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(10/30/18 12:00pm)
There’s enormous talent on this campus. That’s a fact. From freshmen beginners to Grammy–awarded artists, there’s an endless stream of the performing arts for all to see. Here’s what not to miss this upcoming month:
(11/01/18 12:00pm)
During the 1970s, in New York City, the cradle of hip hop, movie theatres were playing Kung Fu flicks and porn. Theatres had been experiencing a surge in prices from Hollywood so they went ahead and bought raunchy material and Chinese films for a fraction of the price, and played them on repeat from dusk till dawn. This artform made its way into the subculture that gave birth to hip hop, and in the 1990s, with the emergence of Toonami on Cartoon Network, a similar international artistic infiltration took a hold of the people at the forefront of today’s rap scene.
(11/02/18 12:00pm)
Through December 20th, the Harvey & Irwin Kroiz Gallery will be exhibiting seven decades of work from landscape architect and Penn professor Laurie Olin. Titled “Drawing: Laurie Olin,” the exhibit displays how the designer of some of the biggest landscapes in the country perceives and reconstructs his world.
(10/31/18 12:00pm)
I've been anticipating the release of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for months. As a a self–proclaimed teen drama fiend, a dark remake of Sabrina the Teenage Witch sounded extremely appealing. Whenever a trailer came out for the show, I clicked right away, and each tease made me for excited for the full season. And on Oct. 26, when the first season of the show came out, I was not disappointed.
(11/19/18 1:00pm)
Most musical groups at Penn restrict their music–making to rehearsals and the occasional gig or performance. Not Penn Sargam, one of America’s few college performing arts ensembles dedicated to South Asian fusion music. At their Open Jam and Chai Chat in collaboration with Penn Sangam last Thursday, Sargam expanded the discussion—and creation—to everyone.
(10/31/18 12:00pm)
Remember when Hannah Baker told Zach that 2001: A Space Odyssey was “boring…You should definitely see it so that when pretentious people talk about it you can yawn really loudly,” in season 2 of 13 Reasons Why? Yeah, me neither. I’ve never even seen the show. I have seen 2001: A Space Odyssey though, once, this past weekend in the Franklin Institute’s massive dome theater.
(10/30/18 12:00pm)
When handling difficult, disturbing subject matter, a truly affecting film finds a way of addressing the seriousness of its content without spoon–feeding it to the audience. Beautiful Boy is a portrait of addiction, but also an exploration of just how far a family can bend before it breaks. It's about dark matters that seem a little buried by the film’s glossy exterior. There are moments, however, so wrought with a quiet kind of pain that the film transcends its somewhat thin use of dialogue and lack of deep introspection. Instead of following a wholly linear narrative, Beautiful Boy lets viewers look through the eyes of a father who watches his son fall into the merciless cycle of addiction by stringing together a series of moments. What saves this film from wasting its emotional impact is a structure that reflects the patterns of memory, transporting audiences into the headspace of a parent who feels growing dread and helplessness while he watches a person he loves destroy himself.
(11/01/18 12:00pm)
The time was October 27th, Saturday night. The place, Irvine Auditorium. The crowd, a swirling mass of traditional Indian dress: cream tunics and long pants on guys, saris in gold and green and all that glitters on girls. The show itself? "SAS Presents: Friends – The Cultural Show," a celebration of Indian culture in the form of music and dance. Here are some of the highlights:
(10/30/18 12:00pm)
“Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House. And whatever walked there, walked alone.” So says the opening monologue of The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix’s latest horror series to drop during the Halloween season. A slow burn of anxiety that builds to smart and terrifying scares, Hill House is a meaty television series that explores family and the lasting effects of trauma.
(10/30/18 12:00pm)
Looking for ideas for a Halloween–y bad movie night? Maybe something to watch with your boo (pun intended)? No matter what you have planned this Halloween, it wouldn’t be right to end the festivities without at least one scary movie under your belt. If you aren’t interested in hitting the theater, Netflix offers a wealth of seasonally–appropriate fare to have you at the edge of your seat all through the crisp October night. From horror classics to recent favorites, here is the best and worst that Netflix has to offer.
(11/10/18 1:00pm)
Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince is self–indulgent. It’s what Everett considers to be his magnum opus: he directs, writes, and stars as the legendary Oscar Wilde in a story about the final years of his life, something which Everett has been interested in for years. His foray with Wilde’s works begins in The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and continues with his first portrayal of Wilde in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss. It’s clear that The Happy Prince is a work of love, but it seems more like Everett made the work for himself rather than for audiences.
(10/30/18 12:00pm)
Khalid has done it again. In his seven–track EP Suncity, which came out on October 19, he once again does what he does best: acting as the voice of the teenage generation. In a seemingly simplistic fashion, he magically makes teen recklessness and the problems they face, beautiful. Listening to his lyrics as a young adult, you somehow become nostalgic for this age even though you are in the midst of living it yourself. And Suncity, a "love letter" to El Paso, Khalid's hometown, makes you miss the Texas town even if you've never set foot there.
