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(09/24/18 12:00pm)
L’Anima isn’t a restaurant that’s easy to miss, but if you’re driving to the Italian BYOB, you may think you took a wrong turn considering the few restaurants and retail options nearby. Then, suddenly, you’ll turn the corner and see it—a brightly lit patio with overhead string lights and colorful orange and blue seating. Located on 17th and Carpenter Streets, the restaurant opened over the summer and with its sunny atmosphere and enticing Roman–inspired menu, L’Anima is a lovely breath of fresh air.
(09/03/18 4:02pm)
On any given night in University City, known–and–loved taqueria Distrito is populated with Penn students. Whether it’s a pack of girls drinking to a birthday over margaritas or a pair of friends simply catching up over chips and guacamole, Distrito has become a campus staple. And though it may feel that the restaurant has been part of Penn’s fabric forever, the taco spot is only celebrating its tenth anniversary this Saturday, September 8.
(04/18/18 1:00pm)
Street's former Editor–In–Chief Orly Greenberg came back for to us for one final article after several blissful, email–free months. Here's everything you need to know about Orly as EIC, and more:
(03/27/18 5:12am)
Located just off what I like to think of as Philly’s Restaurant Row—that stretch of 13th Street between Walnut and Chestnut—sits Maison 208, an expensive, flashy, upscale New American and French style spot. The restaurant comes with high expectations. Its chef, Sylva Senat, was a contestant on Season 14 of Bravo’s Top Chef. Its website boasts clean, well–lit pictures filled with marble and chandeliers. Its menu includes ingredients like foie gras and truffle foam. And while I certainly enjoyed my meal there, I found the location to be emblematic of the experience itself—pretty good, but just slightly misses Philadelphia’s true best.
(07/05/17 9:52pm)
Each summer, the quest for finding a summer internship could land Penn students in a whole range of cities. Whether you stay in Philadelphia, find yourself taking part in the Penn exodus to New York City, chase after the San Fran tech gold mine or end up in a different city altogether, you may end up far from home and feeling a bit unfamiliar. An easy way to acclimate yourself to a new place is to do research—not by reading, but by watching. Checking out movies set in your internship cities can serve as one way to explore a new city, learn a bit about its culture and enjoy yourself in the process. Check out Street’s favorite movies set in the cities where you’re spending your summers.
(03/29/17 1:51am)
If there’s one thing we Penn kids are good at, it’s knowing how to SABS. Seeing and being seen is one of our most proud achievements, regarded just as highly as being able to stay up the latest out of your friends in Huntsman or being on a first name basis with Lyn. Luckily, we go to school in a city that offers far more venues to SABS than the tables outside Frontera and the benches outside Van Pelt—Parc Restaurant, The Continental Mid–town and Elixr Coffee Roasters just to name a few. To aid Penn students in our SABSing efforts, I recently tried all three.
(10/20/16 6:15am)
It is August 11, 2013, and Madeline McCallum (C ‘17) is celebrating her 19th birthday from a hospital in North Carolina.
(10/12/16 8:26am)
As exciting as new restaurants with cultural cuisines or experimental fusions can be, sometimes there’s just nothing better than a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. There’s something about Mom’s cooking, Grandma’s pumpkin pie and endless turkey that always satisfies the stomach and feels like home. That’s why I was excited when I heard about Butcher Bar, a new, upscale barbecue restaurant near Rittenhouse Square.
(07/25/16 3:23pm)
If you don’t live under a rock, you’ll know that the Democratic National Convention is being hosted in Philadelphia this summer, and it’s taking the City of Brotherly Love by storm. Whether you’re a DNC intern, a volunteer, or completely unaffiliated with the convention, you’ll want to take advantage of all the great deals and attractions the city has to offer. Check out the best ways to enjoy Philadelphia’s food, drink and fun during the week of the DNC.
(06/25/16 3:23pm)
It’s another summer after a completed school year at Penn. Several months earlier you’ve been presented with several options for how to spend your warm weather months—summer classes, prestigious internship, or an all-expenses paid trip to Israel. Being the overachiever that you are, you choose all three, head over to Birthright’s website, pick a flight, and sign yourself up. As the trip gets closer, you seek advice from friends, family and of course, Street, for four of Birthright's must-dos.
