Author: Jessie Kissinger On Friday, Sept. 12, the Middlebury College Museum of Art was packed with people eager to see the museum's newest exhibit. Entitled "Artist and Ancestors: Masterworks of Chinese Classical Painting and Ancient Ritual Bronzes," its name is no exaggeration, as it includes pieces ...
Author: Jason Guitierrez Ben Stiller has always been hit and miss as an actor (hilarious in films like "Dodgeball" but does anyone remember 2003's "Duplex"? I didn't think so) and a director ("Reality Bites?" Not so much). So it is with his latest offering, the ninety-two million dollar war comedy "Tropic ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Since this past spring, an air of mystery and anticipation has surrounded two buildings that recently became part of the College landscape - 51 Main and Old Stone Mill. This fall, through the combined efforts of the College's administration and its students, the once obscure ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Middlebury Campus spoke with Associate Professor of Music Peter Hamlin '73 to learn more about his creative work outside of the classroom. The Middlebury Campus: What have you been working on recently?Peter Hamlin: I just finished a set of three songs for a singer in Minnesota ...
Author: Melissa Marshall A fan from Córdoba, a lamp from Egypt, a wine bottle from France, a scarf from Ecuador, a rug from Sweden - while first-years scramble to assemble rooms as well-rounded as their applications, mine glows as diverse and glossy as a Middlebury pamphlet. Unfortunately, just as ...
Author: Duggan, Grace On July 26th the curtain went down the last time for yet another season of the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP), Middlebury College's collaborative summer theatre program that gives undergraduates an opportunity to work with professional actors. Originally based on Maryland and Washington, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Pianist Paul Lewis graced Middlebury with a complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas throughout the 2005 and 2006 seasons, but the completion of the cycle certainly has not deterred Lewis from returning to Middlebury with different composers in his fingers. His performance ...
Author: Emily Temple It's the end of the year, and you know what that means. Well, among other things, it means that everybody you know is scrambling for all they're worth to finish the projects they've been working on all semester, all year, or - gulp - all of college. The number of plays, art shows, ...
On the surface, Fulton Professor of Humanities and Director of Literary Studies Stephen Donadio seems to fit right into the academic archetype. He looks just as you would expect a person to look who has been a professor for four decades, serves as the founding director of the College's Literary Studies ...
Author: Tristan Axelrod It has been a long time since I last attended a Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) show, and I must admit that this is because my prior experiences with the group as a participant and audience member were less than satisfactory. The Middlebury College Musical Players are ...
Author: Ashley Gamell and Maddie Oatman "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Maddie OatmanIn "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," Jonathan Safran Foer creates a remarkably convincing portrayal of nine-year-old Oskar Schell, a slightly annoying, lovable and ...
Author: Robert McKay "Jumpers," playwright Tom Stoppard's metaphysical circus show, went off like firecrackers across the Wright Memorial stage last weekend. It pitted Visiting Assistant Professor in Theatre Alex Draper '88, in the role of philosopher George Moore, against a horde of yellow-suited, ...
Author: [no author name found] Did the Cake performance fail to satisfy your concert craving? WRMC is hoping that three-times will charm with their triple-band line-up for the station's annual music festival, beginning at 8:30 P.M. in the ever-popular and pleasing Proctor Dining Hall. Don't feel like ...
Author: Colin Foss "Frozen" is a play about self-discovery, but not of the lighthearted Disney Channel variety. It focuses on the events following the arrest of a pedophilic serial murderer as well as on the people drawn to him and his disorder. It traces both an uncomfortable expedition into a diseased ...
Author: Melissa Marshall I am trading brown sweaters for worn linen, retiring Columbia boots for Madden flats, tired jeans for cotton dresses and my work ethic for three-hour meals on Battell Beach. And as I am restructuring my mood from hibernating bookworm to GPA-murdering social butterfly, I find ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone On May 1, 2 and 3 Wright Theater will host a production of one of the most complex and challenging plays to grace any British or American stage. As the culminating theatrical experience in a three-year interdisciplinary grand symposium entitled "The Pathway to Religion in the ...
Author: John Patrick Allen From the very beginning, "Undercurrents" was unconventional. The stage was dominated by a low circular platform painted with a giant whirlpool of black, blue and gray, recalling a Japanese woodcut. There was no pre-show music - only silence. The play began abruptly with the ...
Author: Emily Temple Life is unfair. Good things happen to bad people, nice guys never get the girls, Pavement broke up and I am always, always stuck next to the crazy, flailing person at concerts. The MGMT concert at Higher Ground on April 13 was no different. In a sold-out crowd of high-schoolers, ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Students jonesing for something sweet and artificial left Kenyon Arena with a bad taste in their mouths on Saturday night. Headliners Cake - best known for their stunningly simple and highly addictive 1996 hit "The Distance" - undeniably proved their prowess as performers. But ...