As the semester comes to a close, students have a lot to look forward to: reunion with family and friends back home, Momma’s cooking, and a full night’s sleep, for instance. But for many, the opening of “The Hobbit” tops the list. Anticipation for the movie, which comes out in the United States on Dec....
Category: Culture
Showcasing a semester of art
Hillsdale College’s art students will get a chance to show off the fruits of this semester’s work next week in the Juried Art Exhibit. Opening Dec. 4 in the Sage Center for the Arts Daughtry Gallery, the exhibit will feature student artwork from this semester’s studio courses. The artwork will be divided into six media...
Movie review: ‘Lincoln’
“Lincoln” is more BBC drama than American blockbuster. It is two-and-a-half hours long and stars a cast of aging character actors. It relies not on action sequences and beautiful faces but on complex conversations about law and policy to move the plot. And it humanizes, however respectfully, an American demigod. Daniel Day-Lewis is the movie’s...
Shakespeare: act it out
The first time I read “Hamlet,” I thought it was overrated. I’m a Philistine, I know. But, now that I’ve seen “Hamlet” performed multiple times both on stage and screen, I am reformed –– I love it as a thing of beauty. Reading the Bard’s work only, and not performing it as well, sells Shakespeare...
Choir and orchestra collaborate for ‘Messiah’
The Hillsdale College Music Department will perform “Messiah” Nov. 30 to Dec. 2. at College Baptist Church. The performance will last two and a half hours. The music department performs Messiah every four years. James Holleman, Chairman and Associate Professor of Music, Choirs, and Orchestra, began the cycle in 2000. This ensures that every student...

