Author: Andrew Throdahl It seemed auspicious that mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, with her Botticellian locks expressively scarfed over her gown, performed for the Middlebury community on Valentine's Day at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts. Her program was as befitting as her appearance, ...
Author: Christian Morel I believe I speak for everyone when I say that spring can be a very liberating time of year. We will be shedding the coats and sweaters that have swallowed our shirts and belts. I personally look forward to leaving my woolen items at home and putting together glorious combinations ...
Author: Emma Stanford On Tuesday, an exhibit at Gifford's Gamut Room celebrated the dying art of Polaroid photography. "R.I.P. Polaroid," part of the Gamut Room's week-long Spring Awakening festival, used the work of student photographers to pay tribute to the famous brand of instant film, now fast ...
Author: Alex Blair Franz Ferdinand has always been a dance band. On their 2004 self-titled debut, the lads from Scotland used energized guitar and bass rhythms to create the grooves on tracks like the top-ten single "Take Me Out" and the disco throwback "Darts Of Pleasure." Five years later, the band ...
Author: Grace Duggan Middlebury students looking for a vacation from Vermont's lack of tall buildings and high population density typically use the occasional weekend or a longer break to book it to nearby urban centers like Montreal, Boston and New York. Now students have to walk only as far as the ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski On January 28, the trek down to the Town Hall Theater seemed longer than usual - something to do with two feet of snow and unplowed roads. Two slips and a snowbank later, I barely made it to the doors on time - and the place was packed. An almost full house had shown up in ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: The ReaderDIRECTOR: Stephen DaldrySTARRING: Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph FiennesAs the film award season reaches its apex in a few weeks, it seems only natural to take a look at one of the films the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences deemed good enough ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski In the middle of Winter Term, it is not altogether surprising that you can find snowflakes and trees in the same place. Inside the Museum of Art, however, is an entirely different story. No need to call Emmie Donadio just yet, though: the museum does not have a hole in the ...
Author: J.P. Allen Amid the flurry of Winter Term events and speakers, performance artist Scott Turner Schofield quietly staged one of the most unusual, exceptional presentations Middlebury College has seen all year. Schofield was invited to Middlebury by T Cooper ('94), and visiting Winter Term professor, ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez The Smell is a tiny club nestled in between a dive bar called Jalisco and an independent movie theater in downtown Los Angeles. If you weren't looking for it, you'd probably walk right past it. I did. Three times. The truth is that somehow, while the rest of us were asleep, Los ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger Joining together an eclectic mix of student and professional art, the Old Stone Mill opened an exhibit honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, Jan.16. Though there is no linear sense of aesthetic to the exhibit - which mingles mixed-media collage, photography, papier-mâché, ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE: MilkDIRECTOR: Gus Van SantSTARRING: Sean PennThe blend of archival news footage with a grainy filter leaves the impression that the essence of Harvey Milk's campaign is still immensely relevant. The effort in 1978 to defeat a California ballot initiative allowing employment ...
Author: Emma Stanford No term paper can compare to the stress of standing up before one's peers and performing, alone, an original monologue. But four days a week this Winter Term, the twelve students in Visting Lecturer in Theatre Dana Yeaton's "Going Solo" class do exactly that. On Tuesday morning, ...
Author: Robert McKay Wind engineer Jito Coleman got his start during the energy crisis of the 1970s. Today Coleman is president of Northern Power Systems, a Waitsfield-based company that makes wind and hybrid power systems and specializes in getting green power to remote locations. Coleman is also ...
Author: [no author name found] This weekend, six campus bands vibrated the Pearsons Lounge in a charity event to help raise money for the Middlebury Alternative Break trip to San Francisco. Tickets to the event cost $4, and the band with the most ticket stubs in their respective jar was declared the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Currently your friendly Digital Media Lab Assistant, recent graduate Sam Morrill '08 not only knows how to supervise the film making process, but he also has an impressive body of creative work. Perhaps the most intriguing is his recent film set in Havana, Cuba that will be ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Posters advertising the first Performing Arts Series concert of the new year read "Sophie Shao and Friends," placing the photogenic young cellist as the predetermined star of the evening. This was misleading, since Shao's "friends" matched her in both role and ability. Here I ...
Author: Jessica Kissinger MOVIE: Mister LonelyDIRECTOR: Harmony KorineSTARRING: Diego Luna & Samantha MortonA forlorn little film, "Mister Lonely" whizzed in and out of theaters, and yet, despite its rather quirky premise - the story primarily concerns a commune of impersonators - the film teems ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt 2008 marked the emergence of several new art galleries at the College. The Center Gallery, the gallery at Old Stone Mill and 51 Main have joined the Johnson Gallery, the Gamut Room, and various temporary guerilla spaces in a burst that recognizes a desire for a more roomy existence ...
Author: Mario Ariza The Large-Format Drawing exhibition, located in the Johnson Memorial Building's gallery, showcases 11 works from last semester's Studio Art I course. The featured pieces are generally charcoal- and pastel-based portraits executed on several large, stapled rectangles of coarse paper. ...