Playlists
Big Vaginas on campus
Street sat down with College seniors Greer Longer and Kimberly Rust, the director and producer of The Vagina Monologues (part of Penn's larger V-Day effort). We learned that when it comes to raising awareness, shouting obscenities on Locust Walk is fair game. Street: How do you think that the concept of The Vagina Monologues contributes to raising awareness about women's issues? Kimberly Rust: We've worn our Vagina Monologues shirts everywhere for the past couple of weeks, and they always start conversation.
Street beats
Across the country, liberals gathered for wine, cheese and gloating as President Bush delivered his sixth State of the Union Address.
Brewmaster's Corner
The Super Bowl has certain rules that must be observed. Acolytes submit to the orgy of chili, wings and beer.
Men (?) in Togas
Troy Story: You Odyssey It to Believe It Mask and Wig Clubhouse 310 S. Quince St. Until Mar. 30, times vary, $12 (215) 923-4229 www.maskandwig.com Here at Penn we can easily avail ourselves of numerous performing arts groups both on campus and off, and these are all just fine and dandy.
Street Beats
The Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl 29-17, amidst torrential downpour and the stench coming off Rex Grossman's right arm.
Bloody awful
In the ignominious tradition of Alone in the Dark, American actress Agnes Bruckner and German director Katja von Grenier have banded together to create one of the year's worst films with Blood and Chocolate. The plot is a simple boy-meets-girl, girl's-family-keeps-them-apart premise.
Word on the Street
So, we're young and impressionable and we want to know what to believe politically. Even more than that, we want to look cool.
Silicon smackdown
Think back to a time before Seth Cohen made geekiness a virtue, before Windows meant more than panes of glass and before nerds got their revenge.
Youtube clip of the week
It's a bold new age of information. YouTube represents an archive of millions of hidden or long-forgotten documentations of some of the greatest performers in music, free and at the tips of our fingers.
Dental library
Tucked away in the Schattner Center at 40th and Spruce, the Dental Library seems remote from undergraduate life.
Oh Snap!
Dear whale sympathists, Free Willy? More like skin Willy! The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society allows people to adopt real whales.
Dispatches
12:15 a.m.: Stopped by a '90s party on Sansom and didn't know a soul. The hottest girl in the room held hands the entire night with some douchebag wearing a long face and a blazer.
The Engineering Library
engineering library The Engineering Library keeps it real. This library is not spacious, but there is a lot of personal space and the entire facility is well lit.
Give me 5
Say hello to my little friend The Vagina Monologues Irvine Auditorium 3401 Spruce St. Until Feb.
FISHER FINE ARTS LIBRARY
Fisher Fine Arts is like Van Pelt's well-behaved, socially awkward, yet pretty older sister. With beautifully carved red stone and intricate stained glass windows, its architecture puts all other Penn buildings to shame.
BIOMEDICAL Library
The Biomedical Library is a quiet getaway from the populated floors of Van Pelt. This secluded spot is located on Hamilton Walk, cleverly concealed behind the lower Quadrangle.
Engineering a career
The last thing you might expect to come out of the School of Engineering is an R&B album. But you probably haven't heard of Tara Betterbid, aka taragirl. Although taragirl refers to her sound as "organic R&B," someday her name could be added to the Philly soul pantheon, alongside Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott and Jaguar Wright.
Valentine's lessons from my va-jay-jay
You have to have plans for Valentine's Day. Everyone has plans. Me, I've got plans, too. Every February, as Valentine's Day draws near, I find myself reminiscing about the men I've known (in the biblical sense, of course), not so much surveying my options for that particular saint's day as giving myself a big high five for my options of yore.
