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(10/07/08 3:54am)
Quick, check out the The New York Times's homepage, which currently features a big ol' story on none other than Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, which this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary. "Community public art can knit people together in a way that other things can’t," program director (and erstwhile Penn prof!) Jane Golden tells the paper. An accompanying slideshow features more murals you may have noticed during your travels about the city. We offer a virtual pat on the back to all the community organizers out there who've contributed to this project (and would like to point out to Sarah Palin that community organizers, do, in fact, make a difference sometimes). Three cheers for murals!
(10/07/08 12:48am)
Street editor and arbiter of cool Hillary Reinsberg writes in to tell us about the splashy new blog from "queen of buzz" Tina Brown. Because you need something to read between UTB posts.
(10/06/08 9:50pm)
From the looks of all the chalkings on the walk today, it seems that the senior societies were out in full force last night to welcome their fall inductees. The Sphinx mark is blanketing Locust from 40th street to 34th, while Mortarboard's "MB" stamp is slightly less ubiquitous. No sign of Friars yet--can we expect them to strike back tonight? Or will rain come and wash it all away?
(10/06/08 12:18am)
Saucy, sassy and all-around fabulous Street editor and DP columnist Julie Steinberg managed to score an interview with our crush of crushes, Anderson Cooper, when he was on campus yesterday. Here's what he had to say.
(10/05/08 4:03am)
We just returned from Anderson Cooper's speech at a packed-to-both-balconies Irvine Auditorium. Cooper was well-spoken, witty, self-effacing, and said he sounds "like a 12-year-old at an NSYNC concert" when he yells. It would not be an exaggeration to say he was adorable and perfect in every way.* Check out this clip from the opening of the speech:
(10/04/08 11:03pm)
In the last installment of our book club, we fawned over Curtis Sittenfeld's brilliant American Wife. Because we are apparently only capable of reading books with very similar-sounding titles, this time we're reviewing American Widow, by Alissa Torres.
(10/03/08 11:56pm)
We O.D.ed on cupcakes during our Vice Presidential debate eating game. (And every time Sarah Palin winked, an angel got its wings.)
We laughed and cried with (but mostly laughed at) our compatriots in Wharton.
We ignored all this semester's work and looked dreamily ahead to next semester.
Our Sports for Chicks columnist decoded football.
DJ Spooky came to the ICA and told us to expect "wild stylz" from him.
We saw a naked frat guy on Locust Walk.
We scoured the world [wide web] for the first installment of our abroad blog feature.
Our sex columnist lamented a missed pill.
We almost got to see Zach Braff and Drew Barrymore.
See you next week tonight at Van Party.
(10/02/08 7:00am)
Well hello there, vast readership! UTB's cheeks are blushing scarlet today--we just checked out the new issue of Street (in pdf, bitches) and could barely turn a page without seeing an ad for this very blog! But there's other good stuff too! Check it out:
(10/02/08 1:44am)
This joke is currently making its way across the internet. It comes to us via an email-forward-loving Penn mom.
(10/01/08 7:16pm)
It's only October and drop period hasn't even ended yet, but we're already desperately bored of our classes and foaming at the mouth to pick new ones. Picking classes is so much more fun than actually taking them! It's such a nice dreamy lull when you're still optimistic about all the learning you're going to do this semester--then the first midterm/paper hits, and you hate your life all over again.
(09/30/08 4:00pm)
During the fall of junior year, many eager Penn students leave the coccoon of Philadelphia for the unknown shores of Europe, South America and beyond. For these members of their own little temporary "lost generation," starting an abroad blog (or abrog, if you will) is as much a rite of passage as the journey itself. In this occasional feature, we will spotlight one such blog.
(09/30/08 12:00pm)
Sadly, there don't seem to be any events involving <3ing the female orgasm this week, but there's still plenty going on around campus, especially if you're Jewish or Greek.
(09/29/08 10:11pm)
Your parents write them tuition checks every semester, but other than that, what do you really know about "the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania," if that is in fact their real name? Well, one of them is on the cover of fancy-schmancy business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio this month, so we decided to read the story and see if it might teach us anything about the scary group of men (and a few women, yay!) who boss around Amy Gutmann.
(09/28/08 5:45am)
Update, 10:30 9/28: Alas, we just heard that Zach and Drew canceled! Was it a hoax? Did they get a better offer from a school in a real swing state? WHY, DREW, WHY!?
(09/27/08 5:20am)
The first presidential debate was last night. And rather than live-blogging it like every other blog on earth, we'd like to talk about where you were when you were watching it. Samantha Jones once said, "I don’t believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties," and that's a philosophy we take to heart. (Except not really, 'cause we're obviously Democrats like 80% of the students at Penn, haha.)
(09/26/08 4:10pm)
It's overcast, and it's probably going to rain all weekend, and Penn sucks when it's raining. Locust Walk has really bad drainage, the wind tunnel eats umbrellas, those stupid rain boots girls wear are hard to walk in. Life sucks! Or does it?
(09/25/08 3:00pm)
Once again, the super-cool Street music editors have written in to tell us what's worth hearing this week.
(09/25/08 1:51pm)
It's Thursday, and you know what that means, Earthquakes: 34th Street hits the newsstands, conveniently wrapped in the DP for all-weather protection. What's inside this week? We're glad you asked!
(09/25/08 12:12am)
We like reading Missed Connections on craigslist when we're bored, and while we haven't done a statistical analysis of this or anything, it seems like a lot of them take place at the Green Line Cafe. This kind of makes sense, since the Green Line is the de facto official hangout of West Philly hipsters, and the only thing hipsters love more than independent coffee shops is craigslist. So, to all of you sitting at the Green Line, silently yearning after one another, we offer you the same advice we offer to the people that try to use Shoutouts as their own personal risk-free J-date: say something to your object of lust. Out loud.
(09/24/08 3:00pm)
Introducing Point/Counterpoint, in which two UTB contributors have an IM fight over some relevant Penn issue. Today, Michael Gold and Abby Johnston take on abbreviations, also known as abbrevs.
