Carter Cochardo performs on the rings at the Regional Gymnastics Meet in Philadelphia. He first place all-around for the 2012 Regional Meet in Philadelphia.
Archive for April, 2012
Ring Master
Monday, April 30th, 2012Duck Alert
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
An Orange Original
Fashion Week (part 3): Finale
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Designs by Joshua Eder-Hart
Here are some images from the SU VPA Senior Fashion Show held on Thursday.
A Sarah Keimig Design
Accessory design of Chloe Dee Lebenger
Dress by Jamie Elizabeth Rawdin
Designer Sade McClinton with her models.
Design by Nicole Fattibene
A Message for the Urbanite
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Urban advocate, author and professor Edward Glaeser spoke yesterday at the Maxwell School on the campus of Syracuse University.
City living advocate Edward Glaeser visited yesterday and spoke about the joys and pains of cities. He advocated that cities are great places to be poor and great places to be rich at the same time. During his book signing, he was overheard telling one member of the Syracuse community that despite the success of Triumph of the City, his next book will probably be more of an academic versus a popular text.
Why Rap?
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Joe Clair, entertainer and health advocate, visited Syracuse with the Rap It Up Campaign.
Comedian, actor and former VJ Joe Clair (aka Cleezy) brought humor and but also a generous dose of reality to the Southwest Community Center in Syracuse yesterday during the Rap It Up event. He talked about a family member being HIV positive and having to take 30 pills a day for the past 20 years to maintain. At the same time he said, those same medicines can do damage to the body.
Rap It Up Event Panel
As a moderator a panel that included Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Cynthia Morrow, adolescent health specialist Dr. Jeri Dyson and singer Sammie, Clair kept it real by enlightening and entertaining the crowd, young and old, with sobering statistics and the need for prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases.
“Some of these disease do not have symptoms,” Clair said. “That’s why you need to get tested.”
Below hear Dr. Dyson talk about diseases that do not go away.
Fashion Week (part 2): Runway Revolution
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Here are some photographs from Saturday’s A Night at the Museum, a fashion show produced and directed by students at Syracuse University.
The show featured collections from Papaya Clothing, Real NY, Boom Babies, Collar Candy, Kreemo as well as pieces by designers Dejuan Hightower (representing Downstate), Kim, Kid Dangerous, and Bilaya Jackson (representing Upstate). Several students also presented their work on the runway.
Fashion Week (part 1): Mogul in Training
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Rare-NY Collection
rare -unusually good or great
Rare-NY Collection
Before the Fashion’s Conscience A Night at the Museum show on Saturday, we caught up with Ike Styles (aka Issac Boakye), a designer of the RareNY Label. He resides in the Bronx, NY but at one time was a student at OCC.
Rare-NY Collection
Fashionistas
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Members of the Syracuse University Dance Team kick off the Night at the Museum Fashion Show on Saturday night.
Happy Birthday BCCE
Saturday, April 21st, 2012“I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1
BCCE with Kirk Franklin
The legendary gospel collective known as the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble, or BCCE, celebrates its 35th anniversary this weekend. The BCCE will perform a concert on Saturday in Hendricks Chapel that will include an alumni section as well as guest directors.
Here is a small collection of photographs that have appeared on the SIF site in the past seven years or so from their various annointed performances.
BCCE at the Cora Thomas Gospel Extravaganza
BCCE at Hendricks Chapel
We got a chance to speak with BCCE Director Byron Canada before the concert, and he talked about the history of the group and the significance of this particular anniversary.
Byron Canada, Director, BCCE
BCCE under the direction of B. Canada
Here is a song BCCE performed at this year’s Syracuse University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in the Carrier Dome.
BCCE-Public Performance by SIF
BCCE: Duet
Mimesmanship
Monday, April 16th, 2012
Rock On:Tony Airommi
Here are a few photographs from the Second Annual Syracuse Air Guitar Competition, prostate which was held at The Red House on Saturday night. The champion, cialis Brianna Ruth, click will be moving on to the regional competition.
Brianna Ruth: Her Airness