This past weekend, The Sauk Theatre presented “Desert Song,” a play about finding inspiration in the most unexpected places. A musician, played by Darren Taylor, is searching for the muse of his favorite song, “The Ballad of Eliza.” After meeting a hotel maid, played by Summer Housler, the pair come together to write a song. ...
On a rainy September night, friends, family, and students of Hillsdale gathered to see the Grand Rapids Ballet performers glide across the stage in a fusion of ballet genres. Part of the college’s Professional Artists Series, the ballet featured five dances that blended classical and contemporary ballet. The program included “a Mozart Symphony,” “Presto,” and...
Every few months, celebrities line themselves up along a velour carpet, dressed in clothes someone helped them put on, unhinging their plastic jaws to scream, “Judge me!” and hoping to be pat on the back by people with egos bigger than their own. In the hierarchy of award show fashion, the VMAs lie low in...
The parking lot on Saturday was the first indicator that Meckley’s Flavor Fruit Farm earns its reputation as a popular family destination. The apple-shaped bounce house filled with eager, buoyant children was the second. Additional festivities for Meckley’s September festival weekends include live music, a corn maze, and several food trucks. Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses...
If you like worshiping the devil, you’ll love heavy metal music. This probably echoes some stereotype about metal music you’ve heard before. It’s on par with saying that listening to rap music will make you try drugs, or that all country music sucks. The difference, however, is that the mainstream appeal of these other genres...