Daniel Tacke has been told he began playing piano at age 3, but he doesn’t remember his first lesson. “This goes back further than my memory does,” Tacke said. Tacke, a native of Seattle, joined the Hillsdale music staff this year as a Visiting Associate Professor of Music, focusing on teaching basic and complex theory...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Statues pose on street corners, photographs frame restaurant walls, and canvases cover brick-walled storefronts. Grand Rapids, Michigan, has welcomed 1,453 artists to showcase their work within 3 square miles of town for 19 days in one of the most open and diverse international art competitions on the planet: ArtPrize. While the...
For Aquila Theatre, less is more. Three actors will perform William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” on Tuesday and Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Nile” on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Markel Auditorium, bringing international talent to the Hillsdale community and the knowledge of experienced professionals to Hillsdale College students. “There’s not a lot of...
The bloodcurdling anthology series “American Horror Story” is finally back on its feet. After a few years of backsliding in viewership, the show has returned to its original horror roots in its sixth season, opting for serious scares over shock value. In 2011, the “American Horror Story’s”debut shattered conventional television norms. Its subject matter...
On Sept. 8, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock shocked the world with “Psycho,” one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of horror. It was the first film ever to use fake blood, and its scare-factor was rooted in a boldly crafted atmosphere. Since “Psycho,” the horror genre has evolved. From the first “Halloween” movie to “The...