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19 Penn Alumni you should know about: Vol. 8
[ssba] This may be the juiciest “Penn Alumni You Should Know About” edition yet! After the jump, check out exciting news about the latest from 19 Penn alumni with projects in TV, film, stage, web, apps, and print. Plus, more stories of Penn alumni working together on entertainment projects ….an alum who dishes on what happens backstage […]
Listen to the Penn a capella song Liz Banks calls “amazing”
Recently, Liz Banks (C’96) has stepped behind the camera to produce a new film called “Pitch Perfect” (based off of this book) with her Penn alum producer husband Max Handleman (C’95, AEPi), all about competitive collegiate a cappella groups. After the jump, find out which a capella group Liz references from her time at Penn […]
The secret life of this 10th grade Penn alum English teacher
Another story in this week’s DT Halloween series for you… Matt Blackstone (C’03) is not only a 10th grade English teacher, but he is the author of a new young adult novel, A SCARY SCENE IN A SCARY MOVIE (FSG/Macmillan), which released this summer and Seventeen magazine put it on it’s Summer Beach Read list! […]
Penn alumni of the 90s can’t remember the answer to THIS question (videos)
Here’s another DT “blast from the past” story you’ll all enjoy. Alumni from the 90s and earlier might remember Murphy’s Tavern (aka “Murphs”) on the corner of 44th and Spruce streets. You’ll remember the pitcher of alcohol, the jukebox, the basement and of course the “see you in church” greeting you got from Murph himself […]
This Penn supermom is “cooking on the edge of insanity”
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 8 and while you should certainly get mom a card (these are my favorite), I’ve got a fun, inexpensive suggestion to go along with that card from Penn alum and supermom blogger Emily Rosenbaum (C’95, Grad Ed ’96). Over the past year, I’ve covered Emily and her experiment where she didn’t […]
Hallelujah: Penn alum to write Jeff Buckley biopic film
If you recall, I covered screenwriter Ryan Jaffe (C’96) when he wrote THIS film a couple years back. Since then, Ryan, has penned a script about the life of singer Jeff Buckley. In case you’re not familiar with who Jeff Buckley is, per Deadline, “Buckley, son of the famed but troubled folk musician Tim Buckley, […]
