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(10/08/24 4:02pm)
“You know when you wake up and you’re just devastated?” Nano Wheedan, the owner of Taco Heart, asks me. The feeling is all too familiar—from accidentally sleeping in until 1 p.m. on a schoolwork–designated Sunday, to checking the weather app and seeing that it’s going to be yet another 30–degree day in the middle of February—there are too many ways that a morning can start off on the wrong foot. Like all of us, Wheedan has experienced these feelings and offers a piece of advice for morning mourners: “You need a good breakfast to keep you going.”
(10/02/24 4:00am)
“Ball of energy” doesn’t even begin to describe Sarah Oburu (C ’25). From the second you meet her, it is clear that she lights up every environment she enters. No matter what she’s doing or where she is, she spreads empathy. Through her passion for public service, and her many different club involvements and extracurricular activities, she aims to make Penn a better place one step at a time, serving not just those at Penn, but those all over Philadelphia as well.
(09/16/24 4:00am)
The Substance starts with a celebrity TV fitness host smiling at her audience. It ends with one of the grossest body horror sequences in recent history. And along the way, it provides stark social commentary on society’s fixation with women’s appearances.
(09/16/24 4:00am)
Whenever anyone asks me what my favorite movie franchise is, my response, without fail, is Alien.
(09/16/24 5:51am)
Five–foot juggernaut Sabrina Carpenter is pop music’s new It Girl. The beachy rhythms “Espresso” and the glittering synths of “Please Please Please” were the sounds of 2024’s summer, and both grabbed the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Their music videos have been successes in an age where videos seem less relevant than ever before—“Espresso” is summer fun given visual form, and “Please Please Please” features Barry Keoghan, who gives a fresh spin on the classic story of the bad boy in love. Replete with pieces of Ariana Grande’s sound, and sporting Taylor Swift’s seal of approval, Carpenter's new album Short n' Sweet delivers all the energy of her summer singles and then some.
(09/13/24 7:30am)
As a photographer, you dream of getting “that shot.” The shot that will make up for all of the times you took a bad iPhone photo for your friend’s Instagram. All of those hours of practicing composition will be worthwhile for that one photo. The frantic pursuit of “the shot” was on full display in the spin room following the 2024 presidential debate. Fighting through a mob of photographers to photograph former president Donald Trump, a photographer’s hairy arm grazed my mouth and a camera the size of a baby knocked my chin out of view. I stopped to look at the enormous crowd of photographers and journalists around me.
(09/13/24 4:00am)
You might not immediately recognize the name Gena Rowlands, but I bet your favorite actor probably does. Rowlands, best known for her revolutionary work in her husband John Cassavetes’ films, passed away on August 14th at the age of 94. And while she may be best known to most people as playing older Rachel McAdams in The Notebook, there have been few actors as impactful as her in the past sixty years.
(09/18/24 4:00am)
Historically, my family has bonded over Food Network. The Barefoot Contessa, Rachael Ray, Giada—my whole family would spend the weekends watching together and trying out recipes. Nowadays, we’ve shifted away from the big screen and towards the small, sending each other Instagram Reels from “Justine Snacks” or asking each other our thoughts on the latest Claire Saffitz croissant recipe.
(10/07/24 4:00am)
At the boba shop where I worked this summer, I would often spend my time idly staring at the art on the walls. Among the canvases of blue lakes and rugged mountains, my favorite was an illustration of a pink cat perched atop a milk–tea bottle. With each piece of art marked with a price tag of $100, I found myself hoping that prospective owners would cherish these pieces made with hard work and clear, careful precision.
(09/13/24 4:00am)
Name: Isaac Pollock
(09/13/24 4:00am)
If you let Maryam Ali (E '25) talk to you about outer space, her eyes will light up with excitement. As I sat outside with Maryam during our interview, her animated explanations of how computer science can be used to make objects from hot air balloons to rockets fly up into the air were vivid enough that even I—a liberal arts girl to my core—just might show up to the next Penn Aerospace Club General Board Meeting. Shaped by her experiences as a student with family far from home, Maryam knows the importance of creating community while at Penn—whether she’s bonding with residents as a RA for Harrison College House, or engaging excited freshmen at an engineering club fair.
(09/13/24 4:00am)
In another life, MJ Lenderman is no more than an unnamed guitarist backing Karly Hartzman in Wednesday, the Asheville grunge group of which Lenderman remains a member. There would be worse fates; Wednesday’s critical acclaim and crossover appeal among fans of indie rock, punk, and alternative country have given them a devoted, if not massive, following.
(09/11/24 4:00am)
At Street, we care about craftsmanship, and I’d like to think we'd like to think we can tell a good bag from a bad one—an authentic piece from a Canal Street counterfeit. We're also avid Locust–watchers. When we see your bag, we don’t just see you. I’m scrutinizing the stitch counts and the burnishing, the plated bag straps and the hue of the hardware. Before we make eye contact, we've scanned the leather’s finish, whether it’s pebbled caviar or woven intrecciato, panel–quilted black or patent leather. Don’t even get us started on tweed. And those pesky monograms? They tell us all we need to know. So it pains me when we see a decent bag put to dubious ends—i.e., paired with a wack fit!
(09/11/24 4:00am)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16th
(09/11/24 4:00am)
What makes an exhibition so immersive that it seamlessly draws viewers into both its external world and inner life? In The Illuminated Body, a new art exhibition by Seattle artist Barbara Earl Thomas at the Arthur Ross Gallery, viewers are invited to explore this very question.
(09/06/24 4:00am)
Zoe Allaire Reynolds, known on stage and Spotify as Kississippi, is the exemplification of the Philly music scene: house–show roots, run–ins with shitty guys, and, of course, a collaboration with Jake Ewald of Slaughter Beach, Dog here and there.
(08/28/24 8:52pm)
What comes to mind when you think of summer? Brat? Finance internship in NYC?
(09/05/24 12:24am)
During the witching hours of August 19th, 2021, I was drowning. Drowning in a sea of clothes, that is. It was half past 2 a.m. and I had to catch an 8 a.m. flight to Philly the next morning to start my freshman pre–orientation here at Penn. Like many other freshmen who arrived on campus two weeks ago, I severely overpacked.
(08/30/24 4:00am)
On the afternoon of April 25, the Gaza Solidarity Encampment was set in motion. Earlier that day, a protest—organized by the Philly Palestine Coalition—began at City Hall and marched its way throughout Philadelphia, arriving at Penn’s campus by 4 p.m. It culminated with protesters pitching about 20 tents on College Green, with the support of an organized faculty walkout. The encampment, joining an ongoing international struggle, began.
(08/28/24 4:00am)
As a kid, I wanted to be everything. My mom loves to tell the story of my kindergarten open house, where every child had drawn their dream job and placed it on their desk. Alongside all the abstract renditions of doctors, rock stars, and astronauts, I had simply drawn a question mark, captioned beneath with the words: “I don’t know.” After all, I was a kid who couldn’t even settle on a Halloween costume. (That year, I believe I was a “Friendly Ghost Superhero,” which was an improvement from “Rockstar Flower Fairy.”) When adults asked me what I wanted to be, I would pretentiously launch into a song where I listed every career I knew.
