Prior to the release of MGMT’s “Congratulations,” the duo delivered one of the boldest and most outrageous statements since the great Kanye/Swift feud of 2009. In an interview with NME, they revealed that their latest LP would not contain any radio-friendly singles. Rather, they intended each ...
On the second night of first-year orientation in 1983, John Grace returned to his room in Allen Hall to find a threatening note on his door: “die nig***.” It seems relevant to note that he was African-American. The harassment continued, culminating in a broken window, a stunned and angry student ...
After Miss Julie Hepburn Zoo 8 p.m., April 16 and 17 For the senior acting work of both Martha Newman ’10 and Matthew Nakitare ’10, they will perform Patrick Marber’s interpretation of August Strindberg’s original masterpiece. Delving into 1945 Britain, this drama examines the limits of class. Jekyll ...
Since its founding in 1995, the Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) has committed to putting on at least one full-scale musical every academic year. In recent years, they’ve typically produced one musical each semester, and their selection for this spring was the beloved “West Side Story,” ...
This music major from Wyckoff, N.J. used his semester off last spring to learn the art and practice of luthiery. The Middlebury Campus sat down to find out about how he learned this unique skill. Middlebury Campus: Guitar making isn’t exactly what you’d call a usual ability. Exactly how did you ...
Both the jokes and Ele Woods’s ’11 oppressively colorful tunic in “Beyond Therapy” appear equally anachronistic for today’s world, and yet both still elicit the most uproarious of laughs. Though the gags might have been a bit worn-out, the sense that the homophobic and “crazy people” ...
As a devoted fan of television’s Citizen Kane, “The Wire,” I waited until the last possible moment while watching the final episode on the final disk of the season five DVD to reluctantly press stop and end what had been the most transcendent TV watching experience of my life. Luckily, creator ...
A writer and director definitely not known for creating escapist cinema, Noah Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale,” “Margot at the Wedding”) presents his most recent low-affect production. High in quick dialogue and low in life-outlook, as all Baumbach films are, Greenberg succeeds in leaving ...
Griselda Gambaro’s “La Malasangre [Bad Blood],” the faculty show that appeared in the Steeler Studio Theater in the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCFA) last week, is one that will not soon be forgotten — it will continue to haunt those who were fortunate enough to have seen it — and I mean ...
On The Morning Benders’ most popular YouTube video, front man Christopher Chu, claims that, on the track “Excuses,” he was going for a Phil Spector, Wall of Sound style. So, in the video, The Morning Benders gather fellow San Franciscans — about 50, no joke — to record the song. I’m a sucker ...
Apparently Homer liked coining his share of pithy phrases: every morning (there were 20 of them in “The Odyssey” alone) is a “rosy-fingered Dawn.” What exactly that means is left to the reader’s interpretation. Enter Spencer Finch, the artist who gave this year’s Committee on the Arts in ...
Oh, Spring! Look who decided to finally show up! It’s no secret that everybody loves spring. The sun feels so good on my pastel skin, washing over my pallid, cold soul with a tsunami of rapture and vitamin D. Even better than the rebirth of my arctic soul is all the gorgeous sundresses that the ladies ...
As a hilarious investigation of some very earnest and relatable troubles, “Wonder of the World,” a play by David Lindsay-Abaire and the senior work of Christine Chung ’10 and Oscar Loyo ’10, is able to pose emotionally probing situations and questions (“Has your house ever been so quiet you ...
Even if its details are not as accurate as one might expect, “The Hurt Locker” at least holds a truth of emotion and of masochism that raises it above the overwhelming tension of its origins. Last week, when the film snagged the Best Picture Oscar and enshrined Kathryn Bigelow as the first woman ...
Literary Studies and Philosophy double major Jarrett Dury-Agri has decided to give his analytic faculties a rest and focus on his creativity by using his Old Stone Mill space to create a book filled with his own poetry and photography. Dury-Agri works for the literary magazine Sweatervest, consistently ...
“One never feels like a famous poet,” said C.K. Williams, a reflexive chuckle quickly falling from his lips. His audience laughs; but while Williams may not feel like a famous poet, his impressive host of accolades tells another story. Having authored nearly 20 books of poetry and received the ...
We live in a strange democracy. We live in a democracy where we have no voice, where we have no say, where we only feel safe because our country saves us from the very risk from which it puts us. But, for two hours last Thursday evening, performing artist and MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña ...
The Middlebury College Orchestra gave its first full concert under the conductor Andrew Massey on Thursday, March 11. This year was a transitional period for the orchestra, as Troy Peters, who had conducted the College orchestra since 2005, left Middlebury last year to be the music director for the ...
Currently on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art is a new kind of exhibition, curated by Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Associate Curator of Ancient Art Pieter Broucke and his first-year seminar class, Greece vs Rome: The Eighteenth Century Quest for the Sources of Western ...