By Cai Manoogian “Talk to me,” he says. “About what?” I ask. “Tell me a story.” “Ugh. I’m too tired.” I pull the blankets over my head. “There isn’t one in me.” “Please, please, please.” He tugs at my shoulders. “Alright, alright.” I yawn, and pause for a couple of minutes to search my mind. [...]
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Dear Summer
By Cai Manoogian This is the first time I have written to a season. I cannot promise you all of the things you promise me: how I know your heat will rise and fall from the clouds, how the earth dries or greens from the sun, and how its vehement rays glow with enthusiasm. In [...]
Quidditch Champion Series
By Jose Vazquez Green Mountain College was chosen to be part of the Quidditch Champion Series. Green Mountain College and University of Vermont are creating one powerful team to be representing Vermont. Last year, Green Mountain College placed 6th place in the 2nd division in the whole world on the World Cup. The 20 best [...]
The Antarctica Story
By Jose Vazquez Hugo Neuburg “Antarctica Photographs 1957-58” was in Surdan Foyer Gallery right next to the kids event for Earth Day. These photographs were taken in Antarctica and each one told its own story. Each one showed a work site and the amazing view of the area. Of course there was snow and ice [...]
Burial – Kindred EP
By Luke Dailey For years after Burial exploded into the musical consciousness with his 2006 self-titled debut, the artist himself was almost as worthy of discussion as the music. That album and its follow-up, 2007’s masterful Untrue, are landmark, peerless works of post-dub, post-garage, dark ambient music—shuffling beats, unsteady rhythms, ghostly pitch-shifted vocals, cobweb textured atmospheric prods [...]
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
By Luke Dailey Kevin Barnes, the driving creative force behind of Montreal, debuted the band in 1997. Fifteen years and eleven albums later, he’s not only still going strong—he’s continually evolving, shifting, and redefining the band’s sound. 2007’s Oh Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? marked a late-career high water mark for the act: fueled by a [...]
Look Beyond The Art
By Jose Vazquez A very interesting art show was presented in The Feick Fine Arts Center, beginning on February 7th, 2012. The artist Bill Ramage, created unique art that has not been seen in The Feick. As stated on the Green Mountain College website, “The Feick Fine Arts Center serves as the main art gallery [...]
Book Review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Bruna Lobato Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Best American Short Stories and many other literary journals and magazines. In 2008, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Nowadays he is a creative writing professor at [...]
Where are you, Saint Valentine?
By, Samantha Albala * A special thanks to Siegfried de Rachewiltz, the history channel, and everyone who tolerated my endless excitement for the quest of Saint Valentine. The celebration of Saint Valentine’s Day evolved from Lupercialia, an ancient Roman festival pertaining to fertility from the first century BCE, to the modern celebration of today [...]
Filmmakers Donate Fracking Films to Griswold
Filmmakers Donate Fracking Awareness Films to GMC’s Griswold Library By Kristen Moore As NY politicians consider the future of hydrofracking for natural gas in the state, many people have spent an enormous amount of time, money and effort to increase awareness. Jeff and Jodi Andrysick have bceome quite involved. Sustainable builders and farmers in the Finger [...]
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