(04/21/16 3:12am)
It’s no secret that Penn undergraduate life is chock–full of student consulting groups and marketing clubs. Flyers on Locust advertise weekly meetings in Huntsman and GSRs are always full of executive board meetings. Students interested in finding more creative work outside their courses often have to look a little harder once they miss the one or two club fairs at the beginning of fall. One student group in particular is looking to change that atmosphere and add to Penn’s creative environment: Opia Films.
(04/14/16 7:31am)
Perhaps you’re sitting in your introductory cinema studies class, watching the clock tick by and wondering how many more hours you’ll have to sit in the classroom before your name will be on the big screen (Ed Note: a lot.) Maybe you’re counting down the minutes in your political science class, dreading the years of law school ahead of you before you’re doing the real work. Or maybe you’re neither of these two students but wish you were, wondering how on earth you let yourself major in Econ.
(04/07/16 2:03am)
Sunday evening, homework (mostly) done, you leave Van Pelt and head home with the promise of Postmated Chinese food and a good old binge session in mind. As you open your computer to log into your ex–boyfriend’s Netflix account, you realize he (gasp!) sneakily changed the password. Unsure of what to do, panic settles in as it dawns on you that you now may not actually have an excuse to avoid studying for your geology midterm. But have no fear—Penn Video Network comes to the rescue.
(03/31/16 1:06am)
To most Penn students, Kenn Kweder is known as the familiar guitar player who performs at Smokes’ every Tuesday night. Yet he is as much of a staple of the Smokes’ experience as he has been of the Philadelphia music scene at large over the past three–plus decades. Kenn Kweder’s legendary rock star life was captured in Adventures of a Secret Kidd: The Mass Hallucination of Kenn Kweder, a feature length documentary about his life story and influence on Philadelphia music culture.
(03/24/16 3:13am)
The gates are locked. A group of Penn students stand in the dark outside Woodlands Cemetery, contemplating how to enter the grounds. Their task? Search the 54–acre graveyard filled with thousands of graves for the one tombstone with red–letter Japanese writing. Silently.
(03/17/16 3:01am)
Next Tuesday, March 22 marks the start of Penn’s annual Student Film Festival, a five–day cinema extravaganza that showcases both student films and commercial films alike. Sponsored by Penn College Houses and the Wharton Undergraduate Media and Entertainment Club (UME), the festival aims to bring the world of movie–making to the Penn community at large. All Penn students are welcome to submit their short films to be featured in the festival alongside this year’s popular and award–winning movies. The festivities start each evening at 7:30 p.m. and continue into the night, so in the chance your six midterms and two papers are preventing you from attending the full shebang, Street has hit the highlights for you.
(02/18/16 2:57am)
On Saturday, February 13,
students milled around the
basement of the Platt Student
Performing Arts Center from
6-8:30p.m. Some sipped on
coffee or tea, some rearranged
chairs and couches and others
shuffled around stacks of
stapled papers. No, this was
not an attempt to find a study
spot other than VP during
finals week—this was preparation
for the live taping of The
Late Night’s fourth episode.
(02/11/16 1:59am)
When Valentine’s Day rolls around each year, a slew of love–related movies make their way back onto TV and onto people’s “What to Watch”
lists. Among these is When Harry Met Sally, a 1989 romantic comedy starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. The film is known to be a classic,
as well as one of the first (and best) romantic comedies. We asked three Street writers who have never seen the movie to watch it and give us
their thoughts on the characters’ contemplation of whether men and women can ever truly just be friends. Based on their responses, it seems
that (at Penn, at least) the answer is usually no.
(02/04/16 10:00am)
Ever wonder what it’s like to be sexiled? Why a TA would ever want to be a TA? Which seniors are looking to get laid? One comedy club is answering all of those questions and more—Classless TV.
(02/04/16 10:00am)
It was 2:30 last Saturday afternoon when we strolled into Cinemark to view this year’s crop of Dumpuary showings. This affectionately (scatologically?) named season comprises the months of January and February, the period in which the Oscar nominations (check out some viewing tips from last year here) for the past year have already come out, but it’s too early in the season for films to be remembered for the following year’s nominations. So all the major studios dump the pictures that would never have gotten any awards onto the theaters, and we’re left with absolutely nothing to see when it’s godlessly cold outside. But don’t worry. We saw the three most atrocious selections, so that you don’t. Our trifecta has a combined score of 32% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.