Playlists
Honest To Blog: Exercise Your Right To Post
“Think drama is just for your girlfriends? Think again — because Election ‘08 just got very dramatic!” So wrote College junior and DP staffer Sara Himeles on Seventeen.com’s Electionista blog in a late September post, referring to John McCain’s controversial announcement to postpone the first presidential debate.
Forgotten Cinematic Masterpiece: City Lights (1931)
Few films in cinematic history have withstood the test of time better than Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights.
Life Isn't Beautiful
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, based on the eponymous novel by John Boyne, recounts the tragedy of the Holocaust as filtered through the innocent screen of childhood naiveté. The plot centers on an eight-year-old German boy, Bruno (newcomer Asa Butterfield), whose father (David Thewlis) is put in charge of a Nazi death camp.
Guilty Pleasures: Xanadu
Xanadu 1980 I have a secret that threatens to destroy my credibility among my serious-theater friends: I cannot get enough of Xanadu.
Calling All Muses
Woody Allen + Diane Keaton The on- and offscreen sparks between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are redolent of a connection Scarlett Johansson can only dream about.
How To Keep Your Sex Life Alive When You Won't Be For Long!
Diabetes Things are different now that you regulate your own blood sugar. Always choose sugar-free whipped cream for your make-your-own-sundae fantasies.
Breaking News
AP Florida — The AIDS virus is spreading at an alarming rate in elderly resort communities in Delray Beach, sources say.
Old Balls, Loose Skin
Ladies and gentlemen, we are all going to get old. And annoying. Inevitably, as we age, our genitals will shrivel and our gender lines will blur.
Letter From The Editor
In 1995, the computer-generated marvel Buzz Lightyear voiced the mantra of our modern era: to infinity, and beyond!
Down-home, Downtown
As I sucked on a honey stick and watched the judging of a pie-baking contest, I could faintly hear the sound of a fiddle.
Supper: It's What's For Dinner
Marshmallows? Cornbread? Curry? Or perhaps duck meatballs? Take your pick. Chef and owner Mitch Prensky brings an eclectically delicious menu to young South Street eatery Supper.
Bienvenidos a Distrito Federal
Chef Jose Garces’s most recent incarnation in the Hub building on 40th and Chestnut strays from his more romantic Philadelphia Spanish restaurants — Amada and Tinto — to focus on the color, spice and vibrancy of Mexico’s capital city.
John
John is the most common name in America. And Joe, we think, is the most symbolically average. But this week, Joe was not average at all.
St. A’s Rocktoberfest
It’s not your average frat party that combines spandex, Bon Jovi and scrunchies to draw wannabe frat stars, short-skirted freshmen and everyone in between… all to prove that Penn students love the ‘80s.
Taking Credit
It’s been relatively easy to bash Whartonites and their ilk over the past several weeks. “Look at those fat cats on Wall Street, with their $60 million severance packages,” everyone from the crazy guy next to the Button to The New York Times has sniffed.
I'm Looking Through You
As family weekend approaches and you remember just how many of your usual weekend activities are not quite parent-friendly, it may be time to take stock of Penn’s cultural offerings including the Charles Addams Gallery’s current show, Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z.
Shop and Swap
Does your gag reflex kick into gear as you watch the stock market crash and burn? Or maybe you don’t even notice the recession, since you’ll still be a broke college student no matter what goes down on Wall Street?
Oil Rigs + Mask and Wigs
The Mask and Wig Club has been entertaining Penn with men in drag and raunchy jokes since 1888, and this year’s fall show “Oil Vey!” does not stray from this grand tradition.
Defibrillator: The Libertines, "Up the Bracket" (2002)
By the time I entered high school, I was already months into the greatest love affair of my lifetime.
