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(03/22/22 4:00am)
Student election periods each year are clogged with bold posters, colorful chalk murals covering Locust Walk, and temporary Instagram profiles, all imploring students to exercise their better judgment and perform their campus civic duty. From eager first years to seasoned professionals, Penn Student Government (PSG) hopefuls campaign zealously, each sharing their own particular vision of undergraduate life.
(03/21/22 5:00pm)
Care takes many forms. Parents can showcase the most public displays of care, from helping babies take their first steps to encouraging their kids to succeed in school. But young people also perform unseen care work when looking after older relatives or younger siblings. College students create formal and informal networks of care to cope with the pressures of university life and look out for one another. Regardless of what it looks like, care is an important source of joy and a valuable form of human connection.
(03/21/22 4:00pm)
Matt Reeves’ The Batman is almost perfect. Visually, it’s stunning. Performance–wise, it hits the nail on the head. Its soundtrack is immaculate and its action scenes are genuinely entertaining to watch. In fact, it falters where you least expect: the storyline. With a runtime of nearly three hours, the film is an over–glorified snoozefest, and it’s a real tragedy considering how much promise it shows.
(03/29/22 2:52am)
“Oh!” is not a very good approximation of the sound that I made upon trying the guacamole at Café y Chocolate, but I can’t think of one that better captures my amazement and sheer joy at the salty, savory, green bowl of heaven that I picked at throughout the meal, often neglecting the rest of my food. The guac was unexpectedly tomato–heavy, which I found surprisingly delightful.
(03/23/22 7:32pm)
To go to grad school or not go to grad school?
(03/21/22 3:00pm)
Musical films, colloquially known as “movie musicals,” are notoriously difficult to get right. Oftentimes the viscera of the moment is lost when an inherently live art form is translated to the screen. Movie musicals run the gamut from good, to bad, to ugly. The ugliest of these films reach some of the lowest lows in cinematic history—think the disturbing CGI of Cats or the gaudy disco of Xanadu. Sometimes what works on a stage just can’t be recaptured in films, as was the case for The Phantom of the Opera or Les Misérables.
(03/22/22 2:24pm)
Inspired by primal scream theory, Tears for Fears has always stood for engaging with negative emotions rather than repressing them. Their ‘80s hit songs like “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” “Shout,” and “Mad World” are characterized with by the upbeat synths and percussion of the decade, juxtaposed with heavy lyrics discussing childhood trauma, war, and social movements of the time. Now, after an acrimonious breakup, various personal hardships, and almost two decades, the English duo has re–emerged with a new perspective and an album to accompany it, The Tipping Point.
(03/24/22 7:40pm)
Hands, generally speaking, are the bane of an artist’s existence. Anyone with experience drawing from anatomy knows why: Between five fingers, as many fingernails, and a smattering of knuckles, even the most practiced artists easily lose patience. Yet, Auguste Rodin goes against the grain. “I have always,” declares the famed French sculptor, “had an intense passion for the expression of the human hands.” The Rodin Museum’s latest exhibition delves into his lifelong fascination with that most troublesome body part.
(03/21/22 5:00pm)
Name: Sam Braffman
(03/21/22 7:24pm)
For months, the internet was obsessed with Alexa Demie’s age. Known for playing fashion–forward high schooler Maddy Perez on HBO’s Euphoria, Demie became the subject of various memes suggesting that she was much older than many thought. When a viral TikTok of a high school yearbook finally placed Demie at around 31 years old last month, comments poured that expressed shock at how good she looked “for her age.”
(03/21/22 9:00pm)
In the current era of social activism, a brand's stance on social and political issues is more important than ever. Gone are the days where sketchy labor practices and ill–sourced materials are accepted without a second thought. More and more consumers are questioning the ethics of fast fashion, the implications of racist advertisements, and the problematic histories of established brands. Now, businesses are publicly pressured to put more effort into the core values they uphold and social causes that they endorse.
(03/29/22 12:21am)
In an economy where influencers have come to be viewed as all–knowing voices of reason and truth, the inevitability of celebrity brands shouldn't be a surprise. In the last few years, we’ve seen a spike in the amount of celebrity products—that is, creating their own brands as opposed to being the face of a brand they endorse. These include a diverse array of ventures, from beauty and wellness to fashion and food innovation.
(03/21/22 11:37pm)
Ruddy cheeks and a halo of blonde flyaway hairs—the portrait of Elizabeth Holmes might almost be cherubic were it not for her hauntingly still, icy pupils. A hand raises, thumb quivering, and a deep voice falls out of the woman, swearing to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” This was the scene in a San Francisco courtroom on the morning of July 11, 2017.
(03/15/22 3:00am)
At approximately midnight the night before I was supposed to leave for spring break, I decided to rearrange all the furniture in my room. Instead of packing my bags, I pulled out my measuring tape and got to work deciding which new layout would look best.
(03/15/22 4:00pm)
Human Cheese Grater: "I was a biter at two; by three, I was reformed; and by five, I was back to biting."
(03/15/22 3:16pm)
The morning of February 25, after a restless night for the world, a pencil portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky leans against the brick wall of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts lobby. Dostoevsky was exiled in a Russian prison for being a force of liberal thought and social freedom. Although a century before Vladimir Putin came to power, Dostoevsky's fate, captured in a portrait, is one that's still haunting today. In a similar act of chronological compression, Mark Stockton’s exhibition, 100 People, brings subjects that are generations apart only inches away from one another.
(03/15/22 12:00am)
COVID–19 stole a lifelong dream from Nicholas Anane (C’ 24), who has wanted to attend college at West Point since middle school. But after contracting COVID–19 in March 2020, he has suffered from long–term symptoms that made enlisting no longer an option. Instead, he came to Penn.
(03/15/22 1:00am)
Season two of Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s American teen drama series that follows modern–day high schoolers navigating adolescence, has it all. There’s Zendaya, fancy costumes, stunning makeup, drugs, sex scenes, long takes, lots of music, choreographed dances, and incredible acting. Yet Euphoria still lacks the most fundamental aspect of a compelling show: a thoughtful storyline. In many cases, this season of Euphoria felt more like a compilation of music videos stacked onto each other rather than hour–long episodes.
(03/14/22 7:00pm)
I’m absolutely plotzing.
(03/17/22 4:31pm)
Everyone spends their whole life dreaming about their perfect wedding day, right?