Friday evening, Joseph Cashore will return once more to Hillsdale College to breathe life into his marionettes in front of Hillsdale audiences in Markel Auditorium. The show, put on by Cashore and The Cashore Marionettes, is entitled "Life in Motion" and will feature a series of vignettes with a wide range of themes. (0) comments
When Charlton Heston visited Hillsdale, he suggested it would be a good place to shoot a film. Years later, amateur filmmaker Michael Baker has decided to test the theory. Two years in the making, Baker plans to shoot a full-blown independent science-fiction film in Hillsdale this summer. (0) comments
After a year of rebuilding, the Detroit Institute of Art reopened in November 2007 to much fanfare. The renovation, at a total cost of $158 million, took six years to complete and added 35,000 square feet to the original building, built in 1927. New additions to the museum include an all-new, expanded wing of African-American Art, one of the largest of its kind in the country. (0) comments
The Visiting Writers Series of the Department of English will be sponsoring a visit to campus by the poet Dr. Daniel Tobin on Feb. 11 and 12. Tobin, Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, has authored three critically acclaimed books of poems: "Where the World is Made," "Double Life" and "The Narrows. (0) comments
Katherine Heigl shines as Jane in "27 Dresses," a cute chick flick about a girl who's always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Jane is madly - and covertly - in love with her boss, who has (alas!) fallen for her younger sister. Heigl's acting steals the show. (1) comment
In the wake of Web 2.0, print journalism is fighting for its life. Almost every major newspaper in the country now offers the same content on their websites, for free, as they do in the physical copies, which cost money. But at least newspapers are still hanging on. (0) comments
