My bookshelf houses my Bible, Heritage readers, AP stylebook, and many, many notebooks. Some are wrinkled and worn — full of writing, drawings, and pasted-in pictures. Others remain pristine and empty. Both filling these blank pages with my thoughts and knowing they will survive my fleeting existence make me feel human. “I never travel without...
Year: 2014
Record review: Weezer’s latest escapes the wasteland
Twenty years since their paradigm-shifting “Blue Album,” Rivers Cuomo and company present us with “Everything Will Be Alright In The End,” their ninth studio album. This retrospective and all-the-while forward-looking record grants both the casual listener and die-hard fan alike a refreshing embodiment of pure Weezer and Rivers Cuomo at his best. Fans and critics...
Taylor Swift’s electronic “1989” spreads the love
Despite trading country guitar riffs for electronic beats, Taylor Swift stays true to her contrary, whimsical, sassy, and optimistic self in her fifth and latest album, “1989,” released Monday. Some are unimpressed with the music mogul’s first pure pop album, inspired by the music in the decade in which she was born. But like the...
Come feel “the Heat” tonight: LA Theatre Works, “In the Heat of the Night”
“Come with your eyes open, your ears open, your mind open.” Senior Aaron Pomerantz, Publicity Manager for Sage Center, hopes that tonight’s production will challenge and engage Hillsdale students. The acting company, Los Angeles Theatre Works, will be bringing “In the Heat of the Night” to Hillsdale’s Markel Auditorium stage at 8 p.m. The play...
Wolfe’s call brings Image festival to fitting conclusion: Alumnus honored, gives talk on relationship of the arts and conservatism
Hillsdale’s past and present converged last Tuesday night as Greg Wolfe ’80 delivered a speech on conservatism and culture, drawing to a triumphant close a two-day festival recognizing his literary accomplishments. “My story is a Hillsdale story,” he said. “My whole career has been an extended dialogue with the culture that nourished me.” Wolfe is...