Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE: Quantum of SolaceDIRECTOR: Marc ForsterSTARRING: Daniel Craig & Olga KurylenkoSomewhere along the way to the box office, James Bond lost his sense of humor. Well, not exactly. In the theatre where I watched "Quantum of Solace," there were plenty of laughs, though most ...
Author: Grace Duggan Say what you will about the word "networking," but sometimes it really is about who you know. In this case, it was Melissa Hammerle who proved to be a useful connection; this local resident put D.E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing Jay Parini in contact with her ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger "Theater, no matter how temporary it might be, is a space that demands its audience to respond and react as a community," read the program of "Dying City," the Theatre Department 700 project of Meagan Mishico '08.5 (directing) and Justine Katzenbach '08.5 (acting). "Dying City" ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Last Thursday 85 students gathered at the Middlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA), transforming the oft-secluded space into an unexpected pop-up hangout. Organized by the Museum Assistants Program (MAP), a group of 17 student volunteers trained in museum education, the after-hours ...
Author: Melissa Marshall and Andrew Throdahl New York, Florence, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong - Vermont? While Danforth pewter and Frog Hollow pottery cultivate a certain following, the Green Mountain State usually does not top the list of pulsing art hot spots. Vermont, however, has made a notable ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Maybe it all started with the female M&M, but nowadays, green is sexy. Ever the trendsetter, Thom Yorke of Radiohead fame embarked on an eco-friendly tour this summer, choosing to bumble about by bus in lieu of celebrity-cache jet setting. Despite the band's efforts to vigilantly ...
Author: Grace Duggan On a campus with its largest academic buildings - McCardell Bicentennial Hall and the Donald E. Axinn '51 Center for Literary and Cultural Sutides at Starr Library - almost diametrically opposed, the Environmental Studies program makes its physical and intellectual homes between ...
Author: Josh Wessler Movie: A Walk to BeautifulDirector: Amy Bucher '87Early last week, Amy Bucher '87 stood at the front of Dana Auditorium and asked the audience if anyone had heard of obstetric fistula. The response was noncommittal, which Bucher seemed to accept as a challenge, one she and her production ...
Author: Grace Duggan Election Day 2008 proved to be a good day for arts-friendly Democratic candidate Peter Welch. With 81.4 percent of the vote, Welch easily won a second term as Vermont's lone Congressman in the House of Representatives.Welch has a strong history of supporting the arts; he received ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner How does a world-renowned contemporary Chinese artist find himself jet-setting across the world to deliver a lecture in the hills of rural Vermont? Chinese would say ?? (yuan fen, fate). Americans would argue globalization. But for Xu Bing the answer was quite simple, as he ...
Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. Obama Art Report(www.obamaartreport.com)This blog bills itself as a "daily reporting on the world of Barack Obama ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez Movie: The FallDirector: Tarsem SinghStarring: Catinca Untaru and Lee PaceWe have finally reached that point in the semester, the one where we are slowly drowning in a sea of work. At least, that's how it is for most of the people I know. We're too busy to even make that forty-five ...
Author: Emily Temple It's the second week of November, and panic is setting in. Super seniors have a dismally short chunk of time broken up by Thanksgiving and Christmas to squeeze whatever they can out of Middlebury before being thrust back into the cold - and in February, it will be cold - world from ...
Author: Liya Gao CORRECTION APPENDEDDirector and producer Amy Bucher '87 returned to Middlebury for a screening of her award-winning documentary, "A Walk to Beautiful." In conjunction with a screening in Dana Auditorium on Nov. 10, Bucher also spoke to students on Nov. 11 in a lecture entitled, "The ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Cellist Pieter Wispelwey, 45, performed last Friday evening in the Mahaney '85 Center for the Arts Concert hall stage upon a wooden pedestal. This bold yet awkward set up seemed to define the concert, which boasted a breed of musical enthusiasm usually found at student recitals. ...
Author: Isabel McWilliams Halloween weekend never had such a philosophical edge as it did for those who went to see Sara Swartzwelder's '09 production of "On Ego" by Mick Gordon and Paul Broks. This play confronts the complexity and challenges involved in defining the "self," which believe it or not ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Keller Quartett (yes, with two t's) takes music seriously. From its Nov. 2 program, one gets an idea of just how furrowed the group's brows are - the first half was a carefully arranged comparative essay on how W.A. Mozart and Gyorgy Kurtag both memorialized their influences. ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE: Trouble the WaterDIRECTORS: Carl Deal & Tia LessinOn Aug. 28, 2005, Kimberly Rivers Roberts began filming a documentary of her neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans. Neighbors analyzed the latest storm movements while completing their stocks of food at the ...
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Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. The Art of Ill WillDonald Dewey(New York University Press, 2008)If you're suffering from election season withdrawal, ...