On Monday, Feb. 15, the organization Women of Color and their collaborators’ months of dedication to the program “What is Color?” will finally come to fruition as the three-month long series of panels and talks kicks off with a photography exhibit meant to explore the central question. Member ...
Slinky, jazz infused chords tumbled from the pit orchestra settling around one of the Wild Party’s female leads, Queenie (Casey Donahue ’10.5), balanced carefully on a single chair on the dimly lit stage, silkily (but scantily) clad. Her opening lines: “Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood ...
Cameron Poole ’12 had been experimenting with different forms of art her whole life, but when she enrolled in Professor of Studio Art Eric Nelson’s Winter Term class, Art on the Land, she underwent a total immersion in the medium unlike she had ever experienced before. For the month of January, ...
Recall the movies of our youth. Think teen comedies — “American Pie,” “Varsity Blues,” “Superbad.” Each of these movies shares a common theme, responsible for developing every shred of humor, tragedy and redemption. This theme is sex. In these movies, there are only two kinds of characters: ...
With the attention of as many ardent supporters as agitated detractors, Vampire Weekend released its second album last month, the inspired and eclectic “Contra.” Few groups in recent years have been as divisive as Vampire Weekend. The band’s most fervent backers praise its fresh take on Afro-pop ...
While other students chose to venture into warmer climates during Feb Break — or simply to escape the occasionally claustrophobic campus we call home for a couple of days — there were four who opted to spend their hours in a much more productive manner. The members of the student band Ava and the ...
“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,” the latest acid trip from director Terry Gilliam (“12 Monkeys,” “Brazil,” Monty Python) is an adventure into the writer/director’s infamous fantasy bohemian aesthetic. The film opens late one night on a seedy street in London when the rickety horse ...
Whether walking down dorm hallways or bopping your head to the RIDDIM finale, the Midd-kid Rap seems to be unavoidable. Sam Robinson, Writer and member of The Allen Jokers, sat down with The Campus’ Tamara Hilmes and told the story of the viral hit’s origins. Middlebury Campus: Who first conceived ...
When poet Crystal Belle ’04 walks into a classroom, she easily takes command, her effusive energy spilling out onto those who have come to soak up her wisdom. As she shares her love of poetry and hip-hop to an eager audience, the devotion and enthusiasm she holds for her craft becomes a palpable ...
MTV’s newest hit show “Jersey Shore” threatens to ravage memories of a place that defined my childhood summers. (I promise you, the “shore” is more special than “The Situation” may make you believe.) Thankfully, though, Real Estate’s self-titled release has restored some of the Jersey ...
Boy meets girl, boy goes out with girl, boy moves in with girl, boy gets tired of girl, so girl throws boy a party. She is functioning under a few assumptions: the party will be a smashing success, hook-ups will abound, boy will get jealous, and passion will descend on their relationship once again. This ...
Winter Term is the time when you can pay 50 dollars to ferment your own cheese. If you are unhappy with the usual seaweed-colored Adirondack chairs that grace the lawn every fall, you can learn how to make your own and paint it sky-blue. Students who crave pure honey straight from the hive can even ...
“The Age of Stupid” is an idiotic name for a film that everyone should see. In its examination of cultural choices that ignore the impending effects of global warming, the film provokes a sense of urgency, disgust with consumerism, and a desire for change. Actor Pete Postlethwaite poses as an ...
In his sparse free time , sophomore English major and Ross Commons Co-Chair Patrick D’Arcy busies himself as the primary writer of music blog Kickin’ the Peanuts (KTP). With 10-15,000 unique hits a day, KTP is distinguished as one of the more prominent blogs on the Web, often listed in the “Most ...
Given the technical ground broken by James Cameron’s newest release, it is difficult to leave the theater unimpressed by the special effects: surprising stereoscopic filming advances leave the gimmicks of the last decade’s 3-D craze to be lost in a shimmering wake of striking color and subtle depth. However, ...
When the Strokes burst onto the scene in 2001 with their monumental debut, “Is This It,” many deemed them the saviors of rock. They would resurrect the dead garage and punk sound of the late 1970s and rescue the suffering public from the talentless grasp of boy bands and teen pop divas. For a while, ...
From Nov. 19 through Nov. 21, “Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief” played five shows at the Hepburn Zoo. The script, written 30 years ago by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is inspired by Shakespeare’s “Othello.” But, as the title alludes, Vogel’s work shifts away from the tragic ...
The lights were dimmed excepting a blue-filtered trickle that danced off the curved white wall of the Wright Theatre stage and the round “windows” that hung like the eye-like portals of a ship. They curved into a half moon outline that enclosed a stage empty but for the series of white columns stood ...