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, ...
Author: Christian Morel I believe I speak for everyone when I say that spring can be a very liberating time of year. We will be shedding the coats and sweaters that have swallowed our shirts and belts. I personally look forward to leaving my woolen items at home and putting together glorious combinations ...
Author: Emma Stanford On Tuesday, an exhibit at Gifford's Gamut Room celebrated the dying art of Polaroid photography. "R.I.P. Polaroid," part of the Gamut Room's week-long Spring Awakening festival, used the work of student photographers to pay tribute to the famous brand of instant film, now fast ...
Author: Alex Blair Franz Ferdinand has always been a dance band. On their 2004 self-titled debut, the lads from Scotland used energized guitar and bass rhythms to create the grooves on tracks like the top-ten single "Take Me Out" and the disco throwback "Darts Of Pleasure." Five years later, the band ...
Author: Grace Duggan Middlebury students looking for a vacation from Vermont's lack of tall buildings and high population density typically use the occasional weekend or a longer break to book it to nearby urban centers like Montreal, Boston and New York. Now students have to walk only as far as the ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski On January 28, the trek down to the Town Hall Theater seemed longer than usual - something to do with two feet of snow and unplowed roads. Two slips and a snowbank later, I barely made it to the doors on time - and the place was packed. An almost full house had shown up in ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: The ReaderDIRECTOR: Stephen DaldrySTARRING: Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph FiennesAs the film award season reaches its apex in a few weeks, it seems only natural to take a look at one of the films the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences deemed good enough ...