Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL "They ate hot cereal made out of whole wheat that was literally whole and slightly boiled ... Ivan's crew once had to wash their excrement in salt water and sift it with a sieve. What remained was cooked again." -From April Fool's Day, by Josip Novakovich ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Tran Kim-Trang, professor of Art and Media Studies at Scripps College in California, emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1993. Her video works have been exhibited internationally and have been ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Dance, and dance of all kinds is very happening. US television audiences have been getting their fair load of salsa, jive, hip-hop and even krumping with Fox Network's "So You Think You Can Dance" competitions and ABC's summer hit series "Dancing With the Stars." Last week on Oct. ...
Author: Astri von Arbin-Ahlander What strikes me as I enter Perry Blackshear's Sunderland basement office are the walls - cream-colored cinderblock is spotted with old film posters, pictures of friends, flyers from campus screenings of his own films and, finally, an old photograph of Perry himself. ...
Author: By Ian Thomas Fleishman The Paul Lewis concert of Beethoven sonatas on Friday night at the Concert Hall at the Center for the Arts was likely the single most enjoyable performance that I have attended yet this year. Certainly, there have been no small number of piano recitals in this year's ...
Author: Penny Chen Walking into Coltrane Lounge on Friday night, one would have been surprised by the people in the half-empty room attempting to dance to the ruckus created by several half-naked bodies on stage. The latter was a band called The Mae Shi.The Los Angeles quintet, although pleasing the ...
Author: Gabriel Broughton The Refugee All-Stars, the new documentary by Banker White '95 and Zach Niles '95.5, took Middlebury's audience into the volatile regions of Sierra Leone and the West-African nation of the Republic of Guinea last Saturday evening. Screened in Dana Auditorium, the film explored ...
Author: Ellen Grafton The pursuit of love and all its complications is a heavy matter indeed, but with this theme, the Hepburn Zoo season came to a light start last Thursday in the 10th annual first-year show, entitled "Slightest Folly." The production was directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Jason Vrooman is a 2003 Middlebury graduate from Alexandria Bay, NY, currently pursuing a graduate degree in Art History at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. He spends much of his time at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the museum affiliated with Williams ...
Author: Penny Chen The modern-day music industry is plagued with one-dimensional artists. From Ricky Martin to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Elliott Smith, this problem transgresses all genres. When was the last time you listened to an album where all 12 tracks did not sound like one continuous song? ...
Author: Ellen Grafton On Oct. 19, Middlebury's History of Art and Architecture Department hosted the first event of its "Architecture &..." series. Architect and Sustainable Design Consultant Gunnar Hubbard gave the kick-off lecture entitled "Architecture & Remaking the Way We Make Things," ...
Author: JOYCE MAN By now, any news is old news if it contains the words "iPod" and "smaller version," but everyone from tech geeks to design pros to adolescent girls with rich daddies have not ceased to lavish attention on Apple's mp3 family members of ever-diminishing size and ever-ballooning specs. ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL Last Tuesday, rainy and abysmal as it was, a crowd gathered in the seats of BiHall 216 to hear writer Tom Piazza read from his new book "Why New Orleans Matters." Born in Long Island, NY, Piazza is a graduate of both Williams College and the Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Currently ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" begins a new chapter in the Stereolab novel, one that relies less on the Krautrock-ian chug-and-drone of earlier material in favor of more varied forms of expression. The cocktail-kitsch vibe of the late '60s is more prevalent than ever. And although ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt On Oct. 18, the Yuval Ron Ensemble, led by world-music composer and oud-extraordinaire Yuval Ron, saturated Mead Chapel with a harmonious mélange of Middle-Eastern melodies. The group, with a mixture of music and musicians from many different and often dissonant Middle-Eastern ...
Author: Ian Thomas Fleishman Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard was presented to the Middlebury Community with such high acclaim that the blatantly wrong notes towards the opening of his performance came as a particular shock. Nonetheless, his playing of the Mozart sonata was creative and insightful, sentimental ...
Author: GABE BROUGHTON Graphic artist Mike Mills' directorial debut is your classic late-summer coming of age story - sad, troubled teenage boy tossed around in a town of adults too confused by their own lives to help him sort out his own. Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) is seventeen and still sucks his thumb, ...
Author: May Chan Amy Chavasse is a dance artist-in-residence who teaches dance regularly at Middlebury. She founded Chavasse Dance and Performance Company in 1995 and her work has been produced throughout the United States and Europe.The Middlebury Campus: You have studied dance extensively, taught ...
Author: Joyce Man The works of master painters Degas, Monet, Rodin and Pissaro are housed in the most illustrious museums and highbrow collections in the world. Some of them rest among other famous canvases in the exclusive collections of the Musee d'Orsay, others repose in the grand halls of New York's ...
Author: Ellen Grafton On Saturday morning, President Ronald D. Liebowitz led the dedication of the new library mural by artist Matt Mullican. The 25- by-75-foot mural, entitled "L'Art d'Ecrire" (The Art of Writing), hangs in the foyer of the library directly across from the upper mezzanine, and has ...