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(01/31/25 2:10am)
At first glance, Warehouse on Watts is an unassuming building; its only telling emblem, a bold W hung above the entrance, which can be found just off east of the Broad Line, is tucked behind a row of beauty salons and mobile phone stores. After braving the cold January winds and a lengthy SEPTA ride, you enter the small room. The red lights and hazy atmosphere are a warm, if slightly ominous, welcome. You’re forced to navigate through a billowing, iridescent fog that envelops the crowd as you make your way to the coat check in the corner—the sole disco ball in the room tucked away from the dance floor, suspended elegantly over a rack of puffers and parkas. Oddly placed, though glimmering, it seems too obvious an analogy for the venue. As heads scatter across the floor like pool balls, your eyes are immediately drawn to this little thing of a stage and the great mass of wires and equipment that spill out from under it. It’s a twinkling canvas for the upcoming artists. Though the venue was intimate, the DJs of Madness and Badness—a show jointly put on by DJ@Penn, Shea Collective, and Students of Hip Hop Legacy—filled every inch of the room with sound, taking us across genres over the course of the show.
(02/05/25 12:58am)
Tucked behind the brick–and–terra–cotta Venetian entrance of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the new exhibition After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection is finally on view at the Arthur Ross Gallery and will remain on view through March 2.
(02/02/25 5:48pm)
Whether our life choices are influenced by new ambitions or family traditions, Gloria Cheng (N, W ‘25) chooses to balance both. While her family history shapes the way she engages with community, her new experiences and aspirations simultaneously propel her to explore and innovate in the fields of maternal health and obstetrics. From beekeeping on campus to exploring how nutrition can be medicine, Gloria finds creative ways to merge her heritage with her aspirations—never wasting a moment to learn, connect, and contribute to communities of care and cuisine.
(01/31/25 5:00am)
Between the streets of Vine and Arch rests a community born over 150 years ago.
(01/27/25 1:40pm)
Restaurant Week is a time when Philly opens its heart—and its kitchens—to remind us why it’s one of the most exciting food cities in the country. It’s more than just prix fixe menus; it’s a celebration of the flavors, vibes, and stories that make this city feel like home. Whether you’re craving nostalgic comfort food or looking for a sleek night out, these restaurants deliver on every front. Here’s where to go and why.
(02/14/25 5:00am)
Going to college in Philly, we’re so often bombarded—on social media and IRL—with seemingly endless options for how to spend our free time. So I’m delighted to announce that Street has done the hard part for you: We’ve rounded up what we think are the can’t–miss events for the month in one convenient place. If I’ve done my job right, there’ll be something in here for every one of our readers, no matter what you like to do with your free time.
(02/02/25 6:00pm)
We’d talked about going to the concert together for months. In August, when we learned that Panchiko was coming here on tour, she was elated. I’d seen them before, but I’d go again with her.
(02/14/25 5:07am)
A bar in Istanbul. Friends surrounding me, a glass at hand—empty, near closing time. During the hassle where everyone tries to figure out a way to get home, I grow distant. It is my last day here, but I don’t want to leave. Everything I have carefully grown in my life has their seeds here, but we are growing apart with every coming day. I am afraid. Of being alone.
(02/14/25 5:00am)
It isn’t that I don’t fall in love.
(02/14/25 5:00am)
To the untrained eye, 4B looks like the next shiny feminist export: edgy, viral, and ready to be hashtagged into empowerment. In the United States, where girlboss feminism still clings to its dying breath, the 4B movement has been flattened into a palatable rejection of men and motherhood, a rebellious lifestyle brand made for Instagram captions.
(02/14/25 5:00am)
What is the price that we pay to live in America? How far will we go to understand and help those that we love, even when they don’t reciprocate love in the way that we need? Rental House by Weike Wang, a Creative Writing professor at Penn, explores these questions by following a couple—Keru and Nate—and their delicate relationships with their family and the world around them.
