50THANNIVERSARY Letter from the editor Logos 03 appy birthday to Street! Er, in two days, that and in–betweenness of so much of the magazine, I is. at's right, you heard me correctly. 34th was also amazed by how much has stayed the same. HStreet Magazine of e Daily Pennsylvanian, Our content priorities have stayed more similar than Bill Mandel Inc. is turning a half–century old. It has loved, it has they've been di erent. We've written features about 04 lost, but most of all, it has persevered. Nay, it has drag queens at least four times in the past  fty years, thrived. the most recent of which ran just this April. ere have Arnie Holland As I write this, I sit sweaty, tired, and smelling of been tens of articles unpacking Penn's relationship 07 archival must. It's been a long past few days of scouring with West Philadelphia, oodles of pieces about the online library archives and digging through bound history of Smokes', and copious essays that explore magazines of yore. But I've learned so much, and as LGBT life at the university. I think this is a good thing. Lee Levine 10 the current custodian of Street, I'm better for it. Street has through and through been committed to umbing through these yellowed issues, I've never giving voice to the wacky, weird, underexposed, and felt more connected to the long lineage of editors, underrepresented. And along the way, God, has there 12 Luanne & Charlie designers, photographers, and other editors who have been arts and culture coverage. So much. Especially gone before me, who have toiled to ensure that our Dining Guides. We've killed some serious trees publication goes to print. ere has been blood, sweat, printing all of those tomes. Eliot Kaplan tears, X–Acto knives, lawsuits, angry emails, and lots In the process of creating this issue, I've tried to be 13 and lots of pizza. a sponge. I've found inspiration for new articles and Let's be real. Street has had its share of trash. Over coverage reading 50 years of collegiate journalism. the years, there have been apparent tonal shifts, Seeing the past of Street has helped me to most Sabrina Eaton changes in coverage, wavering editorial priorities, and clearly see its future. And as I skid towards the end of 14 the like. But that's what gives Street its color. It's a my tenure as Editor–in–Chief, I could not be more living, breathing organism, which we've made sure to thankful to have helped wish Street a happy  ftieth. punt into a digital– rst 21st century. And it must be is entire project would not have happened Street History 16 working, because social Darwinism hasn't killed us o without our Special Features Editor Sabrina Qiao, who yet. doggedly edited and organized all of the written content ough I was struck by the noticeably di erent eras within these pages. I'm  lled with gratitude for all of Ellen Flax the former Street alums who took the time to write 22 personal narratives about their past experiences with leading the publication. I'm astounded by all of your accomplishments—both at Street and after Matt Selman it—and you've made me a little less scared to leave 24 the cozy nest that is 4015 Walnut. So here's to  fty more. I promise I'll write a softly Doree nostalgic memoir about my tenure as EIC for the 26 100th birthday if I'm around to see the day. Just don't make me come up with a headline myself. Ross Clark 28

29 Joe Pinsker Nick Joyner, Editor–in–Chief Morgan Potts, Copy Director to the editor, email Nick Joyner, Editor–in–Chief, Remi Lederman, Managing Editor Christopher Muracca, Print Director at [email protected]. You can also call us at (215) Julia Rubin Angela Huang, Audience Engagement Director Julia Bell, Features Staff 422–4640. 31 Annabelle Williams, Assignments Editor www.34st.com Autumn Powell, Media Director Design Editors: Lucy Ferry, Gillian Diebold, Ben Zhao, Christine Lam, Alana Shukovsky, Ian Ong, ©2018 34th Street Magazine, The Daily Pennsylvanian, Sabrina Qiao, Special Features Editor Joy Lee, Jackie Lou, Alice Heyeh, Jess Tan Inc. No part may be reproduced in whole or in part without Colin Lodewick, Senior Features Editor Cover Design by Ian Ong & Jess Tan the express, written consent of the editors (but I bet we Andreas Pavlou, Long–Term Features Editor will give you the a–okay.) All rights reserved. 34th Street Naomi Elegant, Developing Features Editor Contacting 34th Street Magazine: Magazine is published by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Ethan Wu, Photo Editor If you have questions, comments, complaints or letters Inc., 4015 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., 19104, every Wednesday.

