The Professional Artist Series is presenting Douglas Coon’s photography in a show titled “Airports, Deserts, and Hillsdale” at the Sage Center for the Arts Daughtrey Gallery, beginning Oct. 26. Born in Hillsdale, Mich., Coon attended Western Michigan University where he majored in television, film production, and history. He’s been a photographer since junior high and has been the college’s photographer...
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‘The Taming of the Shrew’: modern and entertaining
The Aquila Theatre Company brought two Shakespeare shows –– “Cryano do Bergerac” and “The Taming of the Shrew” –– to Hillsdale College Oct. 9 and 10. The theater showed “The Taming of the Shrew” on the second night, Oct. 10, and their modern take on this classic play was peppered with clever gags and audience interaction. Baptista, the rich –...
Movie review: ‘Looper’
The year is 2044 – just a few decades before the invention of time travel – and the crime bosses of the future, rather than disposing of victims themselves, are sending them back in time to face the hitmen ‘loopers.’ “Looper,” the sophomore effort of writer-director Rian Johnson, is a gritty, time-travel sci-fi starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, the...
The plight of a frozen arizonian
When I first heard about Hillsdale College, I didn’t know that it was located in Michigan. I visited the school for the first time in my cold-weather clothes, which wasn’t much. It was obvious that I was not prepared for such a temperature change. At the time I was wearing a coat, jeans, a scarf, and boots. I looked at...
