“What kind of ramshackle operation are you running?” These are the words Zack Bigelow’s father asked when he first saw his son’s homemade brewing equipment more than a decade ago. Today, Bigelow runs Ramshackle Brewing Company, a quaint brewery next to Olivia’s Chop House in Jonesville. Since opening the doors in July 2019, Bigelow and...
Next week, the Hillsdale College Theatre Department presents the “Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. This jazzy, satirical piece highlights both the acting and musical skills of Hillsdale’s theatre students. Theatre department chair James Brandon is directing the musical alongside the department chair of music James Holleman. The pair said they are looking...
Before writing this, I stopped by Penny’s to get a coffee. Coffee is energizing: It makes most people feel less tired and enhances brain functioning. Coffee helps me focus on my studies and write faster. (The jury’s still out on whether it makes me write better.) Tea supposedly has caffeine in it, but I never...
It was two in the morning in the Argentinian winter in 2018, and rain poured down upon the tens of thousands of protesters. Large projectors showed the senators as they debated long into the night, a debate that had meant to end in the mid-afternoon. The argument: the depenalization of abortion, which in turn meant...
It’s been 13 years coming. The Los Angeles Rams have dominated the NFC, beating the Arizona Cardinals, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and finally their division rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, to advance to the Super Bowl LVI. While it has only been two years since the Rams were last on football’s biggest...