When I sang through a series of warmup exercises with Voice Professor Missy Osmond for the first time as a freshman, I had one goal in mind: I wanted to sing like the women on Broadway, the stars who dig deep into their chests for those lusty strains of melody familiar to anyone with an...
Joining the ranks of shows like “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the television adaptation of the book “13 Reasons Why,” by Jay Asher, was released as a Netflix original series late last month. The show follows high school student Clay Jensen, played by Dylan Minnette as he listens to 13 tapes...
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Hillsdale College’s Jazz Big Band will perform their annual concert featuring this year’s guest artist, trumpet player Walter White. “This will be an exciting concert,” senior Big Band trumpetist Conor Woodfin said. “For most people attending, Walter White will be the best trumpet player they will ever hear. He...
When your grandparents were children, they probably saw an episode of NBC’s “Howdy Doody,” which ran from 1947 to 1960 and starred “Buffalo” Bob Smith and his puppet, Howdy Doody, a play on the Western greeting “howdy do.” Today, you can find the 70-year-old freckled cowboy puppet at Hog Creek Antiques in Allen, Michigan. It...
Springtime in Hillsdale: The sidewalk ice thaws, the snow turns to sleet, then to rain, then to sunshine, and as the students begin bravely to venture out of doors, so too do the theatrical productions. On May 6 in Slayton Arboretum, the curtain will rise on Shakespeare in the Arb’s 14th annual performance: Elizabethan rom-com...