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Do you ever have those days when nothing, not even an ice-cream sundae or a shot of Absolut, can make you feel happy? Maybe you’ve been cooped up in Van Pelt for 56 hours straight, or maybe your roommate kept you up all night with her sleep-talking (that is not a hidden message to you, DanglingParticiple!).

I briefly mentioned last week that a new CVS would be opening beneath the Radian sometime in the near future. Well, that near future has arrived: the CVS officially opened this morning at 8 a.m.

Yes, perhaps it is a bit redundant to have a CVS at 39th and Walnut when there’s really nothin

Tomorrow is a very special day in the lives of all Penn students who read and love 34th Street, the Daily Pennsylvanian’s witty, wonderful weekly magazine. Why is tomorrow different from all other tomorrows? Because it’s Shout-Out Day!

Shout-outs are a bi-semester feature of th

In May 2007, former Penn Marketing professor Scott Ward was sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography for importation into the United States. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to five more child porn-related charges, including one that entailed de

What's with all the Penn professors committing felonies lately?

My mother expressed her jealousy the other day at the fact that she's never been featured on my blog. "All your friends have cool grammar pseudonyms -- I want one, too!" she proclaimed. I told her that if I ever did refer to her on the blog, it was probably as "Mom," not as ProperAdjective or something

Last night was the first official Philadelphia snowfall – and by snowfall I mean a sixteenth of an inch of watery, barely-visible white crap. The grassy areas of Locust Walk were “covered” with snow for about two hours this morning before it all melted. But still, snow is snow, and re

Overheard in the Arch Building...

Professor with a German accent, about the movie “The Name of the Rose”: Sean Connery dressed as a monk…sexy, I say!

(Many things simultaneously so wrong and so right about that statement. Plus, it invites amazing opportunities for celebrity jeopardy on SNL).