Crossword 09/19/2024: Solutions
By Avery Goldstein | September 20, 2024Crossword 09/19/2024: Solutions!
Arts & Culture
College Museum unveils Awe-some art exhibit
By Nathan Bernazzani | September 19, 2024‘Awe’ is an emotion many of us have felt throughout our lives, but one that has eluded a singular definition throughout its history. This concept has fascinated researchers since the 18th century, and has more recently undergirded Middlebury’s newest art exhibit: “An Invitation to Awe”, a ...
LAUNDRY DAY and Vundabar rock start of semester
By Gus Morrill | September 19, 2024As the sun set and a pinkish glow illumined the sky behind the chapel, doors opened to Friday’s fall concert featuring the bands Vundabar and LAUNDRY DAY, hosted jointly by the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) and the college’s student-run radio station, WRMC. At 7:30 p.m., students poured ...
Reel Critic: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
By Nicoletta Coupe, Joseph Findlay and Catherine Goodrich | September 19, 2024Warner Bros., a notorious graverobber of pre-existing IP, has brought its 1988 cult favorite “Beetlejuice” back to life in an outlandishly amusing sequel, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”. So long as Hollywood continues in its tradition of extending franchises, thankfully, a director with as much creative ...
BRATting for the fences
By Norah Khan | September 12, 2024The signature block of lime green and low-resolution Arial font has defined these past few months for many. British artist Charli XCX dominated the charts this summer with the release of her sixth studio album, “BRAT.” Known for her boundary-pushing hyperpop stylings, XCX’s album explores the ...
Reel Critic: Alien Romulus
By Virginia Frau | September 12, 2024The newest addition to the “Alien” franchise hit theaters in August and serviced fans with a visually splendid but virtually unoriginal story. The film does, however, step out of its forebears’ shadow in one respect when it transforms the birth horror allegory of its predecessors into… actual ...
Middlebury Performing Arts Series: previewing Fall 2024
By Catherine Goodrich | September 12, 2024A mainstay of the Middlebury arts scene, the Performing Arts Series is back for its 105th season with a lineup as rich as it is varied. From classical chamber music to modern dance, there is something to compel everyone to make a trip to the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) this fall. The Performing Arts Series ...
A passage between silence and music
By Cole Chaudhari | September 12, 2024On Aug. 25, 2023, the American musician and collegiate debate coach Brian McBride died, and with his passing the world lost one-half of Stars of the Lid, an ambient drone duo formed in Austin, Texas in the early 1990s.
Americana: a Brit’s eye view
By Daisy Innes | May 9, 2024If you’ve tuned into the college’s radio station (WRMC), on a Monday at 3 p.m. this semester, you’ll have caught me chatting away about my favorite country, Americana and classic American rock music during “The Americana Hour.” You’ll have heard about the history of California country, the ...
Reel Critic: “The Fall Guy”
By Jack Torpey | May 9, 2024Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are ready to put their Barbenheimer rivalry behind them. In “The Fall Guy,” stuntman-turned-director David Leitch’s latest action-comedy extravaganza, the supporting stars of last summer’s two biggest hits join forces to trade in feminist satire and apocalyptic angst ...
Reel Critic: “Mambar Pierrette”
By Nathan Bernazzani | May 9, 2024In its concluding event of the semester, the Hirschfield Thursdays series presented “Mambar Pierrette,” the newest film from Cameroonian director Rosine Mbakam.
Reflections from an A&Senior
By Acadia Klepeis | May 9, 2024If you flip past news, past local and past opinions (a more time-consuming feat than ever this week), you’ll arrive at the ever-evolving Arts & Culture section (A&C). If news is the responsible eldest, local the well-adjusted middle child and opinions the loud, jaded teen , A&C is the ...
Makes Ya Feel: The sopho-more the merrier
By Ellie Trinkle | May 9, 2024Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small- and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel! Check back often for recommendations, reviews and discussions.
Theatre Department sticks the Orland-ing
By Catherine Goodrich | May 9, 2024In her 1929 essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf writes, “It is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple. One must be woman-manly, or man-womanly.” Indeed, Woolf’s genderbending reveries came alive this past weekend in Wright Theater.
Crossword 05/09/2024: Solution
By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | May 9, 2024Crossword 05/09/2024: Solution!
Ducking tradition: Dolci spices up dishes from its past
By Jack Torpey, Catherine Goodrich and Acadia Klepeis | May 2, 2024Fresh off a year in the fragrant markets of Florence, Italy, the Forest kitchenettes just couldn’t contain the culinary dreams of Jill Santopietro ’99. Soon, she found herself at a roundtable discussion with Middlebury Dining. She recalled being nervous to present her big idea: a student-run restaurant. ...