Students and aspiring artists can hone their creative talents at Sketchy Sundays, an event hosted by Hillsdale’s art honorary Alpha Rho Tau — the next of which is Nov. 6. The bi-monthly event, which runs until Dec. 11, provides a model for students to engage in figure-drawing and allows them cultivate their portrait abilities...
Handmade sandwiches subs, ice cream, and coffee into one sweet eatery
With fresh ingredients and handmade ice cream, the build-your-own-sandwich and simple layout of Hillsdale’s new deli Handmade is worth a visit. After Oakley’s Riverside Deli closed in 2014, the building on Hillsdale Street was shut down for two years. Derek Spiteri, 24, recently reopened the shop, now named Handmade, to sell handmade sandwiches, coffee,...
‘Miss Peregrine’: spooky, but unsatisfying
Tim Burton’s newest film, based on Ransom Riggs’ graphic trilogy “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” delivers Halloween eye candy but fails to satisfy the audience with any thematic meat to chew on. Burton consolidates Riggs’ thriller trilogy into a single film, a fact which will cause more cringing from fans of the books...
Alpha Rho Tau hosts apartment art show
Art honorary Alpha Rho Tau is hosting its first annual art show this Friday from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in an off-campus apartment. “This is going to be our first annual art show,” said junior Elsa Lagerquist, president of A.R.T. “We’re super excited because we are requiring all of the artwork be done outside...
Keywords and context clues
“Dictionary, n. A book which explains or translates, usually in alphabetical order, the words of a language or languages.” Thus speaks the Oxford English Dictionary. For the literarily inclined, the online OED is a treasure trove of etymology and usage, and today’s tech-savvy logophiles can thank John Simpson, the influential dictionary’s editor-in-chief for almost...




