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(05/27/26 12:41pm)
In the cozy upstairs of Kelly Writers House, I sat down with Shreya Krishnan (W ’26), chosen as this year’s graduation speaker for the Wharton School. What distinguishes her from her peers is her skill and love for music, often seen as divorced from the business world. Shreya proves this is not the case. Having spent time both in the offices of Morgan Stanley and on the stage of Carnegie Hall, she reflects on how her experience with business has served to complement, not contradict, her passion for music. In the brief hour we spent together, she shares her past journey with music, her current inspirations, and her future goals. Recounting her last four years at Wharton, Shreya reflects on her growth with a bright smile on her face.
(05/11/26 3:20pm)
To observe all of Philadelphia’s wonders, you cannot miss its art museum’s West Entrance at sunrise. At this hour, dozens of runners gracefully sprint up the steps, mirroring the iconic training montage of 1979’s Rocky. Atop this path lies a statue of Rocky himself, saluting each individual’s effort and resilience. While standing beside the monument, a visceral feeling of against any obstacle emerges, alike Rocky’s unexpected win against Apollo Creed. Since its installation, however, this monument has represented more than athletic persistence: among marginalized communities, it has become a living, multipurpose symbol of resistance.
(05/11/26 3:18pm)
Sequels look good to investors on paper. But in reality, they’re risky.
(05/11/26 3:17pm)
How do you revive one of the best superhero shows ever made without suffocating under its legacy?
(05/15/26 4:00am)
Imagine this: you’ve been having a great night. You and your friends had a blast—you may have also had one too many drinks, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that now, you’re finally alone with that one person you’ve been wanting to talk to all night.
(05/08/26 5:04pm)
There is a life I have already lived in, the way you can live in a piece of music before you’ve heard it all the way through.
(04/30/26 5:11am)
It has been over three decades since the Penn held its first organized Take Back the Night rally, and students and faculty have since upheld the annual tradition. This past April 9, the rally took over Locust Walk with signs and slogans, expressing the continual need for action against sexual and relationship violence perpetrated on university campuses.
(04/30/26 5:09am)
If you thought a film titled Mother Mary would be a religious retelling of Christ’s passion through the Virgin’s eyes, you’d be sorely mistaken. Instead, Mother Mary is David Lowery's attempt at a modern artistic film, which stars Anne Hathaway as a glitzy pop star. The most religious the film gets is a shot of a halo made of nails, which functions more as a tiara than any sacred symbol. Some viewers have even labeled the film blasphemous—not because of its theology, but because it uses religious imagery to tell a story about the emotional cost of collaboration in the entertainment industry.
(05/08/26 12:29am)
After hearing Kampton Kam’s journey in overcoming the high jump over the past four years, I’ll never complain about MATH 1400 again. In a place where it’s easy to let setbacks overcome you, it’s inspiring to see how he was able to, time and time again, bounce back better, stronger, and higher.
(05/01/26 4:57am)
I’m standing in a crowd of moving bodies, eclectic in composition, dancing hardstyle to Takuya Nakamura’s trumpet x jungle performance in the Warehouse on Watts’ Loft. Someone dressed like Rumpelstiltskin stomps and jumps aggressively to the occasional bullshit Nakamura plays—which, every now and then, sounds as if someone’s released a barrel of snakes in a petting zoo.
(04/29/26 9:54pm)
As the weather gets warmer, we grow weary for a refreshed summer wardrobe. So do you turn to Aritzia and Reformation? Or someplace less expensive, maybe Brandy Melville or even Shein? We can do better. After all, there is such an enormous quantity of clothing already in circulation; when it comes to everyday clothing, there is little use in buying new. So, thrift!
