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. 14, is high among both...
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 categories: drawing, sculpture, painting, photography,...
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 biggest name, and he does...
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 short. Shakespeare’s plays are for...
