Author: Andrew Throdahl Cellist Pieter Wispelwey, 45, performed last Friday evening in the Mahaney '85 Center for the Arts Concert hall stage upon a wooden pedestal. This bold yet awkward set up seemed to define the concert, which boasted a breed of musical enthusiasm usually found at student recitals. ...
Author: Isabel McWilliams Halloween weekend never had such a philosophical edge as it did for those who went to see Sara Swartzwelder's '09 production of "On Ego" by Mick Gordon and Paul Broks. This play confronts the complexity and challenges involved in defining the "self," which believe it or not ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Keller Quartett (yes, with two t's) takes music seriously. From its Nov. 2 program, one gets an idea of just how furrowed the group's brows are - the first half was a carefully arranged comparative essay on how W.A. Mozart and Gyorgy Kurtag both memorialized their influences. ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE: Trouble the WaterDIRECTORS: Carl Deal & Tia LessinOn Aug. 28, 2005, Kimberly Rivers Roberts began filming a documentary of her neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans. Neighbors analyzed the latest storm movements while completing their stocks of food at the ...
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Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. The Art of Ill WillDonald Dewey(New York University Press, 2008)If you're suffering from election season withdrawal, ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt It is something of an American ritual: a lively campaign, vigorous debate, a ballot distributed, options considered and winner announced. We determine many decisions in this manner, whether they be in the realm of national politics, commencement speaker candidates or, in the ...
Author: Grace Duggan Hidden in the bottom of Gifford Hall, the Gamut Room is easy to miss. Students in the know can walk in and find themselves in a relaxing café, innovative performance space and continuous art project all rolled into one. Despite a decrease in popularity and visibility following ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Taking the necessary precautions, any field scholar could have experienced Freud's theory of regression in action this past Halloween weekend on campuses across the country - and I'm sure some girl in Ohio is typing away on her MacBook as you read this, crafting a thesis around ...
Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. "Warhol Live"Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsNow through Jan. 18th, 2009 the museum features an incredible Andy Warhol ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez Movie: W.Director: Oliver StoneStarring: Josh BrolinI feel that a critic, even an amateur one like myself, should make every attempt to go into the film he is reviewing with as few preconceived notions as possible. I must admit that when I entered the theater to watch Oliver ...
Author: Grace Duggan Rock 'n' roll may have developed in the United States, but almost immediately afterwards it became difficult to pigeonhole it as a uniquely American phenomenon. Rock music has cemented its influence everywhere from CBGB and the Viper Room to Wembley Stadium and Budokan, but what ...
Author: Robert McKay The wall clicks on, 1500 square feet of TV static. In contemporary dance, this is about as original a backdrop as the Doric columns behind every early Renaissance saint and his brother. The font, however, is very nice, some kind of chunky ultra-bold with slab serifs. But the words ...
Author: Isabel McWilliams Students and faculty alike could not help but react with excited laughter, intrigued head nods and surprised exclamations as Director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Walter Cerf Distinguished College Professor of History of Art & Architecture Richard Saunders ...
Author: Emma Stanford Last Friday, a team of Middlebury students led by director Matrina Bonolis '10.5 brought an audience back to the Reagan era to witness the inner turmoil of an acerbic, misanthropic radio host. "Talk Radio" was performed in Hepburn Zoo, if performed is an appropriate word. More ...
Author: Melissa Marshall With its labyrinthine staircases and industrial open spaces, the Brutalist architecture of the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Building screams as the ideal location for a social event dedicated to a holiday that celebrates the offbeat, the strange and the creative. For three ...
Author: Josh Wessler Movie: AppaloosaDirector: Ed HarrisStarring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy IronsTown marshall Virgil Cole has trouble with words. Guns he can handle - he enters a fight with his jaw set and his chest pushed forward. Yet he relies on his deputy, Everett Hitch, for his ability ...
Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of current culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."By BrakhageStan Brakhage ...
Author: Emily Temple If you didn't know any better, you'd probably think that an EP entitled Satanic Messiah would be by some scary hardcore band or Marilyn Manson. But no, it was released by a band called the Mountain Goats. Do you know them? Notorious for stripped-down, tense storytelling by brilliant ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Can opera function surrounded by popcorn, Pepsi and jeans? The Metropolitan Opera, managed by the entrepreneurial Peter Gelb, has no reservations about transmitting its productions to a few select multiplex movie theaters across the country, trimming the operatic experience of ...