There’s nothing I love more than sitting in the comfort of my dark room, eating toasted marshmallows and watching reruns of “How I Met Your Mother” on Netflix. I could be having the time of my life just lying in my jammies all weekend long and napping, because Lord knows I deserve that second nap…
As a petite woman, I’ve heard it all. I look like a middle schooler or a 12 year old boy. I’ll be thankful for my looks when I’m older. Someone even asked me if I was anorexic…but I’m not. In fact, I was born three months early and barely survived. But since people usually don’t…
I urge you to take off the mask. Approach this in the most objective way you can. If you cannot do this, you will waste your time reading further. I urge you to read fully and to read thoroughly. I urge you to question, wrestle and try to understand what I have to say. To…
Lemonjello’s Coffee, a popular community spot in town, has its patio set, and patrons are enjoying their drinks, reading or in conversation. Lounging in the sunlight is Bruce Benedict, Hope College’s chaplain of worship and arts. It’s not unusual to see him here or around Dimnent Memorial Chapel, where four days out of the week…
The magical world of Harry Potter was revisited in J.K. Rowling’s original screenplay “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” The story follows the one and only magizoologist, Newt Scamander, and his journey through both wizard and No-Maj (non-magical folk) America in New York City. Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, is on a trip to…
The residents of Saugatuck can kick back, relax and start the weekend a day early thanks to the Saugatuck Center for the Arts. The non-profit organization is putting on an award-winning film called “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Saugatuck Center…
People filed into the DeWitt Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 to experience “Sonder,” a Theatre 490 project written by Sydney Luse (’17) and Laura Schmidt (’17). It was also performed the previous two days, on Dec. 1 and 2. On the final night, there was not even enough space on the bleachers to suit…
Former Cuban leader: loved by some, despised by others and done with his last days Only a few historical figures have been as iconic as the Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro. Praised by some, and despised by others, Castro was pronounced dead after dealing with major health problems since 2008. Castro, who was almost 90-years-old, held…
Money is a tool, or a unit of account, that is used each and every day by people all across the world to make exchanging goods and services a simple task. Without money, goods and services would be exchanged through barter, the exchange of two similarly valued products. Money, for the last few thousand years,…