When Stanley Kubrick released “Barry Lyndon” in 1975, he shocked — and then disappointed — sci-fi-hungry audiences with a costume drama whose action seemed overshadowed by the director’s obsession with the tedious minutia of 18th-century English culture and custom. In his previous two films, “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) and “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), Kubrick...
It was a carnival of carnage. When the 12-year-old Indian elephant Little Rajje rebelled against her trainer, Bill Pratt, at the circus in downtown Lansing on Sept. 26, 1963, the city went wild. Little Rajje was a big, but well-trained beast — clocking in at 3,000 pounds and with 10 years of accident-free experience in...
At its peak, the Michigan-based fast food chain Hot ’n Now boasted over 100 locations in 15 states. Now there is only one — in Sturgis, Michigan, only an hour’s drive from Hillsdale. Not that you should make this drive. The fare at the last Hot ’n Now is no more exciting than the grub...
It may seem odd that a college professor would write a children’s book, but that’s how Matthew Mehan, The Worsham Teaching Fellow of Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr., Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., has been spending his spare time for the past few years. The result of his labors, “Mr....
Michael Lucchese ’18 often declared that “there is no good pizza east of Chicago.” He was, of course, speaking in praise of the deep-dish ball of dough and tomato chunks invented by Uno Pizza in 1943 — a midwestern icon which has clogged the Second City’s windpipes (and sewage pipes) ever since. Lucchese and his...