Author: Edward Pickering From 1914 until 1931, Danish aristocrat Baroness Karen Blixen owned and operated a coffee plantation in Kenya. Like Elspeth Huxley's "The Flame Trees of Thika," previously reviewed in this column, Blixen's "Out of Africa" pulses with life as the author transposes the rhythms ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller As the lights dimmed in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall on Saturday night, an expectant hush fell over the audience, but for a few moments the eager listeners were kept in suspense. Then, from the back of the room, the haunting notes of John Tavener's "Song for Athene" ...
Author: Richard Lawless First there was Woodstock. Then came Lollapalooza and then Woodstock II. And now there's Sepomana, Middlebury College's own annual celebration of indie music. Sponsored by WRMC 91.1 FM, the College's radio station, Sepomana rocked the campus this past weekend. Going strong in ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture the rural landscape of the Scottish Highlands - rolling green hills spotted with purple and gold wildflowers. White and gray rocks poking from mounds of dewy grass. Hidden glens enclosed by dense, misty fogs. Billowing clouds casting spotted shadows in the valleys. Tiny ...
Author: Michael Hatch The title "Digging" is the only word appropriate to describe the joint showing of artworks by Joseph Schine '03 and Sally Olson '03, which opened last Friday in the Johnson Gallery. The furious energy of Schine's drawings, videos and dirt sculpture matched Olson's layered and design-oriented ...
Author: Lucie Greene The range of talent at Middlebury College is often taken for granted or at least forgotten in our hectic day-to-day life. It's funny to hear people drop into conversations that they were the Olympic finalist for gymnastics a year before or the chief founder of an organization to ...
Author: Chrystalyn Radcliffe Cowboy boots, country music, lassoes, shotguns and an incestuous relationship between two half-siblings - sounds like a recipe for good, old, stereotypical "Southern" fun. While definitely ripe with humorous moments, the performance of Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" was anything ...
Author: Alexandra Hay "Kavej Hfiz okuby ryzal," was the refrain of the evening the cast of "The Memorandum" rattled off lines in a new, scientifically generated language designed to minimize miscommunication in the workplace. The Czech artist Vaclav Havel wrote the comedy in 1966, following a long tradition ...
Author: Claire Bourne Wilco frontman and alt-country idol Jeff Tweedy apologized mid-set for not being able to hit the high notes and prefaced the group's second encore at the Flynn Theater Friday night by joking that he and his band mates had just decided to "quit music."If a chock-a-block early-summer ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Presented by Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) and directed by David Moan '04, "Children of Eden" rocked McCullough this past weekend. This more obscure musical dramatizes the early chapters of The Bible, from Adam and Eve to Noah and the flood. The play's focus on the ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's the delicate touch of your hair blown by the wind across on your cheek. The faint plink from a drop of water falling from your faucet against your sink. The slight waft of perfume from a passerby on the street. It's every instant that engages your senses so barely that you ...
Author: Edward Pickering Autobiographies rarely attain 'classic' status. Most are of the airport newsstand variety. Retired generals and politicians transcribe blow-by-blow testimonials and actors and athletes fill pages with self-pity. The life of these autobiographies is short: they fly off the shelves ...
Author: Chris Richards Three college students endure an icy Middlebury day in a film that intertwines their stories to explore relationships immersed in the awkward, alienating and quirky social world of a small liberal arts college. Clever, subdued performances, striking use of color and images and ...
Author: [no author name found] War debt (on taking my son to college) Amy McGill, associate director of the Center for Educational TechnologyYesterday, it seems, you watched the world heavily from my hip: across the lawn, an old Hmong woman tended her plot, her terraced fields reduced to a tiny square ...
Author: Richard Lawless The 2002-2003 Middlebury College Performing Arts Series went out with a bang with Arnaldo Cohen's brilliant performance this past Friday at the Center for the Arts. Entering the hall with a personable demeanor, Cohen took a few moments to collect his thoughts before commencing ...
Author: Lucie Greene Andrew Bishop '05 seems to be one of those people who simply epitomizes "cool." You know? The sort of person who, with casual indifference, manages to display a skill for singing and performance, possess a distinct gritty voice with amazing stage presence and then - almost by accident ...
Author: Michael Hatch Studio art majors Dave Sharp '03 and Gigi Gatewood '03 opened an exhibition of their independent work titled "Again, For the First Time," last Friday in the Johnson Gallery. On display until Wed., April 30, the exhibit showcases Sharpe's paintings and site-specific sculptures and ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller The production of "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" that went up in Hepburn Zoo Theater last weekend was dominated by the incredibly intense and compelling performance of Damian L. Washington '03. He was on stage from the very second that the audience entered the theater, but he ...
Author: Lucie Greene The first thing that strikes you after meeting Sara Stranovsky '04 is her energy. When you contemplate the member of groups she's involved in, it's difficult to imagine how one person could participate in and be talented at quite so much. It was refreshing to meet someone like her ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes The African American Alliance (AAA) brought Motown to the Middlebury campus this past Saturday evening in McCullough.At their spring show, co-sponsored by The Office for Institutional Diversity, PALANA, Women of Color and Middlebury Open Queer Alliance, AAA presented "Joining Together ...