Category: Culture

The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will be performing their first spring concert March 16 at 8 p.m.  and March 17 at 3 p.m. The concert will include performances by two of the concerto winners and the Hillsdale College Chamber Choir. As is typical with March concerts, the orchestra is playing more modern pieces. The orchestra...

The fifth installment in the long-standing “Die Hard” franchise sees McClane traveling to Russia in search of his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney). What John doesn’t know, but quickly learns upon arriving, is that Jack is a CIA operative entangled in an undercover mission. A Russian scientist (Sebastian Koch), it seems, is to testify in...

When someone compliments me on my photography by saying what a nice camera I have, I immediately reply in my head, “It’s like telling me my stove makes good food.” I bristle when people say photography is just being in the right place at the right time. Many photography snobs whine about Instagram and Twitter...

Our society likes pictures. We take pictures of ourselves. Our children. Our houses. Our vacations. Our food. Our pets. Our friends. Our triumphs. Our failures. We’ll take pictures of pretty much anything. Every 2 minutes we take more pictures than all of humanity captured in the 19th century. According to numbers recently released by Facebook,...

I still remember the day my brother didn’t answer his cell phone. On February 14, 2008, a local Chicago radio station reported that a shooter had gunned down several students at Northern Illinois University, the school that my brother David was then attending. Thank God for Dave’s penchant for working out: he was at the...