This is the hangover you do deserve: a half noir, half slapstick, and completely ridiculous screwball doozy. With “Down By Law,” independent director Jim Jarmusch sends up the whole southern gothic—and remakes the genre in his own image. The film stars Tom Waits as Zack, a sarcastic DJ, John Lurie as Jack, a disgruntled pimp,...
While most in the Hillsdale area sport pickup trucks or sensible Subarus, one Hillsdale couple opts for a different style of transportation: a horse-drawn wagon. At least once a month, Barney and Teresa Traylor can be seen driving in downtown Hillsdale in a horse-drawn wagon, taking a break from the regular hustle and bustle of...
As light streams through the windows of the New Dorm café, Penny’s, students flip through pages of homework, laugh with the baristas, and admire the student displays on the wall. Though established recently, Penny’s has quickly become a campus favorite for studying and chatting, and the student art on its walls — paintings and photographs...
“Men will Don Gay Colors while Girls Wear Hair in Curls.” What. A. Headline. The April 21 1921 issue of The Collegian did not disappoint in its description of an extinct, but absolutely electric, Hillsdale Holiday: Sock Day. The article reads, “Some years ago, we don’t know just when, the men of Hillsdale College with...
Few memorials to Martin Luther King Jr., pay tribute to the true bases of his civil-rights progress — which “pivoted on ideas that are much less popular now,” argued Jim Spiegel, professor of philosophy and religion at Taylor University. Speaking to an audience of about 30 people in a lecture at Hillsdale College on Thursday,...