2 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 Logos Over the Years 1969

1981 1982

1984

1988

1989 1990

1992

1996

1998

1999

2005

2006

2017

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 3 Bill Mandel Describes the Tumultuous The Late 1960s: times that gave birth to street Bill Mandel was a founding Editor– outlet—we were thrilled when in–Chief of Street from May 1968 Penn’s president, Gaylord Harn- to May 1969 and DP Associate Edi- well, referred to e DP as “the daily tissue of lies.” But e DP tor from May 1968 to May 1969. was locked into the tight, limited format of a newspaper.  e news Two things I noticed my rst needed room to breathe. day at Penn in September 1965 • were stereo speakers stacked in We created 34th Street as a multiple dorm room windows green eld, with no preconcep- playing “Satisfaction” by the tions, no limits, no traditions Rolling Stones—which had just (and of course no budget). Given been released—and a bunch of the boiling social tensions of as- fraternity brothers roughing up sassinations, police rioting, and students protesting the Vietnam the fundamental questioning of war in front of College Hall. A all Authority for the rst time small crowd shouted encourage- in generations, one might have ment. In September ’65, being expected 34th Street to begin antiwar was su ciently anti– life squalling with anger. But the American to deserve a stomping. editors, mature and battle–weary  en change came, fast college juniors that we were, had enough to open minds and already seen enough anger. We change hairstyles. Yearbook pho- aimed to give readers and creators tos for the Class of ’69 were taken not only a new home for emerg- in the fall of 1968. All the guys ing perspectives and art forms, had short hair. By the spring of but also useful gifts of knowledge ’69, when the yearbooks were about Penn and the surrounding distributed, the head shots from world. So we decided to coun- just eight months earlier were ter–program. relics. All the guys now had long Our very rst issue, in Oc- hair. (Apologies for the gen- tober ’68, carried a cover story der–imbalanced reporting.  e called “RFD” (Rural Free De- change was simply easier to no- livery) that argued all wisdom tice among the men.) did not reside exclusively in the  e summer of 1965 saw a coastal elites (sound familiar?). racial uprising against police op- Our second cover story, “Don’t pression in the Watts section of Street's October 11, 1968 issue, "Don't Oink Back." Oink Back,” addressed aggres- Los Angeles, followed by 1967 from the race. Johnson triggered they’d fought for were fraying. a few alternative print weeklies. sive police behavior by advising rioting in Detroit, Newark, and a delirious campus Rowbottom 34th Street was born into this  e establishment media— students to stop calling police of- Milwaukee.  e next spring, when, in a surprise, he ended a churning zeitgeist as a weekly newspapers, TV, radio—were cers “pigs” without 1) thought Martin Luther King Jr. and Rob- March ’68 speech by announc- supplement to e Daily Penn- still living in the Mad Men ’50s. to the humanity behind the ert F. Kennedy were assassinated ing he wouldn’t seek reelection. sylvanian in October ’68. We  e white, male, government/ shield, and 2) realizing that meet- just a few weeks after appearanc-  at August, as the whole started 34th Street to provide an business establishment power ing brutal behavior with brutal es in Philadelphia. MLK was in world watched, police attacked expanded home for arts cover- structure, long unquestioned name–calling merely con rmed town to support a garbage collec- young antiwar protesters at the age and breathing space for the and unchallenged, monopolized the Establishment’s worst criti- tors’ strike (I was lucky enough Democratic National Conven- stylish, sprawling, personal long– dissemination of news—“ ere cisms of university spoiled brats. to draw the interview assignment tion—bloody live war coverage form New Journalism pioneered were 50 people at the antiwar ral- Sure, the politics were serious, e Daily Pennsylvanian for ). At not from the jungles of Southeast by Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. ly, according to police,” lied Phil- but we were also having fun. For  e DP’s invitation, RFK had Asia but the streets of Chicago.  ompson. Beyond o ering glo- adelphia’s newspapers and radio the “Don’t Oink Back” cover, we spoken to a roaring student audi- Many fellow students, nishing rious open pages for text, art, and stations, when there were more needed a photo of a mean–look- ence at the Palestra. So had U.S. up their summers at home be- photography, 34th Street, cru- like 5,000.  ere was no media ing pig wearing a police hat. Pre– Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Min- fore returning to Penn, reported cially, provided a locus for a new home for alternative, progressive digital editing software, if you nesota, whose insurgent antiwar watching Chicago with their campus community being born. voices, thoughts, insights, points needed a photo of a pig wearing campaign for the Democratic weeping parents, many of whom In 1968 there was no Internet, of view…the truth. a police hat, you had to nd a pig presidential nomination helped had lived through World War II social media, email, underground e Daily Pennsylvanian pro- and put the hat on it. drive President Lyndon Johnson and wondered if the freedoms or FM radio, or even more than vided one counter–establishment  e fearless photographer

