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In a society that often asks women to choose between motherhood and a promising professional life, pregnancy gave Ella Vos the strength to launch her music career. And a kickass one at that.
This week, a professional streamer who goes by the name of ‘Ninja’ broke the all–time streaming record on the video–game streaming platform Twitch. 628,000 people tuned in live to an evening of him playing the online shooter Fortnite, albeit with special guests Drake and Travis Scott (under the usernames “johnwick” and “cactus_jack92”).
The relationship between art and academia is oftentimes uneasy. University–based art teaching is comparable to scientific research, where craft and technique are subordinate to formal analysis and critical theory. But art doesn’t have to be intellectualized or institutionalized. At Penn, students like Jenn, Hadeel, and Faith all do art on their own time, allowing it to permeate their lives. This is the kind of engagement the arts program in the college houses aims to support: to imbue the arts into daily life.
I saw the trailer for Thoroughbreds at the Paris Theater in New York at some point in early December. It was the two female leads that eventually made me get out of bed on a Sunday morning just to go all the way to Old City and watch it—at least, this is what it looks like on an ever–growing list of “cool trailers” that I keep on my phone, and which comes in handy specifically in moments like that one.
Saturday Night Live, the bastion of American satire and late–night humor, has largely been lauded for its jabs at contemporary politics and culture. Since its creation in 1975 by Lorne Michaels, the program has churned out successful comics, television and film writers, and actors. While the television show does consistently create a handful of interesting characters and skits, SNL often quickly turns into a trite amalgam of reused jokes and tropes that beg the question: is SNL actually terrible? To which I answer, yes, it is.
Some people live to watch camera confessionals, wine throwing, and rich people crying; and some can’t stand it at all. However, if you’ve ever wanted a happy medium between “reality” television and real life, look no further. Terrace House, a Japanese gem of reality TV hidden away on Netflix, is the kind of show that both sides of the divide might be able to get behind.
Television crime shows are by no means homogenous—they may be fictional or based on true events, documentaries or live action, dramatic or comedic—but they are ubiquitous, and have had sustained popularity as television has evolved. Perhaps it’s the mysterious nature of crime that audiences are drawn to, or the fascinating psychology of the criminal mind. Maybe it’s the suspense of a well–crafted “whodunit” scenario that makes fictional crime compelling, and the grisly, off–putting details of true crime that gets under the skin of those who prefer documentary–style series. In any case, crime has, and will likely continue to be subject matter that makes audiences tick.
One of the most important mantras in art is that the images on the screen aren’t enough. To really understand a piece of art, you have to experience it in person. The torsion of Bernini’s St. Peter’s Baldachin demands a three–dimensional viewing. The light and shadow of Picasso’s cardboard guitars bring the abstract shapes together to form the whole instrument. Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors has a memento mori that can only be fully seen when the viewer stands at an extreme angle relative to the painting’s surface. But what happens when the art student can no longer afford admission to the art museum?
Greetings, loved ones. Much has happened in the last week in the music world, and no, we're not talking about a breakthrough in the monotony of party playlists over Paddy's weekend. In the hoopla that is the pre–summer, pre–festival season, artists are on their A games as they release teasers and full–on albums alike in order to generate as much buzz as they can. And generate buzz they did! Street has you covered on the news you may have missed in the post–darty shuffle.
No one enjoys the first school days back from spring break. To cope during these difficult times, many turn to the same tried–and–true solution: Netflix. But what happens when you log on, only to realize that you binge–watched literally every appealing prospect over break?
Music festivals can be expensive as fuck. Lucky for you, Street combed through this coming year’s slew of lineups to find the best bang for your buck.
Designers reinvent black for every generation. In the jazz age, it was Coco Chanel’s little black dress. Though millennials have done away with such rigidity, designers still return to classic black as a point of inspiration.
Musical artists, in competition with both one another and the constant stream of new media that is being put out, are forced to constantly come up with new marketing techniques to promote their shows and albums. With so much content available so readily, a simple promo video or demo release doesn’t seem to captivate people’s attention anymore.
Being against house music is as easy as it is difficult. It is repetitive, frequently building off of a classic 128 bpm drum beat that bumps the prototypical “unts unts unts.” Its artists are young hipsters who ‘understand’ music at a level that ‘the rest’ just do not seem to understand. Hell, if you aren’t into house music, you probably are accused of not truly feeling music, that internal energy that builds up in the ravers of old German basement nightclubs, which ‘for–sure’ has no connection to the copious amounts of MDMA consumed. Or at least that is the stereotype.
To individuals newly acquainted with mainstream hip–hop, DJ Khaled’s presence can be somewhat confusing. He shows up at the beginnings of his songs, usually says his name and a slogan, and then lets the other artists take over. How does a man put out so many successful records with top artists while appearing to do so little himself? Well, “appearing” is the key word—Khaled does plenty, both with the music itself and in building his brand.
Art installations at Penn tend to be ephemeral. Installed one day, taken down the next week, if not the next day. Or at least this is largely the case in the Fine Arts undergraduate program, such as in Helen Nie’s exhibit challenging the conventions of OCR, Jason Barr and Linda Lin’s reimagination of Benjamin Franklin as a woman, and Jake Welde and Izzy Korostoff’s gingerbread replica of the Fisher Fine Arts Library. But for graduate students, the story is a little different. With access to local galleries in Philadelphia, graduate students in the arts have the opportunities to curate, install, and showcase their work in exhibitions.
On St. Patrick’s Day, an Irish performance featuring champion step–dancer Samantha Harvey, 2013’s Traditional Singer of the Year Séamus Begley, and Irish band Téada will come to Annenberg.
It can be hard to find good shows to watch in languages that aren’t English. While the movie world has robust foreign film industries to compete with Hollywood, and even the Oscars honor foreign language films, there are less television shows that bring stories in other languages to life with the same amount of worldwide reach.
The availability of an entire season of television at arm’s length upon release has changed the way we watch television. On the one hand, binge–watching shows over the course of a few days is a satisfying way to process the whole story without waiting week to week for answers. On the other hand, it is only so long before we’re forced to hop on to the next thing once we’ve wrapped up on a series. This March, Netflix is bringing back several original series, as well as introducing some new ones. There are also a handful of streamable movies and documentaries coming to the platform throughout the month.
Barbie dolls are so much more than plastic toys—they always have been. For decades, they were one of the many standards that society used to define what a physically beautiful woman should look like. With blonde hair, blue eyes, and an impossibly small waist, the dolls have exacerbated problems of body image, self–esteem, and self–worth . While Mattel, the company responsible for making the Barbie dolls, has started to make dolls representing women of different backgrounds and ethnicities, the toy representations of women are still far from accurate.
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