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(02/23/17 4:02am)
For the first four months, the last room in Harnwell 908 was empty. Then in January, Irene Miranda (C’17) showed up with a single suitcase filled with clothes perfect for the warmest city in Europe. Fortunately, her three sophomore roommates knew of a place on Penn’s campus with a familiar 32 degree Celsius climate. And so, in her fourth year of college, Irene walked into a frat party for the first time.
(06/22/16 3:51pm)
On a different college campus and out of your element
(04/21/16 2:49am)
While 4/20 has come and gone, Street is not done celebrating plant life; Saturday is Earth Day, and GreenFest will be here at Penn! As spring weather allows greenery to grow up through the cracks on Walnut Street, the less celebrated plants around campus have inspired more than impromptu Wawa runs––they are the basis of Philadelphia’s Eco–Art movement.
(04/14/16 9:18am)
On the first Saturday of April, Penn students had a chance to showcase their love of designer clothing down a runway that wasn’t Locust Walk. Student models strutted through the Dental School wearing clothing both hand–designed and pulled from the rack by Penn undergrads at the Spring Penn Fashion Show, the final event of Penn Fashion Week.
(04/07/16 9:00pm)
Sean Michael Green, the new author of The Things I Learned In College, loves the Ivy League more than you did when you watched Legally Blonde for the first time. Admitting that with his high school grades he could not have gotten into a good school, he joined the Marine Corps. After leaving service, he went on to pursue higher education degrees, including a Master of Arts from Penn, if only “for the sheer challenge of it.” He also pursued a Master of Law at Cornell, but that wasn’t enough for Green. In a sabbatical–type project, he spent the year 2005 as a guest at all eight Ivy League schools.
(03/30/16 5:27am)
Being from New York, I admit it’s taken courage to explore Philadelphia’s bagel offerings. I’ve been loyal to the same suburban bagel shop for years. When I walk in the owner knows my name, that my favorite flavor of iced coffee is hazelnut, and that I prefer poppy seeds over sesame seeds. So, naturally when I went away to college, I was nervous. What if the bagels of Philadelphia couldn’t live up to what I was used to?
(03/30/16 5:28am)
Vientiane Café on 47th and Baltimore Avenue has been satisfying Penn students’ BYO and asian noodle needs for 13 years. But they’ve been serving a different kind of community long before that.
(03/24/16 2:30am)
Before I visited the International Pop exhibition at the PMA, I had only seen the painting "Ice Cream" by Evelyn Axell (1964) on the cover of the band Lucius’ 2014 album “Wildewoman.” I had no idea it was a famous work of art from Belgium. I just thought it was a graphic that looked slightly like the two identical lead singers.
(02/11/16 4:20am)
Something you probably knew: West Philly is covered in graffiti.
(02/04/16 10:18am)
On Wednesday night, a friend and I decided to go to the movies. Seems like your pretty classic night for a couple of SWUGS like us (who are actually sophomores; we washed up pretty early). Except, instead of paying $8 for a ticket, we headed to Reading Terminal Market for its first ever free movie night, “Movies at the Market.”
(01/28/16 5:09am)
On Friday, Penn’s dance community will come together for the 20th anniversary of the Emily Sachs Dance Benefit. Emily Sachs was a Penn student and a vibrant member of Arts House Dance Company before she passed away her freshman year from asthma complications in 1995. I had the opportunity to chat with Sara Sachs (C ‘18), who is performing in the show for the tenth time and is also the artistic director this year. If you already did the math, Sara has danced at the Benefit since she was in the fourth grade. She was adopted into the Sachs family in 1996, the same year the benefit was born. During our conversation, Sara reflects, “As I’ve grown up with this benefit, I’ve realized that the participants had huge hearts coming together year after year to remember my sister and to raise money for asthma research and treatment.”
(01/28/16 5:43am)
“Down the Rabbit Hole,” an exhibition that opened at the Rosenbach Museum and Library on October 14th and will run until May 15th, takes the haphazard nature of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and breaks it down for you. Like a hotel party, the exhibition is split into different rooms, none of which have drinking games, but all of which have artifacts from the 1920s when the novel was written.
(01/21/16 2:32pm)
You may be happy about global warming screwing with the winter weather, but your closet isn’t. You promised to make room for a bulky jacket, but when the temperature spikes back up to Spring Fling weather, you find yourself wanting those jorts and tank tops again. How are you supposed to justify stuffing your carry–on with winter clothing last week when all of the seasons have blended into one? This is even more confusing than Urban Outfitters' ugly Christmas sweater line.