Arts & Entertainment

Though summer is the most lucrative period of the year for the film industry, the quality of summer movies seems to be inversely proportional to the profit.
April 21, 2011 at 2:16 am

In five days, Penn’s seniors will have their last day of college classes.
April 21, 2011 at 2:06 am

R–Patz ditches Twilight, effectively trading one circus for another.
April 21, 2011 at 2:02 am

1. Dosage Was a Surprise, And a Pleasant One, Too When the DP published a cover story on SPEC’s inability to peg down a fourth artist for Spring Fling, it was hard not to feel a bit disappointed.  Many, including your friendly music editors, were searching for a performer with more artistic pedigree.  Probably a larger contingent was hoping for a headliner with a bigger headlining name.  Dosage—the Philadelphia rapper of little fame who has toured with Lupe Fiasco in the past—filled neither of these needs.  But what he did do is arguably more important: he added a degree of serendipity and randomness to the most regimented brand of live music. Stepping on stage before Ratatat (and before most concertgoers had even arrived) Dosage’s set was a high-energy affair, masking his somewhat mediocre lyricism with a basic knack for performance.  Most students had no idea who this rapper was (trust us, we asked around), but this shouldn’t matter.  Everyone knows what to expect at a Spring Fling concert: Two or three artists will play, at least two will give a ra-ra shout-out to Penn, at least one will get the name of the school wrong (we’re looking at you, Snoop Dogg), at least a dozen kids will get carted off in ambulances and at least everyone will make a drunken, stoned mess of themselves.  What Dosage brought was something different—an unannounced opener, he took the audience off-guard.  And at a concert as predictable as Spring Fling, it’s probably the coolest thing he could have done. 2.
April 18, 2011 at 3:53 pm

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April 18, 2011 at 8:40 am

Sometimes it’s better to leave the past behind.
April 18, 2011 at 8:00 am

There are 23 hours worth of performances in the Quad on Friday and Saturday.
April 14, 2011 at 5:30 am

In case you find some downtime in between the mimosa–filled morning bashes and drunkorexic downtowns of the evening this weekend, Street beckons you to pull up a beanbag chair and turn on, tune in and drop out.
April 14, 2011 at 4:00 am

Fling performance schedule.
April 14, 2011 at 3:17 am

Tracks to prepare for the concert.
April 14, 2011 at 3:13 am

The scream queen spoke with Street about becoming a horror flick ingenue.
April 14, 2011 at 3:00 am

We typically associate bathroom stall graffiti with “Call here for [some sexual act],” but the right–most men’s stall in the Fisher Fine Arts Library has nothing of the sort.
April 14, 2011 at 2:46 am

Animal Collective main man keeps things different.
April 14, 2011 at 2:28 am

My Morning Jacket is one of the few major label rock bands that still makes albums.
April 14, 2011 at 2:26 am

The Slought Foundation brings the haunting video installations of renowned French artist Tania Mouraud to our doorstep.
April 14, 2011 at 1:45 am

4th time's the charm.
April 14, 2011 at 1:45 am

Do you have a secret?
April 14, 2011 at 1:30 am

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April 11, 2011 at 10:34 am

Life As I See It The William Way Community Center 1315 Spruce Street Monday–Friday 9 a.m.
April 9, 2011 at 10:36 am

David Comberg's FNAR-337 Takes On the Best of Penn
April 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm