Music fes­ti­vals are an inte­gral part of summertime.

When most peo­ple think of the sum­mer music fes­ti­vals, big names like Bonnaroo in Tennessee, Coachella in California, and Lollapalooza in Chicago come to mind. But one of the pre­mier music fes­ti­vals is just over an hour away from Ferris. (more…)

With high hair and even higher heels, Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance’s (DSAGA) Drag Off blew the roof off the swel­ter­ingly hot Rankin Student Center Dome Room.

The annual event had pro­fes­sional drag per­form­ers per­form­ing with ama­teurs from on cam­pus, stu­dents brav­ing the nerves and the stage to com­pete for the titles Mr. and Ms. Hot Crimson.

The win­ner of Mr. Hot Crimson, Ferris fresh­man (major unde­cided) Dillon Marcus, com­mented on what it was like to get up on the stage. (more…)

An excited crowd filled Williams Auditorium for the pre­miere of Ferris Has Talent.

“I’ve never seen any­thing like this before, and it was just phe­nom­e­nal,” Samantha Gallup, Ferris fresh­man in early edu­ca­tion, said.

Trevor Charles took the stage for the first time with the sup­port of his fam­ily. After mak­ing sure his mother and broth­ers were in the audi­ence, he sang, a capella, “Little Things” by One Direction while the audi­ence clapped along. Despite his nerves, he was able to fin­ish the song and gather pos­i­tive feed­back from the judges. (more…)

Eating healthy

Living green, eat­ing healthy and car­ing for the planet are all things we hear we should do on a daily basis. Few would deny their ben­e­fits, but cost-effectiveness is the key ele­ment in any lifestyle change, espe­cially when you’re a quin­tes­sen­tial poor col­lege kid.

There are sev­eral things you could use around your own home to save you money, the envi­ron­ment and the planet. Whether you helped out for The Big Event, Earth Day or are plan­ning on help­ing on Arbor Day, below are things you can do every day that will make a last­ing impact on Mother Earth. (more…)

Advertising on Facebook has yet to be tapped to its fullest.

Now, Facebook is look­ing to cash in. The cur­rent sys­tem of small, unob­tru­sive adver­tise­ments lin­ing the right side of your Facebook news feed will soon have some new company.

Starting this sum­mer, Facebook will roll out large auto-playing video ads on sides of your Facebook news feed. (more…)

Paramore — “Paramore”

The revamped Paramore still car­ries those qual­ity traces of emo, pop and rock ‘n roll, but the band’s first album since the big shakeup is frus­trat­ingly inconsistent.

The trio tries its hand at stan­dard fare of var­i­ous genres—upbeat puppy love pop (“Still Into You”), win­dows down ‘90s alter­na­tive emo (“Fast In My Car”), a pop punk fist pumper (“Anklebiters”), a bit of atmos­pheric post-rock (“Future”) and even con­found­ing coun­try pop (“Hate To See Your Heartbreak”). The self-titled album is 17 tracks and 64 min­utes, which is five tracks and 20 min­utes too long. (more…)

The Rankin Center is host­ing The Art of Architecture, an exhibit fea­tur­ing the devel­op­ing skills of Ferris archi­tec­tural students.

The exhibit came from the mind of Paul Long, an assis­tant pro­fes­sor within the School of Built Environment. The exhibit cen­ters around a senior design project called Small Town Studio, which chal­lenges stu­dents with the task of rethink­ing and redesign­ing por­tions of Big Rapids. (more…)

Eating healthy and being a col­lege stu­dent don’t typ­i­cally coin­cide with one another.

In Big Rapids, a health food store called Mary’s All About Health & Wellness, located down­town on 207 S. Michigan Ave. next to the movie the­ater, offers a vari­ety of healthy options for stu­dents who want to start eat­ing organic or have food allergies.

Gloria Shellenbarger, who works in the kitchen at Mary’s All About Health & Wellness, said there are ben­e­fits of eat­ing all organic and nat­ural. (more…)

Hope for some sun­shine, head out­side and be pre­pared for an after­noon of con­cert festivities.

This year Entertainment Unlimited (EU) will host Ferris Fest in the north quad on April 27. The show starts at noon and is free to the public.

The line-up con­sists of Midwest Skies, The Crane Wives, The Rouge, YelaWolf and Motion City Soundtrack. (more…)

After weeks of buildup, the best man has finally won.

“The Best Man” is a Tony-nominated play penned by Gore Vidal in 1960. Though intri­cately tied to the dirty  pol­i­tics of the time, the play lives on through an ever-relevant plot.

The polit­i­cal drama was put on by Ferris State Theatre. What was pre­sented was a some­what sparse affair, tense con­ver­sa­tions and witty asides tak­ing place in only two shock­ingly iden­ti­cal hotel rooms. (more…)