From the smooth jazz and cozy atmosphere of Rough Draft to the rock’n’roll-vinyl-selling Checker Records, there is a coffee shop for everyone located right here in Hillsdale, Michigan. Less than a mile from campus, Rough Draft offers a cozy study space and many coffee options from their specialty lattes to cortados to breves. Erin Freidenfeld, a senior and Rough Draft...
Culture
Calling all critics: Take a stand and win a grand
When art critic William Newton gave a lecture on the decline of art criticism in February, the interest of the journalism and art department students inspired Newton and alumnus Nate Stewart ’95 to create the Kenyon Cox Art Critics Essay Competition to allow students to practice the craft of art criticism. The new writing competition has a prize of $1,000...
NF releases new EP
NF’s latest EP “FEAR” gives his fans an inside look into the thoughts of self-doubt and despair that resurfaced after the release of his 2023 album “HOPE.” What makes this EP surprising, however, is that it opens a wound his last album seemed to close. Released Nov. 14, the six-track project features songs titled “FEAR,” “HOME,” “WHO I WAS,” “GIVE...
Student film forces a new perspective
Forced Perspective will be senior Joshua Burnett’s directorial debut. Courtesy | Natalie Kottom Hillsdale’s Film and Production Club will premiere senior Joshua Burnett’s newest film, “Forced Perspective,” Nov. 21. “I am the writer, director, producer, and editor, so I’m wearing a lot of hats,” Burnett joked. Burnett says he has worked on the script for his film for more than...
