Life & Style: Top Featured

CSA hosts annual Caribfest
By Rukayat Abiola Oloko
October 27, 2016 - 3:27pm
This year's Caribfest included a pageant, fashion show, and dance performances.

Syracuse University’s Caribbean Student Association began its celebration of its 30th year on campus with its annual Caribfest pageant and concert.

The pageant crowned Mr. and Miss Caribfest 2016 out of five Caribbean hopefuls. Contestants used the segments of the pageant to show why they deserve to represent the Caribbean Islands on the Syracuse University Campus.

Syracuse Style brings residents downtown for a night of fashion, unity
By Brianna Moné
September 18, 2016 - 5:15pm
On Thursday evening, Syracuse Fashion Week hosted an outdoor runway show on Walton Street.

Where fashion and community meets, that’s the goal of Syracuse Style.

Thursday night, Syracuse Fashion Week and the Downtown Committee of Syracuse collaborated for the city’s sixth annual Syracuse Style runway show. The free event shut down Walton St. and entertained a packed crowd with fashions from exclusively downtown shops and boutiques.

As one of the biggest events of Syracuse Fashion Week, the runway show featured 16 different stores, such as Midnight Sun, Modern Pop Culture, Indie Kids, and Project 214.

Models reclaim the runway during a fashion show
By NewsHouse Staff
April 25, 2016 - 9:54pm
Ladies strutted their stuff for a fashion show at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on Sunday.

Models diagnosed with cancer hit the catwalk at Reclamation Runway for Syracuse Fashion Week on Sunday at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.

The idea was that models reclaimed the runway in clothes that made them feel good about themselves after they've gone through surgeries or treatments.  

Overcrowding, sweltering heat mar Wine and Chocolate Festival experience
By Madison Flavin
November 29, 2015 - 3:56pm
Many attendees of the Central New York Wine and Chocolate Festival found the event overwhelming and unorganized.

For Colleen Feeney, Rachel Gullotta and Erin Marsden, all from Syracuse, the large amount of distilleries and wineries at the 10th annual AmeriCU Credit Union Wine and Chocolate Festival was overwhelming.

“It’s a little difficult to find which one to go to,” Gullotta said. 

The Exhibit Center of the New York State Fairgrounds was the site of the festival Saturday evening.

Twenty-somethings turn passion for pizza into an app and philanthropic cause
By Carly Nevis
November 19, 2015 - 6:10pm
Max Hellerstein and Cyrus Summerlin, who created the app Push for Pizza in 2013, stopped at Syracuse University on an 80 college tour to promote the application and encourage students to download it and incorporate it into their lives.

High school friends Cyrus Summerlin and Max Hellerstein have always loved pizza.

Both just 20-years-old, the two combined different slices of experiences over a year and a half to create the iPhone App, Push for Pizza - whose slogan is "the simplest way to order pizza from your favorite pizzeria."

The name gives it away. A user decides what topping they want on their pizza, the image of the topping pops up on the screen, the credit card information is synced, and the pizza is on the way.

Swapping clothes with Style Lottery
By Stacy Fernández
November 19, 2015 - 10:21am
Students clean out their closets and trade clothes at the Style Lottery Closet Swap.

Students recycled their wardrobes at the Style Lottery Closet Swap on Monday evening.

The closet swap is comparable to the thrifting experience, since the items gathered are gently used clothing, shoes and accessories from event participants. Junior psychology major Tauri Howard is a brand ambassador for Style Lottery, and she was part of the team who organized the event.

“I went with the idea that the swap would be a one-for-one kind of thing, but I ended up leaving with more than I brought in,” Howard said.

The SKY is the limit for ladies in little black dresses
By Stacy Fernández
November 15, 2015 - 8:19pm
The first annual Little Black Dress event took place at SKY Armory on Thursday to benefit women in business.

Women entrepreneurs networked at the Little Black Dress fundraiser for the Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) Women’s Business Center at SKY Armory on Thursday.

SKY Armory, owned by Nicole Samolis, opened over a year ago. Samolis is aware of what it takes to be a woman entrepreneur because she built her own business. As a member of the WISE advisory board, the Little Black Dress event was her idea and her way of giving back to the organization.

CNY Arts and Everson’s “On My Own Time” exhibit allows recreational artists to thrive
By Genelle Levy
November 8, 2015 - 5:45pm
Amateur artists' work was featured at the Everson Museum to reflect that art done as a hobby is still art nonetheless.

After a day at the office, it’s not uncommon to kick back with a glass of wine or a favorite TV show. But for some a paintbrush or a sketchbook is their main afterwork activity. The Everson Museum of Art’s 42nd exhibition “On My Own Time” showcased the work of amateur artists who pursue art for their own enjoyment and, surprisingly, the added health benefits it can offer.

Where do you fall in the haunted house pack?
By Megan Callahan
October 30, 2015 - 12:42pm
From the Alpha to the Courageous Lion, our reporter explains four distinctly different personalities for Halloween thrillseekers.

During my visit to Frightmare Farms, I came to the realization that there are four types of haunted house visitors and a natural order in which they fall. This order starts with Alpha, followed by the Jokester, the Scaredy Cat and the Courageous Lion.

Orange After Dark Paint Nite event allows students to channel inner Picasso
By Nick Papantonis
October 13, 2015 - 6:40pm
Students got creative at Paint Nite, a painting party Orange After Dark hosted on Friday.

With “What is Love” blaring over the loudspeakers, Claire McKenney looked around the Sheraton Hotel ballroom, which resembled more of an art studio than a meeting space.