As he writes a novel, Ron Hansen posts his ideal “cast” of characters on his wall so he can remember what they look like. His ideal Robert Ford wasn’t cast for the film version of his historical fiction novel “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” but he said Casey Affleck was...
A girl of about eight who wore a hot pink cardigan — with bangs dyed to match — leaned back, lifted her iPhone, and snapped a photo of Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #92,” a photograph of a frightened young woman in a school uniform, hair cropped short, face blanched, pupils contracted to pin points. “That’s beautiful,”...
John Mayer begins his next tour, The Search for Everything, on March 31. To build the hype, the singer-songwriter has been releasing EP tracks four at a time until he will finally release his 14-track album this spring. It’s not really cool to like John Mayer, but we shamefaced fans are dying of excitement. Quietly,...
“Logan” proved to me that the superhero genre was not a lost cause. In the same way that “The Dark Knight” was able to blend philosophy with entertainment, this film seamlessly mixed its roots with the classic Western. This last thread of Logan’s story in the X-Men universe is a satisfying valediction to both the...
The men of Phi Mu Alpha are hosting a concert with The Gray Havens at 7:30 p.m. tonight, March 30, at the Elks Lodge in downtown Hillsdale. The Gray Havens are a husband-wife band with more than 40,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and their concert will be the Havens’ second appearance at Hillsdale according to...