the last third of her stage name, the first two thirds seem to be pretty accurate. She is named Dominique and she is young, only 19 years old, as far as this reporter can discern. The Tampa, Fl. rapper played a show last Friday night in McCullough ...
This past Monday, POST•M, a “devised metatheatrical creation”, was performed in the Dance Studio. Directed by Nerina Cocchi ’10, the show featured Alena Giesche ’11, Heather Pynne ’11 and Andrea Messana, and was a preview of Cocchi’s vision for an international show that will begin touring ...
Feb. 17- Green Eden - This original play is the senior playwriting work of Noah Mease ’11. In it, Philip Cummings welcomes a young poet to his house on a winter’s night, but he is not the first Spanish poet to find him in the solitude of Vermont. Years earlier, Summer 1929, the famous poet Federico ...
If you were to ask me what trend currently defines the gaming industry, I would give two answers: sequels and motion control. Nintendo kicks off the motion control trend with the Wii and with it, the Wii-mote. They marketed the console as a new way to experience gaming in the home environment. As the ...
Watch Parks and Recreation. Seriously, do it. I know; you saw an episode in the first season and it wasn’t for you. Try again. Generally, in today’s age of serialized television, people feel the need to watch a show from its first episode to get to know the entire story, the character nuances, the ...
Jan. 21-22 at the Mahaney Center for the Arts the Dance Company premiered their semester long project, “Culture, cash and community: to have or have not.” Students, Artistic Director Christal Brown, and visiting artists Trebien Pollard and Paloma McGregor choreographed the suite of four dances. ...
For many, Winter Term can become a graveyard for grand schemes that never come to fruition. Among many people I know, “we’ll do it in J-Term,” (or just “J-Term.”) is the half-joking default response to good ideas that seem like too big of an undertaking during the busy semester. But every ...