One summer in the 1970s, while driving home from discussing art theory in a watercolor class, alumna Linda Shiffler noticed things didn’t look the same. “I saw things in a completely different light,” she said. “That a tree isn’t black, or it isn’t grey, or it isn’t brown, it’s a mixture of many colors. And...
Greg Stuchell of Hillsdale’s Ward 1 was not only elected to the city council at the ballot booths in November, but he was quite literally sent by the people. His name wasn’t even on the ballot, but 101 people wrote in his name, giving him 42 percent of the vote in Ward 1. Stuchell...
Aaron Zenz said he used 119 Prismacolor pencils — taking each from great big pencil to little, itty bitty stub you can’t even hold — and broke 251 pencil tips in the making of his first children’s picture book, “The Hiccopotamus.” Zenz’s casualties stem from his unorthodox use of colored pencils. His manipulation of this...
The Churchill craze is creeping beyond Hillsdale College’s campus. Stories of the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were trending earlier this week, as College President Larry Arnn’s most recent book surged on Amazon’s bestseller lists. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also announced the Churchill-centric film, “Darkest Hour,” was nominated for several...
Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” opens with an unforgivably cliché Vietnam war scene. Creedence Clearwater Revival plays in the background as men charge through a forest dodging gunfire: cheap special effects made with flashing lights. If you walk in the theater a couple minutes late, you can skip this and get straight to the point. This...