Search Results
Below are your search results. You can also try a Basic Search.
(07/22/11 8:42pm)
Next week, Philadelphia's Davio's steakhouse will compete against New York City's 'Cesca restaurant to finally determine who has the best-placed apostrophe. Haha, not. In honor of National Cheesecake Day, the two Italian eateries are serving their signature cheesecake to prove once and for all that their respective city is home to the world's best.
Each restaurant will ship their cheesecake desserts to the others’ restaurants with serving instructions. From Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 to Thursday, July 28th, 2011, guests that order the ‘Cheesecake War Dessert’ will be served 1/2 portions of both the Philly-favorite and ‘CESCA’s acclaimed New York dessert on a plate along with a comment cards. With the honor system at work, each restaurant will tally their numbers and announce the winner live on each other’s Twitter and Facebook pages along with a photograph of the losing restaurant's general manager wearing the other city's baseball jersey and eating a little humble pie.
The dessert special costs a Hamilton, and reservations are suggested at both locations.
(07/20/11 3:57pm)
Local ReTREEt—Get your PennCards out and head over to the Morris Arboretum, Penn's very own tree haven just a short drive from campus. This really nice, upgraded version of the Bio Pond is open late on Thursday nights all summer long (that’s tomorrow!) and even made last year’s Best of Philly list. Check out Street's article here.
(07/19/11 7:19pm)
Elizabeth Banks C'96 made an appearance last night as a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, promoting her upcoming movie with Paul Rudd, Our Idiot Brother.
(07/19/11 4:01pm)
Week 8 of The Bachelorette kicked off with Ashley's anticipation about the episode's hometown dates. She tells us that she looks forward to seeing the guys' real personalities come out around their families. Yeah, because that's exactly how it works on family weekend.
(07/14/11 3:00pm)
Last night, Dance Moms premiered on Lifetime with the expected drama, glitz and shock value, and we were successfully playing the show as mere background noise while we housesat for our creepy neighbors until Nia's mom, Holly, the self-proclaimed Michelle Obama lookalike, appeared on screen.
(07/13/11 4:27pm)
The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences has just awarded $7.85 million to a consortium headed by Penn and the University of Texas to determine the massive gulf oil spill's effects on seafood safety.
(07/12/11 4:14pm)
This week, The Washington Post placed Penn as number 11 on the rankings of the top 12 college financial aid packages (lucky they didn't stop at 10!), citing our no-loan policy as the main factor in earning us a spot on the list.
(07/12/11 1:25pm)
Like every other week, ABC eased us into The Bachelorette by preceding it with Wheel of Fortune. After yet another stay-at-home dad from Hawaii failed to complete the final prize puzzle, our expectations were set at the perfect low.
(06/24/11 4:21pm)
Anything about this video look familiar? How 'bout the old school boombox and random bits of animation? Where have we seen that before? Oh right. Here.
Oh yeah, and that's our campus. (Woo hoo, we're so culturally relevant!)
(06/21/11 4:05pm)
Week Five of The Bachelorette kicked off with Ashley's one-on-one date with Ben F., who looks a lot like Constantine, so it actually gets pretty confusing. Our girl takes him to a marketplace where they sample foods and dresses and hats, and then join a street band. All the while, viewers are thinking, "Didn't she do this with Constantine? Is this Constantine? Wait, is there a new episode tonight?"
(06/19/11 7:31pm)
Unless it's The New York Times. This week's Corner Office feature in the Business Day section showcases the University of Pennsylvania's President Amy Gutmann. Wait a second... She sounds familiar. Didn't we see her somewhere before?
(06/18/11 3:15pm)
It's Saturday and hopefully you're off doing whatever it is that Street's planned for you this weekend, but if you need that extra push to try something new, this Penn alum should provide just the right dose of inspiration.
(06/15/11 5:30pm)
In a number crunch conducted by College Splash, Penn has emerged as #18 on this list of the 20 Most Googled Colleges and Universities. The only other Ivy school to make the cut is Harvard at #11.
(06/14/11 4:34pm)
Week snore Four of The Bachelorette opens with host Chris Harrison's announcement to the boys that they're all packing up to meet Ashley in Phuket, Thailand.
(06/14/11 1:23pm)
Lend A Hand—College senior Rachel Cohen's non-profit organization, Hand2Paw, has partnered with Penn Vet and now has its own Groupon running today through Friday. Donations are $10 each, and a minimum of 50 pledges are required. Cohen assures us that although this Groupon yields no tangible product, good karma goes a long way.
(06/08/11 1:54am)
Recent grad Paul Cusick, C'11, was just drafted today by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 29th round of the MLB shenanigans! (Engineering, Wharton and Nursing: keep up.)
(06/07/11 4:17pm)
On the third episode of The Ashlorette, Penn's golden girl took Ben C. to a dance studio where she taught him some hip hop choreography, which he put it in his back pocket and saved for later...when Ashley surprised him with a dancing flash mob in the middle of a public mall. It wasn't awkward at all. Then the Far East Movement tried to prove once again that they're not just a one-hit wonder, milking more of their 15th minute of fame by performing for the crowd.
(06/06/11 2:49pm)
In a web interview with The Washington Post, President Amy Gutmann sheds light on how she successfully rules with an iron fist. Get this: it's by not ruling with an iron fist. Instead, Gutmann stresses the importance of collaborative, interactive leadership over government by command and control.
(06/03/11 4:06pm)
Recent College grads Meredith Perry '11 and Nora Dweck '11 have paired up to create the uBeam, a handy dandy gadget that remotely and wirelessly charges all of your electronic devices without having to plug them in.
(05/29/11 1:00pm)
Despite all their recent robot media hype, Penngineers are getting no love. Luckily, most of them are used to it.