Life - The Eastern Echo

Dormsizing your wardrobe

By Jess Salisbury · Monday, June 25, 2012

So here you are at the starting line, poised to run head-first into the crazy, exciting world known as college life.

Eastern's secret weapon to a healthy lifestyle

By Jess Salisbury · Monday, June 25, 2012

For many students, the Freshman Fifteen can easily become the freshman fifty. Due to the many miscellaneous delicacies of sketchy nutritional value that can be bought on a college kid budget, eating healthy is next to impossible.

Looking for ways to make friends and bring the party to you?

By Christopher Drouillard · Monday, June 25, 2012

Are you looking to be the life of the party your first year of college? If so, you are reading the right article. With these hit multiplayer video games you will host the party of the semester.

'Big Tree Hunt' search begins

By Cosette Girardot · Monday, June 25, 2012

In the Yosemite area of California, trees can get to be big— really big. They’re wide enough that it takes an entire family holding hands to encircle the plant, and they get so high that you can’t see where the top is.

Local markets offer organic, healthy options

By Germaine Smith · Monday, June 25, 2012

Just because you are off to college doesn’t mean you have to survive on microwave ramen noodles, mac n’ cheese and PB and J sandwiches.

Ypsilanti houses diverse, friendly music community

By Carmen Bojanowski · Monday, June 25, 2012

Ypsilanti has never fallen short when it comes to diversity. The same can be said when it comes to the music scene. Iggy Pop was raised here, Sufjan Stevens wrote a song called “For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti,” and even Elvis Costello has mentioned Ypsi in his song “Sulphur to Sugarcane.” Ypsilanti has a rich musical history and it’s growing more and more as the years go by.

Showcase celebrates the striking strawberry

By Jerome Stuart Nichols · Monday, June 18, 2012

Apples, broccoli, cherries, cabbage, grapes, pears and raspberries are just some of the many celebrated fruits and vegetables produced around Michigan. But on Saturday there was only one fruit showcasing its plump frame. That fruit was the sweet, bright red delight known as the strawberry; Ms. Berry, if you’re tasty.

Kitchen 101: Extra juicy edition

By Jerome Stuart Nichols · Monday, June 18, 2012

Aside from the sweltering heat, Saturday’s Depot Town Strawberry Showcase was genuinely fun. There was a lot of good food and I even met a few cool people.

Ceramics exhibit shows diversity in art

By Krystal Elliott · Monday, June 18, 2012

The art of ceramics, consisting of much more than wheel-thrown pottery and pretty glazes, can be perfect and precise or distorted and unusual.

Fashion: An expression of inner beauty and originality

By Jess Salisbury · Monday, June 18, 2012

Every now and then, I’ll look at my still-burgeoning career as a collegiate journalist—specifically a collegiate journalist that writes a fashion column—and suffer a bit of an existential crisis. Out of all the things that matter in the world, I write about what seems like the most trivial subject.

Soundtracks of summertime

By Carmen Bojanowski · Monday, June 18, 2012

When your wardrobe is consisting of shorts and flip-flops and you’re heading to campus for your last day of summer classes, it’s safe to say that it feels as if summer has officially arrived.

Examining the pros and cons of self-tanning

By Jess Salisbury · Monday, June 11, 2012

No one likes to be pasty during the summertime, especially at the beach. When surrounded by tanned, sexy bodies, you almost feel as if a ghost is among you, except that ghost is you in your half-naked, sour cream-white glory.

Karate Monkey aims to bring out your inner child

By Cosette Girardot · Monday, June 11, 2012

Ohh-ooh. Ahh-ahh. Translation: It’s time to get down to business— monkey business that is. Karate Monkey is a new business based in Ypsilanti of which the focus is bringing out the inner child in all of us through hosting different events. Regardless of whether the employees are running an event or just brainstorming in the office, the motto is to always be having “crazy fun.”

EMU to offer 'mommy and baby' fitness course in fall '12

By Faith Redwine · Monday, June 11, 2012

Beginning in the fall of 2012, Eastern Michigan University’s School of Health Promotion and Human Performance will offer a new one-credit-hour mommy and baby fitness course; a 15-week prenatal and post-partum exercise course designed to teach women to incorporate fitness with pregnancy and motherhood during their childbearing years.

Kitchen 101: Krispy Chocolate Hazelnut Squares

By Jerome Stuart Nichols · Monday, June 4, 2012

This recipe actually started as a Rice Krispies Treat s’more idea. I’m not the biggest fan of s’mores, so I decided to make it into something I do like.

Sidetrack: The place to be in Ypsilanti

By Emily Banes · Monday, June 4, 2012

Last Thursday I had lunch at a restaurant that is an Ypsilanti staple—Sidetrack Bar and Grill. I remembered that last year Sidetrack had an incredible summer menu, so I went back to see what type of seasonal-inspired food they had for this summer. When I arrived at Sidetrack at 2 p.m., I was seated immediately inside the cozy front dining room.

Alfred Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps'

By Jerome Stuart Nichols · Monday, June 4, 2012

Who are The 39 Steps? Who killed Annabella Schmidt? Why does this inn only have one kind of sandwich?

Fashionality: Strike a pose

By Christopher Drouillard · Saturday, May 26, 2012

Have you ever imagined yourself walking down the runway in this season’s new fashion lineup? Well now you have a chance to do just that with Eastern Michigan University’s Fashionality.

Trying to be budget conscious? Fashion isn't always expensive

By Jess Salisbury · Saturday, May 26, 2012

Nobody likes spending money, especially when it is hard to come by. On the other hand, everyone loves looking snazzy.

Local farms sprouting up in Ypsi

By Germaine Smith · Saturday, May 26, 2012

With the growing concerns of large scale farming and widespread contamination of food sources, the development of smaller, urban, locally grown and sustainable organic gardens and farms have been cropping up all over the Ypsilanti area for a number of years. One such family committed to locally grown and sustainable farming is the Walnut Grove Urban Farm located just south of Eastern Michigan University’s campus in the Normal Park area of Ypsilanti.