The Best of Baltimore Avenue
Confession: Until last week, I’d never properly explored Baltimore Avenue. But unsurprisingly, Baltimore proved itself to be a gem—and one with lots of vegan options.
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Confession: Until last week, I’d never properly explored Baltimore Avenue. But unsurprisingly, Baltimore proved itself to be a gem—and one with lots of vegan options.
In just 40 hours and one week's time, Jake Welde (E’19) and Izzy Korostoff (C’18) constructed a 14x20 inch confectionery masterpiece: a gingerbread replica of Fisher Fine Arts Library. When they discovered that they could use the laser cutters in Penn's engineering school to cut sheets of gingerbread into two–dimensional patterns, they immediately thought to make a gingerbread model of a building on Penn's campus. They decided on the Fine Arts Library, since its intricate Venetian Gothic architecture particularly lent itself to decorative baking. They decided to “actually finish the project” when Izzy’s father told them about a gingerbread house–building competition sponsored by Philadelphia's Center for Architecture and Design.
On September 12th, Apple revealed three new iPhones: the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X (pronounced “ten”). This was the first time Apple announced three new iPhones simultaneously, although they will not all be released together—the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are available starting September 22 and can be preordered immediately, while the iPhone X can be preordered starting October 27, and will ship on November 3. The iPhone 8 starts at $699, the iPhone 8 Plus starts at $799, and the iPhone X starts at $999 for the base 64GB model.
Unless Instagram stories have completely destroyed Snapchat for you, you must have noticed that Snapchat recently added a snap map feature, which allows you to see the location of your friends and explore snapstories from around the world. The feature is opt–in, meaning that you have to specifically give Snapchat your permission to display your bitmoji on the map (or your sad outline of a person, if you’re one of those people who still hasn’t made a bitmoji).
At least once a day, I see something that prompts me to reach for my phone to text or snap Sarah. Sometimes I put it right back down. Sometimes, I type out a text or take the picture, and then I remember. She’ll never see it. And there’s no one else I want to tell, so my phone slides back into my pocket. Because in every friendship, there are some secrets and jokes that are just between the two of you. They died with her.
Thirty minutes into your free meal at White Dog courtesy of your aunt’s best friend Carol who happens to be in Philly on business, she mentions how much she loves Degas. You nod politely as she laments the fact that so many people don’t know Degas, and those who do usually only know the ballerina paintings. Three minutes later her soliloquy is over. “And you, dear? What do you think of Degas?”
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