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(11/12/24 3:00am)
“Thank god it’s Friday” is a phrase I was saying a lot this past weekend. Sure, Fridays are great because the weekend is coming, people can go out and socialize, and I get to have my chicken–over–rice from a halal cart as a reward for making it through the week. However, this Friday was extra special—we were blessed with the debut album Glorious from Memphis rapper GloRilla, featuring the hit single “TGIF." Her most recent mixtape, Ehhthang Ehhthang, was released earlier this year, and the new direction her music has taken in just six months is remarkable.
(11/17/24 11:27pm)
From high–end furniture to animation, to minimalist design and interior aesthetics, Japanese influence can be found all over the West. But that wasn’t always the case.
(11/22/24 4:28am)
Have you experienced “eusexua”? That is the sensation FKA Twigs is striving to evoke in The Eleven, a performance art show she debuted at Sotheby’s in September 2024. It marks the English singer, actress, and dancer’s first foray into the fine art world.
(10/25/24 12:16am)
If the name didn’t clue you in, this place is a bit excessive. It occupies the shell of an enormous former bank, a fact made blindingly evident by a private dining room downstairs being housed in a fully preserved vault, three-foot-thick door included and Del Frisco branded. And the food within maintains this luxurious allure steadfastly. Chilled seafood appetizers (and the contextually odd but nevertheless delicious cheesesteak dumplings) pave the way to what I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for, the steak. Don’t get caught up in the appetizers; as someone who’s been enchanted by their siren’s song, you don’t want to find yourself caught in the rocks of a full stomach and ¾ of a steak still on your plate. These chops are also not skimpy in their servings - aside from the 12 oz Filet Mignon (the health food of steaks)- you’ll find that cuts start from 16 oz (a pound, for you international students) and keep going. Straggling alternative dishes litter the menu, but best pay them no mind. If your parents will really let you indulge in the dining habits of a gilded age robber baron, then the berries and cream or chocolate mousse cake of the desserts section will certainly help you achieve this. While outstanding steakhouses stud the Center City landscape, nothing lets your parents whisk you out of a Houston Hall haze like Del Frisco’s.
(01/16/25 2:52am)
What started in Taiwan as a simple combination of local desserts, milk tea, and fen yuan, has evolved into a global phenomenon: boba. At Penn, it’s a quick pick–me–up before class, a coffee chat accessory, and even a savvy marketing ploy down Locust Walk. Most recently, it’s been touted as trendy, sugary, its contents unknown, and definitely, decidedly, no longer "ethnical". This is the perspective of two white Canadian entrepreneurs on an episode of Dragon’s Den, when they pitched their brand Bobba, a take on Taiwanese boba, to the panel of dragons.
(01/17/25 12:04am)
On my tenth birthday, I received ownership of my first Apple product: a sixth–generation iPod Touch. Having spent months co–filming videos for my friends’ social media accounts, I yearned for a device to create my own portfolios. Immediately after activating this device, I proceeded to download every social networking app I knew of: Snapchat, Vine, Musical.ly, X, YouTube, and Instagram. I viewed all these applications as essential towards launching my content creation journey, ignoring the excessive storage my “SM!” folder consumed.
(12/05/24 3:57am)
Picture a packed club, maybe a wild night in the basement of some indistinct fraternity. The lights flicker with the pounding of scattered footsteps. There’s almost no space to breathe—just a crush of people and movement, all blending together in air thick with the heat of too many people crammed into too small a space.
(11/13/24 12:50am)
In the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle shields his eyes watching pornography in a theater while feigning a sense of righteous power over New York City. His smallness is palpable, his horniness is devastating, and he doesn’t know what the hell to do about it. Almost fifty years later, he’s rightfully regarded as the OG film incel, embodying a charmingly pre–internet brand of male awkwardness—obviously not socialized enough to engage in romance, but without a grifter–saturated manosphere to multiply its misogyny. So what remains for the trope today, besides some awful pickup lines and prostitutes? Let’s ask the grimy, miserable, and equally theatrical protagonist of Geordie Greep’s The New Sound:
(12/05/24 3:37am)
Today, Bitcoin hit 100,000. But long before crypto bros were salivating on Reddit, Neal Stephenson’s was imagining a blockchain future in his 1999 novel Cryptonomicon. Over the course of its 900–plus pages, the storyline spans half a century, ranges from the barren islands north of Great Britain to the jungles of Southeast Asia to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, and features real–life historical characters such as Alan Turing alongside concepts which were ahead of mainstream society by the turn of the millennium.
