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 ...
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 ...