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Tapping Franklin’s Currents Onstage
Puppets and props bring legend to life. Currently Franklin
Free! At Last
Interview Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 on Free!
Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night
One slave’s escape
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2007
Journey to Estonia
Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71 left Estonia as a little boy in 1906. A century later, some members of the great architect’s “family through choice” went back to explore his tangled roots and legacy.
The Radical and the Restorer
As the international blockbuster King Tut exhibition comes to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, the Penn Museum has unveiled an eye-opening companion show on the radical religious and political experiment imposed by the boy-king’s predecessor (and putative father), the Pharoah Akhenaten.
Shooting the Men of Steel
Rustbelt rescue. Titusville Steelworkers
Murder in the Air
When creation and destruction intersect.
Venturi Scott Brown Archives Come to Penn
Penn to get Venturi Scott Brown archives
Geometric Vision
City Tower, by Lou Kahn and Anne Tyng
Goya Again at the Arthur Ross Gallery
25 years later, Goya returns to the Arthur Ross Gallery
The Mother of All Races
North vs. South. The Great Match Race
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2006
Pages for Progressives
Ken Baer C’94’s “big idea”: Democracy
From Broke to Mixed to Scrubs to …
Screenwriter and memoirist Angela Nissel C’98
Retiring Ringmaster
Acclaimed composer Osvaldo Golijov Gr’91 doesn’t mind being famous, but he’d rather talk about music than himself—or better yet, write it.
Opening Tip-off: Action!
Documentary celebrates Penn’s Palestra
All Healing Hands on Deck
Ted Jewell’s report from the Persian Gulf.
Restoring the Roadmap of Tomorrow
Roadmap restoration
Preaching to the Converted
A guide for the faithful. My Life With the Saints.
Art of Appreciation
Prose portraits. Penn in Ink.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2006
Keeping Big Band Jazz Alive
Big-band “orchestrator” Emily Tabin W’78