There are a few conversations that music junkies would kill to overhear, and here’s one of them: Dylan and Cohen on a California road trip, reminiscing about the golden days of ’60s rock ’n’ roll. Several weeks before his death in 2016, Leonard Cohen replayed his memory of the conversation for the New Yorker. In...
From posting to professional
When sophomore Chase Sabina started sharing his favorite photographs on a blog, he just wanted to post images he liked. Now, Sabina has been busy doing photoshoots for clients like Brooks Brothers, Google, and Land Rover — and has more than 27,000 followers on Instagram. Chase begins to describe what he does and who is...
From concept to clay: A look inside a sculptor’s creative process
Sometimes, when Hillsdale County sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 is working on a statue, the facial emotions on the sculpture seem to reflect those of of the sculptor, her husband Greg Stuchell said. “If she’s was really joyful that day, the statue’s face would look more like it’s smiling,” Stuchell said. “If she was in a...
Inside Aaron Zenz’s art and the child’s imagination
Aaron Zenz said he used 119 Prismacolor pencils — taking each from great big pencil to little, itty bitty stub you can’t even hold — and broke 251 pencil tips in the making of his first children’s picture book, “The Hiccopotamus.” Zenz’s casualties stem from his unorthodox use of colored pencils. His manipulation of this...
‘The Post’ wishes it were ‘All the President’s Men’
Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” opens with an unforgivably cliché Vietnam war scene. Creedence Clearwater Revival plays in the background as men charge through a forest dodging gunfire: cheap special effects made with flashing lights. If you walk in the theater a couple minutes late, you can skip this and get straight to the point. This...




