Experimental poetry gains a new home at the Kelly Writer’s House
Jacket2 comes to Penn.
Cynthia Kaplan C’85 is feeling a little bit Fangry
Kaplan was in Philly just before Christmas, delivering her yuletide carols to an enthusiastic crowd at the Tin Angel.
Now on YouTube: Classless
Undergrad life, skewed and skewered.
Jon Sarkin C’75 splashes some paint on Guster
The art of Jon Sarkin C'75 is all over the music video for Guster's hit song "Do You Love Me," and if you look closely you can see Sarkin himself make a cameo.
Art With Punch
Worth 1,000 words.
Superblock Gets a Sitcom
Students produce “Classless” comedy.
Classical Revolutionary
Veronica Jurkiewicz C’04 foments Classical Revolution.
Inhabiting Geometry
Gallery-scale model by architect Anne Tyng Gr’75 at ICA.
Grief, Unstaged
Ruth Davis Konigsberg C’90 on The Truth about Grief.
Speak, Pain
A physician who has looked at pain from both sides examines the language we use to describe it.
Online Poetry in Motion
Jacket2 looks good on Kelly Writers House.
One Witty Woman, 12 “Fangry” Songs
Cynthia Kaplan C’85 rocks comedy in Fangry.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2011
True, but Funny?
Architect's joke on Woodrow Wilson.
Jay Matsueda W’95 creates an album of volunteers
How did Jay Matsueda W’95 scrape together studio time with some of L.A.’s finest session musicians? “Barter, and the underground economy,” he says.
Wax in 1971
Lost photos from a band still making Rolling Stone Top 10 lists today.
When West Went East
Victor Mair first encountered the Bronze Age mummies of China’s Tarim Basin 23 years ago. He—and others—have been trying to figure out what those people were doing there ever since.
Up Tempo
Jennifer Higdon G’92 Gr’94 reviewed and interviewed.
Designing Men
Alumni firm KieranTimberlake’s London embassy.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2011
Creating a New Museum for a Venerable History
Gwen Goodman Ed’56 led the NMAJH to Independence Mall.
Abele Honored
A mural and new neighborhood park in southwest Center City named in Abele’s honor.
More Light
“I think that what is changing about my writing is my willingness to go darker so that I can come out with more light,” says memoirist and fiction writer Beth Kephart C’82. In her new novel, set in Philadelphia during the Centennial, a young woman contemplates suicide following the accidental death of her twin.
Golf Instructor, Grandfather, President
A grandson’s memories of Eisenhower in retirement.