MOVIE | Holy Rollers DIRECTOR | Kevin Asch Holy Rollers can’t seem to decide if it’s a coming-of-age character drama, a cautionary parable about two cultural extremes or a straightforward crime drama. I suppose it’s more the first than anything, but I also suspect that it is ambitious enough ...
Game|Dead Rising 2 Platform|Xbox 360, PS3, PC Rating|Mature “Why did mommy bite me, daddy?” asks Katey, one of the main characters of Capcom’s zombie series, Dead Rising. Chuck Green, the protagonist, responds to his daughter with obvious hurt in his voice: “That wasn’t mommy, sweetheart, ...
As Middlebury turned to face autumn this weekend, Paul Asbell delivered a concert full of summer warmth to a campus audience. The acoustic guitarist, described as “one of the best kept secrets in American music,” delighted ears with a wide range of styles and the occasional anecdote revealing his ...
The Heliand Trio — an ensemble comprised of pianist Cynthia Huard, clarinetist Elisabeth LeBlanc and bassoonist Rachael Elliott — performed at the Center for the Arts last Friday. The concert program explained their peculiar name: “Helianthus means sunflower, [and] we hope to bring light and ...
When D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing Jay Parini introduced writer Howard Frank Mosher to a crowd in Axinn’s Abernethy Room last Wednesday, he said that he had a title for Mosher ever since he started reading his books: the William Faulkner of the Northeast Kingdom. According to ...
Sporting a head of frizzy brown hair and wearing a pink dress, tights and boots, Abigail Washburn certainly fit the appearance of a bubbly bluegrass songstress during her Sept. 29 concert at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Effervescent from the moment she walked onstage, Washburn shouted ...
If you are interested in comedy, you are attending Middlebury College at the right time. Both of our college’s improv comedy troupes — the nearly two-decade-old Otter Nonsense Players and the younger Middlebrow, founded in the spring of 2008 — are enjoying high levels of popularity and exposure ...
Many people picture an organic, sustainable piece of clothing as the staple of the stereotypical Rastafarian: a ratty, hemp getup fit for a hippie. Aside from British company People Tree, there exist only a handful of large, mainstream clothing corporations that engage in sustainable, fair trade fashion ...
Artist |Frankie Rose & the Outs Album |Hollow Life I was surprised listening to the first track off Frankie Rose’s most recent project — surprised that perhaps Frankie is past the stylized lo-fi noise that has defined her storied yet short musical career. In fact, I felt that “Hollow Life” ...
At its very core, fashion is about three things: practicality, authenticity and risk. Practicality is the most objective of part of the equation: you don’t wear ballet flats to your environmental studies lab or a neon unitard to a wedding — these are rules of common sense and need no further explanation ...
From painting to literature, sculpture to drama, Japan has always been an innovative nation when it comes to the arts, so much so that they have often ended up creating their own school of a particular art form. Naturally, the Japanese also have their own unique dance form, but one that is vastly different ...
From Sept. 30 through Oct. 14, the architectural works of renowned Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons will be exhibited in Johnson Memorial Building. The display will be a combination of photographs, drawings, and documentations. According to Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture John McLeod, ...
When the Committee on Art in Public Places was created in 1994, they made a decision to funnel one percent of the cost of any new construction or renovation towards the installation and maintenance of public art on campus. This week, we decided to ask around and see what our fellow students think of ...
Artist |Robyn Album |Body Talk, Pt. 2 If you’re like me, you’ve probably found yourself lost in the ever-growing world of electropop music (think Lady Gaga or Passion Pit) at some point in the last few years. The solution? Robyn’s Body Talk, Pt. 2. On the middle installment of her ambitious ...
Most of us have seen Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We’ve enjoyed our jaunt through Harry’s magical world of wizarding delight. We’ve gasped at the Quidditch scenes (maybe even played some Quidditch) and we’ve cringed at the werewolf, a massive figure on the big screen. Most of us ...
At one point during his hour-long set on Friday night at the Center for the Arts concert hall, harmonica player Mark Lavoie took a break from playing blues classics to speak to the audience about the current state of blues music. If you go to any blues festival and look at the festival audience, he ...
Game|Halo: Reach Platform |Xbox 360 Rating |Mature “No, no! This cant be happening!” yells Jorge, codename Noble II, as he watches one of the most powerful human vessels crash into the ocean after falling victim to a beam of unknown origin. The player, who is in the role of Noble VI, looks up ...
From Sept. 17 — Dec. 12 Andy Warhol’s famous Soup Can will rub shoulders with Greek terracotta and modern sculpture in the Museum of Art’s newest exhibit, “Friends Bearing Gifts: 40 years of Acquisitions from the Friends of the Art Museum.” The exhibit, which opened to the general public ...
Call it a most beautiful marriage of music and film. Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips — two musicians currently performing with a band under the moniker Dean & Britta — were commissioned several years ago by the Andy Warhol Museum and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to compose music accompanying ...
Andrew Massey, Middlebury College orchestra conductor, has been at the helm of professional ensembles for over 30 years. His career has taken him across the pond, from England to the United States, and most recently to Vermont. This year will be his second with the College. He sat down with The Campus ...