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Standing in the boutique that bears her name, Joan Shepp explains this among racks of Ann Demeulemeester tailored jumpsuits and Rick Owens draped jackets.
March 23, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Throughout the 1980s, Giovanni’s Room had trouble with bricks. As the gay rights movement swelled and AIDS steadily ravaged the community, every now and then a single brick would come crashing through the bookstore’s front window.
March 18, 2010 at 3:03 am

I imagine he sits in a wood-paneled university library, the kind with bronze statues and painted portraits, thumbing crumbly pages, sipping spiced coffee.
February 25, 2010 at 1:47 am

“I don’t go to clubs much.” She hadn’t asked him anything; clubs are loud. “What?” “Sorry… never mind.” He wasn’t trying to talk to her.
February 25, 2010 at 1:36 am

John stepped out into the cold evening and sat down on the apartment building steps. The chilly concrete seemed to cut right through his thin khakis, but he only felt the sting from a distance.
February 25, 2010 at 1:08 am

Entering the studio, afternoon light pours through windows spanning two walls. Caroline Harrison hurries to the back corner of the room and emerges from behind easels and canvases with several damp watercolor paintings.
February 18, 2010 at 3:20 am

It had been almost three years since Maria last had sex when she went in for her first women’s health checkup at Student Heath.
February 10, 2010 at 11:26 pm

As she hauls in a box of dusty Motown records, the DJ formerly known as Condom Lady situates herself inside the WPEB studio preparing for her Saturday afternoon radio show.
February 4, 2010 at 4:06 am

Jeff Woloszyn is sitting outside of his establishment at 15th and South streets playing the guitar. It’s 10 a.m.
January 28, 2010 at 3:11 am

2000 In 2000, Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Y2K turned out to be Not2Bigadeal.
January 21, 2010 at 5:09 am

The Pentagon permeates everyday life in America. Its influence, along with that of the 15 U.S. intelligence agencies, is almost everywhere.
December 3, 2009 at 2:40 am

It is a positively blustery November evening. Sitting in cramped room 121 of Sansom Place East, members of Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team sit and wait for a call that will alter the course of the night’s heretofore quietude. “Requesting medical assistance: injured female at Sansom Place West between 36th and 37th Streets.” Almost instantaneously, the three EMTs on duty leap to their feet.
November 19, 2009 at 1:17 am

“You see this?” asks Joseph, an older man sporting a sternum-length scraggly beard, gesturing at the game on the table before him.
November 12, 2009 at 1:04 am

Remember Penn back in the day? When guys wore three-piece suits to class, gals were few and far between and rooms in the Quad were equipped with crockery?
November 4, 2009 at 11:32 pm

The crowds at the Uhuru Flea Market are relatively light on the last Saturday in September. With the weather beginning to turn, the usual stream of students and local residents who peruse cheap jewelry and used books in Clark Park each month is slowing to a trickle. A few Penn students meander between mugs wishing the buyer a “Happy Baby Mama Day” and a stall offering homemade soaps in scents like mango and pumpkin.
October 28, 2009 at 11:32 pm

It’s a crisp mid-September Tuesday night and several dozen bikers are dawdling in front of the art museum steps.
October 21, 2009 at 8:51 pm

Chinatown is its usual dark self, neon light illuminating small patches of Arch Street, bits of trash collecting along the sidewalk.
October 8, 2009 at 12:40 am

Psychedelphia: a celebration of collaboration and creation, presenting old art and making new art on the spot.
October 1, 2009 at 2:28 am

About 20 people in their early twenties are playing four square in Rittenhouse — mostly slim men with cut-off shorts or rolled-up denim.
September 24, 2009 at 12:32 am

So you’re a freshman. We get that, we’ve all been there. You made it through NSO alive, you are way too afraid to change your classes around (your schedule is set), and you think your hallmates are pretty cool.
September 17, 2009 at 3:39 am