Author: Claire Bourne The Decemberists were meant for the stage. Of this much I am certain after the Portland-based quintet charmed a capacity crowd in Coltrane Lounge Friday night with songs about pirates, soldiers and gypsy uncles. Lead singer Colin Maloy was sheepish behind his guitar and heavy-rimmed ...
Author: Zoey Burrows Young women today are working, learning and writing more than ever before. However, this in no way eliminates their continued need for academic inspiration. On Wednesday, Oct. 22, inquisitive young Middlebury women braved the mounting cold outside to see actress Katherine Bryne's ...
Author: Chris Grosso It's Monday evening, around 5 p.m. and I stop to observe the rehearsal taking place in one of dance studios. Gliding over the floor, demonstrating intensity and passionate deliberation, I watch Paul Matteson '00 directing this kinetic art. His colleagues resonate an inspiring energy. ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland Halloween has evolved since we were children. The holiday used to mean dressing up, making ghosts out of Kleenex and cotton balls, parading the streets and eating an obscene amount of candy out of pillowcases or plastic pumpkins. The night was delightfully frightening - you never ...
Author: Abbie Beane Each year the College finds an increasing number of ways to explore what a liberal arts education is all about - comparing and contrasting a variety of subject areas to create interdisciplinary programs, projects, performances and symposiums. Most recently the arts and history departments ...
Author: Abbie Beane Anyone still searching for last minute Halloween costume ideas? Well, who knew that dressing up as Catwoman, a red rubber ball or a condom could be so frightening? A new form of body painting involving liquid latex takes "horror" to a new level.This simple rubber compound is a fluid ...
Author: Hans Manzke Brown Couch? Who? Yeah. If you're like me and have slowly and unwittingly turned aside from the whole folk-pop scene championed by the ubiquitous Dave Matthews Band and the continually rising popularity of home-grown Vermont jam collective Phish, your ear, like mine, was a long way ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller Some music has the marvelous gift of being able to create new and beautiful worlds, giving rise to dormant feelings and stirring imaginations to soar far away from whatever dreary surroundings in which they find themselves trapped. Such was the mysterious music that filled ...
Author: Chris Grosso Amid our frenzied and hectic daily lives, it's moving that we can put some time aside - even during midterms - to enjoy the performing arts and support our talented friends. On the eve of mid-term break, it was delightful to see the amphitheatre in front of the Gamut Room filled ...
Author: Tom McCann With winter fast approaching, the women's tennis team concluded the fall season campaign with matches against Colby, Bates and the season-ending NEWITT tournament. A season that has included the emergence of an extremely talented first-year class, a historic victory over Williams ...
Author: Abbie Beane Just because it's easy and it looks like a mistake doesn't mean it's not art. Or does it? As soon as you thought you'd heard it all, something even more minimalist arrived on the scene: "Paper Clip Art." With an entire online gallery devoted to the delicate twistings of a pair of ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland Francois Clemmons, Twilight Artist-in-Residence and Choir Conductor, has brought much to the College community over the years. Many of us think of him for his spectacular renditions of American Negro Spirituals that routinely awe Mead Chapel's crowds. Yet many students may not ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes A uniquely egalitarian art exhibit opened Friday, Oct. 10 at the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts in Burlington. Giving artists of all abilities an opportunity to display their work, "The Fourth Annual Firehouse Open" now showcases the first 50 artists that arrived at the Firehouse ...
Author: Edward Pickering Title: "Brideshead Revisited"Author: Evelyn WaughFirst published: 1945Celebrated for his satiric novels of the 1930s, English novelist Evelyn Waugh wrote "Brideshead Revisited" during the Second World War while recuperating from a minor parachuting injury. Waugh's fourth and ...
Author: Matthew Clark In his directorial debut, George Clooney has brought a lonely, lost man's fragmented world seamlessly together in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Despite the chaos that is Chuck Barris's (Sam Rockwell) life as a TV producer and CIA hitman, the movie flows with the same smoothness ...
Author: Erika Mercer Please, just indulge me for a moment while I stick my tongue out at all those critics who've dared claim that Belle & Sebastian has sold out with their newest album, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress." Sorry to say, you've missed the point.When the band's first album, "Tigermilk," ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This past weekend's "4play," a pleasing collage piece about relationships that Hepburn Zoo audiences have come to expect from the annual First-Year Show, had a refreshing twist this year - the whimsical short play "The Ugly Duckling" by A.A. Milne (of "Winnie the Pooh" fame).The ...
Author: Chris Grosso Americans love to expose the shortcomings of the U.S. political system, and they definitely enjoy a good, hearty laugh once in a while. What happens when one creatively combines the two? You get a political parody. That's the case only if the jokes are funny, though. Middlebury ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland Laced with the eloquence of renowned poet Charles Wright's own voice: I've always liked the view from my mother-in-law's house at night,Oil rigs off Long BeachLike floating lanterns out in the smog-dark Pacific,Stars in the eucalyptus,Lights of airplanes arriving from Asia, and ...
Author: Abbie Beane Once in a great while a fairly renowned band comes along that's not so self-important - and that's refreshing to see. A band that isn't so laden with recognition of its own talent that it can manage to float nicely between self-confidence and its audience while putting on a show. ...