Ryan Taylor, a local potter who graduated from Central College in Iowa, has recently started a private studio here in Hillsdale. Taylor’s studio is at his home, about ten minutes from campus. It boasts a large variety of equipment and tools alongside a considerable collection of his own artwork. Taylor tends to avoid bright and...
After a long walk on the beach with his guitar, singing soft melodies about love and girls and…well…girls, Jack Johnson, in his new album “From Here to Now to You,” goes in a more introspective direction. This new depth in Johnson’s music encourages respect, especially considering Johnson’s previous reputation for flirty lyrics earned by songs...
This past weekend, I and a group of fellow classicists voyaged to Ann Arbor for a research trip and chose a local Indian restaurant for lunch. After the meal, it took us more than a little concentration to gather our long-unused math skills and evenly divide the check, give money to the right person, and...
Bang! Smash! Pow! While Adam West’s Batman put the comic in comic book, reinforcing their mental equation with Saturday morning cartoons and nerdy teenagers who refuse to “grow up,” there is nothing funny about the artistic and storytelling value of graphic novels. All should read them or remain deprived of a medium of expression both...
A fireplace, shuttered windows, and stark, puritanical furniture all adorn the set of the Hillsdale theatre department’s newest show: “The Devil’s Disciple.” The show, by George Bernard Shaw, is set during the time of the Revolutionary War, and the home pictured on stage is that of Mrs. Dudgeon, a stubborn Presbyterian woman entangled in the...