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Street Beats

Your Winter Break, in review: Early returns have 2007 shaping up as a year of break-ups rather than reunions.

by 34TH STREET

Street Fighters

The semester just keeps speeding along, and as you stare at your daily planner, it seems like there is nothing to look forward to but exams, papers and all-nighters.

by DALIA HERVITZ

Street Beats

Hilary Duff and Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden have confirmed they have split. Madden quoted as saying, "I thought it over and decided I liked real music after all." U.S.

by 34TH STREET

Child stalking: A good thing?

Penn students are known for their diverse interests. We work, volunteer, play, party, procrastinate and work for secret government agencies.

by JULIA LUDWIG

Street Beats

U.S. children showing hardening of arteries. Pedophiles showing hardening of... veins. Spanish businessman pleaded guilty to the illegal harvesting of Chilean sea bass.

by 34TH STREET

Word on the Street: Birthday Gobbles

Thanksgiving may very well be the best holiday we have. No segregating candied ham and knaidlach; everyone celebrates the same glorious bird.

by JACLYN EINIS

Street Fighters

Thanksgiving is a time to remember our forefathers and be thankful for all those things that make our country great.

by 34TH STREET

Streat Beats

Snoop Dogg booked for possession of a deadly weapon after a collapsible baton was discovered in his carry-on luggage.

by 34TH STREET

Street Fighters

It's been an exciting election season filled with plenty of mudslinging and smack-talking, and as it comes to a close, feelings of triumph, defeat and apathy fill the air.

by 34TH STREET

WOTS: Fear and Loathing

Do you know what you're doing next year? It's the question that I, as a senior, hear almost every single day, posed by everybody from random classmates in recitations, to people I meet at parties, my grandparents, my parents, friends of my parents, friends of friends and then, of course, my friends themselves. Unless you're a senior who already has a job lined up for next year, there's no way you can definitely know what you're doing after graduation.

by RACHEL FRIEDMAN

Street Beats

The Price is Right host Bob Barker to retire from TV after 50 years. In his farewell address, Barker declared, "The price is wrong, bitch!" Local police report an increase in shootings in West Philadelphia as compared to last year.

by 34TH STREET

It's the end of the world as we know it

Boy 1: "Dude, I worked out for so long today." Boy 2: "No, no, bro, I like slept, all day; I just got out of bed." Boy 1: "Dude, no, I can't do that I have about two million midterms from now till the end of the semester." Despite the displays of refined verbosity and predominance of sentences starting with the words "Dude" and "Bro" that I was witness to on the way back from class today, I began to think of the change that is taking over our fair campus. Now that Family Weekend, Homecoming and Fall Break are all over in a ridiculously confusing order, things are starting to settle.

by JENN LOPES

Spandex Shmandex

If you're walking down Locust Walk anytime within the next two months, keep an eye out for what our Lady Quakers are wearing. Almost every other girl, no matter how garishly thin, is sporting a pair of tights.

by DEREK MAZIQUE

Street Fighters

Street gives you the rundown of who is battling for domination of the media. This week, it's all about the young'uns.

by 34TH STREET

Street Beats

College tuition and fees up by more than six percent. Amy Gutmann buys new pair of shoes. A strong earthquake battles Hawaii, religious right blames God.

by 34TH STREET

Family weekend, we hold you in our hearts

For about 10 years of my life I spent my summers at Camp Swig, a Jewish summer camp tucked away in the redwoods of Northern California. Every year there was this awkward transition period when I got home.

by RUBEN BROSBE

Streetbeats

Ford recalls nearly 150,000 vehicles. Problems cited include defective latches and lame-ass cars. At her recent concert, Streisand dropped the F-bomb to shut up a heckler.

by 34TH STREET

Street Fighters

Battle 1: Amy Gutmann vs. Judith Rodin Ex-President Judith Rodin caused quite a stir this week when it was discovered that although she is no longer president, she still made more than Amy Gutmann last year, with a salary of over $1 million compared to Gutmann's meager 675 G's.

by DALIA HERVITZ

Rock around the pottruck

Street: Are you from an area with actual rock climbing? Kyle Sirianno: Yeah. I'm from upstate New York.

by DALIA HERVITZ

Urban, I've got your IP Address, and I'm coming for you

When I was in 9th and 10th grade, I loved Instant Messenger so much. Who didn't? It was our window to the world - but it was a very, very slow window.

by STEPHEN MORSE

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