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The Backyard Bird on its inaugural day. (Matt Smith | Collegian)

New Backyard Bird food truck stands out with master chef’s take on fried chicken

Matt Smith • May 2, 2018

The fried chicken sandwich is a classic that is difficult to improve upon. Taking up the challenge is the Backyard Bird food truck, with master chef Matt Smith at the helm. “There’s a way to do...

Students participate in the 1983 College Days Mud Bowl, where the intramural fields were transformed into a sea of water and mud for students to drink and play football in. (Photo courtesy of University Historic Photograph Collection )

Looking back at CSU ‘College Days,’ wild springtime behaviors of past

Sarah Ehrlich • May 1, 2018
This is College Days, the weekend of celebrating before finals week that put Colorado State University on the map as the place to party in the Rocky Mountain region. Alumni from the time of this affair will recall large amounts of 3.2% beer, great musical guests and plenty of reckless behavior.
Art majors Christian Johnson, Cheyenna Boley, Lexi Caron and Morgan Jones rehearse for their electronic arts performance at the Lafyette Electronic Arts Festival, coming up on April 27 at 7 p.m.. The sound they create corresponds to a visual representation, shown here (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

CSU students to perform at electronic art festival, explore the visualization of sound

Julia Trowbridge • April 26, 2018
Four students in an electronic art class will perform at the Lafyette Electronic Art Festival on Friday April 27 at 7 p.m.. Four art students taking Installation and Sonic Art have created a collaborative art performance using various electronic sounds and instruments that explores the visualization of sound.
Jesse Neth performs with Write Minded at the kick off event for FoCoMX in the RamSkellar on April 19. (Ashley Potts | Collegian)

The Fort Collins Music eXperiment brings local music to the spotlight

Julia Trowbridge • April 25, 2018
FoCoMX is presenting 360 artists at over 30 locations on Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28. Created by the grassroots nonprofit FoCoMA ten years ago, FoCoMX gives the community an opportunity to hear the aspiring local music in the Northern Colorado area.
Construction materials are not just made for labor, Saxon Martinez emphasizes. For his current assignment, he is using materials such as concrete, wood, and foam installation boards. These materials can be made into art, and Martinez plans to use them as such, depicting his Latino heritage and the stereotypes that come with it. Here, Martinez poses with the beginning stages of his installation set up. (Sarah Ehrlich | Collegian)

CSU art student Saxon Martinez utilizes sculptures to express experiences with racism

Sarah Ehrlich • April 25, 2018
After eight years as a U.S. Marine, Saxon Martinez came to CSU to pursue biomedical science. Now, he’s a well-known student in the Art and Art History department who likes to make bigger than life art installations depicting what he goes through as a minority.
Rebecca Moon, the owner of Mystique Lingerie at Scotch Pines Village Shopping Center, poses with her fellow employees. (Mackenzie Pinn | Collegian)

Empowerment is sexy: Fort Collins’ Mystique Lingerie provides comfortable sex shop experience for women

Miranda Moses • April 24, 2018

The Scotch Pines Village Shopping Center off of Drake and Lemay has everything you could ever need: a vet clinic, a pizza place, a grocery store, an insurance agency and Mystique Lingerie. Mystique...

CSU's One Health Club aims to broaden approach to health, wellness

CSU’s One Health Club aims to broaden approach to health, wellness

Maddie Wright • April 24, 2018
When all elements of health are combined, health is at its peak. That is the idea behind the One Health Club.
Patty Goble is a professor in CSU's music and theatre department. Goble has appeared in various Boadway musicals and has performed at the Tony Awards. Goble is currently working on CSU's production of Urinetown. (Abby Flitton | Collegian)

Studying under the stars: Vocal professor Patty Goble draws on Broadway career during preparation for CSU’s upcoming production of ‘Urinetown’

Claire Oliver • April 23, 2018

A Broadway star made her way down from the Great White Way to share her experience with Colorado State University students. Patty Goble experienced a very expansive theatrical career in Chicago, Toronto...

Fort Collins cannabis culture has expanded rapidly where joints and bongs are only the beginning of a world of consuming this plant. (Sarah Ehrlich | Collegian)

Changing cannabis culture: Fort Collins’ first dispensary, Choice Organics, talks evolution of recreational weed

Sarah Ehrlich • April 18, 2018
Out of the dozens of dispensaries in Larimer County, one of the first ones opened has remained relevant since the legalization of recreational cannabis in 2014. Aside from being able to say they are one of the first recreational dispensaries in the nation, Choice Organics commits themselves to creating safe and quality products and keeping up with changing trends.
After the screening of the documentary film "Chega de Fiu Fiu," film subject Raquel Carvalho and director Amanda Kamanchek Lemos answer questions from the audience and by moderator Kris Barz Mendonça. (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

ACT Human Rights Film Festival: ‘Chega de Fiu Fiu’ advocates expose catcalling culture in Brazil, advocates for intersectional feminism

Julia Trowbridge • April 16, 2018
A woman is raped every 11 minutes in Brazil. This is why the documentary film “Chega de Fiu Fiu,” which is Portuguese for "No More Catcalling," is so important to changing the current climate of sexual harassment, sexual assault and gender based violence in Brazil.
Owen Zielinski, a freshman double majoring in Biochemistry and Psychology, creator of the Survivor CSU series talks about the changes made in this season. Zielinski's goal is to unite the residents of Academic Village by breaking down any possible "Engineering vs. Honors elitism." Survivor CSU is in its second season titled Fans Versus Favorites CSU that puts a team of favorite competitors from last season against a team of fans of the first season. The teams will compete in a variety of challenges around Fort Collins with the losing team having to vote a teammate off the show, the last person left winning a $200 prize. (Matt Tackett | Collegian)

CSU students create game show inspired by ‘Survivor’

Carson Lipe • April 10, 2018

College can be a rewarding experience… if you can survive. Students at Colorado State University created a student-run gameshow titled "Survive CSU," similar to the popular television series “Survivor,”...

Prayers move through the movements of the round during the evening prayer time. These prayers had participants moving through various positions, from standing to bowing to kneeling to touching their forehead to the ground. (Josh Schroeder | Collegian)

Q&A: Fort Collins Islamic Center’s Shakir Muhammad explains Muslim prayer

Evan Vicchy • April 4, 2018

Praying is a central part of any religion; in Islam, this is especially the case. Muslims pray five times a day in accordance with traditional movements and recitation.  The Collegian sat down with...

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