In the most recent installment of the Performing Arts Series, Middlebury College played host to Tamar Rogoff’s Diagnosis of a Faun. The piece focuses on a fantastic reinterpretation of the classical figure of the faun — a satyr with the aspects of both man and goat. It arrives at the interdisciplinary ...
The Castlevania franchise is one of those franchises that anyone who spends any of the time in the realm of gaming can instantly recognize, but it has little to no splash in the mainstream. By diverging from its 2-D sidescroller/ Dracula-hunting predecessors, Lords of Shadow hopes to change this obscurity ...
Generally, when watching the average Hollywood blockbuster, the discerning filmgoer has to resort to deriving pleasure not from the film itself, but from being the person who spites the film most creatively. The Social Network is not the average Hollywood blockbuster. In The Social Network, the characters ...
On Friday, in honor of homcoming weekend, the Grille hosted a special edition of the MCAB-sponsored “Music and Drinks” series, featuring a showcase of four bands with at least one member who graduated from Middlebury. As it was a Friday, the event was not as crowded as it might have been on a ...
From Oct. 15-19, native Vermont artist Sabra Field ’57 watched her mural “Cosmic Geometry” come to life on the back wall of the Wright Memorial Theater. Initiated by Kate Lupo ’10, “Cosmic Geometry” stands as the first outdoor mural in Middlebury history. Lupo initially proposed the project ...
Artist |Walkmen Album |Lisbon The reign of the dejected, early-2000s post-punk rockers is over. The Strokes have failed to produce a notable work in almost seven years and, as one of my esteemed colleagues once said, The Libertines have fallen to shambles. And while most bands associated with this ...
Here at Middlebury, we pride ourselves on our quest for carbon neutrality, our compost piles, our organic garden and overall awareness and attentiveness to the importance of environmental sustainability. We petition for change, we protest abuse and we try to set a good example in the way we live and ...
On the 10th day of the 10th month of this millennium’s 10th year, Middlebury celebrated 350.org’s Global Work Party with a morning yoga session at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. As an ongoing project to reduce the carbon dioxide level in our atmosphere to under 350 parts per million — the ...
A staple of the theatrical calendar each year, the First-Year Show showcases Middlebury’s freshest dramatic talent. This production, the 15th of its kind, was no exception to the trajectory; Hepburn Zoo afforded small audiences of friends and family gathered Oct. 7-9 with a personal experience, ...
When one thinks of Beethoven, the first things that come to mind are the heroic tours de force bursting from each symphony and the piano sonatas that so many have come to regard as the meat of the classical canon. Only after these grand works does one mention the intimate side of Beethoven. Yet as ...
MOVIE | Holy Rollers DIRECTOR | Kevin Asch Holy Rollers can’t seem to decide if it’s a coming-of-age character drama, a cautionary parable about two cultural extremes or a straightforward crime drama. I suppose it’s more the first than anything, but I also suspect that it is ambitious enough ...
Game|Dead Rising 2 Platform|Xbox 360, PS3, PC Rating|Mature “Why did mommy bite me, daddy?” asks Katey, one of the main characters of Capcom’s zombie series, Dead Rising. Chuck Green, the protagonist, responds to his daughter with obvious hurt in his voice: “That wasn’t mommy, sweetheart, ...
As Middlebury turned to face autumn this weekend, Paul Asbell delivered a concert full of summer warmth to a campus audience. The acoustic guitarist, described as “one of the best kept secrets in American music,” delighted ears with a wide range of styles and the occasional anecdote revealing his ...
The Heliand Trio — an ensemble comprised of pianist Cynthia Huard, clarinetist Elisabeth LeBlanc and bassoonist Rachael Elliott — performed at the Center for the Arts last Friday. The concert program explained their peculiar name: “Helianthus means sunflower, [and] we hope to bring light and ...
When D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing Jay Parini introduced writer Howard Frank Mosher to a crowd in Axinn’s Abernethy Room last Wednesday, he said that he had a title for Mosher ever since he started reading his books: the William Faulkner of the Northeast Kingdom. According to ...
Sporting a head of frizzy brown hair and wearing a pink dress, tights and boots, Abigail Washburn certainly fit the appearance of a bubbly bluegrass songstress during her Sept. 29 concert at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Effervescent from the moment she walked onstage, Washburn shouted ...
If you are interested in comedy, you are attending Middlebury College at the right time. Both of our college’s improv comedy troupes — the nearly two-decade-old Otter Nonsense Players and the younger Middlebrow, founded in the spring of 2008 — are enjoying high levels of popularity and exposure ...
Many people picture an organic, sustainable piece of clothing as the staple of the stereotypical Rastafarian: a ratty, hemp getup fit for a hippie. Aside from British company People Tree, there exist only a handful of large, mainstream clothing corporations that engage in sustainable, fair trade fashion ...
Artist |Frankie Rose & the Outs Album |Hollow Life I was surprised listening to the first track off Frankie Rose’s most recent project — surprised that perhaps Frankie is past the stylized lo-fi noise that has defined her storied yet short musical career. In fact, I felt that “Hollow Life” ...
At its very core, fashion is about three things: practicality, authenticity and risk. Practicality is the most objective of part of the equation: you don’t wear ballet flats to your environmental studies lab or a neon unitard to a wedding — these are rules of common sense and need no further explanation ...