Author: Emily Temple Glorious day. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse's newest album, to be released March 20, 2007, has leaked to the internet. I almost can't believe that it's been three years since Good News for People Who Love Bad News, but it has. This new album, which Isaac Brock ...
Author: Kelsey Smith You know that option when you create a Facebook invite that says you are promising a "night of mayhem?" Well it was promised and wholly delivered Saturday night at the Gamut Room, which played host to Fat Worm of Error - a costume-wearing, pandemonium-causing noise-rock group from ...
Author: Melissa Marshall In a "Garden State-esque" instant, I found myself returning to my dorm room on a cold Saturday night before the start of Spring semester. And as I stared at the four walls that surround my bed, I realized that I was indeed homesick for a place that didn't exist anymore. With ...
Author: Kelsey Smith I spent my last Thursday before Feb break peering into a vast expanse of young Manhattanites with rich parents who seem to be on a treadmill of hopelessness. "This is Our Youth," American playwright Kenneth Lonergan's first play, follows two disillusioned Upper West Side kids who ...
Author: Beth Connolly Visitors to the Middlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA) can currently view a two-story-long chain of sideways raindrops and the impression of an enormous leaf floating in green glass. These works are just two of the eight pieces of contemporary art featured in the Museum's new ...
Author: Sara Jameson Filled with acute emotion, clever dialogue and stirring philosophy, the performance of "On The Open Road," directed by Evan Dumouchel '06, pierced the audience with its intense depiction of the physical and emotional journey two men endure in their search for freedom. The play, ...
Author: Josh Wessler DIRECTOR
Author: Maddie Oatman Set in Kalimpong, India and Manhattan in the mid 1980's, Desai's "Inheritance of Loss" presents a sharp satire that addresses larger political issues, cultural misunderstandings and social injustices in both India and the United States. She resists a flat portrayal of globalization ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh The Ingmar Bergman film series sponsored by Brainerd Commons, the Scandinavian Student Organization and the Film and Media Culture Program has brought the best of Swedish Culture and Film into a month long adventure. The series began on January 6 with one of Bergman's most famous ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander There is something of the fairy-tale prince in Evan Dumouchel's face, a genuine sweetness that his scruffy cheeks, bad-boy swagger and love for action flicks can do nothing to subvert. His enchanting blue eyes are probably already familiar to you. As a double major in ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander This past summer, I read the writer David Shield's manifesto, "Reality Hunger," which argues in favor of contemporary society's ever increasing hunger for "the real," whether through non-fiction writing, documentary film, reality TV, etc. As individuals flooded on an ...
Author: Sara Jameson With tremendous boldness and musical command, the renowned Meridian Arts Ensemble surprised and challenged its audience with its boldly experimental program last Saturday night. Covering compositions ranging from the vintage sound of "Ocho por Radio," by Mexican composer Sylvestre ...
Author: Grace Duggan This past weekend marked the end of one of the more ambitious J-term classes available this year, as the cast of "When I Was A Child" gave three performances in the Hepburn Zoo. These performances were inspired by an intriguing concept: the use of presentational theatre to reflect ...
Author: Josh Wessler DIRECTOR
Author: Melissa Marshall Since man first banged those two stones together to create sound, music has been an integral part of praising something greater than one's self. Since then, rock music has evolved quite a bit from its humble beginnings, but it is still somewhat surprising to witness the adverse ...
Author: Sara Jameson Andrew Throdahl '09 is an accomplished pianist who recently performed three pieces in a concert at the end of semester. Throdahl has been playing the piano for almost twelve years and won the 2006 Concerto Competition. He is happy to be attending Middlebury College, where he studies ...
Author: Emily Temple A new year has arrived and along with the confetti, champagne and plastic noisemakers inevitably must come the "best of" list of every self-proclaimed music connoisseur, online news source and music magazine. It's tiring, I know. But get prepared for yet another, because what would ...
Author: Sara Jameson At eight o'clock last Friday night, five playwrights, five directors and sixteen actors gathered in the Hepburn Zoo ready to challenge their creative ingenuity and alacrity. Twenty-four hours later, five fresh, creative and engaging plays were performed. The event, created and hosted ...
Author: Astri Von Arbin Ahlander On December 31, 2006 we rang in the New Year. Personally, I choked on my champagne as I stood on the roof of a building in central Stockholm as artillery-like fireworks went off all around me. 2007? This is the number I have written after my name for the past three and ...
Author: Josh Wessler The hit Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" makes a flashy transition onto the silver screen in Bill Condon's adaptation. It tells the tale of the beginnings of Motown Records from gospel funk to its national success with smooth R&B. In this loosely fictionalized account, the singing ...