Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL As I embarked on my venture to explore the niches of the creative-writing network at Middlebury College, the renowned Breadloaf School of English seemed the logical starting point. Benjamin Dimiero '06, an English major awarded a scholarship to Breadloaf for poetry, gave me ...
Author: Ian Fleishman On Friday, Sept. 16, the inaugural exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art opened in the newly redesigned gallery on the second floor of the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Robert Youngman '64, who discovered his passion for Asian art more than 40 years ago in ...
Author: Joyce Man When Will Power took time out for an interview with The Middlebury Campus for his upcoming "Flow" tour to the College, he was busy juggling travel plans to many more destinations in the following months: to Atlanta, then Vermont, New Jersey, Michigan, California, Minneapolis and Miami, ...
Author: JOYCE MAN New York is seeing a lot of action these days. Fashion Week just blazed through Bryant Park. World leaders have descended upon the United Nations Building for the 60th General Assembly Summit. And in the Upper East Side's Museum Mile, another monumental exhibit of 275 pieces spanning ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH Imagine waking up one morning to find your current lover's bags packed and ready for departure, while simultaneously opening a mysterious letter enclosed in a pink envelope revealing not only that 19 years earlier you and an anonymous woman had a son, but also that this young ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Peter Plagens - painter, educator and novelist - is a visting professor of Contemporary Art and Criticism for the semester and was a Newsweek senior writer for fine arts for over 15 years. The Middlebury Campus: You have your hand in many aspects of the art world. What do you ...
Author: May Chan This Friday and Saturday, the Middlebury Dance program will bring a treat to kick off your weekend. "The Birdhouse Project", a performance directed by Andrea Olsen, Middlebury College professor of Dance, celebrates the 40th anniversary of Middlebury College's Environmental Studies Program ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA (Smog), formerly known as Smog, is the name adopted by singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, a pioneer of the lo-fi revolution. He debuted in 1988 with a cassette-only released entitled "Macrame Gunplay" and signed with Chicago-based label Drag City in 1991 after the release of the ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson Theatre major Rachel Dunlap '06 certainly got to know her department better this summer. For seven weeks, Dunlap and eight other Middlebury students, including Rebecca Martin '04.5, Andrew Zox '05, John Stokvis '05, Meghan Nesmith '06, Julia Proctor '06.5, Lucas Kavner '06.5 ...
Author: Joyce Man Last year, Harvard University junior Anthony Fonseca was found dead after apparently killing himself in the University's Winthrop House. His was the second suicide there in 14 months. In the fall of 2003, 33 people were arrested in an elaborate drug bust at the University of Virginia. ...
Author: Benjamin Golze Not to be confused with the Mexican pop star of the same name, Lucero is a Southern rock band from Memphis, Tenn. Though the band itself has never been punk, Lucero's members all milled around in the Memphis punk rock scene before taking a quieter, alt-country route that dominated ...
Author: Joshua Axelrod Continuing the celebration of Hillel's 50th anniversary at Middlebury College, as well the 350th anniversary of American Jewry, this past weekend's production of Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" was a shining blend of true-to-life comedy framed ...
Author: Richard Lawless The role of a music critic is to act as a Virgil to the musical Dante as they journey through hell together. Though most people find critics to be bitter, angry pricks, they still read and listen to them, even if it's only for the sheer entertainment value. I hope that, if anything, ...
Author: Megan O’Keefe After winning laughs on stage last weekend as Joe Farkas in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," Andrew Zox '05 will try his hand at comedy once again this weekend when he presents "In a Pig's Valise," his senior directing work, in the Hepburn Zoo. The play, a parody of the 1940s detective ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH It's summer 1978, and 10-year-old Michele just wants to be a kid. In the idyllic setting of southern Italy, he and his friends run through the wheat fields and make mischief in their remote village. But when this perfect world is suddenly shattered, Michele soon learns that ...
Author: — By Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: Tell us about your film.Dan Smarg: I started a film here at Midd sophomore year, but we didn't get to finish it because the two leads went abroad. I ended up going abroad to England the following year. At York University, I didn't ...
Author: Ben Salkowe While Middlebury's Theatre department has made a name for itself putting on first-rate dramas and even the occasional comedy, musical theatre has long been largely absent from the College's performing arts scene. Director Doug Anderson, visiting assistant professor of Music, and ...
Author: Lauren Smith Painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking are all represented this week at a Senior Student exhibit in Johnson Gallery. The show, with works by Tyne Pike-Sprenger '05, Stina Marshall-Parr '05 and Sydney Atkins '05 is the culminating exhibit of the three Studio Art majors.The ...
Author: Alexandra Hay For the Dance Company of Middlebury's performances Friday and Saturday nights, April 22 and 23, the entire Dance Theatre was rotated 90 degrees and risers of chairs wrapped around two sides of the stage. With the traditional black velvet wings and back curtain replaced with a white ...
Author: Alexandra Hay In celebration of Earth Day 2005, Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen presented the Birdhouse Project, a collaboration of over 20 dancers intended to perform outside by the Center for the Arts pond last Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Those who went Friday were lucky enough ...