(10/25/24 5:26am)
Three weeks ago, Penn football opened its season with a game against Colgate, but strangely, I knew only three people who attended the game—two of whom left during halftime. They didn’t leave because Penn was losing—in fact, by halftime, the Quakers had a significant lead—the problem was there was no excitement around the game and no sense of energy in the crowd, especially among current students.
(11/17/24 11:32pm)
Despite the album’s incredible success and booming popularity, after four weeks in the No. 1 spot, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet was bumped to second on the Billboard 200 chart by Travis Scott’s mixtape Days Before Rodeo.
(10/28/24 2:25pm)
With the evolution of American pop culture, dressing up for Halloween has taken on new meaning from its Pagan roots. More specifically, the once sacred Pagan holiday, previously known as All Hallows' Eve, has become a pop culture–infused night that is most closely associated with cheap costumes, candy, and—for college students in the United States—an excuse to consume copious amounts of alcohol on a weeknight.
(11/10/24 5:17am)
On Sept. 11, Kendrick Lamar began a funeral procession. Through a lowkey post on his Instagram account, he released the five–minute track “watch the party die,” where he mourns over the “death” of the hip–hop industry.
(10/30/24 4:00am)
“I’d love to go back, I’d love to do more research, I’d love to delve more into what happens there.”
(11/05/24 4:05pm)
The first time I voted was in a home for elders five minutes from my childhood home. I was wearing blue jeans and an orange graphic tee that sported a drawing of a sun. My mom walked me to the polls.
(10/18/24 4:00am)
Amanda Cui (W ‘25) lives deliberately. From Humans of Penn and Dear Penn Freshmen to the Anti–Resume Project and various art installations on campus, Amanda channels her creativity into projects that humanize people through storytelling and demystify the culture of failing at Penn. As I trot down the stairs into Stommons for our interview, I scan the beleaguered faces of college students in the thick of midterm season who, upon making eye contact with me, resecure their headphones and bury their noses in their laptops. When I spot Amanda, however, curled up on one of the sunlit couches with a paint–splattered jean leg tucked under her, her face brightens, and she waves me over like an old friend.
(10/18/24 4:00am)
Fall brings brick–red foliage, an influx of new University City residents, and a lot of good movies to Philadelphia. The Philly Film Festival, running from Oct. 17 to Oct. 27, is an inexpensive and easily accessible way to watch some new and emerging films before their wide release. Overwhelmed by all that PFF has to offer? Never fear—those of us who got a chance to see some of these films over the summer at Cannes and in the early fall at New York Film Festival are here to help you decide what to skip class and spend $12 on seeing.
(11/13/24 12:41am)
The City of Love has stolen the hearts of people across the world, but what makes it so great? From biking down the Seine to riding the metro everywhere and anywhere, Paris is an urban planner’s paradise that’s only getting better. On the other hand, the City of Brotherly Love could use some work.
(11/10/24 4:52am)
It’s August before college move–in. This year you want your room to look perfect—with all the band posters, LED fairy lights, and colorful shag rugs you've dreamed of. Your new room will be far different from last year when you constantly felt embarrassed for not having all the dorm essentials. You turn to Pinterest to look for some inspiration in your “dream dorm” board, and, suddenly, you notice one hidden board among the esteemed collection you’ve spent so much creating. A small tear dribbles down your cheek as you realize how much you need to spend on useless minimalistic decor on Dormify instead of just taping your disposable film photos to the walls.
(10/21/24 4:00am)
It’s 7:26 a.m. on a Monday. Normally, I’d still be fast asleep. But today, thanks to my early–riser roommate, I managed to make it to John McNamara’s 7:30 a.m. HIIT class. Stifling a few yawns, I glance around and notice everyone else is already energized and ready to get moving. From dumbbell raises to backward lunges, the rhythm of the class began to energize me, shaking off the grogginess and fueling a newfound motivation.
