Playlists
Make Me A Match, Part Deux
Jim Santel is a junior English major from St. Louis. He recently transferred from The University of Chicago.
Drink Of The Week: Apple Pie Shots
Turn this fall dessert into an alcoholic lip–smacker Ingredients: 1/2 oz.
Recipe Of The Week: Beer Bread
No bread machine, no leaving the dough to rise, only four ingredients and just one hour start to finish.
Review: Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co.
When we casually stumbled down the stairs of Rittenhouse’s Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. fresh from a sweaty stint at a stereotypical Penn–packed event, it was as though we'd traveled back in time.
Fascist Foodies: Franco
In an effort to demystify some of hsitory’s most notorious dictators, we’ve decided to reveal the most relateable quality of one formidible fascist every week: his love of everyon’e favorite junk foods! Being appointed by God to serve the Spanish people is no easy job, but Sr.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Shoutouts But Were Too Afraid To Ask
While the holiday season is often thought to be about family, thankfulness and sharing, we at Street know better.
Everyday Etiquette
With so many tricky social situations, it can be tough to maintain proper decorum. Here are two experts from opposite ends of the earth (one goes to Drexel and one goes to Penn) to give you their advice on everything from dating to dinner parties.
Legends Of The Pennple
Being the first university in the U.S. means that Penn has had plenty of time to accumulate a hefty bit of folklore.
One Track Mind: “Car Crash,” Telekinesis
After a first listen, “Car Crash” seems like a major contradiction: the song’s airy, unmistakably happy hook draws us in while the morose opening lyrics question this upbeat nature.
Review: Kanye West, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”
Kanye West has a lot of haters. With his type of personality, it’s hard to imagine he wouldn’t.
Defibrillator: Belle & Sebastian, “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” (1996)
Though I was only five at the time of its 1996 release, my awkward adolescence was in full bloom by the time I discovered Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister in high school.
Review: Rihanna, Loud
Rihanna’s fifth album, Loud, celebrates sex, love, and having a good time — a stark contrast with the anger emanating from her previous album, Rated R.
Beats On The Streets
While we generally feel pretty good about our music choices, we often seek the opinions of our musically–inclined co–editors and friends to round out our iTunes libraries.
This Week in… 11.18.2010
MUSIC Sunday, Nov. 21: Concerts First presents the Next Big Thing Tour, The Trocadero, $15 What do Bedlight for Blue Eyes, the Early November, and the Josephine Collective have in common?
From The Editor: 11.18.10
In a city where the cloud cover is often low and diffuse, yesterday’s sky of lofty, slow–moving and almost–purple clouds was a welcome change.
Guest Curator: Professor Julie N. Davis
This week Associate Professor of the History of Art and Art History Undergraduate Chair Julie Davis sits down with Street and talks about getting Zen, reincarnated tacos and why Philadelphia is a cultural force to be reckoned with.
Review: Michaelangelo Pistoletto At The PMA
Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has strewn the walls of the PMA with his artistic reflections in more ways than one.
Review: Monsters
Despite its title, the number of alien creatures in Monsters is relatively low. The buzz emanating from this budget indie certainly isn’t on account of the film’s surprise scares or special effects. The earth has been infected by specimens of another life form travelling back into orbit from a spacecraft that crashed over Mexico.
Review: Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Elliot Spitzer
Early on in Alex Gibney’s well-crafted documentary film, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced Governor looks dead into the camera and remarks of his downfall, “It’s not a new story.” He’s absolutely right, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating story to be told. The film provides a detailed (if biased) account of a man who used his aggressive style as Attorney General of New York to catapult himself to the Governorship, only to allow excessive personal vices, in the form of four-figure “escorts,” to destroy his political career.
