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Book: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Book: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
It's easy to limit your bookstore experience to the Penn Barnes & Noble (and let's be real, that's mostly for bursar–ing sweatshirts). But many corners of Penn's campus house quirky, specialized and instagrammable bookstores. Let's branch out.
The study of religion is often seen as something that doesn’t quite belong in secular, academic circles. Empiricism is in; mysticism is long out.
If you haven’t yet heard of “Official Unofficial Penn Squirrel Catching Club,” where have you been? The infamous meme group changed its privacy settings from “Closed” to “Public” two weeks ago, and its membership has more than doubled in the past month—to 4,000 people (at Penn and elsewhere) and counting.
Logan is three films at once—a rare feat in the superhero genre. First and foremost, it’s the first R–rated Wolverine film, featuring all the bloody violence you’d expect. However, it also manages to be two classic on–the–road movies for the price of one: the first is about a middle–aged deadbeat son on the road with his deteriorating, dementia–ridden father, and the second is about a middle–aged deadbeat father on the road with his rebellious preteen daughter.
For the past decade or so, the grandest sci–fi films and shows have tended to be dystopian—Elysium, Westworld, The 100, etc. Other space movies have come out in that time, but they’ve failed in one way or the other: Interstellar tried to resurrect golden–age films and impress us with hard scientific fact at the expense of its plot. The only truly sci–fi thing about Passengers was that it happened to be set in space (read Street's anti–sci–fi piece here).
A tiny, too–warm room on the South Street bridge contains an audio mixer and two friends. No more than three songs in a row. No breaks. Here Harry Smith (C ’18) and David Reinis (C ’18), hosts of WQHS’s “Kickin’ It with Harry and David,” attempted 24 hours of live radio and lived to tell the tale.
Last weekend, leading Republicans met in Philadelphia to discuss how best to repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010. One of the most controversial aspects of the law, as we've heard countless times in the past several years, is that it requires insurers to completely cover (i.e. ensure that any given insuree pays exactly $0.00 for) one method of birth control per person.
Star Wars has always been political, no matter what Disney’s CEO says to placate fans upset about female heroines, multiracial casts and a couple of (since–deleted) anti–Trump tweets. Spend enough time in a certain corner of the Internet, and you’ll find plenty of extensive, detailed arguments to this effect (Vox and io9 are particularly thorough).
You might think that the word “cauliflower” in the title of this recipe means it’s low–carb, and you’d be forgiven for thinking so: America loves the cauliflower only for its utility as a grain replacement, not for its own tasty, wonderful self. Fear not, dear reader. This recipe uses easy–to–find flour tortillas and features roasted cauliflower in all its glory as the flavor in the filling. It’s what we’ve all been waiting for.
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