Author: [no author name found] "The Arctic Monkeys are burning up the charts" or "There's nothing chilly in fans' responses to the hottest new band out of the UK." Those are just a few very unfortunate taglines that manifested themselves in my head as I listened to The Arctic Monkeys' February release, ...
Author: Shannon Gymrek Over-achieving is something Middlebury Students know a lot about. Even taking that into mind, however, Kevin Vélez '06 has got to impress. Velez's senior 700 work, a new original musical entitled "The Legend of Cofresí," debuted on the McCullough stage last Friday. Velez not ...
Author: Joyce Man Beginning from the first week of January this year, Vermont has turned into what has been called the largest exhibition space ever, with a total 7,000 maple wooden palettes and an additional 30,000 paper palettes being manipulated in all kinds of artistic ways and displayed. Through ...
Author: Melissa Marshall It is a common occurrence for Middlebury students as well as faculty to read a poem or listen to a piece of music once a day, if not more. Sometimes one even gets adventurous and combines the two - just check out the numerous students in the library balancing a heavy volume ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Ryan Abernathey '04 (drums/guitar) Andrew Bishop '05.5 (vocals/guitar), Matt Longo '04 (keyboards/glockenspiel), Andy Lynch '03 (bass) and Allen Wilcox '05 (guitar/vocals) make up Penelope, the melodious, ever-rocking five-piece born on Middlebury's campus. Now relocated to ...
Author: Joyce Man At the confluence of art and politics is a choice: construction or destruction. In war, the division becomes starker, as nations assert their own identities through art and try to eradicate the culture of the "other" by reducing it to negative simplifications. In his critically-acclaimed ...
Author: JOE BERGAN It is rare to come across a good satire in these days of safe plot lines and characters who flirt with the edge but do not jump right in. "Thank You for Smoking," however, takes the full plunge. Once you get the courage to go to Burlington to see this gem, desensitize yourself first. ...
Author: Melissa Marshall No programs were distributed at the Middlebury College Center for the Arts on Saturday night - the audience would have to submit themselves to the smooth rhythms and changing beats of the Miles Donahue Band without a sheet of folded paper to highlight the stops along the way. ...
Author: Sarah Jameson Dance majors Kate Elias '06 and Hannah Giles '06 talk to The Middlebury Campus in anticipation of their collaborative senior project. The performance of original chereography goes up this weekend in the Center for the Arts Dance Theatre.The Campus: What were your main artistic ...
Author: Benjamin Golze Two events of note happened last week.#1: Meowsker, live at Pub NightLet's face it: for all its popularity, Thursday night Pub Night at the Grill hasn't been the best place to hear music at Middlebury. Campus mainstays like the Easy Answers, the Dark Horse Candidates and the Doughboys ...
Author: Caitlin Vincek Wandeirng into the Hepburn Zoo last weekend was like entering into a storybook. Once the show started, however, was not "Into the Woods," where it's not all princes and castles. Or it was, but with a twist.Most of the characters - Little Red (of the Riding Hood fame), Jack (who ...
Author: Michael Jou and Ena Yasuhara The Japanese Club, the Middlebury Asian Social Organization and the Japanese Department sponsored a rhythmical dance performance last Friday night starring Cobu, a Japanese dance group known for their unique fusion of tap dance and taiko drumming. The group's eight ...
Author: Elizabeth Lyon Middlebury's production of Suzan-Lori Parks' play "In The Blood" redefined the term "off-off Broadway." Under the direction of Theater Department Visiting Professor Jaye Austin Williams, a distinguished activist-director from New York City, the cast and crew put on a play the ...
Author: Lauren Smith An art student friend recently told me that his illustration class visited an exhibit of human corpses in Philadelphia. I immediately thought this must be illegal, but there are indeed over 200 real human corpses now on display at the Franklin Institute of Science Museum in Philly. ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Every Saturday night, the Middlebury student population convenes in a sweaty mass in one of the social houses, or better yet, in a suite in Gifford meant only to hold fifteen people, to shake off the stress of the work-week. And the theme to these nights of decadence and toasts ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Initiated in the 1970s, Middlebury's pre-architecture program may be young compared to many of the college's other majors, departments and programs, but what it lacks in age, it makes up for in enthusiasm. This year, the program is perhaps more visible than ever. Between the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Middlebury '99 alumnus Jon-Eric Borgen played his first performance at the Gamut Room in the basement of Gifford in 1996. Now working in Boston and fresh off the success of his latest album The General Store, he speaks to The Campus about the impact music has had on his life ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE Yee-haw! The new music has been rolling in like cattle at feeding time. So hang on to your chaps: it's time for a new music round-up.The Flaming Lips - At War With the MysticsThis sucker is arguably the heavyweight of the season, and it will be interesting to see how people react ...
Author: JOE BERGAN Every film critic in America spent much of the past month scrutinizing the Wachowski Brothers' newest film, "V for Vendetta." Although the images of "terrorism" within the film are striking, what really matters is it's fresh take on the superhero genre. The story follows V (Hugo Weaving), ...
Author: Joyce Man Two years ago, the Johnson Building saw rounds of wine served to the mellow tunes of the Dick Forman Jazz Group transform its interior into a vibrant, schmoozy social space. This weekend, Jean Paul Carlhian's brutalist cement interiors play host again to another event organized by ...