Playlists
I'm in Love with a Stripper
Prep by removing all oils from your body, donning your sexiest shoes and baring your legs. 1. Position your feet close to the pole. 2.
Love Potion #9
Forgo the cute outfit, the incessant flirting and the casual but conspicuous stares. In spite of your previous tactics (desperate at times), he or she may or may not have noticed you, but with a love-liquid remedy, your heartache will soon subside.
Be Mine
Want to tell your significant (or not-so-significant) other how you feel this Valentine’s Day? Forget the old adage “say it with flowers” and express yourself through candy instead.
Love Stinks
If you’re without a Valentine this year, you don’t want to support the Hallmarketing racket, or you think that Saturday the 14th is more ominous than its preceding Friday the 13th, check out one of the anti-Valentine’s Day celebrations going on in Philly this month.
Rittenhouse's Got Rooibus
For those tea connoisseurs out there, — as well as you coffee-drinkers in need of a less-caffeinated morning brew — Premium Steap is the place to go.
Drink of the Week: Hot Apple Chai
If the mainstream coffee chains have been eating up all of your Dining Dollars lately and you’re still craving that delicious seasonal apple chai, why not try a much healthier DIY version right at home?
TEAching you the basics of brewing
Tea has long been the social drink of choice. Originating in China over 3,000 years ago, this caffeination sensation has spread to all parts of the world and even sparked some controversy (Boston Tea Party, anyone?). With Starbucks’ newly launched “Tea Time at Starbucks” campaign, this age-old drink is making a comeback.
Spice up your Life
If your New Year’s resolution was to clear the cobwebs from your pots and dust off the oven mitts, head to gourmet food specialty store Spice Terminal at Reading Terminal Market for all the herbs, spices, preserves and sauces you need to whip up a great meal.
Locavores Unite!
Even with the blistering winter weather beating at the windows, the warm yellow hues inside Rx — located at 45th and Spruce — can brighten up the chilliest day.
Ego of the Week: Emerson Barth
From public official on the UA to public figure on campus, engineering senior Emerson Barth embodies what it means to be “Penn-fabulous.” Street: Is this your first time in an on-campus publication? Emerson Barth: Yep, unless you count being culturally elite. Street: When you’re not studying in engineering, you can be found... EB: At Pottruck… in the locker room. Street: Tell us your most outrageous story from abroad. EB: Model night at our favorite club in Hong Kong: Naomi Campbell dancing on stage next to Grandmaster Flash and Jackie Chan hiding around the corner. Street: Most underrated thing about Penn?
Shop Till You Drop
Philadelphia may not be New York or L.A., but the city does have its fair share of fashion hotspots.
Philadelphia Tea Houses
Looking for more places to get your tea on? Check these out: Remedy Tea Bar 1628 Sansom St. T Bar 117 S.
Rhyming Couplets
Kitchen closes at 6 pee em Then you say to customers: ahem ahem hem Metropolitan Bakery you are So close and yet so far Up Walnut Street I skip To have a tasty sip of your Peruvian drip Still scared am I to spill (Though it may be half the thrill) And though your bread may be old I’m just too hungry to scold
Ode to a WaWa Slushie/Ode from a WaWa Slushie
TO A WAWA SLUSHIE You are bounteous in icy composition Red 5, corn syrup — nothing but the best I crave you Cherry?
Food for Thought
I am sad. I am melancholy. You’d think I’d be sprightly. What, with my colorful combinations and my bittersweet rosemary balsamic honey mustard garb?
This Week in Music History: February 5-12
1957: Bill Haley, a star among Comets, arrives in Southampton on the Queen Elizabeth II, becoming the first American rock star to tour the UK.
Defibrillator: The Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds" (1966)
My parents are, in the simplest of terms, ex-hippies. There are more pictures of my father wearing bandanas than there are of us together and my mother still dances like a girl on Haight Street.
Tongue Thrashing
Two Tongues starts off somber, with a quiet, almost innocent, guitar solo. Then there’s a lurching stop, a screaming “Wait!” and a massive power chord followed by the crash of cymbals.
Ol' (Sounding) Dirty Bastards
If Judy Garland had landed in Oz in 1960 instead of 1939, followed the yellow brick road straight to the local karaoke bar and requested something bluesy to ease her not-in-Kansas-anymore induced homesickness, the resulting sound would be that of Heartless Bastards’ The Mountain. Owing to a distinct, mature vocal tone (think Melissa Ethridge comes to Zooey Deschanel’s window) and a constantly changing line-up, Erika Wennerstrom truly is Heartless Bastards.
