In addition to my weekly Tuesday Tips and Now and Then Thursday series, I want to now introduce yet another series sure to be popular quickly: Website Wednesdays. (yes another illiteration associated with a day of the week). This series will cover the many, many websites developed by our undergrads and alumni. As you’ve noticed […]
> 1) Your name, class year and activities you were involved in at PennMatthew C. Johnson C’99, Mask & Wig, Phi Kappa Sigma 2) What news you would like me to consider: I directed and produced a number of new shorts hitting the internet: “Pepsi Challenge:” produced with my sketch group The Royal We(www.theroyalwe.org), this […]
It’s a done deal. They’re frozen. As I reported here and here, Penn alum award winning entertainment reporter Emily Frances (C’89) was the subject of a 3 part, very personal story on NY’s CW11. Emily has now aired the final part of her personal story of undergoing a procedure to freeze her eggs. Click here […]
Phyllis Zimbler Miller (WG’80)’s novel “Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel” has been nominated as a semi-finalist for the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Phyllis’ story is a personal one based on her own experiences in 1970 as one of 4 women who came together when their husbands went on active duty as officers […]
Believe it or not there’s another Penn related film festival outside of the Los Angeles based Pennfest film & music festival. It’s the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF) and this one is only for current Penn (and neighboring Philadelphia college) students and alumni one year out. You hear that undergrad filmmakers I posted about […]
Over the past year, I’m discovering more and more alumni in different entertainment related professions (see the “Profession” pulldown in the header above to see what I’m talking about) Specifically, I’m discovering more and more alumni in journalism. One alum I just found out about is Stephanie Sy (C’99) who has recently been named Asia […]