Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Over the summer, Solid State Change, a 6,000-pound sculpture, was installed on the grounds of the Hillcrest Environmental Center, kicking off what seems to be a newfound commitment to environmental art at the College. The sculpture, created by Brooklyn-based artist Deborah Fisher, ...
Author: Beth Connolly What if dancing were banned at Middlebury? Students would respond with a series of ten dances, with bright costumes and a bit of glitter. That is, according to the MIddance Spring Show last Saturday night. The show opened to a packed audience in the McCullough Social Space with ...
Author: Grace Duggan The senior work of Sally Swallow '07 and Bill Army '07 finally brings a full-scale musical to Middlebury. With a production too irreverant and too interactive for Wright Theater, the cast and crew decided the only option was to literally turn CFA's Seeler Theater into the seedy ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Last week was May-day, marking the official leap into the warmer season. But May-day in Sweden, called Valborg, is celebrated on the last day of April. In a land where the sun never rises in the winter and never sets in the summer, the coming of spring is a well-needed ...
Author: Colin Foss If you happened to be in downtown Manhattan recently, you might have noticed some chatter about a new filmmaker and his work currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Among four other finalists in MTV's "Best Filmmaker on Campus" competition, Alexander Poe '03 had the pleasure ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Freshly-pressed paninis, sun-bathing on Battell Beach, free alcohol - these are just a few things students will be sure to miss as they tape up their cardboard boxes and head back to their decidedly Proctor-terrace-free corners of the world. While you may not be mourning the ...
Author: Chi Zhang The Middlebury Dance Program was recently honored with an invitation to perform at the St. Mark's church in New York, as part of a series called "Academy Dances" sponsored by the Danspace Project. Danspace is one of the prime venues on the downtown dance scene and has been an instrumental ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl When Associate Professor of Music Greg Vitercik commented on the College orchestra's significant improvement since last year he did not hesitate to gloat. "We can do anything we want to now," said Vitercik. This certainly proved true at Thursday evening's concert in the Center ...
Author: Mary Lane Late night beer, jamming out to tunes and philosophical conversation - sounds like a typical Friday night at Middlebury, right? Add a chart-topping, college-rock idol band to the mix and you have my past weekend. I spent Friday night hanging out with Guster and their road crew backstage ...
Author: Beth Connolly More than just dance, "Distance Between" was a full sensory experience combining music, video, found sound and colorful costumes with compositions in varied styles. "Distance Between," Louisa Irving's '07 senior project, drew an enthusiastic audience last Friday and Saturday nights ...
Author: Emily Temple I am not a fan of country. I don't like it at all, not even the watered-down-for-the-common-man versions. Even most bluegrass can grate on me, and such was my experience when I first heard the Avett Brothers. I guess it was "saw" as much as "heard." Two summers ago, I ran every ...
Author: Jordan Nassar Junior Boys? Are you sure? They look more like senior men. But beyond the fact that these older-than-everyone-thought electro-artists failed to draw much of a crowd, their concert at Higher Ground in Burlington left me disappointed, to say the least. If the venue hadn't had Magic ...
Author: Colin Foss You would think eccentricity is a trait that you learn, not inherit, but "Eleemosynary" offers a new take on the odd habits of your relatives. Maybe eccentricity is a choice, a deliberate life decision, made in order to cope better with a family beleaguered by their own intelligence ...
Author: Melissa Marshall "From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending," quakes Conor Oberst's voice with a sense of foreshadowing on the April release, Cassadaga. As the driving force of Bright Eyes, Oberst's wavering vocals have transcended the confines of pop culture to become the voice ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Knef King '08 has been hosting a WRMC hip-hop show, "Color Outside the Lines and Movemental Radio," with Des Jennings and Nora Sutton since he stepped foot on this campus. He has also been the Business Director and Hip-Hop Manager at WRMC since his sophomore year. In all his ...
Author: Josh Wessler "Reign over Me" has Adam Sandler looking disheveled, with hair flowing over dark, deep-set eyes. An alcoholic's drawl lurks behind a thick New York accent. He appears like a rebellious adolescent though it's his most mature role to date. The film mixes the sad and funny into a story ...
Author: Grace Duggan Jay Parini, D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing, did not exaggerate by introducing Pulitzer Price-winning poet Phillip Levine last Thursday evening as a "permanent part of American literature." Levine, who was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, has written more ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE