“I can’t really say what it is yet, but I’m going to start a new way of presenting this music and it’s going to happen on Friday,” said Chris McCourry, director of jazz studies and trumpeter for the Hillcats. “It’s going to be revolutionary.” This Friday at 8 p.m in McNamara Rehearsal Hall, the Hillcats...
Category: Culture
Painting beacons of hope
With 115 lighthouses in Michigan, it’s a lighthouse-lover’s heaven. Hillsdale county resident Mary Segur lives in Osseo and spends her retirement time painting lighthouses all throughout Michigan, selling them at art shows and events throughout the state. When little Mary Segur was just a 1st-grader living in Toledo, her mother took her to the Toledo...
Kendrick Lamar, “i” love myself
Earlier this semester, after months of silence, King Kendrick finally dropped his new single. The world listened to his new offering. The birds sat silent on their branches out of respect for the king. And when the last echo of Kendrick’s voice had faded, the world tilted its head to one side and uttered bemused...
Spanish class performing student-written work
Professor of Spanish Olga Muñiz is giving her Intensive Intermediate Spanish class the chance to not just read Spanish literature, but do their best to write some. The class read “El Delantal Blanco,” translated “The White Apron,” a Spanish one-act play by Sergio Vodanović. The ironic, witty play finishes on an open-ended note, leaving the...
College hosts figure-drawing workshop
For the many of the 12 Hillsdale College students attending the art department’s upcoming figure-drawing workshop Jan. 6-10, the last week of break will be their first exposure to depicting a nude model. The Studio Incamminati will present the workshop on campus the week before classes resume for the rest of campus. In this program,...