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At the Annenberg Center, 50 years of experimentation
philadanco dance on a blue stage

A scene from West Philadelphia-based Philadanco’s “The Xmas Philes.” (Image: Mark Garvin)

 

At the Annenberg Center, 50 years of experimentation

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new season and a planned building expansion. Penn Today looks back at the Center’s history—and where it’s going under Penn Live Arts.
The 53 prettiest college campuses in America
Architectural Digest

The 53 prettiest college campuses in America

The University of Pennsylvania is ranked as America’s 28th prettiest college campus due to its Collegiate Gothic architecture.

The Fed is driving an unusual contradiction in the housing market
Barron’s

The Fed is driving an unusual contradiction in the housing market

In an op-ed, Susan Wachter of the Wharton School writes about how ongoing monetary policy has resulted in high house prices and rates of rent alongside low construction and sales activity.

Reopening the ARCH building
President Liz Magill cuts the ceremonial ribbon with three students. A wood-paneled staircase is the backdrop

Jeffrey Yu, President Magill, Taussia Boadi, and Elizabeth Ramos cut the ribbon to celebrate the reopening of the ARCH building with cultural resource centers and affiliated groups, many of which were formerly housed at the garden level, now having full use of the building.

Reopening the ARCH building

A Sept. 7 event celebrated the building’s new incarnation as a centrally located space dedicated exclusively to cultural resource centers and affiliate groups.

Kristina García

After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up
WHYY (Philadelphia)

After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up

Penn Live Arts plans to transform Annenberg Plaza into a new performance space, the Stuart Weitzman Theater, expanding the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for the first time in 51 years.

Rent caps come to the fore as hikes spike
Marketplace (NPR)

Rent caps come to the fore as hikes spike

Claudia Aiken of the Weitzman School of Design says that rent control is essentially a ceiling on rent, which has recently taken the form of a limit on annual rent increases known as “rent stabilization.”