Before I dive into detailed discussions of each category and film, let’s start with this: the 2017 Academy Awards will be a sweep for “La La Land.” By taking six Golden Globe awards out of seven nominations in early January, it broke the record for most awarded to a movie. It won seven Critic’s Choice...
Reliving once-in-a-lifetime experiences with study abroad programs
If “you only live once” is America’s best expression for living in the moment, the French have an even better one: “profiter du moment.” “It means to ‘profit’ from the moment, to get all you can from an experience because it’s not going to last,” junior JoAnna Kroeker said after spending four months in Tours,...
Kiss Me Kate: ‘Another Openin’, Another Show’
The curtain will rise at Hillsdale College’s Sage Center for Performing Arts on Wednesday, March 1, for the Tower Players’ opening performance of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate! The Musical.” Director James Brandon said that “Kiss Me, Kate” has become a modern classic, a fun musical that is a mix of typical musical comedy...
Prediction: the Academy wins the “Most Elitist” award for the 89th time
Far from being #sowhite as it was in 2016, the 2017 Oscars will feature a wider variety of films, but some things about the elitist event remain the same: the Academy will honor good films, snub some of the best ones of the year, and honor others solely for the sake of diversity and political...
House show rocks the house
Only something incredible or awful could happen when 60 people cram into the living room of a half-finished house on Hillsdale St. at 8:30 p.m. on a Friday night. But here they are. At an off-campus house called the Boondocks — where blankets cover the windows, and floor lamps illuminate a band crowded in front...




