Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Nick and Norah's Infinite PlaylistDIRECTOR: Alex HoldridgeSTARRING: Michael Cera and Kat DenningsIn 1989 a film called "The Wizard" was released in theaters. Starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater, the film had the most paper thin of plots in order to cover up the fact ...
Author: Grace Duggan Last Friday, a crowd gathered in the Dance Theatre in the Mahaney Center for the Arts to watch a performance by the women of Compas de Nicaragua (Friends of Nicaragua), a non-profit organization that works to promote cross-cultural exchanges. The quartet of women, down to three ...
Author: Melissa Marshall When reaching for a paper topic at the eleventh hour or as bravado of intellectual sensitivity, women - despite post-lapsarian ideology - are saving graces. Guaranteed to lend a level of provocation without waging a revolution, the subject of gender theory not only drenches ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Takacs (pronounced Tah-kash) String Quartet, composed of four personalities and their corresponding hairstyles, sounds more unified than ever. In 2005 Geraldine Walther (who sports a Carol Brady hairdo) replaced Roger Tapping as violist and now seems to have definitively ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The strings of the Vermony Symphony Orchestra, under veteran conductor/violinist Jaime Laredo, stopped at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Sept. 18 for their Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour. As far as how Vermont was made apparent during the concert, a white love seat cluttered ...
Author: Ilsa Shea and Grace Duggan "I'm Right, You're Wrong," a Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) multimedia production performed twice this weekend in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, was an exposition and exaggeration of the vulnerable parts of us that we conceal and will away: mania, hysteria, ...
Author: Emily Temple When you really love a band, and I mean really love them, you wind up systematically and emphatically embracing everything about them. You learn their names and their children's names, their favorite colors and their children's favorite colors. You plaster pictures of them all over ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez As a film student, I see the recent advances in digital filmmaking technology as the greatest gift to independent film since the advent of the 16mm camera. Consumer DV cameras and affordable editing software mean that anyone and everyone has the ability to make a movie. "In Search ...
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. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."Temporada de Patos(Mexico, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl To say that pianist Vladimir Feltsman is an "old school" musician would not do him justice, since he seems to have novel ideas about music. Then again, his approach seems to be thoroughly traditional. His Sept. 19 program, which he performed in the Mahaney Center for the Arts ...
Author: Liya Gao Talib Kweli's performance at the Chip Kenyon '85 Arena on Saturday night to a fairly packed house was a pleasant surprise. When students first discovered that Blackalicious could not perform because of an injury, many were disappointed. Once MCAB announced that Kweli would replace Blackalicious, ...
Author: Melissa Marshall As noted in the pages of Plato, music has a palpable effect on the psyche. It broke the hearts of the Baroques, ravished the Romantics and moved the Modernists to verse. Even now, the epic tomes of John Williams manipulate moviegoers to invest in fictional characters, along ...
Author: Josh Wessler The subject of the film "Burn after Reading," by Ethan and Joel Coen, is the multitude of daily obsessions that seemingly subsume all of our lives. Overflowing with compulsive exercisers, serial adulterers, pathological masochists, paranoid conspiracy theorists, lonely internet-addicts ...
Author: Emma Stanford Last Friday Middlebury students and community members alike flocked to "The Boycott," the inaugural production sponsored by Middlebury College in the recently renovated Town Hall Theater. The show cast a new and whimsical light on an issue that lies near the hearts of many Middlebury ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger Last Friday William Hosley '77, executive director of the New Haven Museum, gave a lecture entitled "Robbins Battell: A Social Vision for Collecting Art," which focused on the art collections and art-related charity work of 19th-century New England philanthropists Elizabeth ...
Author: Dorothy Mitchell Tired of tombs and temples at the Middlebury College Museum of Art? Bored with the black-and-white photography in Johnson? On view at the Shelburne Museum (Rt. 7 North) until October 21 is an exhibit entitled "Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family." On display are drawings, prints, ...
Author: Ramona Richards The World Trade Center was not always revered. Completed in 1973 by Japanese architect Minoru Yamakasi, the buildings were criticized as monstrosities that obstructed the city skyline and blocked traffic in lower Manhattan. Perhaps the single most outrageous thing about the ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Katherine Winterstein and Inessa Zaretsky executed the Phelpsian task of performing all ten Beethoven violin sonatas over the course of the weekend. Each sonata has its own distinct character and works to map Beethoven's stylistic evolutions, thus making a performance cycle ...
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 pop culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble.""After Dark"By: Haruki Murakami ...
Author: Emily Temple Welcome back to yet another year at Middlebury. After a summer away, everyone's happy to return to our beautiful and majestic home away from home - and, come to think of it, our home away from a lot of other things, too. Mom, Dad, Starbucks and non-shady hair salons are not to be ...