The annual Battle of the Bands, put on by the music fraternity formerly known as Phi Mu Alpha, will take place Nov. 17, from 8 p.m. to midnight at 55 Below. Five featured bands will compete before a panel of three judges. The competing bands are Hexagon Sandwich, Runaround, Schizmatics, Spike Jaeger and the Spitfires,...
This is not the “Hamlet” of Laurence Olivier or Kenneth Branagh. With its woodgrain set, jewel-toned lightning, and Viking-era costumes complete with fur collars and leather accents, it stands apart. For the first time in his 25-year teaching career, Director and Associate Professor of Theatre James Brandon is presenting William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” It premiered last...
How has your career as a working musician looked over the years? I first started playing trumpet when I was 7 because I saw Harry James on television. I said, “that’s what I want to do,” and I geared my whole life to play with Harry James, which I did as his first trumpet...
Turns out Harry and Sally were wrong, according to three Hillsdale professors — “the sex part” does not always have to get in the way of male and female friendships. A room of close to 20 women listened attentively to the professors’ rationales this past Sunday at an event organized by Associate Professor of English...
When Naomi Wolf walked onto the stage of Plaster Auditorium during last spring’s CCA on “Big Pharma,” a gasp escaped my mouth, and I just about lunged out of my seat. I had just spent my winter break reading and rereading her 1997 book “Promiscuities” – a piece of creative nonfiction that follows her and...