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Streetbeats: The week in news
Break a leg Elian. The former Cuban refugee's Miami home is being transformed into a tourist site.
Get A Nightlife: 'Una tequila, dos equis, floor...'
The Mexican Post 104 Chestnut Street 215-923-5233 After getting the once-over for failing to conform to the yuppie, monochrome, slick standard of style at the last bar I went to, it was quite a relief to wear jeans to Old City's Mexican Post and be allowed to have a seat without any resistance.
Lifestyles of the rich and useless wand-waving talking vaginas
Street has once again deployed its award-winning team of investigative journalists deep into irrelevant territory.
Streetscenes: No Thanks
Melissa Byrne College of General Studies, '03 "I've been in situations where you've gotta hand out and be active at protests where people are actually organizing against you, so I mean this is a piece of cake.... I mean, whatever, if someone doesn't take it... it's not a big deal." "I'm not seeking their approval, so I mean, they're not rejecting me, they're just showing their own ignorance and their own stubbornness.... You're at this university--such a privilege to be at this university--either as a student or as a professor, and if you're not being open-minded to other people's ideas, then it's a shame that you're here because there are other people who could be doing and enjoying this place a lot more than you as you're walking down and like, being in your own world because you're better than everyone else." "Keep your mind open.... These aren't freaks coming out of nowhere.... Most of the stuff is all grounded in truth--it's the way you look at it.
Derailing PennTRAK
We at Street would like to see our readership gainfully employed come May, so we've scoured the depths of the third bolgia of PennTRAK to discover jobs that would even make Dante proud.
Room: Asian boys can't fight
Room: 102 Ware College HouseRoom cohabitants: Wharton sophomore Lisa Chang from Dallas, TX and Huntsman sophomore Esther Hsu from Westchester, PA. What music were you guys listening to when decorating? Esther: Asian music actually.
Batman Saves the Day
When I was growing up, my soul and I had a deal--I didn't kill him by drinking rat poison, and he didn't bother me with any of that conscience crap.
Sour Cream or Onion?
The story of the Urban Nutrition Initiative is not just about this oasis of green, located at 36th and Filbert streets.
Interview: What Does It All Mean?
At first glance, Justin Theroux looks like he was born and bred to play Adam Kesher, the movie director in David Lynch's latest whacked-out film, Mulholland Drive.
wots: Grumpy old men
Strolling along Locust Walk the other day, I came to an epiphany. This wasn't just another one of my lame-ass "Whoops, I forgot to write my term paper" or "Two girls at once... sure, why not?" epiphanies.
Streetscenes: On the sneak tip
"I started DJ'ing freshman year, like 1999 for me, that spring.... I did the same show that I do now, but it was just a little bit reduced, its isn't as big as it is now.... My show is The Storm [hip-hop, R&B, underground rap, dance hall, and reggae], usually comes on Thursdays 8 to 10 [p.m.], but sometimes I go in the studio like after hours and I'll go and, you know, make a little quiet storm, like I'll do R&B for a little bit, just on the sneak tip." "Sometimes we'll have guests in the studio..., like I'll put a beat on and they'll freestyle to it and I remember a couple weeks ago we had somebody come in and we had a freestyle, and we have Instant Messenger in the studio, so they would tell us how the guy was doing and we had two people, and one guy was real good and the other guy was OK, I guess, and the guy on Instant Messenger was letting us know about that..." "It's on channel 2, ResNet... and www.wqhs.org, we're working on it right now so we're gonna try and get some better reception so people can hear it on the radio on campus and off campus.... Watch out for us because we've been sleeping for a long time and it's about time for us to wake up and take this campus over like we're supposed to."
The Street guide to semi-rational paranoia
We here at Street know that in these crazy days, you might find it difficult to keep a calm head on your shoulders.
SPEC on SPEC
Further continuing our tradition of highlighting rampant stupidity wherever and whenever it rears its stupid head, Street is casting its peripheral focus on Penn's Social Planning and Events Committee.
Streetbeats: The week in news
Spreading Your Seed Freshman Elections. After an intensely pitched contest, Matt Klapper has claimed victory as Class President.
"I'm taking the day off."
Yep, it's fall break. So we're taking the week off. In the meanwhile, enjoy last week's --street-- and feel free to search through our archives.
Licorice: Tampons aren't supposed to be recycled
There is nothing more embarrassing than bringing that special someone home for a night of sex and finding that your roommates have transformed your room into a storage closet for their soiled unmentionables and a recycled tampon factory run by Canadian orphans.
Surreal and the city: Perversions at the PMA
I have never been a big fan of modern art. Something about all of those misshapen figures and oddly formed compilations of "abstract" images never appealed to my aesthetic.
streetscenes: Between the lines
"[Angels in America is] probably the biggest production the Arts House has ever put on... I remember hearing the buzz surrounding [it] when it was going to Broadway, but being too young to actually know much about it, and by the time I was ready to go see it, it was already gone.
wots: Ain't nothin but a she thang
Growing up, I always wanted to be Jessie Spano. Many of my friends dreamed of Kelly's spirited bounce and fluorescent spandex as they dream of their wedding day.