4 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 Martin Smith (W ’69) was will- • ing, so we trekked out to the I started this piece recalling University’s veterinary farm September ’65’s omnipresence in Kennett Square, where we of “Satisfaction” echoing across quickly realized that real pigs the freshman Quad, and the are big (400+ pounds), ornery, did–that–really–happen sight and averse to posing. We waded of frat boys beating up Vietnam through pig slop to one relatively war protesters in front of College benign–looking swine. Our safe- Hall. Another sharp memory of ty margin allowed time for one that autumn was Homecoming, take, one shot. Summoning Fris- where we watched the 50–year bee skills and a prayer, I lofted the Class of 1915 march (totter and police cap toward the pig. For just shu e sti y, it seemed to us) a moment, the cap sat just right. proudly by.  ese white–haired, Martin brilliantly captured it, shriveled relics were veterans/sur- and we ed ailing and opping vivors of World War I! I couldn’t through the muddy o al. And as imagine a time so ancient, or a it turned out there’d been little to consciousness so removed from fear: the pig didn’t chase us. It just the surging issues preoccupying ate the hat. On the ride back to us in 1965. West Philly, Martin’s Nikon was Now I’m part of the cohort the only thing in the car not cov- that, if we live, will toddle along ered with pig excrement. But we under our 50–year banner at were happy. We had our cover. Homecoming 2019. Will we • look equally prehistoric to the  ough I was the founding freshman Class of 2023? Prob- editor, 34th Street was the idea of ably. But 50 years can teach a Charles (Chuck) Krause (C ’69), lot. I understand now that the Editor–in–Chief of e DP from Class of 1915, under its wrinkles, 1968 to 1969. During his editor- had not only accumulated wis- ship, Charles brought a unique dom beyond my immature un- sense of artistry and experimenta- derstanding, but had remained tion to e Daily Pennsylvanian, intellectually passionate and en- at one point turning the paper gaged—perhaps more so then into a single–sheet wall poster than ever—as their bodies devel- that was slapped on plywood oped the halting gaits and facial sheets like giant concert yers to wrinkles I’d ignorantly dismissed Bill Mandel's October 11, 1968 Letter from the Editor. be read by students boycotting as markers of irrelevance. classes and occupying campus All of which is to say that start- buildings to protest the war. In ing 34th Street remains one of the beer the half–century since, Charles greatest thrills of the founders’ springfi eld has continued using the power- lives—regardless of what we ac- distributor ful journalism inherent in  ne art complished later—and the fact to in uence social and political that Street still exists a half–cen- change. After a career as a foreign tury on is a proud testament to correspondent for e Washing- an unbroken Penn tradition of Studying ton Post, CBS News, and PBS (as curiosity, inquiry, dashes of snark t rd+ well as serving as a Penn Trustee), & cheek, and the compulsion to in 2011 Charles opened the Re- make sense—in words and im- e bre porting Fine Art gallery in Wash- ages—of whatever world we  nd ington, dedicated exclusively to ourselves in, so we can make it a it s. showing modern and contempo- better place. rary politically–engaged art. BILL MANDEL is a seven–time Pulitzer Prize nominee—no cigar—for columns (blog posts before their time) in The San Francisco Chron- = icle & Examiner. Bill left daily journalism in 1994 when he saw the Internet would kill newspapers as we knew them, and has worked Perfect weekend? since then helping Silicon Valley executives shape their communica- WE DELIVER! Corner of 27th and South St. WE DELIVER tions to address issues in the industry and the larger society. DIRECTIONS: East on Chestnut, right on2206 23rd, rightWashington on Lombard ave, Philadelphia springfi (215) eldbeer.net546-7301

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 5 Furniture Campus Living 20 S. 38th Street | 215-386-1111 Monday - Saturday:10am - 7:30pm On-Campus Location, only 5 minutes away. Delivery and assembly service are available. Discount from regular price. Exclude all special sale items, red tag items and food. All prices are subjected to change without notice.

