Author: Dana Walters Usually the term "graffiti" denotes vandalism, ruin and wreckage. The pictures that coat the walls of subway stations and impoverished buildings might look beautiful and creative, but they still remain synonymous with destruction. Adding the term "art," to "graffiti" might therefore ...
Author: Alex Blair I'm waiting for the day when noise pop breaks into the mainstream. It's going to happen. I can see it now. Miley Cyrus will pick up an electric guitar, plug it into a massive amp, and blow the heads off a bunch of screaming eight-year-olds with her roaring feedback (the Jonas Brothers ...
Author: Toren Hardee Santi White - widely known as Santogold and, more recently, as Santigold, due to a lawsuit filed by infomercial jeweler Santo V. Rigatuso a.k.a. Santo Gold - brought her fresh, energetic, contemporary pop to the Pepin Gymnasium on Saturday night. The performance, though brief, was ...
Author: Mario Ariza Portrait photography is not just simple point and click. Its art goes beyond the framing of the photo, and the good portrait photographer has to be as psychologically cunning as he or she is bold. Angela Evancie's '09 black-and-white film portraits of members of the Middlebury College ...
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Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Revolutionary RoadDIRECTOR: Sam MendesSTARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate WinsletConfession time. I haven't seen "Revolutionary Road" since I first saw it during the first week of February (thanks, Middlebury College, for letting students get first crack at those seats ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Over the past two years, I have occasionally found myself double-tasking at performing arts series concerts, working as the page-turner as well as the critic. The artists have never known about my agency with The Middlebury Campus - as far as they know I am just a fledgling dot-follower, ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez The Middlebury Campus: First, what attracted you to the novel ("Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates)? Justin Haythe: I'd read the novel with a novelist's hat on first. Then I was approached by the BBC for an adaptation, and it is a very filmic book in certain ways. So I felt ...
Author: Emma Stanford Saturday's closing performance of "F*ckpigs and C*ckroaches" started slowly, as would-be audience members were escorted into Hepburn Zoo to find extra crannies to occupy. For some, this was their second or third time seeing the show since its opening on Thursday; they were drawn ...
Author: Alex Blair U2, once again, is the biggest band in the world. In the first week of March, the boys from Ireland were featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, performed a five-day gig on Letterman and released their latest album, "No Line On The Horizon." The LP reached number one both in the U.K. ...
Author: Dana Walters While the label "animated documentary" might sound contradictory, almost to the point of seeming oxymoronic, Professor of Japanese Studies Carole Cavanaugh argues that it might embody the most honest version of the documentary genre yet. In her stimulating lecture, "Drawing on Truth: ...
Author: Daniel Watson-Jones MOVIE: WatchmenDIRECTOR: Zack SnyderSTARRING: Malin Akerman and Billy CrudupFull disclosure: I am in love with "Watchmen" by Alan Moore. But while I worship the graphic novel as an unimpeachable literary feat, I wanted to be as unbiased as possible in my approach to a film ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski This past weekend saw the amateur performance of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Wit" (alternately spelled "W:t"). Based on the author's own hospital experiences, "Wit" explores the isolating effects of academia through the last months of the main character, ...
Author: [no author name found] Justin Haythe '96, who penned the screenplay of the film "Revolutionary Road," will host a discussion after the screening of the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe winning film "Revolutionary Road" this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. On Monday, March 16, ...
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 ...