Barbara Bushey, professor of art, draws inspiration from the beautiful scapes of Michigan where she grew up. But her art has more than one purpose: Bushey draws attention not only to the beauty of but also threats to the environment. Bushey’s latest project is ‘Prayers for the Great Lakes,’ a series of five hand-dyed and...
Last night in Markel Auditorium, the Tower Players performed the first show of the season, Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Spanish comedy “Life is a Dream.” When I sat down in the darkening auditorium to watch the dress rehearsal performance of “Life is a Dream,” a plummy purple glow lit up a zodiac pattern on...
A package delivered to me, from me. What better pick-me-up throughout the week than that? I held the brown cardboard box awaiting my arrival at my Hillsdale Street address after a day of classes and homesickness. After a day of wishing I could maybe just go shopping with my mother, or could feel good about...
Next week swords will flash and guns will fire in Markel auditorium when the Tower Players perform Pedro Calderón’s tragicomedy “Life is a Dream.” Shows will run Oct. 3 to 6 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 20th century Spanish play recalls the...
When floating in a raft on the sea, half-dead, and hallucinating, Louis Zamperini gazed up at the stars and whispered to God: “If you save me, I will serve you forever.” As told by Laura Hillenbrand in Zamperini’s biography and in Angelina Jolie’s feature-film adaptation, “Unbroken,” Zamperini, an olympic athlete and American soldier during WWII...