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Best Frozen Yogurt: Marathon Grill
Ah, behold the not-so-uniquely Penn creature that is the JAP. Official JAP footwear?
by 34TH STREET
STREETAPALOOZA
Land of talk
Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
At some point in any movement, the whole shebang jumps the shark.
by RUBEN BROSBE
There goes the neighborhood
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by MATT CIANFRANI
Local music, home-schooled
The sun is setting behind the Danger! Danger! house, and a few residents are helping bands lug guitar stacks, bass amps, and other equipment out of a white van parked outside.
"Hey Pony Pants!" yells one passerby towards the group.
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A "Touch" of Success
Pushing through the heavy glass
double doors of Hunstman Hall in a neat
business suit, Sean Koh hardly stands out from his Wharton peers.
by EVANGEL FUNG
Water Woes
The Fels South Philadelphia Family Center on Broad Street is not a building where you'd expect a debate regarding the future of Philadelphia's water treatment plants to occur.
by JULIE STEINBERG
Wing Men
Every Super Bowl weekend for the past 15 years, Philadelphia has celebrated a Bowl of its own. Wing Bowl began in 1993 as a small, two-man chicken wing-eating competition - a radio promotion designed by 610 WIP talk show hosts Angelo Cataldi and Al Morganti.
by STEPHEN MORSE
Apathy or Activism?
For 40 years, Penn students have traveled by bus to Washington, D.C. to use their voices and their bodies to try to change the world.
by ALEX JACOBS
A Final Bow
Around 9:30 on a Tuesday night, the Ortlieb's jam session is up and running. It's a smaller crowd than usual, but it's still early.
by ALEX JACOBS
Virtual Glory
Ten thousand dollars, cash, sat stacked on top of a television in a ballroom at the Philadelphia Holiday Inn.
by JASON SCHWARTZ
GUTMANN TERROR PHOTO SCANDAL
University President Amy Gutmann was hoping for more Treats than tricks at her annual Halloween party at her mansion on 39th and Walnut Streets.
by MERYL GRABARSKY
Refusing to move
6221 Osage Avenue sits in a narrow, tree-lined, ghostly-quiet street bordered by snug brown brick row houses, many of them sporting plywood for windows and dangling white strands of Tyvek HomeWrap for exterior decoration.
by URI FRIEDMAN
It ain't easy being green
On Nov. 7, Election Night, Senator-elect Bob Casey joined thousands of supporters at the Scranton Cultural Center on the campus of Lackawanna College to celebrate his victory.
by STEPHEN MORSE
North of the Mason-Dixon
John Care and Rick Gebo believe you have been lied to. There is a conspiracy afoot and the politically correct media and America's Northern-dominated educational system are in on it.
by JASON SCHWARTZ
Not just child's play
Paper covers rock. Nick the Greek takes the lead, and the Rider is switching hands." The Midnight Rider of "parts unknown," wears a thin leather mask that shields his identity and a bola tie adorned with a skull.
by LISA TAUBER
A House of No One's Own
The abandoned houses of Philadelphia are lonely places, the neglected vessels of forgotten human lives.
by BEN CRAIR
Mental health inflation?
A curious convenience of going to an Ivy League school is how easy it is to evaluate social issues by walking into the gym.
by SAM DONSKY
The Great Lake
At the southeast corner of Franklin Field, Dan Staffieri stands next to his car. Some people drive Porsches, some drive Volvos or Hondas, some drive SUVs.
by GABE CRANE
It's Greek to Me
Behind the counter, a cook chops bell peppers, his knife banging loudly on the countertop. He grabs a bowl of beaten eggs and empties it onto the stove and goes back to cutting veggies.
by ELIZABETH SLAVITT
Stained glass
Johnnie is looking for $5.08 - the price of a half-gallon of Thunderbird wine.. Once again, Johnnie needs $5.08 to buy a half-gallon of Thunderbird wine."
Stephen Glass wrote these words in the June 6, 1991, issue of The Summer Pennsylvanian.
by GABRIEL OPPENHEIM
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