{"id":8935,"date":"2025-10-31T20:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:40:53","slug":"food-fun-and-frights-come-to-life-during-troyapalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/10\/31\/food-fun-and-frights-come-to-life-during-troyapalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Food, fun and frights come to life during TROYAPALOOZA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Things were a little spooky at the 2025 annual TROYAPALOOZA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students lined up for free food, live music, and a chance to show off their Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is honestly one of my favorite events because it&#8217;s always around Halloween time,&#8221; said Riley Mattos, a sophomore sociology major. &#8220;You always get to see all sorts of peoples costumes before Halloween, and it&#8217;s just a ton of fun getting to listen to such great music.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From hotdogs and hamburgers to funnel cakes and fried Oreos, there were plenty of treats to go around. However, not everyone was there for the food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m actually dressed as a like medieval ranger sort of thing from an old book I used to read called rangers apprentice,&#8221; Mattos said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/10\/29\/hide-and-shriek-on-the-quad-teaches-run-hide-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>HALLOWEEN COVERAGE: Hide and Shriek on the Quad teaches Run, Hide, Fight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The costume contest brought out a variety of costumes from the likes of superheroes to spooky skeletons- and plenty of fright in between. However, the real treat of the night was not candy or costumes, it was POPulus taking center stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everybody here is just so supportive,&#8221; said Katie Kinsey, a POPulus vocalist. &#8220;I get out there and I perform my original and nobody knew it, but everybody was cheering and I just love how interactive and energetic and supportive everybody is here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TROYAPALOOZA was created in 2021 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalartscentertroy\">Internati<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalartscentertroy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">o<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalartscentertroy\">nal Arts Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Things were a little spooky at the 2025 annual TROYAPALOOZA.<\/p>\n<p>Students lined up for free food, live music, and a chance to show off their Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is honestly one of my favorite events because it&#8217;s always around Halloween time,&#8221; said Riley Mattos, a sophomore sociology major. &#8220;You always get&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/10\/31\/food-fun-and-frights-come-to-life-during-troyapalooza\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[117,116,2663,1208],"topics":[24,17],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-iac","tag-international-arts-center","tag-troy-university-halloween","tag-troyapalooza","topics-international-arts-center","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}