Playlists
Love your African jewlery
With the Philadelphia Museum of Art within walking distance, other museums and exhibits in Philadelphia are often taken for granted by Penn students.
From the editor
I spent the summer when I was 17 building houses for impoverished families in Wyoming, and I fell in love with Ben, a 23-year-old from Georgia who had just graduated from SUNY Binghamton and was about to start an M.F.A.
How was your break?
Name: Billy Joe Collins, Jr. Where did you go: Topeka, KS Why did you go: I had to fill in at the church nativity scene after one of the wise men had a motocross mishap. Weather: Good for the crops. Most exciting thing you did: Put Paris and Nicole to work on my farm. Least exciting thing you did: I had to leave when Wal-Mart closed for the night on Christmas. Favorite food eaten there: Sausage wrapped in bacon with a side of pork rinds.
Slow Food Nation
There's no need to descend into a jaded, Philly-gritty Sunday morning 'tude with the prospect of Morning Glory brunch.
BUT They Were so cute!
And you thought Bennifer was the break-up to end all break-ups. It may have been a week late, but Hollywood gave celebrity gossipers the best Christmas gift imaginable a couple of weeks ago.
Drops of jupiter
Are you a victim of the Man and his corporate coffee machine? Do you feel ridiculously uncomfortable when Starbucks baristas insist on addressing you by name?
What about figs in the military?
An underground anti-fig movement, anchored at www.godhatesfigs.com, is gaining a following somewhere outside our mainstream consciousness.
Under the Surface
At seven in the morning Carl crouches beneath the intersection of 16th and JFK, picks up his guitar and plays the blues.
The real Urban Outfitters
Even in the glorious neighborhood of Old City, one reaches the point of excess vintage shops. With so little time, one must pick and choose, and choose well.
From the Editor
During the spring semester of my freshman year at Penn I got bored. I spent my time smoking cigarettes or pot on a ledge outside my room.
Arts and farts and crafts
If you think that the earrings at Anthropologie are pretty but absurdly overpriced, or if you broke your favorite necklace and have lost all hope, have no fear!
Hilary swank looks like a man...
Million Dollar Baby is the conventional movie that everyone's sure to like a lot, but not to love.
How To: Spot a fake
If you consider Louis Vuitton Murakami handbags, driver's licenses and Elvis, you will find that everything really meaningful in life is necessarily followed by an imitation.
Livestrong, smoke reds
The thing about smoking bans, like the one Mayor John Street will push in this coming legislative session, is that they go over so well with the masses because it's hard for opponents to define their opposing principles without it being all about me. I smoke because it looks cool.
Warm-up songs
Cold weather got you down? Throw these warm-weather themed songs on your iPod and make snow angels in the Quad.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, Can You Do The Fandango?
Are you cool? Do you think you could be cooler? Screw the built-in equality of college -- cultural politics and elitism are as "Penn" as Benjamin Franklin or people doing it under the button.
Hipster New Year
January, as a month, is decidedly unhip. It's a time to focus on how to make this year better, while constantly being reminded how you fucked up the last one.
Basketball a la Carter
In 1999 Ken Carter, head coach of an inner city high school basketball team in California, created a large controversy when he locked out his undefeated team because they were doing poorly in school.
Apple Reveals iPod shuffle
Posters reading "Life is random" lined the walls of last Wednesday's Macworld expo as Steve Jobs and Apple unveiled their newest product in the ubiquitous iPod genealogy.
