Much to the chagrin of those who demand that personal tales must color a man’s professional output, Roman Polanski, the scourge of feminists and the right-wing culture police alike, has made a fine, spare thriller that has nothing to do with its director’s own sordid story. The Ghost Writer is at ...
It’s hard to image Middlebury’s arts scene without the Gamut Room. Nestled in Gifford Hall at the foot of a small outdoor amphitheater, the Gamut Room has developed into both a beloved Middlebury entertainment venue and a quirky study zone. With its painted walls and cozy décor, the Gamut Room ...
On their first two albums, Arcade Fire captured the intensity of existential crises. Funeral, as the album title suggests, sought to find a way to cope with death at a young age, ultimately favoring acceptance over escapism. On the hit track “Rebellion (Lies),” the chorus — in a repeated, assured ...
They read page after page. At times, they have even feared they might drown in paper. No, they are not the Middlebury Admissions Committee. Literary magazines, which work as a kind of combination networking tool/self esteem booster for aspiring and established writers, are always overwhelmed with ...
September 11: "13 Most Beautiful" — Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips have composed music to accompany Andy Warhol’s little known four-minute silent film portraits. They will perform these haunting compositions in the McCullough Social Space. September 17 - 18: Blues Weekend — This pair of Music ...
The news that director Edgar Wright would be heading up an adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” graphic novel series was cause for celebration, for fans of both the comic and of Wright’s work. The two films Wright is best known for, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, are gut-busting ...
The Wright Theater will soon be looking a little more colorful than usual. This fall, the theater’s eastern wall will be decorated with a 1,300 square foot mural depicting a new and dynamic image by Vermont artist Sabra Field ’57. The image, entitled “Cosmic Geometry”, is a grid-like piece ...
School is in session, and everyone has come with their “fall collection”—a culmination of items, spanning from what was not left behind in the spring to the last item that you got before returning to beautiful 05753. You may be asking yourselves, “Christian, what is this talk about ‘fall ...
Between July 6 and August 1, Middlebury theater students took center stage in a venue far removed from the hills of rural Vermont, setting up house off-Broadway at New York City’s Potomac Theatre Project (PTP). Jim Patosa of Boston University, and the College’s own Cheryl Faraone and Richard Romagnoli ...
Since 1926, Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus in Ripton has played host to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Every year in mid-August, several hundred poetry and prose artists of varying notoriety flock to Bread Loaf’s secluded collection of egg-yolk-yellow buildings to hone their craft ...
On Friday, April 30 Assistant Director of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Jennifer Grotz gave a reading of her work in the Abernethy Room of the Axinn Center at Starr Library. The event was sponsored by The New England Review, Cook Commons and the Department of English and American Literatures. ...
It’s towards the end of “Shame, Shame,” Dr. Dog’s sixth LP, where the band describes itself better than any reviewer could: “I’m just a memory … there’s no reflection here at all.” Dr. Dog is an apparition — a “memory” of a past era, a feel-good mood that was born during the ...
May 6th 2010: Airswimming The senior work of Martina Bonolis ’10 and Michaela Lieberman ’10.5, “Airswimming” tells the tale of two women in an asylum for the criminally insane, struggling to come to grips with the realities of womanhood. The show will run until May 8 in the Hepburn Zoo. Tickets ...
Last December, every newspaper, magazine and blog published something just like this. It’s a reflection of the past year, an article that requires very little research, no additional viewing, no real beginning, middle and end and is entirely based off of one writer’s opinion despite purporting some ...
“The Good Woman of Setzuan” ran in the Wright Memorial Theatre this past weekend, April 29 toMay 1. Directed by Professor of Theatre and Women’s and Gender Studies Cheryl Faraone and designed by Middlebury theatre department faculty, this piece of epic performance, speckled with dramatically stark ...
Philippe Bronchstein ’10 has operated under an assortment of monikers during his four-year stint at Middlebury College, including Bearplane, Flannel Mammal, Philbronch (for the Twitter set) and Bronchstosaurus. Okay, so while that last one might be a figment of this arts editor’s imagination, the ...
When a man sees something beautiful, it inspires him to grow a monument on his face. — Jim Hatzopolous My good friend Jim said this to me the summer after freshman year of college when I had grown my first full beard. At the time, I had no idea what it was that had inspired me to grow my monument. I ...
Over the course of the last few months, you may have noticed somewhat ambiguous signs for a thing titled “The Middlebury Moth.” No, those aren’t advertisements for a horror film. Inspired by the original “Moth” series, live storytelling events held in New York City regularly since the ’80s, ...
“Letting Go: Dancing with Rivers” ran in the MCFA Dance Theatre last Saturday, April 24. The show was part of a series honoring College Professor John Elder as he retires from the College this year. Elder, revered by faculty and students alike, taught at Middlebury for 37 years. His vivacity and ...
There is a unique pleasure in watching a deserving musician rise to prominence. And Middlebury’s own Anaïs Mitchell ’04 seems to be doing just that, slowly but surely. Since signing to Ani DiFranco’s record label — Righteous Babe — and releasing her third album, “The brightness,” on ...