3/2 Crossword!
By William Reed | March 2, 2023Here is this week's crossword! Solutions will be posted here at noon on Friday, March 3rd. Good luck!
Arts & Culture
It starts with the egg –
By Lucia Snyderman | March 2, 2023Uncertain and starving across this wondrous white They trust and remember
From the Archives: In defense of Valentine’s Day
By Eliza King Freedman | February 23, 2023In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the Special Collections team offered a collection of old Valentine’s Day cards that have been acquired throughout history for this week’s “From the Archives.” These cards not only showcase the evolution of Valentine’s Day as a holiday, but also the evolution ...
Halftime Show Review: Reduce, reuse, recycle, Rihanna?
By Eric Burchill | February 23, 2023The Super Bowl Halftime Show is the zeitgeist of our time — the last true spectacle that can provide years of conversation fodder for people with even the tiniest pop culture inclinations. In September of last year, when Rihanna, one of the biggest artists of all time, was announced as the Halftime ...
Reel Critic: “The Pale Blue Eye”
By Jack Torpey | February 23, 2023When “The Pale Blue Eye” was first announced in early 2021, the film’s most immediate appeal was its fusion of subject matter and setting. Cooper intended to bring Gothic atmospherics to bear on a 19th-century military school in the remote Hudson Highlands, an eerie pairing that would evoke Poe’s ...
The most important things we learned over J-Term
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri | February 23, 2023By the end of the fall semester, winter break is much needed. However, the rest we enjoy over those three weeks can easily turn into boredom. A restlessness to get back to campus sets in even though students might not be quite ready to manage the stress of a full-blown semester.
Valentine’s Day Arts Roundup
By Edyth Moldow | February 23, 2023In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I bring to you the artistic representation of love in all its forms — platonic, romantic and self-love — through music and film. Whether or not you had a Valentine, it’s not too late to appreciate love’s omnipresence in our lives here on campus.
Slipin Sips: introduction to natural wine
By Sam Lipin | February 23, 2023Yes, I may have discussed beer and mead in the first edition of “Sip on this” — and I will continue to in the future — but I don’t want to stray too far from what I want this column to be about: wine. The world of wine is vast and confusing, and the goal of this column is to connect budding ...
1/26 Crossword Solutions!
By Josh Harkins | January 27, 2023Here are this week's crossword solutions! How'd you do?
Freedom Dreams turn to Reality with Some Progress on Campus Anti-Racism
By Joshua Glucksman | January 26, 2023“Freedom Dreaming: Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury,” a spoken word performance, was presented by Faculty Director of Equity, Justice & Inclusion Tara Affolter and a group of students with the aim of examining the potential for an antiracist Middlebury on Jan.18. The group’s work began ...
From the Archives: A glimpse into gender politics at Middlebury in the early 1900s
By Tulip Larson | January 26, 2023This proposed layout for an updated Middlebury campus from 1909 provides a snapshot into the complicated gender politics plaguing Middlebury — illustrating a drastically different college than the one that students know today.
A low-snow J-Term: How students have entertained themselves
By Becca Clark | January 26, 2023J-Term is typically a time when students enjoy a more relaxed class schedule and a little more free time to enjoy Vermont’s winter activities, like skiing. But this January has lacked Vermont’s typical snowfall, making many of those activities that students look forward to difficult.
WRMC Radio Roundup 1/26
By Wrmc | January 26, 2023On his new album “Me / And / Dad,” Billy Strings revisits a number of bluegrass standards alongside his father, who taught him to play guitar as a child. Backed up by an all-star cast of bluegrass pickers, including Ronnie McCoury and Jerry Douglas, Strings and Barber take turns singing lead on ...
Shakes It Up 1/26 Crossword
By Josh Harkins | January 26, 2023Try this week's 'Shakes It Up' Crossword! Answers will be published this Friday, Jan 27 at noon. Good luck!
J-Term Crossword Solutions
By Will Reed | January 20, 2023Here are the solutions to this week's crossword! How'd you do?
From the Archives: Baking from a 19th-century recipe book
By Tiffany Li | January 19, 2023In the bracing winter cold, the prospect of warm, freshly baked treats seems all the more tempting. This homemade recipe book from the late 19th century offers a view into baked goods that people would have enjoyed 150 years ago, containing handwritten recipes and recipes cut and pasted from newspapers. ...
Niche Reads: Novels for anthropology majors
By Sylvie Shure | January 19, 2023There are few topics literature explores better than human nature. Why do we make the decisions we make? How do we relate to the people around us? What does it mean to be a person at all? Arguably, nearly every novel ever written is about people, but these three books are especially focused on humanity ...
Reel Critic: “The Fabelmans”
By Jack Torpey | January 19, 2023He made us afraid to go in the water with “Jaws.” He gave the world its most beloved whip-wielding adventure hero in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He even resurrected the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park.” Now, with “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg has given audiences the story they didn’t ...
The most important things we learned over break
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri | January 19, 2023At the close of each semester, Middlebury students scatter across the globe — returning home and traveling to wherever they will spend their breaks. Although it's easy to think of time off from school as a break from learning, the environments and experiences in which we find ourselves in between ...