(10/29/18 12:00pm)
So, if you haven’t been living under a rock for the past six months, you know that Election Day is coming up really soon. Like less–than–two–weeks soon. November 6, to be exact. You would also know that the youngest Americans, aged 18 to 29—A.K.A. us—historically have the lowest voter turnout, with less than half showing up to the polls in the 2016 presidential election. But don’t let this discourage you because millennials were also the only age group to report increased voter turnout compared to 2012.
(11/01/18 12:00pm)
About a week before Parent Weekend, my mom texted me out of the blue: "Do you want to see Record Company at the Fillmore on 10/20?" With the football game and associated Penn Band halftime show on Friday night, she had two days in Philly with me and not much to do.
(10/25/18 12:00pm)
Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Alice Deng (E ’20) is a bit of a street wanderer. Camera strapped around her neck, she radiates a sunny, carefree aura—one can’t help but find her immediately relatable. “I’m a little awkward,” Alice laughs. Beneath this humble charisma, however, is a wildly versatile, creative individual with a deep sense of self. Since coming to Penn with an indefinite idea of what she wanted to do, Alice has found her unique home in the balance between art, design, and computer science. On campus, the CIS major and fine arts minor can be found snapping aesthetic food pics for Penn Appétit, cranking out code as a member of Penn Women in Computer Science (WiCS), and expressing her identity through a diverse set of creative projects.
(10/25/18 4:00am)
In The Sisters Brothers, starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, there are no good guys. Our protagonists are quite possibly the farthest we get from sympathetic leads, two hired guns who often get wrapped up in conflict and have to shoot their way out. Charlie Sisters, the younger of the two, is impulsive and violent, and uses his alcoholism as an excuse for his rash behavior to his brother. Eli, the older, struggles to clean up after his brothers' reckless attitude while also harboring a past love and the shadow of the two's murderous father.
Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal also star, as a fugitive chemist and the detective after him, respectively, who quickly move past their adversity to join forces in their search for riches. Warren (Ahmed) has developed a formula to quickly locate gold in a river, though it comes with a cost, and the Sisters Brothers are hired to track them down and bring back the formula to their mysterious patron, The Commodore.
Stylistically, The Sisters Bros. is muddy, sleepy, and feels as though seen through a pinhole, at least for the first half, while Eli and Charlie bicker and stumble their way across the Western frontier. It's lack of a distinctive soundtrack is made up for by the steady pace of the plot, and each scene is less begun and ended and more entered and exited as soon as it reaches a peak.
Despite their buffoonery, the two brothers are surprisingly good at their jobs. By the time they locate the two enterprising outlaws, they have left a trail of bodies behind them, without much regard for who they kill. As they move along, it becomes clear that Eli holds most of the emotional core of the film, being forced to bear many burdens as his brothers’ keeper despite being less of an outlaw than his gruff exterior portrays. In a small central cast of four stellar actors, Reilly shines as Eli.
(10/24/18 12:00pm)
Be the Cowboy was my very first concert. And between the overwhelming red lights that covered the stage before the show started and the strong smell of marijuana coming from the guy behind me, I think it was a good first concert.
(10/29/18 12:00pm)
At the intersection of Arch and 16th Streets, shadowed between buildings of glass and brick and facing the incessant traffic of Benjamin Franklin Parkway, sits the Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial Plaza. Newly opened after reconstruction by the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation on Oct. 22, 2018, the plaza is a sliver of history suspended within the fast flowing pace of Center City. In collaboration with architecturally acclaimed design firm Wallace Roberts & Todd, the Foundation officially broke ground for the Plaza's reconstruction on Nov. 28, 2017 as a means of restoring and expanding the original monument for a wider audience.
(10/23/18 12:00pm)
Shivers went down my spine as the sound of chopping scissors permeated the quiet theater; my friends and I scrunching our faces in disgust and waited with bated breath for the frightening music to end. I listened to the faint melodies with anticipation, nearly jumping out of my seat when the music swelled and the silence of the protagonist spoke volumes. The Witch, released in 2016, was an excellent film, filled with hidden meaning and horror that followed you long after you stopped watching. It was the first horror movie that I remember with a truly noticeable soundtrack. Although I didn’t remember the exact tune of the music played, I remember the feeling that it created in the pit of my stomach, one of fear and hesitation and excitement all at once.
(10/29/18 12:00pm)
On Friday, Oct. 19, Shahzia Sikander’s latest work of art, The Perennial Gaze, was unveiled in the Bonnell Building at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP). The mosaic mural is displayed near the entrance of the building where the glittering tiles might pique the interest of any student or visitor passing by.