(05/01/26 3:05pm)
“My Name is Noah Kahan. My goal is to leave you a little more depressed than you came in tonight,” so he announces himself at a concert in Noah Kahan: Out of Body, the documentary shot during the making of his third album, The Great Divide. While he pokes fun at the emotional vulnerability he uses in the breadth of his art, the increasingly detailed portrait of his hometown, the joke also names the central tension of The Great Divide. If Stick Season was a tear–jerking, meditative exploration of how he was shaped by his hometown, this album is something thornier: the gap between the person writing the songs and the people living inside them. That is, the small–town people who unwittingly inspired tears from thousands of fans in sold–out arenas—a dynamic Kahan can’t quite resolve: part exploitation, part creative necessity, part something like therapy.
(05/01/26 6:54pm)
In a world where the climate crisis competes with everything else for your 30–second attention span, one artist decided to stop fighting the noise and start drawing it.
(04/27/26 9:43pm)
Beef is the television–show equivalent of a tiny snowball rolling down a cliff and becoming a full–on avalanche. It’s the kind of show that makes you wonder what the creator could possibly be thinking while writing it because it’s simply that creative. After the show’s insane run as the awards–show darling of 2023, its highly anticipated second season dropped April 16 on Netflix, this time following an entirely new “beef,” so to speak. To celebrate its release, creator Lee Sung Jin (C ’03) visited Penn on Friday at an event run by Wharton Undergraduate Media and Entertainment. Audience members had the privilege to hear about Lee’s creative process in a discussion moderated by Street’s own Film and TV beat Élan Martin–Prashad.
(04/24/26 3:06am)
Invincible has gone through four seasons in five years. That pace is somewhat unheard of in modern television, especially for an animated series. But if there’s anything my economics major has taught me, it’s that every decision involves a trade–off. When you’re adapting a beloved and already completed comic series, you’re not starting from scratch—you already know where the story is going, which removes the burden of figuring out what happens next even as it introduces a different pressure to get it right. But faster production means tight animation schedules, and certain stylistic trade–offs have been evident since Season 1.
(05/01/26 3:11am)
Writing this article feels like a betrayal, because everything that Duriya Rehan (W, E ’26) is cannot be contained in the assigned word limit. From the minute she sat down across the table, she spills her world, from side quests across Philly to celebrating a classmate’s birthday in Zimbabwe for a Penn Global Seminar. For a dual–degree student with no shortage of extracurricular responsibilities, she will always make space in her schedule for an interesting film class, at her dining table for her monthly supper club, and in her busy day to take you to the best Thai food in Philly. Coming from a place and school so different from Penn, she found home in her mentors, and strives to facilitate that relationship with others now. And, as anyone who has gotten to know her in her four years would say, she has undoubtedly succeeded.
(05/15/26 7:08pm)
When Emily Monfort (C ’26) finally got through “General Chemistry I,” she prayed to God about it. She’d wanted to be a doctor since kindergarten, but Penn’s pre–med “weed out” courses were proving to be a slight hindrance to that plan.
(05/15/26 7:11pm)
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Kennedy Smihula (N ’26) clocks out of the cardiac intensive care unit at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at 7:30 p.m. after spending nearly 13 hours beside some of the most seriously ill children in the city. Then, with barely any time to grab dinner, she immediately heads to Weightman Hall to meet her team for cheer practice.
(04/23/26 12:13am)
We hear again and again that streaming killed the water–cooler star (so to speak), but HBO’s commitment to keeping their weekly TV show slots alive may be the only thing saving it. There’s a deeply human sense of community in experiencing and enjoying the same media alongside thousands of other people—making plans with friends to watch the newest episode when it drops, exchanging fan theories and reactions over text or online. Where the aftermath of COVID-19 has made binge culture the accepted norm, this communal delayed gratification turns a show into an event.
(05/12/26 8:09pm)
The line in front of Penn Museum winds around the block, and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. MBA students in full business formal wait next to fluffy–haired undergrads in T–shirts and cargo shorts; there’s button–ups, polos, and lots and lots of baseball caps. Behind me, a tall, blond man is talking on the phone at full volume. To my right, a pair of middle–aged women in lilac and pear–green blazers take walking footage of the crowd, beaming with pride. Across the street, protestors clad in black N–95s, neck garters, and keffiyehs gather at the edge of a small wooded park, carrying a large speaker and a megaphone.
