This past weekend, The Sauk Theatre presented “Desert Song,” a play about finding inspiration in the most unexpected places. A musician, played by Darren Taylor, is searching for the muse of his favorite song, “The Ballad of Eliza.” After meeting a hotel maid, played by Summer Housler, the pair come together to write a song. ...
On a rainy September night, friends, family, and students of Hillsdale gathered to see the Grand Rapids Ballet performers glide across the stage in a fusion of ballet genres. Part of the college’s Professional Artists Series, the ballet featured five dances that blended classical and contemporary ballet. The program included “a Mozart Symphony,” “Presto,” and...
Every few months, celebrities line themselves up along a velour carpet, dressed in clothes someone helped them put on, unhinging their plastic jaws to scream, “Judge me!” and hoping to be pat on the back by people with egos bigger than their own. In the hierarchy of award show fashion, the VMAs lie low in...
The parking lot on Saturday was the first indicator that Meckley’s Flavor Fruit Farm earns its reputation as a popular family destination. The apple-shaped bounce house filled with eager, buoyant children was the second. Additional festivities for Meckley’s September festival weekends include live music, a corn maze, and several food trucks. Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses...
Hundreds of fossils will now call Hillsdale’s natural history museum home, following a donation from paleontologist and geologist, Kevin Wilson. The D.M. Fisk Museum of Natural History, located on the main floor of Strosacker, received the second installment of the donation last week. The fossils will include thousands of species from more than 30 different...