Most people know Jackson, Michigan (if they know it at all) as the birthplace of the Republican Party. But equally important — and tragically overlooked outside of local lore — is the town’s culinary claim to fame: home of the original coney dog. Okay, yes, yes, you know all about coneys. About the famous rivalry...
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,...
Harold and Kumar have nothing on this. I found salvation in a White Castle, when I was a freshman driving through central Ohio. These were the days when Spotify classified me as in “the top one percent of Kanye West listeners.” The days when I kept a copy of “Infinite Jest” and polaroid of myself...
Dear Hillsdalian, What a time to be alive. You’ve survived midterms, can quote “The Nicomachean Ethics,” given Mock Rock everything you’ve got, shared a lunch table with Dr. Arnn, and played Thatcherball. Yes, you are a full-fledged Hillsdalian. But even if you know your way around campus backwards and forwards, it means absolutely nothing...
Picture yourself in a boat on a river — then scratch that image because the Beatles are lame. Instead, picture yourself lying face up in an open field, your body swathed in a warm blanket, staring out at the October midnight as it opens into the Milky Way’s deep field of stars. Now call your...