Playlists
The Best of (Not) Penn
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts If your last trip to a museum consisted of a class lecture at Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, it may be time to expand your artistic horizons, which is what the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (aka PAFA) is all about.
The Best Coffee On Campus
You don’t have to go far to find coffee on Penn’s campus — there’s the Starbucks on 34th, the other Starbucks on 34th, Saxby’s on 40th, Dunkin’ Donuts and seemingly dozens of other cafes waiting to take your hard-earned cash.
The Best Recipes Ready in 10 Minutes
Taco Salad Ingredients: Salad greens, 1 tomato, 1/2 red onion, 1 avocado, 1 can black beans, 1 can sweet corn, olive oil, cilantro tortilla chips Directions: Chop tomato and red onion.
The Best Vending Machines
If you’re a sucker for snacks, you’ll think you’ve died and gone to vending machine heaven in the obscure John Morgan Building (behind the Quad, adjacent to Robert Johnson Pavilion). With no less than 10 separate machines, there’s something to satisfy everything from a mild case of the munchies to fullblown hunger pains.
The Best (Food) Courses Offered Next Semester
Food and Culture ANTH-184-301 Jane Kauer Discover the “meanings underlying eating and food in the United States, and the different ways that individuals construct ‘self’ and identity through food and eating.” Profound, man.
The Round Up: 4.2.09
Spring Fling is tomorrow. Actually, it’s not... but Happy April Fools, one day belated.
If You Build It, Will They Come?
I went to Mecca last year. I skipped out on a couple of Friday classes, packed a backpack with a change of clothes, and hopped on a train to New York.
Miss Philadelphia 2009
It is during this time of year — the performing arts spring show season — that the less-than-talented among us realize just how awesome our singing, dancing peers are.
Two Lovers Make Civil Hands Unclean
Carefully spaced family photographs line a wall of Leonard’s parent’s apartment. Tracing many generations of his traditional Italian family, they soon come to represent confinement.
Love the Skin You're In(k)
“If I don’t do it now, I’m never going to do it,” blurts a woman breathlessly. She grabs one of the image-filled binders from the counter and flips to a page of Sanskrit lettering.
From the Editor: 3.26.09
Every day professors tell us all kinds of crazy stuff that we are expected to believe, no questions asked.
Paging Pixar
In the seminal case of Monsters vs. Aliens, an enormous woman battles googly-eyed antagonists from outer space.
Defibrillator: A Streetcar Named Desire
It’s hard to imagine Marlon Brando as anyone other than the notorious Godfather. But before he was Don Corleone, Brando turned in a riveting performance as Stanley in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams. The film follows Blanche (Vivien Leigh), who arrives on her sister Stella’s doorstep claiming to be suffering a nervous breakdown.
Before Sunrise: A Tryst Gone Right
Act One Film Buff: Wow, I love your posters. Capra and Lynch, such an unusual mix.(1) Seducer: I almost put up my poster of The Third Man, signed by Orson Welles, but it’s much too valuable. Film Buff: [clearly impressed] Seducer: I rented a few films — Requiem for a Dream, The Bicycle Thief and A Woman Under the Influence— but I’m going to leave the final choice up to you.
How To Seduce A Film Buff
Step 1: Put up posters of films by under-appreciated directors. Purchase coffee table books on film noir, Italian neoRealism and cinéma vérité. Explain that your usual arts-haus indie theatre has been closed for inventory the recession, otherwise you would have met there.
A Haiku on Steak
While once you moo’ed today you are most tender. Revenge: bittersweet.
Recipe of the Week: Bowtie Pasta Salad
Now that spring has sprung and the Green is hopping, it’s the best time of year for an afternoon picnic.
Crazy Lust
If you’re looking for a new place to plug in your laptop and settle in for a couple hours, check out Lovers and Madmen.
Giving it 100%
Along with the sight of mysterious gentlemen sneaking out in the wee morning hours and the revolting buildup of hair in the shower drain, a kitchen full of 100-calorie packs goes with the territory of sharing a house with seven girls.
