Year: 2014

The third annual Hillsdale Jazz Festival is taking place next saturday, Feb. 15, in Albion. Festivities begin at 10 a.m.  and end after the 8 p.m. night concert. Jazz Director Chris McCourry and Albion Big Band director James Ball started the festival when they attended similar festivals at bigger schools and decided to convert the...

Slain. His own sword on the ground beside him, he leans on one arm as the blood pours from a fatal wound on his torso. The naked man lies in the dust – defeated, but unconquerable. Resolve remains on his pain-stricken face. The thousands-year-old marble has preserved his misery, his defiance, and the bitter moments...

Everyone should learn at least a little art history. The president will say I’m wrong. Unless he won’t because his public relations people won’t let him. In an address to General Electric workers on skilled manufacturing jobs and their economic viability to “make a really good living,” Obama remarked that they would probably make more...

Her mother heard her singing nonsense songs through the monitor when she was a baby. She’s played piano since age seven. By age 10, she could hum practically all of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” having attended the Joffrey Ballet’s annual performance with her mother since kindergarten. Junior Claire Ziegler, classically trained in singing since age 11,  has...