Playlists
From The Editor: 09.16.2010
Transfer kids are everywhere. You know, those kids that join us from other institutions sophomore or junior year and complain every time you make too many references to the quad or freshman year NSO?
The 50 Things You Must Do Before You Graduate
You’ve been here a few weeks, freshmen, but don’t get comfortable. That only leads to a routine of weekly Smoke’s and Kappa Whatever visits when there are a million more things to do around Penn and Philly.
Ego Of The Week: Adam Behrens
Senior class prez, Adam Behrens, is really sorry about all of those 2011 emails he’s sent out.
The Gutter: 09.16.2010
HELLO YOU MERRY PRANKSTERS. Well, it’s another year, another semester. To our dedicated upperclassmen who regularly make appearances in these pages: welcome back.
Overheards: 09.16.2010
Senior at Mad4 happy hour: Wait. Is The Daily Pennsylvanian … daily? Girl in the shampoo aisle of CVS: I really can’t remember, but judging by the way that I’m walking today, I’m pretty sure I got fucked in the ass last night. Sophomore in line for Saxby's FroYo: I spent all summer studying for the LSAT.
Popping The Penn Bubble
“When is it appropriate to say hello to someone because they’re wearing a Penn sweatshirt?” I asked a friend this summer while we ate dinner at a sidewalk cafe in New York.
Interview: Abdi Farah
A little over a year ago, Penn alum Abdi Farah (‘09) was napping in Fisher Fine Arts. But since winning the first season of Bravo’s reality art competition, Work of Art, he’s become a household name, scored a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and pocketed a cool hundred grand.
This Week ...
MUSIC Monday, 9/20: No Age with Small Black and Grandchildren.
Drink Of Week:
The perfect start to day drinking. Ingredients: • 1 shot silver tequila • 2 shots Kahlua or Patron Café • 16 oz.
The Fresh Grocer's Nip/Tuck
When it comes to FroGro, we welcome any change with open arms. Questionably prepared food, a nonsensical layout and long lines force FroGroers to crave change in any form.
Review: Mumbai Bistro
So-so Indian specialties at streetcar prices Tucked between rowhouses and Jefferson Hospital lies a little hint of northern India.
New Kid On The Block
Walking south on 38th Street, you pass the Steak Queen food truck underneath the Locust bridge. Then just behind Bui’s, an imposing black truck comes into view: Mojo Gourmet Coffee.
Fall Film Predictions
As we transition from summer excess to academic studiouness, Hollywood too is laying down its machine guns in favor of more intellectual fare.
Review: The Town
This is not the screwing around crew Ben Affleck’s first feature, Gone Baby Gone, was an intimate drama about detectives searching for a missing girl.
Review: Easy A
We're back in high school again Easy A, the newest movie about high school, wants to be both a commentary on John Hughes-directed ‘80s films and itself a Hughes-directed movie.
In The News
M.I.A. has announced the dates for her latest tour. She’ll be stopping at the Electric Factory on Sep.
Defibrillator: LFO, "Summer Girls" (1999)
Music has had myriad purposes in my life, but only one song has ever turned me onto a clothing line.
Review: Interpol, Interpol
Rockers stay moody on self-titled album Paul Banks has the second most ominous voice in indie rock today (Tom Smith of Editors takes first prize). While Interpol has surely crafted valuable tracks in the past the part of them that is most singularly Interpol is Banks’s cavernous, almost nefarious bellow.
Review: Lisbon, The Walkmen
On their latest LP, indie rock veterans get lost in the details. As coy and ironic as the modern indie landscape may be, The Walkmen have always aimed for the gut of both their fan base and their steady, shifting musical output.
