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With our final issue of Summer Street ‘09, we bid you, our faithful readers, a fond farewell with this summer’s best things to do, places to go, and spectacles to see.
August 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm

As much as we lament finals, rue term papers, and never really want summer to end, we liberal artists sometimes find ourselves missing our chosen areas of study during these three heated months.
July 15, 2009 at 7:13 pm

As the summer weeks pass and we become veritable members of the workforce (five weeks of Excel and counting!) or delve deep into the throes of academia (what up, Summer Session Two), we’ve come to appreciate the beauty of hump day more than ever.
July 8, 2009 at 8:08 pm

Something can’t really be “annual” until it’s happened at least two successive years, and this weekend the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival is making it official.
June 24, 2009 at 6:28 pm

This weekend take a stroll to the Headhouse Farmers’ Market. Tucked between cobblestone streets and buildings as old as Mr. Franklin himself, the market is a mainstay of the often-forgotten Society Hill neighborhood. Flanked by an array of restaurants and bars on each end, Headhouse Square was the “original” Philadelphia market, providing Philadelphians with produce since 1745.
June 10, 2009 at 9:10 pm

Though it may be the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and cheesesteaks, our beloved ultra-American Philadelphia can sometimes leave us yearning for influences from other hemispheres.
June 4, 2009 at 4:18 pm

When I first received that fateful text — “i think i have mem day plans for us… camping?” — my mind instantly flashed back to trips of my youth.
May 28, 2009 at 4:16 am

Rob stomps on his skateboard to flip it up to his hands. He pulls a black skullcap over his bangs and carries the board under one arm, dropping it in the trash can to keep it out of sight of police.
April 23, 2009 at 2:00 am

Every Monday and Wednesday in a small classroom in Williams Hall, a group of 13 students settles into a semi-circle waiting for class to start.
April 16, 2009 at 4:18 am

After spending a couple of hours in their small kitchen waiting for the brew to boil, some of the guys are getting restless.
April 9, 2009 at 12:52 am

Street knows what's up. You know what’s up. And over 1,000 of you told us what’s up when you voted for Best of Penn 2009.
April 2, 2009 at 1:34 am

“If I don’t do it now, I’m never going to do it,” blurts a woman breathlessly. She grabs one of the image-filled binders from the counter and flips to a page of Sanskrit lettering.
March 26, 2009 at 12:40 am

Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens sneaks up on you. Walking past 1020 South St., you understand that although “garden” might be a misnomer, you’re not sure what else to call the place.
March 19, 2009 at 4:34 am

Students feverishly emptied the ATMs. It wasn’t a hold-up, but rather a hold’em: Texas Hold’em poker, that is.
February 26, 2009 at 2:15 am

The steam from the vent on Sansom Street rises wildly at night, arcing and then drifting hazily into a driveway that houses some abandoned furniture and a parked white van.
February 19, 2009 at 1:54 am

Jazz drummer Lucky Thompson booked his first professional gig at age eight. “It was at this place called Tallie’s Paradise in South Philly that’s no longer there,” he says.
February 12, 2009 at 1:47 am

Denise Murter, an aging, blond bombshell, wouldn’t say her name on television because she feared “creeps” would contact her.
February 5, 2009 at 2:28 am

College sophomore Conor Turley is a 22-year-old former missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon Church.
January 29, 2009 at 1:44 am

The Class of 1923 Arena that houses Penn’s ice rink is unknown to most students. Straddling the end of the Walnut Street Bridge on 31st Street, it’s a hulking, faded brown building outshined by luxury apartments across the street.
January 22, 2009 at 1:46 am

State College, USA www.streetu.edu CB code: 6969 Public six-year university 51,450 degree-seeking undergraduates; 5,800 people just there for the keggers 46% men, 54% women, 100% party animals 92% of applicants admitted SAT required, high score not Street University, located in picturesque State College, U.S.A.
December 4, 2008 at 1:18 am