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Don’t go solo to ‘Solo Mio’
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Don’t go solo to ‘Solo Mio’

Despite the film’s title, “Solo Mio,” Matt Taylor (Kevin James) manages to stay solo for about ten minutes.  Sidelined at the altar in Rome, the upheaval of his life at nearly 60 years old leaves Matt confused and clutching at straws to try to restore his severed love life. By means of unsolicited help from...

Culture assistant is Hillsdale’s top critic
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Culture assistant is Hillsdale’s top critic

“En Route Pour La Pêche” by John Singer Sargent. Courtesy | National Gallery of Art The Dow Journalism Department and the Hillsdale Art Department hosted the inaugural Kenyon Cox Art Critics Essay Competition earlier this semester. This year, students were invited to imagine that The Metropolitan Museum and the Musée d’Orsay would lend Hillsdale College...

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American ‘high culture’ just looks different

As plastic beads and toilet paper filled the streets of New Orleans this Fat Tuesday, palaces in Vienna, Austria, hosted their final Viennese waltz of the season.  Ball season in Vienna, which traditionally lasts Nov. 11 to Shrove Tuesday each year, attracts thousands of visitors to Viennese palaces that host hundreds of balls every season....

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Bella Notte Concert: An Evening of Songs and Arias

Applause greeted the soprano as she walked across the stage to the concert grand piano in Christ Chapel.  Julie Adams, an award-winning opera singer, alongside her accompanist, Brad Blackham,  professor of piano and keyboard studies at Hillsdale College, performed a Valentine’s Day concert the evening of Feb. 14. The program was titled “Bella Notte,” or...