6 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 The Early 1970s: Arnie Holland Talks About what 34th Street Means to Him, 50 Years Later

Palmer Properties www.PalmerProperties.net 41st & Pine 42nd & Spruce Available for June Lease 8-9 Bedroom Houses From $810/person + utilities

• Large living rooms • Modern kitchens & bath • Private Backyard • Lots of Storage • Washer & Dryer • 3+ bathrooms Contact us today to get on the house waiting list

215-360-4971 | [email protected]

Arnie Holland photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Arnie Holland was the Editor–in– do anything and it would come Chief of Street from February back better than expected. 1970 to to February 1971 I also published a series of articles about radio in Phila- delphia written by former I was the third 34th Street DP Managing Editor Dennis Editor–in–Chief, from 1970– Wilen (C ’71). at led him 71. It was a bit unexpected as to a career in radio too. Dennis I had hoped to be DP Editor, is another lifelong friend, who and had never worked for the taught me a lot when I was a magazine. But it was the best DP reporter. He gave me the thing that could have hap- idea to become an entertain- pened to me. at year 34th ment lawyer, which is what I Street was most of my life. My decided to do. I gured run- rst task was to mollify the ning 34th Street had been such SHANGHAI, talented writers that thought a great experience that any job they’d be the editor and get in journalism after that would CANTONESE them to stick around. I’m so be a disappointment. glad they did. It led to a life- I knew about music, and pop & JIANG NAN long friendship with Bill Vitka culture, but the magazine was (C ’71), who went on to a great in essence a small business. We career in radio journalism. Bill had to sell advertising in order could write like nobody else. to print pages. When the ad DIM SUM ! He was ace with a camera. His manager quit, I had to recruit taste in music was (and still is) another one, and I wound up 3939 Chestnut Street legendary. I could ask him to ADDRESS 3939 Chestnut Street phone 215-921-5377 website dimsum.house

