Author: Josh Axelrod Thought-provoking, hilarious, dramatic. Last weekend's production of Shelagh Stephenson's "An Experiment With an Air Pump" was all this and more. Directed by Professor of Theatre Cheryl Farone, the play follows the lives of two families living in the same house in Newcastle-on-Tyne ...
Author: Chris Grosso Pictures of surreal, Aztec-like encampments. Close-ups of vibrantly colored and silicone-preserved flowers. Snap shots of Claude Monet's water-lily park. Pin-hole prints of whooshing dandelions, and intimate, portraits of private estate backyards. Even images of the little planters ...
Author: Ben Salkowe "Insanity," muttered one individual walking out of Epitaph, a sketch comedy originally performed by Ethan Sandler and Adrian Wenner and which made it's college debut in the Hepburn Zoo last weekend under directors Elizabeth Somes '06 and Rachel Dunlap '06. The one word review could ...
Author: Richard Lawless People like their music to be uncomplicated, straightforward and fun. Cue the Futureheads. They didn't make my "Best of" list, but I only had six slots, so that was a problem in and of itself. Certainly the Futureheads didn't impress me with their artistic endeavors, but they're ...
Author: Andrea Gissing At times it seems as though every third student organization is some form of music ensemble, particularly of the a cappella persuasion. Towards the end of the semester, everywhere one turned there was a sidewalk chalking or a poster announcing another show being put on by one ...
Author: Sheila Seles Publicly, Middlebury may be known for its rigorous academics and first-rate winter sports, but those of us who live on campus know Middlebury's true character - it's a horrible place for TV. Some luddite rule forbids us from getting cable in our rooms unless we live in senior housing. ...
Author: Sara Granstrom and Jackie Hurwitz With the snarl of an airplane engine, James Redford's "Spin" takes the classic family drama beyond conventional expectations. Based on the novel by Middlebury College graduate Don Axinn '51, the film explores the nature and endurance of human ties of blood and ...
Author: Matthew Clark Spike Lee's latest joint, "25th Hour," is the first film I have seen set in post-9/11 New York. There is an American flag blowing or hanging in every scene, reminding the viewer that America and events bigger than ourselves will continue. It is a tragic movie about the 24 hours ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland The ability of music to orchestrate emotions is a well-known human experience. The classical perfection that echoed through the halls of the Center For the Arts last Friday during a student-dominated instrumental recital was no exception. The concert, entitled "Nine Students and ...
Author: Erika Mercer Remember the Everlasting Gobstopper - that multi-colored, totally irresistible candy treat manufactured by the wacky Mr. Wonka? That ideal, never-ending confectionary wonder that was sure to sizzle nasty Slugworth?Well, the Gobstopper has been trumped. Slide down a chute into James ...
Author: Hans Manzke For many Middlebury students, the study abroad program presents the opportunity of a lifetime. While immersed in a foreign language or a specific country's culture, there comes, very rarely, the occasion to experience a brief moment in time that one will remember for the rest of ...
Author: Abbie Beane Only in a setting so accepting of such a vast spread of musical genres and in a time when tastes in music are so diversified, could you find your listening preferences so threatened - often by bands and singers who fall outside the celebrity bracket. Such an overwhelming academic ...
Author: Chris Grosso My co-editor Abbie Beane and I love the global artistic community. Our mission has been to infuse your imaginations with some artistic vision. Her original column - Is It Art? - has become a staple of The Middlebury Campus. Each week she presents an alternative and minority art ...
Author: Edward Pickering Edmund Blunden is not among the most famous poets of the First World War, a distinction reserved for Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg and possibly Edward Thomas. Blunden, it is fair to say, dispels a gentler light than these luminaries. ...
Author: Chris Grosso The audience is sitting in a circle on the Dance Theater floor. The intimate arrangement encompasses two men dressed in three-quarter black pants and sleeveless white-collared shirts. They glide around the arena with the grace, poise and confidence of a matador on the onset of combat. ...
Author: Hans Manzke At its best, music can take you somewhere you wish you could be. Regardless of whether that's in your past, present or future, each note has the intrinsic ability to pick you up from where you are and put you down somewhere else. As a form of expression it exists alone. It can be ...
Author: Zoey Burrows The Middlebury College Chamber Singers recently performed their fall concert, a sophisticated and poignant presentation of some of the College's most talented student voices. The concert incorporated a refreshing array of composers, languages and subject matter. The group sang about ...
Author: Erika Mercer I caught him just as he was about to down a plate of scrambled eggs. But Max Tepper, vocalist and guitarist for the Brooklyn-based band, The Natural History, kindly informed me that the eggs could wait, and we launched into a conversation about the creation and inspiration of the ...
Author: Matthew Clark "Finding Nemo" is one of those animated movies you don't have to be a kid to enjoy. Watch it with your little brother, your college buddies or your folks, and I guarantee a good time. It's an animated epic. Through pink jelly tentacles, riding on a turtle's back on the EAC (East ...
Author: Chris Grosso Vincent van Gogh once said, "I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." Artists have the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way to produce art, and it is their work that leaves us to ponder about ...