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Starving your sanity
You're a freshman, a neophyte in the real world. As Friday night rolls around, you and your friends sashay into a swanky downtown eatery, swarm a booth, peruse the menu and maybe even order some drinks if your fake is decent or the place doesn't card.
128 Ounces 'Til Morning
It's barely 11:35 p.m. when the first freshman of the night starts throwing up in the women's bathroom.
Minesweeper
Two weeks before Samuel Reeves' senior year at Penn, he and his business partner Josh Koplin were strapped into a DC-10 airplane spiraling over Kabul with cigarette butts still in the armrests, back from the days when you could relax with a smoke during a particularly rough landing. Before they left, Sam's mother threatened to lie down in front of the airplane.
Band of Brothers
Beer. Sex. And maybe Pot. Fraternities are very masculine organizations." So says Wharton senior Joey Shapiro, a member of Tau Epsilon Phi.
Let's talk about text baby
Do you like sex? Do you like writing about sex? Do you think people that write about sex are really sexy? Do you think helping people that write about sex write about sex is sexy? This is Jessica Haralson's hook for Quake, an erotica literary magazine forming at Penn.
Best of penn '05
Best Chips and Salsa El Azteca 714 Chestnut Street (215) 733-0895 Everyone knows that margaritas and chips and salsa go hand-in-hand.
898-4SEX
The street is dark. On the list of buzzer numbers, next to the glass double doors and under the blue awning of the tall office complex there is no mention of the agency.
Yes, These Are Real
Well, that's not exactly true. Lisa Lisa isn't actually a girl -- she's a male-to-female transsexual who emcees a drag show at Bob and Barbara's.
She said, She said
*Names have been changed. It's that whole evolution thing, the whole 'I gotta find a man and ain't no one gonna get in my way' thing.
Riding the radio waves
It's 11:30 a.m., and midday host Helen Leicht is almost through the first half of her daily program on WXPN-FM.
On the verge
It's a foggy night in Philadelphia, mid-week, cold, humid, not at all favorable conditions for going out.
Blind Date
It sucks to be dateless on Valentine's Day, and though this may shock many of you, even Street editors sometimes find themselves single on the eve of February 14.
You spin me round round like a frisbee
Ka-ching is a pleasing sound to all disc golfers," says Tournament Director Tom Snyder. He's referring to the noise his disc just made as it landed in hole two of the Sedgley Woods Disc Golf Course in northern Philadelphia.
After the sky falls
One of the most striking features of West Philadelphia's skyline is the spire of Christ Memorial Church at the corner of 43rd and Chestnut.
Under the Surface
At seven in the morning Carl crouches beneath the intersection of 16th and JFK, picks up his guitar and plays the blues.
Meet Andrew and his Cocker
This article appeared in the December 9th joke issue. College junior, Noble's got dark brown hair and dimples, and though he's almost 22, he readily admits that he still gets carded at Mad4Mex every time he goes. "By now it's a joke, but, I mean, it's kind of crazy.
Banding together
Almost 9:30 p.m. Marc looks anxious. He paces, he jokes, but really he is thinking about Ric. Ric, meanwhile, is on his way to a shady bar on the edge of a shopping center in Bensalem, PA, from Delaware.
Frazier's gym
"I want to help my brother-man. That's why I put the gym here," Joe Frazier says, kicking shut the door to his office, which sits above the Frazier Gym in North Philadelphia.
