Life & Style: Multimedia Belt

Zombie Ball brings undead to life
By NewsHouse Staff
October 25, 2015 - 7:32pm
Halloween came early for guests at the Zombie Ball this weekend.

The undead came to life on the dance floor during K-Rock's Zombie Ball at the Landmark Theatre on Saturday.

Attendees dressed up in their best costumes and slipped on their dancing shoes to boogie the night away.

Makeup artists painted on scary and bloody faces while guests dressed as zombies, vampires and witches hit the dance floor to songs such as Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye."

Syracuse Snarl brings horror movie characters to life on the runway
By Dan Poorman
October 12, 2015 - 2:07am
The Halloween spirit is in the air with Syracuse Fashion Week's third Snarl fashion show.

It’s not every day that a fashion show opens with little Danny Torrance wheeling down the runway on his iconic tricycle, only to be met by—you guessed it—those ghostly Grady twins and a most unsettling invitation to “come play.”

But this scene from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining did in fact unfold on a cobweb-covered catwalk in Syracuse’s historic Landmark Theatre on Saturday, for the third Syracuse Snarl fashion event.

Rip the Runway fashion show represents variety of cultures through clothing
By Mary Anderson
October 10, 2015 - 8:12am
A student-run fashion show displayed garments based on various traditional cultures with a modern twist.

On Friday, the Rip the Runway fashion show transported students from central New York to a cultural oasis. 

As the first model sliced through the red fog and stomped onto the catwalk, the audience fell silent. Bright colors poured out onto the runway as rhythmic drums pumped through the Goldstein Auditorium.

Feminist Friday showcases female-fronted rock from across New York state
By Taylyn Washingt...
October 9, 2015 - 3:11pm
Jessica Posner, a Syracuse University professor and "riot-grrl" singer, hosts a feminist rock showcase to counteract a local music scene dominated by men.

Indie music, cheap beers and interesting conversation makes for a usual Friday night at Spark Contemporary Art Space. This past Oct. 2, feminist punks clad in floral prints, combat boots and bandanas screamed, crooned, strummed and shredded raw emotion, angst and revolution in front of a rowdy crowd nodding and moshing along.

My Lucky Tummy features local fare from 5 foreign countries for its main fall event
By Anonymous
October 3, 2015 - 9:40pm
Chefs take part in the My Lucky Tummy event, which allows five amateur chefs to share a favorite meal from their homeland with the community. This year's event took place Saturday and tickets sold out.

Ingredients of all shapes, sizes, colors and smells were blended into five sets of dishes at this fall’s My Lucky Tummy (MLT) event. MLT organizes two pop-up food courts a year, each featuring five amateur chefs sharing a favorite meal from their homelands with the public.

SU takes initiative to promote health and wellness across campus
By Lauren Coleman
May 3, 2015 - 6:30pm
For the fourth annual Wellness Week, Syracuse University services and organizations collaborate to put on a week of events that promote physical, nutritional and holistic health.

Running has always been a passion for Syracuse graduate student Danielle Kennedy.

Before graduate school, Kennedy was an All-American track and field athlete.

Now, Kennedy doesn’t have the motivation and pressure of her coaches and teammates to keep her on the path to eating healthy and staying physically fit.

“I have to find self motivation,” Kennedy said.

“I noticed that after I run I’m motivated to do everything. I’m the most motivated to eat a healthy dinner, to go to the library to do homework, and to find time to hang out with my friends.”

SU's Relay for Life raises $85,000, honors cancer survivors
By Sydney Shulman
April 21, 2015 - 4:53pm
On Saturday, members from the Syracuse University community gathered in the Carrier Dome for Relay for Life, as a way of honoring both cancer survivors and those who died from the disease.

Relay for Life kicked off at 6 p.m. on Saturday and did not end until 6 a.m. the following day. A lot of people from the Syracuse community came out to the Carrier Dome to support the event that aims to find a cure for cancer.

SU student earns acclaim for YouTube beauty vlog, speaks on experience
By Candace Higgins
April 20, 2015 - 1:14pm
SU sophomore Tyra Booker reflects on her experience running a successful YouTube beauty vlog.

Who knew being bedridden could be a blessing in disguise? At the age of 14, Tyra Booker sure didn’t.  But as she recovered from a tennis injury, her life changed.  She created what would become a very successful vlog, or video blog. FashionwithTy now has more than 32,000 subscribers and her video have more than 2 million likes in a short span of three years.

Yet it wasn’t’ something Booker set out to do. “It was just something I did to pass the time,” she said.

"School Daze" dazzles
By Katy Beals
April 17, 2015 - 6:52pm
Supermodel and Syracuse University alumna, Emme, headlines the eighth annual fashion and beauty communications milestone fashion show.

The Syracuse University Fashion and Beauty Communications Milestone students put on their fashion show, “School Daze: Fashion and Education,” at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium on Friday, April 10. Supermodel Emme, an SU alumna, headlined the event with a passionate speech addressing the need to include average-sized women in the fashion industry.

Roux dining combines love of food with artistry
By Sam Henken
April 3, 2015 - 3:35pm
Roux is a pop-up dining experience that focuses on sensory and design elements, and was created by two industrial design majors with shared interests.

It started with a mutual love.

The love of design and food helped Rohan Thakore and Ryn Adkins, both fourth year industrial design students, to create Roux.

Roux is a pop-up dining experience that blends food and design, such that it looks past what is on the plate and focuses on the entire sensory experience of eating. Thakore and Adkins have done three events and want to continue to find ways to share their interests. For Thakore, a passion for food is where his path to Roux began.