When the last few bars of “Daylight,” the last track of Taylor Swift’s new album, play, a voiceover by Swift begins. “I want to be defined by the things I love, not the things I hate,” Swift says. If defining herself through love was her goal with “Lover,” Swift accomplished it. “Lover” is without a...
When Junior Caroline Hennekes started doing messy watercolors on Sunday afternoons with a friend in Florida, she had no idea she’d be designing the cover of Hillsdale College’s academic planners three years later. Though she only seriously started doing art after coming to Hillsdale, last spring Hennekes hand-painted the ink and watercolor cover of the...
The photography and paintings of Hillsdale College professors Doug Coon and Sam Knecht will be displayed this week in “Looking U.P.” – an exhibit that shows the beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “I love the U.P. for how remote and foreign it is,” Knecht said in an email. “It eludes mainstream America and provides so...
It’s no secret our generation is obsessed with our parents’ generation, but it’s more than mom’s old Levi jeans selling for $150 on Ebay. You can get a Beatles T-shirt at Target just as easily today as you may have gotten one at Two Guys 50 years ago. Thanks to Stranger Things, 13-year-olds everywhere know...
It all started with a dusty, old bike buried in the back of my garage. “Well, it looks like this is how you’ll be getting to work, Sofie,” my dad told me a week before I was starting my new adventure. I was interning at the Colorado Springs Gazette this summer, and I was offered...