Author: Christian Morel It is March, everyone, and we have finally woken up from our J-term hibernation and will soon engage in the Middlebury work rut. We will regain our seven-day routine of a Sunday-to-Thursday workload with a Friday-to-Saturday fiesta on the side. As we all know, this routine can ...
Author: Toren Hardee Film scholar Laura Mulvey gave a lecture on Friday March 6 titled "Back to modernity: thoughts on reality, narrative cinema from another technological age" in the Axinn Center at Starr Library. As a preface to her speech, Mulvey noted that, in inviting her to give a lecture at Middlebury, ...
Author: Dana Walters Poet Richard Chess gave a reading on Friday, March 5 from a selection of poems, all centering around a Jewish motif. A Professor of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Chess has published three books and numerous poems in journals and anthologies. ...
Author: Catherine Ahearn A pitch-black room gives way to a single face, then a single dancer whose pointed, tense and deliberate movements accompany an isolated photo as it zooms closer, consuming the entire screen. Ronald K. Brown, artistic director of Evidence, A Dance Company and choreographer of ...
Author: [no author name found] This past Thursday, students and townspeople alike spun around the McCullough Social Space to the jazz improvisations of The Sound Investment - an all-student group led by Dick Forman. Doing classics as well as contemporary numbers, the impressive ensemble put forth an ...
Author: Alex Blair Lily Allen, one of Britain's most popular and controversial pop stars, isn't afraid to speak her mind. Whether she's talking about her drug use or the shortcomings of the British government, Allen does so in an unabashed manner. For her 2006 debut album, "Alright, Still," Allen wore ...
Author: Emma Stanford In her senior theater project, Sheyenne Brown '09 is confronting the issue of race at Middlebury College. Brown, a theater major from New York City, has attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., as well as Middlebury. This weekend, she takes on the ultimate challenge of theater: ...
Author: Toren Hardee Philadelphia-based DJ and producer Ramble John Krohn, better known by his stage name RJD2, played a sold-out show in the newly-renovated McCullough Social Space on Friday to positive student reception. Before RJD2 took the stage, crowds filtered in and were warmed up by an energetic ...
Author: Dana Walters A couple of weeks ago, a somewhat ambiguous advertisement ran in the weekly SGA email. "Are you interested in writing, journalism, or creative nonfiction?" it said, "Do you enjoy the features that air on NPR or in podcasts around the web? Do you have a story to tell, or like hearing ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Paranoid ParkDIRECTOR: Gus Van SantSTARRING: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen and Daniel LiuThis first paragraph is going to be a bit pretentious, but bear with me. Movie titles are an important venue from which audiences can glean information about a film; the story, a genre, ...
Author: John Patrick Allen The inaugural exhibition in McCullough's Center Gallery is a welcome shock. "Drawing the Line, Then Crossing It," a selection of works by recent Middlebury graduate and former Campus cartoonist Sam Dakota Miller '08.5, electrifies the space, jolting the Center Gallery to ...
Author: Melissa Marshall A German major with an Italian minor, it is no surprise that Adreana Gustafson '09 decided to put on a play about the power of words. The senior from Fargo, N.D. - whose previous credits include Assistant Director for both "Cabaret" and "Baltimore Waltz" - moves into the director's ...
Author: Alex Blair The 51st annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on Feb. 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and, as usual, there was plenty to talk about - between a great performance by Radiohead, Blink-182's momentous reunion and M.I.A. nearly giving birth on stage (she was over eight months ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE: Slumdog MillionaireDIRECTOR: Danny BoyleSTARRING: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Madur Mittal"Slumdog Millionaire" is a tricky movie to talk about. It has attracted global controversy regarding its child actors, it depicts graphic and upsetting material and it seems anathema ...
Author: Jamie Studwell This weekend, giant blocks of solid winter fell prey to the creative instincts of Middlebury students in the Snow Sculpting Contest. The results? Some very creative, detailed pieces and some piles of mangled snow.1st place: "Sketch-Cullough." (photo a.) As we walked past the ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski Science Theater. No longer the domain of B-list movies, 'Leap' follows the recent theatrical fashion of attempting to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. Taking after such works as 'Copenhagen' and 'The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem,' Lauren Gunderson re-imagines ...
Author: Robert McKay A pastiche of visual and rhetorical styles, "Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past" - the exhibition now on display at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts - features reinterpreted historical images confronting the issue of race in various print media. ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez What a difference a year makes. I know a lot of people who were rather unimpressed with the musical output of 2008. Well, it's good to see that 2009 is starting off promisingly. I mean, Antony & the Johnsons, Animal Collective, Morrissey and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Students are probably more upset by a locked door standing between them and a Saturday afternoon Dr. Feelgood than the postponement of a Museum of Art exhibition, but whether they are aware or not, the vibrant Middlebury arts community must stare down the black-and-white margins ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl It seemed auspicious that mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, with her Botticellian locks expressively scarfed over her gown, performed for the Middlebury community on Valentine's Day at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts. Her program was as befitting as her appearance, ...