This Weekend in Music
(09/18/08 11:41pm)
The way-cooler-than-us editors of Street's music section tipped us off to the concerts worth checking out this weekend.
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The way-cooler-than-us editors of Street's music section tipped us off to the concerts worth checking out this weekend.
It's Thursday, and you know what that means: you get to read 34th Street during your least favorite recitation!
Silver fox Anderson Cooper will be SPEC Connaissance's fall speaker, the DP reports, and let us be the first to respond to that news with a hearty "hell yeah!" Aside from just existing in this world as his generally adorable self, Anderson's accomplishments include Emmy awards, bestselling books, and hosting beloved reality series The Mole. Good choice, SPEC! Now get back to work, only six months left to fight over which crappy band should play Fling '09.
Understandably, banks have lost some of their luster as the most prestigious and douchebag-esque thing to do after graduation. What's taken their place? Oh, just this search engine thing, Google. Oh, you've heard of it? You were one of the bazillions of people who submitted your resume?
We love our Facebook friends very much, each and every one of them, except of course those that are not actual people. Unite ONine, of course, is not a person, but the obligatorily ridiculous name that this year's Senior Gift Drive committee has come up with for the annual fundraiser. And they want to be our friend!
We do not visit our University's illustrious homepage often, but the past few times we've stopped by, we've noticed that some of the background images we had gotten used to are gone. Where art thou, intense girl staring into a laptop at Van Pelt? And what became of that two-seasons-old picture of the smily cheerleaders? They have been replaced with a new collection of vaguely academic images--boy in lab coat holding up glass tubey thing! Diverse groups of students thoroughly enjoying walking down steps! Penn has conveniently posted a captioned gallery of said images here. We couldn't help but think that some of them were ripe for a little LOLPenn-ification. Our best creations are after the jump; send yours in here.
Everyone knows the best way to spread an unsubstantiated rumor is through shameless listserv blitzing. At 34th Street, we're all for rumormongering--when some gossip hits your inbox, by all means, hit forward. But right now we would like to call to your attention some flagrant examples of listserv abuse.
UTB tipster and Street Music editor Johann Diedrick just sent us this most disheartening photo off the AP Wire.
Our understanding of the current state of the economy is essentially a picture of a downward-sloping arrow (see fig. 1), but you know things must be bad when even the right-wing voodoo economists of The Wharton School are holding a teach-in. Check out the e-mail Dean Robertson just sent out to all Wharton faculty and students:
Did any of you catch Philadelphia on AMC yesterday or today? The cable network's had the movie on rotation lately to celebrate its 15th anniversary. Yes, it's been 15 years since Tom Hanks won the first of his back-to-back Oscars, and let us all pause for a moment to revel in the amazingness that was early-to-mid-'90s Tom Hanks. But that's just the first of many reasons that Philadelphia is an awesome movie. As you must know, its representation of AIDS, homosexuality and discrimination was groundbreaking, and it's got a kick-ass Springsteen themesong to boot. And we would be remiss if we didn't trot out the oft-repeated tidbit that a scene was shot at our very own Fisher Fine Arts Library. If we remember the admissions tour spiel correctly, they had to move out all the art books and bring in legal ones to make the space look more like a law library. Movie magic, everyone! Also, if our memory continues to be reliable, Tom Hanks's character is a Penn Law grad, and everyone's favorite former Philly mayor and Penn alum Ed Rendell has a cameo. So yes, we recommend that you watch Philadelphia next time it's on. Check out listings on AMC's website.
The start of a new school year means new freshmen, new buildings, and (for some people) a chance to reveal the plastic surgery they got over the summer, but it also means new machines at Pottruck! We snuck our cell phone into the gym so we could get some pictures.
One of the most amazing things about a Penn education is how much you end up learning from your peers. Below, we ask one of the Wharton students on our buddy list to explain a thing or two about this whole Lehman Brothers situation.
Breathe easy, your friends at 34th Street are back with the first issue of the year of what in our admittedly very biased opinion is the best magazine on campus. Check it out in print or online!
Welcome to the first installment of our book club, in which we indulge the fantasy that people on this campus actually have time for pleasure reading! New book club selections will be posted sporadically, or maybe never again--it depends on whether we finish any other books this semester.
After spending half an hour (and $56.30!) in Steiny-D's cavernous bottom floor, your trusty blogger can't help but ask that eternal question: What sucks more, actually spending money on bulkpacks or having to print out all that crap yourself?
Welcome to UnderTheButton.com, 34th Street's new blog. For our inagural post, we shall attempt to say something meaningful about our generation vis-a-vis a recap of the MTV Video Music Awards.