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Music sleuth
Q&A/Recently in the news for authenticating an original Beethoven manuscript, Jeffrey Kallberg has spent his career getting up close and personal with his favorite composers. When Jeffrey Kallberg was 5 years old, his parents sat him down in front of the television to watch a Walt Disney-produced biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven. From that point on, Kallberg knew what he wanted do—live a life in music. It was just a matter of figuring out what that life would be.
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Movable Feast: Bubble Lounge
We at the Current have yet to be convinced about bubble tea. Call us unadventurous but the thought of sucking up gelatinous tapioca balls through an oversized straw somehow fails to appeal. We’re pretty sure we’re in the minority, though, since Sansom Street’s Bubble House has become a true campus success story. The brainchild of Wharton grads, the teahouse and Pan Asian restaurant this month expanded operations, opening Bubble Lounge in the next-door space that used to house Paper Garden. At the bar
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Be grateful
Put the holiday rush on hold for one afternoon to remember the true spirit of the season at “Gratitude and Giving,” the 10th annual Peace Around the World event on Dec. 4 from 1:30 to 4:40 p.m. at Penn Museum. There’s plenty for the little ones to do—from craft workshops and storytelling, to dancing and a performance of children’s choral music. The Curio Theatre Company, University City’s newest professional acting troupe, will also present two performances of “The Frog Prince” (right).
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East campus update
Imagine tossing a Frisbee with friends at a sparkling new Penn-owned park along the Schuylkill River. To the east, the Center City skyline soars. To the north, a row of sidewalk cafés attracts students and city residents alike along a rebuilt Walnut Street. And the Schuylkill Expressway—which has blocked University City residents from the waterfront for decades—is nowhere to be seen.
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Staff Q&A: Jerry Rudasill
As Jerry Rudasill sees it, some people take up golf as their hobby, others pick up a pencil to draw. He takes to the stage. Rudasill, 34, has been pursuing his hobby for 20 years in everything from serious drama to musicals, to his most recent gig as an extended ensemble member of Philly’s sketch comedy troupe, The Waitstaff. “I’m not trying to be famous. I do it because it’s something that I enjoy immensely,” says Rudasill, who has also written his own work. “As long as I can do it, I would like to. Always be doing something cool.”
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Public designThe award-winning international architecture firm Fumihiko Maki + Associates, responsible for The Sam Fox Arts Center at the Washington University in St. Louis and Tokyo University General Learning Center, among other projects, has been tapped to design the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building, which will be located on 36th Street between Locust Walk and Walnut Street. Groundbreaking is scheduled for May of 2006 and an opening is expected in the spring of 2008.
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Lisbeth Dennis
WHO SHE IS: Jewish Student Life Coordinator, Penn Hillel at Steinhardt Hall TIME AT PENN: Two months WHAT SHE DOES: Dennis helps students with Jewish programming, from Holocaust education to social events like Hannukah parties. A lot of what Hillel does is very student focused so students come to us and we assist them, says Dennis. My job is as busy as the students make it.
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Trivia at the pub
Quick—who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific?” What was the 1980s movie with the tagline, “If you can’t get a date, make one?” Who holds the baseball record for the highest lifetime batting average? If you love trivia but are tired of yelling at a TV screen, saddle up to the New Deck Tavern on Monday and Wednesday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight for Quizo (sometimes called Quizzo, with two z’s), the popular general trivia game played in the comfort of your neighborhood bar.
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An Envelope Yields a Big Surprise at Penn: $14 Million
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann got the surprise of her Penn life when, at a dinner for students and scholarship donors, Penn Trustee George Weiss handed her an envelope on which he had written, "Have a nice day, Amy!" Inside was a check for $14 million, earmarked for one of Gutmann passions, undergraduate financial aid.Visibly moved, Gutmann summed up the significance of the moment.
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Renowned Architect David Chipperfield Selected to Create New Master Plan for Penn Museum
PHILADELPHIA -- The renowned British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to develop a comprehensive new master plan to take the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, its complex historical building and its international research, collections and educational outreach into the 21st century.Chipperfield was selected following an international search by a committee of representatives of Penn Museum's Board of Overseers and staff, Penn's School of Design and Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services.