It often seems that artists’ favorite thing to tell stories about is … artists. The number of narratives centered on creative types is certainly out of proportion with the percent of “artists” in the actual population.

The other day, as I was eating a heart attack in the Grille, working on a paper, I remembered a gold chain that I used to own. It’s been years since I lost that chain, but it made me think, “When did it stop being cool to wear gold?

In his first performance at Middlebury since graduation, opera tenor William Burden ’86 will be giving a recital to benefit the Opera Company of Middlebury March 13 at the Town Hall Theater. Emory Fanning, a former music teacher at the College under whom Burden studied, will accompany him.

Lewis Carroll’s surreal and absurd “Alice in Wonderland” returns to the cinema, helmed this time by the equally surreal and absurd Tim Burton. The alternatively whimsical and creepy charms of the novel and animated Disney film aren’t matched by Burton’s self-referential interpretation of the story, however. Like his 2005 remake of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Burton tries to draw out the darker elements of story, but only serves to make them seem ridiculous.

Artist – Brilliant Colors
Album – Introducing

Lights out and two screens on either side of the stage flipped on to show Neil (Baron ’10) and Andrew (Powers ’11.5) sitting on couches watching TV, discovering that their show, “Mister Show with Neil and Andrew,” had begun and that the stage was empty.

The student DJ’s finally reveal themselves

Every Thursday Laura Jesson (Tanya Lehman) takes the train from her small English hamlet to the big city; London awaits. She does the week’s shopping, exchanges her library book and goes to the pictures.

With warmer weather just around the corner (hopefully!), nobody can escape the urge to do a little spring cleaning.