A RIDE along with RED

College housing by day, music venue by night.

Down Euclid Avenue, somewhere on the 600 block, there resides a two-story, old-style house painted white with teal accents. Planted at the front end of the home’s entryway, stands an imposing torii, a feature that separates the house from its neighbors. A torii, which looks like a big red gate, is an important symbol in Japanese culture that marks the boundary between a sacred and ordinary space. Inside the home, something sacred is indeed taking form.

Already hard at work on a Friday morning, six third-year students at Syracuse University begin prepping their humble abode for that week’s “Redgate” show. Named after — you guessed it — the torii out front, Redgate serves as the venue for the weekly house show run by the home’s tenants: