Marvel vs. Capcom 2 forever changed arcade fighters. Tournaments popped up across the country, many characters were introduced, some of which no one had ever heard of (I’m looking at you, Amingo) and the game spawned lingo such as, “Scoops! Haagen-Dazs!” and “Where’s your swoopy moustache?!” Ten ...
On Thursday, Mar. 3, the Dance Program showcased an improvisational music performance by affiliate artists Michael Chorney and Ron Rost in the Dance Theatre. The duo, known as “The Miscellaneous Regulars,” celebrated their 25 years at the College by demonstrating their musical prowess, performing ...
Jim Naremore, a widely-known and respected film scholar and professor emeritus of communication and culture at Indiana University, made a visit to campus last week. He gave a lecture on literary adaptation in film titled “Chandler, Hawks and The Big Sleep,” referring, of course, to Raymond Chandler’s ...
Nathan Laube offered a virtuosic performance at Mead Chapel on Feb. 27 in a solo concert commemorating the 40th anniversary of the installation of the College’s organ. A recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Laube is spending this academic year continuing his studies on ...
Despite last Friday’s bleak weather, the performance by Vermont’s own Split Tongue Crow managed to create a warm atmosphere at 51 Main. The five-piece band played a selection of earnest songs about life and loss that entertained and impressed an intimate audience. 51 Main itself was the perfect ...
What does a band that’s been changing the landscape of popular music for a quarter of a century do when they set out to make a new album? Naturally, they look towards Northern European folklore for inspiration. “It's very much about natural forms,” artist Stanley Donwood said of his cover art ...
On Feb. 24 the art department sponsored a talk featuring Joey Fauerso, known for her award-winning work exploring the dynamic intersection between seemingly disparate themes — the male nude in frothy Rococo landscapes, or painting joined with animation to a custom-made soundtrack of clapping hands ...
As a fan of Sherlock Holmes books ever since I read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was 13 (the sound of dogs barking in the forest can still make my heart race), Graham Moore’s The Sherlockian quenched my thirst for a new Sherlock Holmes story. However, unlike other Sherlock Holmes mysteries, ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, students who had studied in a number of different counties last semester gathered together at 51 Main to hear stories from their friends and classmates. Going abroad for a semester is a once-in-a-lifetime experience which many students at Middlebury are lucky enough to enjoy. ...
It’s not too often that we get a chance to see a production of student-written play here at Middlebury, but this weekend provided one of those opportunities. Noah Mease, a double major in Spanish and Theater (with a Playwriting focus), spent the fall writing Green Eden as his 700-level project, a ...
Game |9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors Platform |Nintendo DS Rating | Mature For those of you who read my column, you may have noticed an unsettling trend: I have only reviewed sequels or new additions of long-standing franchises. This deeply bothered me, as someone who advocates strongly for the independent/small-developer-based ...
Last Thursday, Verbal Onslaught kicked off Winter Carnival by pairing up with non-profit organization Reclaim Childhood in an evening dedicated to self-empowerment. The event was held at 51 Main and as the night went on, the space became progressively more packed with students and other enraptured ...
Journalist Eric Schlosser delivered an address titled “The Future of the Food Movement” and took questions from a capacity crowd at McCullough Social Space last Tuesday night, Feb. 15. In addition to being the executive producer of There Will Be Blood and Food Inc. and producing two plays in ...
Blue Valentine Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance, was notorious well before its release: after screening to high praise at both the Cannes and Sundance Film Festival, the MPAA bestowed an NC-17 rating on it, the most restrictive rating short of that reserved for pornography (the rating is ...
Orange Crush by Deirdre Sackett, Arts Editor On Thursday, Feb. 17, the McCullough Social Space was filled with bright neon leggings, copious amounts of spandex and vibrant glowsticks as Orange Crush kicked off the first night of the College’s 88th Annual Winter Carnival. The ’80s cover band is ...
A few months ago, senior Simran Bhalla changed my life with a single text message — the context of which has long since faded with each passing Four Loko. Yet what remains, two simple words emblazoned forever upon my very soul, has made a world of difference: “Man Repeller.” For those of you ...
Affiliate artist Pete Sutherland performed at the Mahaney Center for the Arts this past Friday night, entertaining the audience with a rousing concert of both original and classic folk music. Joined by a slew of friends and family, including his wife Karen, the multitalented instrumentalist, singer ...
After he graduated last May, Dan Sheron ’10 packed up and left the States to spend some time in Russia. He ended up writing a set of songs that would become the forthcoming album October’s Road, performed by a newly-formed group they dubbed Balto. We talked to him about writing music in Russia, ...
“Breaking the Huddle,” a lecture on the opening of a new gallery at the Middlebury College Art Museum, existed in my mind as something very stereotypical. The new gallery, Mixed Signals, seeks to discuss “popular notions of masculinity and sport.” As perhaps the least athletic person you could ...
Chicago’s Smith Westerns showed up late for the party — about 40 years late. The teenage quartet’s home-brewed combination of garage-rock guitars, Beatles melodies, T-Rex and Bowie-esque glam-rock throws us right back into 1971. But this is no revivalist cover band. Smith Westerns’ sophomore ...