(02/14/25 5:00am)
If I were to mention “Funky Drummer,” you might furrow your brow in unrecognition, or you might be trying to decipher what combination of sounds could warrant the title. Is the drummer funky because he smells weird? Or is it a nod to his unparalleled groove? Chances are, you wouldn’t recognize the track’s appeal or mid–20th century cultural significance, nor would you be familiar with its creator. In the hip–hop world, the eccentric James Brown is widely considered to be the most sampled artist of all time. Alongside iconic hits like “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” and “Get Up Offa That Thing,” he penned “Funky Drummer” during a successful career that spanned the ‘60s and ‘70s. But if you’re just not cool enough to keep up with Nixon–era disco, chances are you are familiar with its borrowers.
(02/14/25 5:00am)
I met ___ when the air smelled like water and the sun fell onto the pavement in fat, white–hot rounds in between old ginkgos. There was cigarette smoke and car exhaust in the air, a flower wrapped in plastic in my hand, and cicadas yelling to get laid. Humidity. My hair stuck to the back of my neck and his to his forehead as we waited for the train. He told me—jokingly—that one day he would try to win me over in the wintertime. “It’s when people are the loneliest,” he said. Easier to fall in love, he meant.
(02/24/25 4:24am)
It’s not hyperbole to say that David Lynch changed my life. There are those precious few artists whose work hits you at precisely the right moment in your life that forever alter its course. Through the perfect combination of circumstance and substance, they literally expand your field of view. They show you what art can be, and immediately your life is never the same. David Lynch did that for me and for so many others.
(01/17/25 1:40am)
On Monday, Sept. 23, two different red signages mingled with the crowds outside of Citizens Bank Park. There was the typical Philadelphia Phillies red, donned by excited fans to cheer their team on against the Chicago Cubs; and then there was the bright scarlet of solidarity and unity, displayed on shirts and signs of striking Aramark workers. Even under grey, rain–threatening skies, the spirits of fans and striking workers alike weren’t dampened. Chants of “If we don’t get it? Shut it down!” and “What do we want? Contracts!” rang through the air, all under the watchful eye of the iconic, inflatable Scabby the Rat.
(01/22/25 1:18am)
Engaging with the rich history of Philadelphia’s Black communities requires balancing the specific and the universal—examining the unique, localized histories of individual neighborhoods and people while also identifying broader themes and shared experiences that connect them. These local histories form a diverse tapestry, challenging the idea of a single, monolithic Black experience in Philadelphia, while still revealing common struggles, triumphs, and cultural threads. Temple Contemporary’s exhibition Black Like That: Our Lives as Living Praxis furthers this dynamic exploration, contributing to a unique vision of art as living praxis—an art informed by both archival research and engagement with Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.
(02/23/25 7:10pm)
In high school, there was never a more depressing time for me than Saturday nights. Plopping onto my all–too–familiar mattress, I’d brace myself for an hour of creative writing that rarely produced tangible results. In an effort to ignite a spark of inspiration in my writing, I would browse through the Poetry category of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards gallery to see what other poets my age were writing about. And after months of continually browsing this tab, I came to two conclusions—that “winning” writing was most often about some sort of cultural trauma, and that it was always depressing.
(02/04/25 2:01am)
Has the world collapsed with “Skibidi Toilet?” This phrase, along with many others, has become a language staple in the ever–evolving slang of today’s youth.
(02/19/25 8:06pm)
When you think of a superhero movie, you are probably thinking of bright supersuits and dramatic action scenes with even more dramatic villains. In today’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, you probably think of snarky one–liners, less saturation than you would traditionally imagine, and a balancing act between gritty darkness and fun action. Perhaps after all this time, the movies and television shows sort of blur together with some standing out but most falling into a tapestry of mediocrity. We have been long overdue for a show that takes a new angle on a classic story.
(01/26/25 11:08pm)
Buy bananas for cheap while you can, because tomorrow, just one might cost $6.2 million.
