It was out with the old and in with the new at the Dawn Theater this past Saturday. In an effort to clear the old performance venue for its long-awaited redevelopment, Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Financing Authority auctioned off every old item it could at the Dawn on Nov. 10. About 25 students and Hillsdale residents...
In the 1970s—back before commercial irony—the soda company Faygo ran a wildly successful TV ad featuring a group of adults boarding a steamboat and singing arm-in-arm about their favorite childhood memories. It’s hard to tell what exactly is being sold until the very end, when the boat paddles off into the sunset. The lotus-drinkers conclude...
When Steven Spielberg saw “The Secret of NIMH” (1982), Don Bluth’s animated film about tenacious field mice caught in a mental ward, the director loved it so much that he asked Bluth to do it again — only this time starring Jewish émigré mice. Bluth jumped aboard immediately and, with Spielberg’s collaboration, he spun “An...
The story here starts simply, but its creeping normalcy ratchets “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) into a lasting terror. Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes), move to an old apartment building on the Upper East Side in New York. She wants children. He wants to be a successful stage actor. They soon befriend...
Sault Sainte-Marie isn’t exactly a tourist destination this time of year. The Saint Mary’s river is inhospitable to tourism (for the season) and the Kmart is closed (forever). To make matters worse, it gets late early out there: The Upper Peninsula’s pitch-black industrial decay is not worth a six-hour drive from Hillsdale. Unless you visit...