Playlists
Pure Blitz
It’s Blitz!, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first full-length album in three years, delivers listeners the band’s brand new sound — one that trades meaty guitar riffs and guttural yelps for a synthesizer and disco backbeats.
Can you (Pan)handle This?
Flo Rida’s latest release, R.O.O.T.S, rides the popular flow of his debut album, 2008's Mail on Sunday, by essentially remaking it and streamlining his schema for success.
Living Thingle
With Seaside Rock (2008), Peter Bjorn and John seemed to experience the writer’s block that inspired the title of their much-loved first album.
Look Who’s Talking
Smaller than a stick of gum and serving the dual function of tie-clip and 4GB mp3 player, Apple’s new talking iPod Shuffle ($79) is both elegant and understated.
Revelation at the Rotunda
Last Sunday at the Rotunda, the ghosts were out — and they were playing with distortion pedals and tape machines.
Wunder-Wordsmiths
You might think of printing as a necessary evil that costs eight cents per page, but don’t write it off just yet.
Ego of the Week: Ashish Sharma
Street: There are two types of people at Penn... Ashish Sharma: The ones who are in Wharton and then everyone else.
Print Party
For over 55 years, Philadelphia’s Photo Process Screen Manufacturing Company has been providing amateur and professional artists all of their screen printing needs.
Get Foodiefied
11th Annual Fairmount Bunnyhop Today, 6:30 p.m. Starting point: Urban Saloon, 2120 Fairmount Ave. This Easter-themed pub crawl benefits Philadelphia area charities, and stops at 10 spots along Fairmount Avenue.
Recipe of the Week: Flourless Chocolate Torte
Ingredients: 4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened) 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter 3/4 cup sugar 3 large eggs 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (plus additional for sprinkling) Powdered sugar for decoration Directions: Preheat oven to 375°F and butter an eight-inch round baking pan.
A Haiku on Okra
Some people fry you Take my taste buds to new heights Pentagon of green.
Down Home West Philly
Nestled between a gas station and a block of Victorian row houses, Genuine Baking Company takes you by surprise.
If You’re Sick of BYO-ing Beijing...
En route to 40th & Market — whether it’s to frequent Distrito, hop on SEPTA or make a liquor run at Wine & Spirits — you might notice Nan Restaurant.
Smack That
What’s wrong with kids today? It’s a question that has followed us from our jelly shoe-clad childhoods, to our MTV/TRL/TGIF loving adolescence, to our Not-Penn-State and definitely Not-Berkeley-circa-1960 University of Pennsylvania.
The Round Up: 4.9.09
Yesterday marked the beginning of Passover, so all the Jews have gone home to New Jersey and Long Island for the weekend.
True Life: I Work at Koch's
It was the most beautiful sandwich I’d ever seen. Ounce upon ounce of stacked corn beef. I was instantly hooked.
Go Go Power Rangers!
After a good run as Angel Grove’s top martial arts fighting squad, they hung up their Zords in favor of “normal” teenage lives.
Fat Jack’s Comicrypt
Entering Fat Jack’s Comicrypt feels like flying into an issue of Superman. The comic emporium’s walls — bright red, blue and yellow — are covered in posters of Clark Kent's alter-ego and every other comic book figure imaginable.
Saving the World, SuperStreet Style
If you’re like us, you’ve adopted crime-fighting, ass-kicking alter egos to help you navigate the wild world of Penn.
