Last Sunday Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts hosted the family concert Symphony of Whales. The concert combined recited narration with the music of a splendid string quartet, and the musicians (members of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Sofia Hirsch, David Gusakov, Hilary Hatch and Dieuwke ...
D.T. Max’s revealing and compelling biography of the writer David Foster Wallace comes at a time of surging popularity of Wallace’s writing and new academic analysis of his work. Wallace, tragically, ended his own life in September of 2008 after a long struggle with depression and an inspiring ...
The Killer’s new album Battle Born features an interesting mix of sounds that the band has experimented with over the years. Some of the tracks have an art-rock feel whereas others are more pop-oriented. Overall, though, the album feels like a tired rehashing of old clichés, as it lacks a stand-out ...
This past weekend, the 42nd annual Society for Neuroscience meeting took place in New Orleans, La. from Oct. 13 - 17. Over 30,000 neuroscientists from across the country and around the globe gathered in a massive conference center on the outskirts of the French Quarter for five days of poster sessions ...
On Thursday, Oct. 12, the second poetry slam of the year took place in the Abernethy Room at the Axinn Center at Starr Library. Poor Form Poetry — the College’s slam poetry group — hosted the event, which drew a large crowd of students, professors and community members to the small, cozy space. Presenters ...
“Smog,” the most expensive art installation on campus, is the name of the immense sculpture installed in 2000 to complement the McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Installed after the death of its architect, Tony Smith, “Smog” became the little sister of “Smoke,” which stood taller and even made ...
In the environmental studies department, students and professors strive to research innovative solutions to environmental issues. Projects and interests range from building sustainable housing to studying the composition of minerals. The program is in its 46th year, and is still going strong. Professor ...
The occasion for this review of Don DeLillo’s historical tour de force Libra, first published in 1988, is its beautiful reprinting in the Penguin Ink series. In a wise attempt to make books worth purchasing, as opposed to the ever-more-popular (and purportedly environment-friendly) e-book, Penguin ...
Because the position of reel critic is tenured to ensure public opinion does not hinder free thinking, I loved Taken 2. I’m aware that the movie’s rating on Rotten Tomatoes stands at a firm 18 percent (the image of rotten tomato particles next to the figure emphasize this), but in spite of this ...
Video games and environmentalism, sounds crazy, no? However, even as early as 2010, the gaming industry has been taking steps to save itself some “green” and reduce CO2 emissions. Ubisoft, the developers of games such as Assassins Creed and Splinter Cell, has led this front by a making a small ...
In the atrium of the Johnson Memorial Building, sculptures featuring welded steel rods, paper, fabric, wood and many other materials have taken their final place in a new exhibit. This exhibit, “Line in Space: Just a Corner of Your Memory Palace,” features work from the studio art class Sculpture ...
The scenes read in “The Incredible Dramatic Life of Science and Mathematics” opened windows of collaboration between theatre and mathematics, illustrating a relatively new tradition that has captivated audiences the world over. In 1997, while directing a performance of “Arcadia,” Professor ...
Interest in computer science has been trending upward over the past four years at Middlebury College, but in the past four semesters, the computer science department has seen a massive spike in enrollment. Since 2008, introductory enrollment has quadrupled. The total introductory enrollment during the ...
There is a wonderful building that many of us walk past and through each day. Some see this place as a second home, a daily destination, a place of creation. To prospective students and their families who are bound to walk through it during their first brief visit to the campus, the Kevin P. Mahaney ...
Environmental issues are currently a hot topic, and Professor of Psychology Michelle McCauley has taken the issue to heart through her research in her conservation psychology lab. For the past decade McCauley has been researching how underlying psychological needs and motivations relate to pro-environmental ...
Julie Burstein was the personality chosen to make the keynote speech for the Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium last Thursday Sept. 27 in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center of the Arts. This year the symposium was dedicated to creativity, a topic that Burstein has studied extensively. In her latest book, ...
In honor of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts’ 20th anniversary season, this year’s Clifford Symposium was dedicated to the arts. Titled “Creativity and Collaboration,” the symposium was an appropriately collaborative effort backed by numerous sponsors, ranging from the history ...
Looking at the cover for Spec Ops: The Line, I see another generic military shooter: there is a gruff-looking soldier, in brown, with some action going on behind him. It is almost an exact replica of the cover art found on the Modern Warfare games. After reading some good reviews, I decided to give ...
A mixture of improv comedy and serious discussion defined the performance of Sex Signals in the McCullough Social Space on Wednesday night. The show touched on issues of dating, sex and — most importantly — the notion of consent. Since its 2000 debut, Sex Signals has been performed over 4,000 ...
A mixture of improv comedy and serious discussion defined the performance of Sex Signals in the McCullough Social Space on Wednesday night. The show touched on issues of dating, sex and — most importantly — the notion of consent. Since its 2000 debut, Sex Signals has been performed over 4,000 times ...