“Broken Embraces,” by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, is a love story noir chronicling the life of a filmmaker and his close relationships to his work, his agent and her son, and an actress in his film. The film opens on Harry Caine, a blind writer that we later learn is the pseudonym for Mateo ...
The Middlebury College Museum of Art’s newest exhibition is a collection of American Paintings and Prints from the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt. The exhibition will run until June 6 and features a selection of 28 pieces from the Shelburne Museum’s collection of over 150 paintings and prints. The ...
Which of the following does not belong? Basketball, track, swimming and violin; shooting hoops, sprinting meters, treading water and plucking the E string. If you chose violin — ding, ding! — by most standards, you were right. Music isn’t generally associated with physical activity of any sort. David ...
The Middlebury Dance Company swept down to the Dominican Republic at the end of January to teach, perform and collaborate with professional dancers and children alike in the city of Puerto Plata. The 2009-10 company — consisting of Elizabeth Boles ’10, Philippe Bronchtein ’10, Sarah Chapin ’12, ...
I was lucky enough to catch Surfer Blood — the hyped Floridian indie pop band that admittedly does not surf — this past New Year’s Eve. Actually, the band took the stage when the new year began, counting down the remaining seconds of 2009 in a disappointingly unaffected manner. Fortunately, as ...
From the somber opening tones of the cello singing out a C minor arpeggio, it was clear that a spectacular concert was in store. Sophie Shao, making a return appearance in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall, flawlessly sustained her reputation as a master cellist. Bringing ...
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 ...