Sure, buying a new outfit feels great, but it’s better to go without the post-shopping, spent-all-the-money-on-H&M panic. Luckily, Jasmin Shopp, the owner of the new downtown store, Vintage Shoppe Thrift and Gift, said a student could put together a “one-of-a-kind” outfit for just $20 at her store.
Six performers from Windy Blew Entertainment stomped the floors at Be Here Now on Valentine’s Day at the venue’s first drag show.
Alter Ego Comics has been in an almost constant stage of transition since it opened over ten years ago. It has changed owners, locations and most recently, its name.
While Bobbi Kristina Brown allegedly improves, Pennsylvania parents get 50 shades of angry over explicit word search in this week's Pop Culture Catchup.
What's on the wall? Peg boards and posting walls exist all over campus. Here are seven things from the Atrium's posting board.
This weekend's drink specials and entertainment.
Flying serpents, ebony-skinned elves and fantastic vistas teeming with foreign life inhabit the covers of our favorite fantasy novels, but it can be easy to forget the artists serving as the gatekeepers to new worlds. You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly ponder the journey the artwork and its creator took to get it to you. Enter Tracy Flynn, fantasy artist and painter. The middle-aged stepfather of one has a knack for bringing to life imaginative worlds evocative of Dungeons & Dragons, turning his passion for the art into a large part of his identity.
After a two-day beach party, which required filling the entire first floor of Dill Street Bar & Grill with sand, Ball State alum Shane Nelson remembers the hours it took cleaning up afterward with co-workers and friends. “I can’t even tell you all the ridiculous pieces of clothing and random stuff we found in that sand,” Nelson said.
In 2013, the Daily News looked into the lives of married faculty. Today, the Ball State employees who handle our food and dole out grades still dream, love and yes, say incredibly gooey things about each other.
Love permeates the air on Valentine’s Day, but for some Ball State students, that love can be pricy.
A sea of blazers surrounded Kayla Hernandez as she nervously prepared to approach prospective employers at the seemingly endless rows of booths at the Cardinal Job Fair Wednesday in Worthen Arena.
Matt Mellen starts moving his body side to side with his arms bent in front of his face. He looks up, smiles and says, “The music we write is the music that gets people to do this -- getting into the groove." His band mate, Brandon Brookshear nods his head in silent agreement.
A bass guitar, piano, banjo and mandolin sit together by the fireplace in the living room; upstairs rests an acoustic guitar and cello.
Nametags and collared shirts are traded for tattoos and tank tops emblazoned with blood-soaked logos of death metal bands. Lunchboxes become amplifiers, tuned to 11. Two everyday individuals become leading members of the down and dirty punk rock band, Kris Karate.
It all started his freshman year of college at a house party with a laptop. Two years later, he’s performed as a disc jockey over 100 times at parties and bars.
Raised within a Mennonite community in Goshen, Ind., Jesse Mack, a sophomore music education major, still keeps his faith and community close.
Gardy Gilbert has a blackboard account and a student I.D., but unlike some of his peers, he also needs a special backpack designed to help spine alignment. Gilbert is a freshman acting option major in Ball State’s Department of Theatre and Dance. All performance majors are required to buy a BackTpack, a T-shaped backpack that features two saddle style bags on either side.
