Playlists
Why Black Lives Don’t Matter to the Criminology Department
Saturday is the 150th anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment. Sunday marks the start of Black History Month. Despite the days and weeks dedicated to remembering, Penn's Department of Criminology forgets—or refuses to acknowledge—the violent, inhumane treatment of black Americans throughout history. This week, Word on the Street brings you a story of a class that didn’t count and the implications of a seemingly harmless administrative decision.
Deliciously Weird at D'Angelo's
Everyday, Tuesday through Sunday, you can find Sonny D’Angelo behind the counter of his Italian Market shop making sausages.
Culture Shock And You
Penn Abroad Presents this Brochure to Help Student Adjust to their New Home.
Ali Lotz's Les Fumeurs
In its most basic sense, Les Fumeurs is a black and white film showing individual portraits of fifteen people smoking cigarettes. As the sitters are alone onscreen and in their private moments, each person’s smoking tics and idiosyncrasies become clear. They smoke at their own pace, until they finish. And one by one they leave the shot, and their picture disappears.
Highbrow's Guide to Social Climbing
Highbrow's Guide to Social Climbing: Tips for the Superficially Inclined. It’s not easy to get to the top, but Highbrow has the inside scoop on how to fake it until you make it.
Strausage
Meat: Black Bear (eds. Note: because why the fuck not?) Sonny says: “For bear, you want to go with black bear, not grizzlies.
Not Another Hans Zimmer Score
Turn your Netflix cue into your newest study playlist with this extraterrestrial soundtrack that will totally help you ace ASTR001
Here's How You Took Advantage of Your Illness
It's post-rush season, and Penn has the plague. Here's how some of you used those sneezes to your advantage
If You're in This Class, Watch This Film
Skip the required reading and check out these movies instead. At least you can pretend to be informed.
Penn Integration Timeline
Let’s see how far we’ve come
Eight Ways to Celebrate Black History Month
Philly and Penn provide some great opportunities to learn about and celebrate black culture and history this February
Overheards 1.29.2015
Girl on Locust: You 100% just farted into the phone!
Invisible Familiars: Amorphous and Alluring
Jared Samuel might be NYC's zaniest new singer-songwriter, and he just dropped his debut album Disturbing Wildlife to prove it. Check Invisible Familiars out at the North Star Bar on Thursday for genre-bending, intricate jams.
Funny List Monday: Terrible Mixer Ideas
Check in with lowbrow every Monday as we give you the our "top" tens. This week get your party with Mixer ideas which will either bore or offend.
Monday Mixtapes: Upbeat Songs for the Start of the Semester
While you revel in your beginning-of-semester optimism, here’s a Monday Mixtape to put some pep in your step as you strut down Locust.
Monday Mixtapes: Greek Takeover
Whether you're affiliated or not, Music brings you your guiltiest pleasure of all: the frattiest, American–est anthems. Congratulations, biddies
