Katherine Rea
ARTICLES
Inside The Artist's Studio
Entering the studio, afternoon light pours through windows spanning two walls. Caroline Harrison hurries to the back corner of the room and emerges from behind easels and canvases with several damp watercolor paintings.
Take a Break From Reality
If you need a study break, your first thought might not be to go see a musical. But even if you’re not a Glee devotee, or a closet fan of High School Musical, there’s something undeniably heartwarming about seeing a cast of characters unrealistically break into song — especially live.
Just Bead It
If you’re a really ambitious crafter, you can buy wire, beads and pliers at a craft store to create earrings, rings, bracelets and necklaces for the women in your life.
Thinking Outside Penn InTouch
Calling All Top Chef Wannabes
Can’t find the elective class you’re looking for in the course register?
Poetry Off The Page
In a category all its own, the Excelano Project is Penn’s only spoken word poetry collective. The intensity and passion behind their performances go far beyond spoken word, poetry or prose, reaching into every niche of human emotion — from humor and joy to profound sadness and loss.
More Than Manga
If you’re a sucker for Japanese goodies, Omoi is a must-see. And even if you’re not, this place is so cute and carries such an impressive variety of toys, stationery, clothes and jewelry that it’s almost impossible to leave without buying something.
Tiny, colorful and surprisingly well-organized merchandise neatly crams every corner.
Autumn Outside
You don’t have to venture into West Philly to get out of the Penn bubble we love to whine about but secretly are too scared to leave.
Consequential
At first, you might think consequential is just another way of saying important. After all, the exhibition shows works from over 30 of PennDesign’s prestigious faculty, and that seems pretty important.
Campus Comics
Simply Chaos:
Simply stand-up comedy — like Funny People, but without all the penis jokes.
Penn Presents
MacHomer
Who ever said Shakespeare and cartoons don't mix? In this one-man vocal spectacular, highbrow academia meets the average American family as Rick Miller mixes Shakespeare’s Macbeth with The Simpsons.
Homer and Marge play Lord and Lady MacHomer, with Rick Miller filling in for more than 50 characters from the timeless TV series in this imaginatively staged, hilarious version of a tragic regicide and its aftermath.
Doug Elkins and Friends: Frauleïn Maria
If you’re expecting a traditional interpretation of The Sound of Music, you’re in for a surprise.
Period television is where it's at
Sick of life in the 21st century? Check out these other period dramas for a temporary time warp.
The Tudors: There's something undeniably sexy about absolute monarchy — especially when Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays the lusty King Henry VIII.
Martinis at the Museum
It doesn’t get much classier than cocktails, live jazz and fine art. Every Friday evening from 5 p.m.
Ego
Wunder-Wordsmiths
You might think of printing as a necessary evil that costs eight cents per page, but don’t write it off just yet.
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.
Ego
2 Wheels, 1 Bag
Originally started by two Philadelphia bike messengers frustrated with their bags, R.E.Load Baggage has grown from a service spread by word-of-mouth to a company that sells their bags in bike stores all over the country.
Ego
Gems in the Rough
That saccharine day in the middle of winter which singles scoff at (but everyone secretly loves) has come around again.
Ego
Be Good To Them Always
Forget organized religion. Now your answers for how to live well and do good can be found in GOOD magazine.
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