While Dominique Young Unique might not live up to the last third of her stage name, the first two thirds seem to be pretty accurate. She is named Dominique and she is young, only 19 years old, as far as this reporter can discern. The Tampa, Fl. rapper played a show last Friday night in McCullough ...
This past Monday, POST•M, a “devised metatheatrical creation”, was performed in the Dance Studio. Directed by Nerina Cocchi ’10, the show featured Alena Giesche ’11, Heather Pynne ’11 and Andrea Messana, and was a preview of Cocchi’s vision for an international show that will begin touring ...
Feb. 17- Green Eden - This original play is the senior playwriting work of Noah Mease ’11. In it, Philip Cummings welcomes a young poet to his house on a winter’s night, but he is not the first Spanish poet to find him in the solitude of Vermont. Years earlier, Summer 1929, the famous poet Federico ...
If you were to ask me what trend currently defines the gaming industry, I would give two answers: sequels and motion control. Nintendo kicks off the motion control trend with the Wii and with it, the Wii-mote. They marketed the console as a new way to experience gaming in the home environment. As the ...
Watch Parks and Recreation. Seriously, do it. I know; you saw an episode in the first season and it wasn’t for you. Try again. Generally, in today’s age of serialized television, people feel the need to watch a show from its first episode to get to know the entire story, the character nuances, the ...
Jan. 21-22 at the Mahaney Center for the Arts the Dance Company premiered their semester long project, “Culture, cash and community: to have or have not.” Students, Artistic Director Christal Brown, and visiting artists Trebien Pollard and Paloma McGregor choreographed the suite of four dances. ...
For many, Winter Term can become a graveyard for grand schemes that never come to fruition. Among many people I know, “we’ll do it in J-Term,” (or just “J-Term.”) is the half-joking default response to good ideas that seem like too big of an undertaking during the busy semester. But every ...
It’s Saturday at 8 p.m., and whether you’re getting ready to throw your hands up in the air another time or bundling up for a late night snowball fight, one thing is relatively certain — you’re not preparing for yet another all-nighter. At the very least, you wouldn’t be doing so voluntarily. Not ...
Nationally renowned poet, actor and playwright Dael Orlandersmith staged a reading of two new short scripts in the Seeler Studio Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 13 as part of her Winter Term residency at the College. The two plays, Rave and Man of Water, were performed by actors Jack Gwaltney and Assistant ...
10) Menomena — Mines Menomena’s third proper album is one of the year’s most underrated, and it finds the Portland trio really hitting their stride, marrying their patchwork experimentalism with great hooks and an overall newfound pop sensibility. This yields their most varied and accessible ...
10) Fang Island— Fang Island Any band that takes its name from an article in The Onion about Donald Rumsfeld’s secret hideaway is bound to be a bit exuberant. Clocking in at only 31 minutes, Fang Island’s eponymous debut is a blood-rush of epic, carefree hullabaloo inspired by the likes of Los ...
The silver screen has a long and sequins-smattered history of facilitating the perpetual stylistic dialysis of the masses. No, not in what Blake Lively or Uma Thurman wears to the Oscars — for as inspirational those shimmery stars may be, I'm talking about the celluloid and digital, the magic of the ...
Writing a top ten of 2010 makes me feel like a character straight from High Fidelity. My favorite ten albums of 2010 are… 10) White Denim — Last Day of Summer White Denim surprised me with their latest (and free!) release. The band explains that the collection of songs is just “something ...
Top 10 Films of 2010 Simran Bhalla: The annual moment for our greatest cultural argument — the cause of many divorces and probably some religious schisms — is here: the Top 10 movie list. My judgment is admittedly insignificant (though I imagine my recommendation for Black Swan will send legions ...
What causes us to shiver? Stepping into the winter wind that cuts through goose down, a cold hand on a wrist, a rumble underfoot when standing near the Middlebury waterfall, feelings of fear or awe. Then there is the shiver that shakes to our very bones in a delicious, uncanny reaction to an absolutely ...
Top Games of 2010 2010 has come and gone and we are all one year closer to the end of existence as we know it. Silly pseudo-science aside, 2010 was an amazing year for gaming as a whole, as we saw blockbuster titles flooding the market from the very start. This is no “Top 10” list; just some gems ...
It was easy to imagine David Schein in a circus. The opening segment of his solo performance, which came to the Mahaney Center for the Arts Jan. 6 under the improbable name “MYethiOPIA: Tales from the AIDS Education Circus” featured Schein making full use of the lower lobby. He prowled. He circled. ...
Ezra Axelrod ’08 performed last Saturday at the CFA Concert Hall in an exclusive preview of his American Motel World Tour. The performance was an exploration and celebration of modern life as seen through the young artist’s eyes. With Axelrod on piano and a quintet of strings to back him, the audience ...
Last Thursday, Middlebury students, faculty, staff and community members came together in the sold-out McCullough Social Space for a one-of-a-kind event: a spoken word poetry showcase featuring readings by seven students, three respected poets touring under the name “Night Kite Revival” and the ...
The Duke Nelson Recreational Center, dubbed the “alien space craft center” by Yeasayer themselves, slowly began to fill with Middlebury students as the shaggy-haired members of DOM filled the air with unintelligible lyrics and fierce guitars. These were the students who chose, for whatever reason, ...