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Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older?
Illustration by Bo Brown Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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Bedtime
Viola, lap steel guitar and banjo, along with piano, traditional percussion and lovely, delicate vocals, make up the sound of local musicians Buried Beds, named “Best Band 2004” by Philadelphia Magazine. The group fuses an indie rock sensibility with the sorrow and beauty of Appalachian songwriting. One review called the music “angsty, heart-on-the-sleeve melancholia that sounds both winsome and wise.” These successful locals—part of the West Philly denizen of musicians, artists and creative types who make up the New Planet Collective—play two shows in very different venues this month.
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Movable Feast: Abyssinia
Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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New plan for Penn Museum
By JUDY HILL New plan for Penn Museum Getting it right for radio
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The power of the (letter) press
Three traditional letterpresses recently took up residence in the basement studio of the Morgan Building, home to Penn’s undergraduate fine arts program. Two of the presses are from the 1960s and one is from the mid 19th century, and except for the electricity that powers one of the rollers on the 20th-century presses, the entire printing process is done by hand.
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Q&A with Peter Fader
Peter Fader holds up what appears to be a regular compact disc and asks, "Do you know what this is?"No, it's not just a CD. This shiny plastic object is actually a CD on one side and a DVD on the other—something known as a dual disc.Has the public heard of it? Not likely. Should record companies promote this heavily? Definitely, says Fader, since it's his opinion that this little silver gadget—along with streaming audio—will save the ailing music industry.Now, if only industry professionals will listen.
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Reading the leaves
BY JUDY HILL Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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At work with...Sandy Ramos
WHO SHE IS: Assistant Manager of PennCom Operations Columns News briefsAt Work With Sandy Ramos
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Penn to Celebrate Franklin Legacies of Innovation, Education, Literature With Slate of Events
PHILADELPHIA The educational institution Benjamin Franklin envisioned more than 250 years ago that became the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate its founder with "Ben, Penn & You," an eclectic series of talks, exhibits, both actual and virtual, and musical performances.All Franklin-related activities at Penn are open to the public.
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National Study Finds Voters Don't Know Where to Vote on Election Day and Aren't Helped by Local Election Boards
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government today released two reports on the state of election administration in the U.S. that show a failure by local boards of election to answer voter questions on Election Day. The findings are detailed in the final reports on hotline data from the MYVOTE1 project, the largest-ever national election hotline conducted during the November 2004 U.S. presidential election and the 2005 elections in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.