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On a Friday afternoon before closing for Friday prayers, Saad’s Halal Restaurant is packed with hungry customers. Located at 45th and Walnut streets, Saad’s Halal Restaurant is a little far from Penn’s central campus, but the food is certainly worth the longer walk.
Tucked away on a corner in Kensington, a block away from one of the last train stops on the MFL SEPTA line, sits a vibrant and relaxing coffee shop. Càphê Roasters, a Vietnamese cafe and coffee roastery, sells delicious food and drinks in a hip, calming, and welcoming atmosphere.
Located a couple blocks west of Clark Park, Mood Cafe is small but mighty. Once inside, owners Shanze Faisal and Hasan Bukhari can be heard giving customers detailed recommendations or describing the many unique dishes that the restaurant offers. Bukhari says that, over the years, the menu has changed constantly, due to repeat customers' unorthodox requests. But these experiences have helped shape their creative outlook, and many of their menu items can now only be found at their restaurant.
Putting the 'I' in Illiteracy: "Perhaps one might say I put the 'sis' in Narcissus."
An hour before Penn’s Crazy Determined Asians: Jon M. Chu and the Power of Representation event began, the emerald–tiled Harrison Auditorium was silent with its green velvet seats entirely empty. Then suddenly, as if the great and powerful Oz himself had appeared, murmurs and conversations immediately rose with the arrival of a certain individual. At that moment, Jon M. Chu entered the room and began to admire the space’s grandeur and beauty.
Matt Reeves’ The Batman is almost perfect. Visually, it’s stunning. Performance–wise, it hits the nail on the head. Its soundtrack is immaculate and its action scenes are genuinely entertaining to watch. In fact, it falters where you least expect: the storyline. With a runtime of nearly three hours, the film is an over–glorified snoozefest, and it’s a real tragedy considering how much promise it shows.
“Oh!” is not a very good approximation of the sound that I made upon trying the guacamole at Café y Chocolate, but I can’t think of one that better captures my amazement and sheer joy at the salty, savory, green bowl of heaven that I picked at throughout the meal, often neglecting the rest of my food. The guac was unexpectedly tomato–heavy, which I found surprisingly delightful.
Musical films, colloquially known as “movie musicals,” are notoriously difficult to get right. Oftentimes the viscera of the moment is lost when an inherently live art form is translated to the screen. Movie musicals run the gamut from good, to bad, to ugly. The ugliest of these films reach some of the lowest lows in cinematic history—think the disturbing CGI of Cats or the gaudy disco of Xanadu. Sometimes what works on a stage just can’t be recaptured in films, as was the case for The Phantom of the Opera or Les Misérables.
Ruddy cheeks and a halo of blonde flyaway hairs—the portrait of Elizabeth Holmes might almost be cherubic were it not for her hauntingly still, icy pupils. A hand raises, thumb quivering, and a deep voice falls out of the woman, swearing to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” This was the scene in a San Francisco courtroom on the morning of July 11, 2017.
Human Cheese Grater: "I was a biter at two; by three, I was reformed; and by five, I was back to biting."
Season two of Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s American teen drama series that follows modern–day high schoolers navigating adolescence, has it all. There’s Zendaya, fancy costumes, stunning makeup, drugs, sex scenes, long takes, lots of music, choreographed dances, and incredible acting. Yet Euphoria still lacks the most fundamental aspect of a compelling show: a thoughtful storyline. In many cases, this season of Euphoria felt more like a compilation of music videos stacked onto each other rather than hour–long episodes.
I’m absolutely plotzing.
Everyone spends their whole life dreaming about their perfect wedding day, right?
When Wharton sophomore Kota Yamamoto started Penn in 2020, the traditional red and blue balloon arches, scattered move–in carts, and awkward first meetings took a back seat to Zoom links and surgical masks. At the height of the COVID–19 pandemic, he sought camaraderie, comfort, and a creative outlet, and soon began to search for a community outside of Penn’s pre–professional sphere.
Easy to make but hard to master, pop–punk has its fair share of vocal critics for being overly generic and juvenile. Avril Lavigne is one of few artists who not only knows the genre’s ins and outs but also has the ability to craft undeniable hits without sacrificing artistic integrity. In her prime, Lavigne was cranking out chart–toppers like “Girlfriend” and “Complicated,” songs that are as catchy as they are relatable. Like her pop contemporaries though, Lavigne eventually drifted away from the sound of her early years. Christina Aguilera found a home in Spanish music on La Fuerza, Nelly Furtado transitioned to indie pop on The Ride, and Lavigne herself tried her hand at more stripped back production on Head Above Water. However, in the wake of pop–punk's surge, Lavigne is going back to her roots. Twenty years later, she makes a return to the realm of teen angst and rebellion on Love Sux, though without the boldness or fearlessness we would typically expect from the artist.
Borscht Afficionado: "I'm so pro–beets my pee is red."
“I can’t do it anymore. I’m sorry, I tried.”
From shows like Gossip Girl and Euphoria to Sex and the City and Friends, both high schoolers and late twenty–somethings get their fair share of media representation. By focusing on teenagers and adults trying to figure life out, Hollywood consistently overshadows the ups and downs of being a young adult or college student. Many young adults either have to base their lives on characters who are supposed to be younger than them or aspire to one day be the characters they see on TV that are way older than them.
Everything you are about to read in this article is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up.
When you think of Reese Witherspoon, chances are you think of her performance as the lovable Elle Woods, the Harvard Law student from the 2001 classic Legally Blonde. In many respects, Witherspoon is nothing like Woods; she never went to Harvard University (she dropped out of Stanford instead), attended law school, or chased a boyfriend across the country to get back together. But Witherspoon shares Woods’ ambition and drive to succeed and make change. For Witherspoon, this change has been found in the entertainment industry with her production company, Hello Sunshine, which sold for about $900 million in August 2021.
Solutions by The State News