Author: Kate DeForest On his latest solo endeavor, Stanton Moore, drummer and founding member of the celebrated "steamroller funk" band Galactic, offers something few musicians are ever able to offer during their entire careers: an album comprised of eclectic and varied songs, each with a unique and ...
Author: Kate Prouty The French film industry struggles, and too often fails, to get applause from Hollywood critics and their loyal American audiences. Imported films seldom make it into popular theaters and are even less frequently validated by good reviews or by high attendance rates in the offbeat ...
Author: Liz Logue For the spring term, this former Arts Editor thought it sensible to leave the Middlebury utopia for a while and venture to the center of the universe, New York City. Rest assured that arts — particularly dance and theater and, OK, movies and television too, are in my blood, so I'll ...
Author: Kate DeForest Straddling the rift between the lower and upper classes of England, a disparity that became more and more apparent through the post-World War I years in which the movie takes place, "Gosford Park" settles comfortably within the vision of its director Robert Altman. It is Altman ...
Author: Bryan McQuade Last Wednesday, New Orleans based band Galactic delivered a funk-filled performance to a sold out Higher Ground in Winooski, Vt. The world famous Triple Threat Djs, who are touring with Galactic on their appropriately dubbed "Freezestyle Winter Tour" throughout the Northeast, opened ...
Author: Kate DeForest Open since Jan. 15 and continuing until April 7, "David Bumbeck: Figures of the Imagination," is on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. The exhibit, focusing primarily on recent works, spans three decades of work, from the intaglio prints for which Bumbeck is most ...
Author: Kate Prouty A self-described "short faggot with a bald head and a big ass" performed his solo work on Wednesday evening Jan. 23 in the Middlebury College Dance Theater. At least those were the memorable words with which "New York-Rican" (feet in the Bronx, heart in Puerto Rico) dancer Arthur ...
Author: Yvonne Chen As one enters the Middlebury College Museum of Art's exhibition "Charles 'Teenie' Harris: A Legacy in Black and White," the heyday of Pittsburgh's Hill district fills the room. The 60 photographs on display are just a handful of the nearly 100,000 images of photographer Harris's ...
Author: Padma Govindan "Kate and Leopold," a sweet romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, owes its slender charm to its complete lack of connection to reality. This film makes no bones about being anything other than a fairy tale (albeit with a science fiction twist), and thus makes what ...
Author: Mike Csazar The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) entertained a sold out Flynn Theatre audience on Saturday night with a trio of Beethoven's most famous works. The program began with a delightful rendition of Beethoven's "Coriolan Overture, Op. 62," a work written to accompany a Heinrich von ...
Author: Kate DeForest This year's offering from the Dance Company of Middlebury is the strongest I have seen in the three years I have been attending their performances. Previewed late last year, and performed in Jan. 18 and 19, "Path" is a journey in dance through the external elements that shape our ...
Author: Michael O'BrienStaff Writer Some one-wit pedagogue in the 1960s said something to the effect of "I once said that J.R.R. Tolkien would be the most influential writer of the 20th century. Now I am afraid that I was right." I refuse to give her name, partially so that she does not gain the fame ...
Author: Yvonne ChenStaff Writer In our society men and women are continually talking about a so-called war of the sexes. Television shows such as "Men are From Mars/Women are from Venus" infiltrate their audiences with daily meditations of the gender differences that seem to divide us all into disparate ...
Author: Padma GovandinStaff Writer Adapting a novel as dense and complex as J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" for film would be as great an undertaking as Frodo Baggins' quest to destroy the evil ring of Mordor. To this end, director Peter Jackson has done an admirable ...
Author: Yvonne ChenStaff Writer Meet Avery, a deli owner from around Jersey and an everyday blue-collar guy. Avery is proud of his job, makes chit-chat with his regular customers and pontificates on the Yankees, the novelty of horse radish in sandwiches and other oddities of an ever-changing world outside. ...
Author: Laura RockefellerStaff Writer There are certain plays and pieces of music in our culture that are revered so highly that there are innumerable productions of them by the greatest artists. For this reason, staging an original performance of these pieces poses a challenge in addition to the expected ...
Author: Jason DaneStaff Writer As any film student will most likely tell you, showing your project on the big screen for the first time is one of the most exhilarating experiences imaginable. And on Dec. 8, 2001, the students of Sight and Sound II got a taste of that excitement first hand during their ...
Author: [no author name found] Dressed in ethnic costume, the Yale Slavic Chorus performed at the Cener for the Arts Concert Hall on Friday night. The chorus performed a running story combining song and story telling, captivating the audience.
Author: Laura RockefellerStaff Writer Children and the Arts, one of the courses that is being offered by the Teacher Education Department this Winter Term, came together with the Middlebury College Museum of Art to present a new exhibit entitled "Stories in Art." The exhibit will be on display at the ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts Editor "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," directed by Professor of Theatre Richard Romagnoli, opened late Friday evening in Wright Theatre, allowing ample time for the audience to gaze at the entire Middlebury College Orchestra assembled onstage. With glistening instruments, ...