Annie Clark is an enigma. Since she released her debut album as St. Vincent in 2007, the singer/guitarist has always been hard to pin down. Surely every one of her fans has been stumped on at least one occasion by the question, “what genre is she?” (The answer usually involves at least two hyphens.) Besides...
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February 28, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Review: ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the movie
My fundamental question after seeing “Winter’s Tale”: by which method did Hollywood acquire author Mark Helprin’s permission to totally eviscerate his most famous work: torture or bribery? Benjamin DeMott’s New York Times book review on the back of the book “Winter’s Tale” reads “Is it not astonishing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled...
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February 28, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Heroes through music
It all started with a Facebook plea from Motor City Percussion asking for help finding a rehearsal space large enough for their drumline to practice. Director of Band at Reading High School Joshua Sholler responded online that he knew a place “an hour and 40 minutes [away] in good ole’ Reading, MI.” This is how...
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February 28, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
The Bard at Hillsdale: Hillsdale’s Shakespeare Society
Filling the halls –– or at least the Formal Lounge –– with memorized verse and archaic language, the Shakespeare Society held its first sonnet competition on Friday, Feb. 14. Students across campus prepared and recited sonnets. The club originally planned to perform exclusively Shakespearean sonnets. “We dropped that requirement just because we didn’t want to...
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February 28, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Griffiths to retire from the Hillsdale theatre department
This weekend the Hillsdale theater program will perform “Much Ado About Nothing,” and Professor of Theatre Dave Griffiths will direct his last play at Hillsdale. “It’s been just about 40 years,” Griffiths said. “We’ve been rounding it off a lot, but it does not make a huge difference –– it’s been a long time.” Griffiths...