Mark Naida

If you are balding, that is a gift, because God is reminding you that you are getting uglier and you are going to die soon.”

“Loving Vincent” offers an honest, technical approach to making art. Though Van Gogh’s art was shocking in his day, he crafted his paintings with technical skill, precision, and emotion.

In bars across America, revelers order a drink rarely served in the British Isles: the Irish Car Bomb.

The Tower Players are performing “The Seagull” on Markel stage from Wednesday through Saturday with performances at 8 p.m. with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee.

The Hillsdale men’s basketball team (18-7, 12-6 G-MAC) split two games this week, earning a convincing 78-67 win over the Lake Erie University Storm (4-24, 3-17 G-MAC) on Saturday afternoon, but losing 65-48 against Ohio Dominican University (14-10, 9-8 G-MAC) when the shots just wouldn’t fall.

The students were on a high school mission trip in 2014 with EPPIC (Each Person Personally in Christ) ministries to evangelize through mime. Among their number was senior Jacob Hann.

“Michigander,” the folksy alternative to the sterile “Michiganian,” is the proper term for Michigan natives.

When head coach John Tharp got back to the bus after a 74-63 win over the University of Illinois-Springfield, his phone kept buzzing with congratulatory texts for becoming the winningest coach in Hillsdale College basketball history.

The Tower Players will perform “Proof” at 8 p.m. from Wednesday through Saturday with an additional Saturday matinee performance at 2 p.m.

Ali Smith’s next novel, “Winter,” releases today in the UK, right as the first frost kills off all of autumn’s late-season flowers.

The North Country Trail winds through America’s Northern Heartland for 4,600 miles and, for a small portion, it cuts Hillsdale County into near-perfect halves.

Though during the day the poles evoke the old gaslight style, the new lights on Manning Street emit a piercing white LED light.

The company, which has expanded its distribution throughout southern Michigan, will be available at Rough Draft Thursday through Sunday.

After settling into campus for the school year, students may want to run for the hills as professors assign the first round of papers and projects. And for the last couple weekends of summer, they should. Here the three best spots for outdoor adventure and camping in Michigan’s lower peninsula.

Theology, intellectual rock, and liberal arts are three main elements of the album by Birzer Bandana, a collaboration between Dave Smith and Bradley Birzer.

I concluded that while believers may practice Christian liberty, we should be much more sensitive to the younger, weaker Christian consciences around us than currently are, and make our decisions accordingly.

As stories have their way, they get bigger, taller, more true to the intent of the storyteller than to the facts. In local legends, there is often a point of reference.

Silence is at the center of “Every Riven Thing” by Christian Wiman. The slim volume contains prayerful poetry which chews at the modern notion of God.