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A home on campus for bands, jugglers, irish fiddlers, & belly dancers
I love this. It seems with the new Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn has really been providing students with some very cool opportunities. (thank you Marc Platt (C’79)!) From this fantastic program to an even more fantastic, dare I say “cool” opportunity open to students, staff, faculty and alums(!). More after the jump…Twice a […]
TiVo Alert! (10/26): Penn Alum plays necrophiliac morgue attendant on CBS Show!
More Penn alumni on TV! Catch Dr. Roy Vongtama (C’96) playing a “necrophiliac morgue attendant” on CBS his Friday night (10/26) on Moonlight! Per Roy, his “character loves dead girls”. Well, yeah. Okay. …I’m going to have to see this. Check out Roy’s performance this Friday night, 9 pm on CBS! Roy also tells me […]
Lance Weiler (Wharton):The Last Broadcast
>http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1783 Producing a feature-length motion picture is a daunting task. All the more so if you do it without the support of a major studio using money you have raised yourself. But according to independent filmmaker Lance Weiler, “the real struggle” comes after the film is completed. Distributing a theatrical feature — and doing so […]
Kind of like Oprah’s book club, but for Penn alumni…
When I was back at Penn in the early to mid-90s Penn didn’t have cable in the quad, a cafeteria in Rosengarten library …or a thriving writer’s community. All of that has now changed… but most notably, the writer’s community part. Over the years. through emails and his visits to Los Angeles, I have been […]
Emmys mean Swagtime for Jenna Seiden (C’95)
This Sunday’s Emmys mean glitz and glamour. But to one alum it’s all about the swag. And who doesn’t love a good bag of swag? That’s what Jenna Seiden (C’95) thought when she and her business partner decided to start swagtime.com, a business dedicated to celebrity swag. Their philosophy is simple, “What was exclusive is […]
Mark Cronin (Eng’86) brings “Himbos” and “Bimbos” to TV on October 9!
What do you get when you mix America’s Next Top Model and Beauty and the Geek? You get Mark Cronin’s (Eng ’86, Mask and Wig) new VH1’s celebreality show, America’s Most Smartest Model series to debut October 7, 9 pm ET/PT. Per realityrumors.com: “The 14 contestants competing on America’s Most Smartest Model will consist of […]
