Heather A. Davis

Experimental dance, a stage set reminiscent of a World Trade Center stairwell and an electronic/classical music fusion are just some of the highlights to hit University City stages during this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, which began Sept. 1 and runs through Sept. 16.

When Stephanie Ives was hired in the summer of 1999 as Penn’s first alcohol coordinator, the campus had just emerged from an intensive review of its alcohol and drug use culture.

Go ahead, be good to yourself.

Ed Stemmler has seen pelicans, dolphins and whales on the open water. He’s sailed through dense fog and glorious sunsets, and been up and down the Atlantic coast, all in the Gazela—a Philadelphia-based large sailing vessel built in 1883.

The most famous horse since Smarty Jones remains in intensive care but is resting comfortably—and that’s good news for the colt’s owners and scores of new fans.

Domus, the eight-story luxury apartment building under construction at 34th and Chestnut streets, will have plenty of eye-catching features when its finished, from a heated outdoor pool to 10-foot-high apartment ceilings.

It’s rare that a company will commit to spending hundreds of millions of dollars based on the findings of one study.

Q&A/The Director of Penn’s Master of Science Program in Criminology talks about working with former Attorney General Janet Reno and what drew her to criminology in the first place. “It was hard and stressful in many ways, but it was kind of a golden time.”

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STAFF Q&A/Anne Stamer has helped turn Weiss Tech House into Penn’s ‘hub’ for technology. “Our mission is to help excite and invigorate students around technology.”