Playlists
Weighty Roles
As Matt Damon demonstrated this week, sometimes even movie stars sacrifice their typically enviable bodies for the sake of their roles.
Your Month in Music
ALBUMS: Sept. 15: Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1; Drake, So Far Gone; Megadeth, Endgame; Muse, The Resistance; Nelly Furtado, Mi Plan; Porcupine Tree, The Incident. Sept.
Defibrillator: Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation (1988)
In the world of sellable indie rock, there is a thin line between chaos and bliss. With 1988's Daydream Nation, it was as if Sonic Youth had perfected the art of balancing between the two and, to show the world, plunged headfirst into their own amps. Like a fine bottle of wine, the album should be ingested whole, but “Teenage Riot,” “Eric’s Trip” and “Trilogy” stand out as the standard bearers of Sonic Youth’s attempted aural uprising.
Music 101
You’ve been at Penn for a few weeks now, and you're finally back in the school-time groove. Unfortunately, you’re most likely grooving to the same old songs.
Ego of the Week: Justin Reilly
Street: Most underrated thing about Penn? Overrated? Justin Reilly: Underrated: performing arts.
NSOverrated?
New Student Orientation: the best week of the academic year. Giant parties, free (albeit watered-down) booze and no nagging schoolwork to ruin all of your fun.
The Round Up: 9.17.09
Welcome back, kids. Penn’s finest have been in full force the past couple of weeks, and in true Quaker fashion the NSO puns were a-flowing (NSO much fun, anyone?), almost as much as the booze.
The Intern: Part 3
A Summer of Experience A Semi-autobiographical Account of My Life By Rachel Stern-Stein After months spent cruising through the coiling canals of corporate America — spreadsheets, progress reports, photocopies, filing cabinets and arch nemeses named Chastity — Rachel had seemingly successfully reached her ultimate destination: the oh-so-crucial final PowerPoint presentation and Intern Evals.
The Best of Summer
With our final issue of Summer Street ‘09, we bid you, our faithful readers, a fond farewell with this summer’s best things to do, places to go, and spectacles to see.
Bon Appetit!
Before the blogosphere blew up, Julie Powell started the Julie/Julia Project in 2002. The objective?
Everything I Wanted To Know About Internships I Learned In Sex Ed
When I was in middle school, folks from the local Christian college came into my English class to convince us not to have sex until we were married.
A Varga Girl Walks Into A Bar...
As college students, most of us are well-versed in the arts of how to pump Bud Light out of a keg and how to shotgun PBR (complete with the perfect key-hole opening). And we have all done our fair share of word-puzzles on the caps of Lionshead bottles (can you say conversation starter?). Unfortunately (or really, fortunately), those skills are useless at Varga Bar.
Square in the Summer
As much as we masquerade as grown-up constituents of the “real world” in the summer — what, with our high falutin’ occupations and very own summer sublets — there is something about these humidity-filled summer months that makes us just want to be kids again.
British Satire Comes Stateside
If Monty Python wasn’t evidence enough, In The Loop is proof that the Brits are comedic geniuses.
Betty Smokes the Competition
When I think of food in Philadelphia, cheesesteaks, Stephen Starr and the Italian Market immediately come to mind.
Take a Look, It's In a Book
Summer tends to be a time for less-than-stimulating internships and the alarmingly rapid decay of one’s ability to think critically.
Take a Look, It's In a Book
Summer tends to be a time for less-than-stimulating internships and the alarmingly rapid decay of one’s ability to think critically.
Wired Up: The iPhone 3GS
Our campus is home to what might be billed as the most important battle since good versus evil, the Phillies versus the Rays, or you versus everyone in Houston Hall at noon.
Center City is Your Oyster
Philadelphia is a city of legacies — aside from its historical origins and sports fanaticism, the city’s food often boasts roots that extend for generations.
