Penn
The Single Best Tweet About the New York Times’ Sex at Penn Article
You may have heard by now that the Sunday New York Times published a long anthropological study of female sexuality at Penn, after a year’s worth […]
Brand New Listing! Perfect University City Home That Should Go Fast
The listing for this new-to-market University City home for sale, built around 1925, is as brief as they get at the moment: “stunning light filled […]
Drexel Now Painting Its Buildings to Look Like Penn’s
Drexel has tired of its orange-bricked buildings and would now prefer the statelier red that graces Penn’s campus. “You were immediately able to tell when […]
Daily Pennsylvanian Generously Offers to Embarrass You Forever
Are you an incoming University of Pennsylvania freshman? Here’s a limited-time offer from the Daily Pennsylvanian that you should make sure your parents never, ever see. […]
The Coolest Obituary You’ll Read This Week, Featuring a Penn Dropout
47-year-old Mott Green died after being “electrocuted while working on solar-powered machinery for cooling chocolate during overseas transport.” His early death, tragic as it was, […]
Penn’s Zeke Emanuel Has A Simple Way to Reduce Suicides
Ezekiel Emanuel, Penn oncologist/bioethicist/administrator and a member of the ubiquitous Emanuel clan, has written a piece in today’s New York Times proposing a simple, intuitive, […]
More Details on the Alleged Penn Flasher, Who Has Now Been Arrested
Last week we brought you the news that a lecturer in Penn’s anthropology department was accused of exposing “his or her genitals in any public […]
Penn Lecturer Being Investigated for “Indecent Exposure”
OK. We don’t know who he/she is, or what he/she did. But we do know that police are investigating two alleged incidents that took place […]
Newly Listed: UCity Fixer-Upper in Great Location for Just $100,000
Call it whatever you like–a fixer-upper, a diamond in the rough, a house needing TLC–this one could be a rather good deal. The intersection of […]
New Project in Powelton Village Gives Dorms a Run for Their Money
A few years ago, Todd Potter says he realized there was a big void in the Philadelphia real estate market. Students looking to live off-campus […]
Steve Martin Played Him Some Banjo in Philly Last Night
WXPN’s 13th annual Non-COMMvention music festival kicked off last night with a performance from Steve Martin and Edie Brickell (Paul Simon’s wife), who played songs […]
Diplo, Carl June Make Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative” List
Fast Company released its “100 Most Creative in Business” list today, and Philly makes a pretty good showing. Clocking in at #11 is Penn professor […]
Spotted: Denzel Washington at Penn Commencement
In the bleachers at Franklin Field: Denzel Washington, whose son Malcom is graduating today: Great Shot of Denzel Washington at the Penn Graduation on @fox29philly […]
Here’s Who’s Speaking at Penn Commencement Today
Here’s today’s Commencement speaker schedule at Penn: Baccalaureate Ceremony: 9 a.m., Franklin Field: Vice President Joe Biden School of Dental Medecine: 1 p.m., Irvine Auditorium: […]
NBC Cancels Penn Grad Whitney Cummings’s Show
When he reviewed Penn Grad Whitney Cummings’s new show Whitney in 2011, Rich Rys was nonplussed, but hopeful that it would survive. After two seasons, NBC/Comcast/Kabletown […]