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 7 selling some recur- ring ads myself. e more ads we sold, the more content we AT SOME POINT WE DECIDED TO SPREAD could print. When we were doing really 34TH STREET TO THE WHOLE CITY. I well, we could add color to the mix (on HAD A DRIVER DROP OFF BALES OF THE the front, back, and inside spread only). MAGAZINE AT MOST OF THE COLLEGES I had to manage a sta , meet the dead- AROUND PHILLY AND AT RECORD STORES lines, and come up with good stu to AND OTHER PLACES COLLEGEƒAGE KIDS print every week. at translated well WOULD CONGREGATE. into real life 16 years later when I became whole city. I had a driver drop scope. But to make it pop we an entrepreneur. o bales of the magazine at added yellow to the sun’s co- Running a record most of the colleges around rona— rst time we used color. company and movie Philly and at record stores and e inner spread was prize– distribution com- other places college–age kids winning campus poetry laid pany isn’t all that dif- would congregate. is al- out on a yellow background ferent from running lowed us to sell more ads and around an illustration a buddy a magazine. I’m still made us a bigger deal around of mine did. publishing content town. Our fourth issue cover sto- and seeking out the One memorable event was ry, about the very  rst Earth best I can  nd. our  rst fundraiser—a movie/ Week (now it’s only Earth At some point we concert featuring a screen- Day), when we used purple decided to spread " e Highway," January 29, 1968. Issue edited by Arnie Holland ing of Bob Dylan’s Don’t Look and yellow color on an origi- 34th Street to the Back, followed by a concert by nal illustration. e inner popular campus rock group spread is another original—a Wax. Some of the members of full–page cartoon of Richard Wax went on to huge success Nixon with VP Spiro Agnew in the music business, and the growing out of his nose, titled fundraiser was a success too. “Air Pollution." Really good beer Our second fundraiser was Our  fth issue (our Skim- an exclusive showing of Den- mer cover), when we took nis Hopper’s movie Ameri- the freakiest people we knew can Dreamer. I got to go on a down to the docks, gave them Delici s Apps press junket to Dennis’s house oars and other props, and they Really good food in Taos, New Mexico, where all looked like they were hav- I got my picture taken by a ing the best time imaginable. and an even be  young Rolling Stone photogra- Our eighth issue, the Kurt Quizzo Trivia pher, Annie Liebovitz. Annie Vonnegut issue. Bill Vitka Atmosphere just grabbed my camera and took the photos, designed the Mon-Wed 9pm started shooting me. Of course cover, and interviewed Von- I had no idea at the time how negut on campus with Ellis Sit outside Wing Nite famous she would become, Weiner (C ’72). Very proud of but I think she knew. She that one. drink g d wine Tues 10pm handed back the camera and Our 17th issue, where we said “someday you’ll appreci- hung Santa Claus on the ate these.” brand–new campus peace Come for Karaoke ($2 beer, Some of my favorite issues: symbol for the cover. Happy Hour $3 well drinks) Our second issue, when I 34th Street was a high point Thurs 9pm took photographer Ken Schon- in my life. a late night snack walter and some of my friends Open daily 11am-2am to Chincoteague, Virginia to ARNIE HOLLAND is the experience a total eclipse of the sun. e cover is an actual President/CEO of Lightyear 215.388.4600 | newdecktavern.com | 3408 Sansom Street photograph through a tele- Entertainment

8 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 Large houses available for groups of any size. Call today to schedule a tour.

215.222.0222 www.apartmentsatpenn.com

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 9 The mid-1970s: Lee Levine Ponders 'What’s in a Name?’ Lee Levine was the Co–Editor come focused on the arts and cul- continuing to hold down our day and the like. of Street from January 1975 to tural coverage with very little at- jobs at the newspaper). Once the We also re– December 1975. tention paid to any other subject. semester ended, and we were re- designed the Perhaps as a result, by 1974, 34th lieved of our DP responsibilities, publication My four years (1972–1976) at Street was having a very di cult we o cially became the maga- and intro- Penn coincided with two signi - time attracting and retaining sta , zine’s co–editors in 1975. duced a series cant events in what, unbelievably, not to mention readers. Indeed, as During those close–to–eigh- of weekly col- is now the 50–year history of 34th a later account of that period put teen months, we re–imagined umnists, from Street. One involved the very real it, the then–editor determined 34th Street, both procedurally Dan Kastle (C question of whether the magazine “that no one read the magazine and substantively (forgive me, ’75) on restau- would survive at all.  e other (a charge which has not yet been I’m a lawyer). On the procedural rants, cooking centered on the less life–threat- disproven).” front, with very few exceptions, and drinking ening, but equally momentous Accordingly, as Summer turned we made the magazine and news- (my personal (at least at the time) question of to Fall that year, he decided he had paper sta s one and the same. favorite— whether it would keep its name. had enough and resigned, leaving 34th Street became a vehicle for “ e Search Both are probably worth memo- a publication with no editors and DP reporters and editors to write for the Perfect rializing for posterity. very little sta .  e DP Board had the kind of long–form stories that Martini”), to In 1974, I was Managing Edi- a decision to make—should we were not feasible in the daily pa- Peter Ginsberg tor of the DP and my good friend declare that the experiment that per, both because of the time such (C ’76) on Mitch Berger (C ’76) was the Ex- was 34th Street had run its course, stories took to write and the space then–Mayor ecutive Editor. At the time, 34th or should we make an e ort to they occupied. It turned out that Frank Rizzo Street, though technically a part keep it going? DP sta ers welcomed the oppor- and city poli- of the newspaper itself, e ectively Happily, we chose the latter. For tunity to spread their wings a bit. tics, to Chris " e Perfect Martini," Lee Levine's favorite Street story. the rst several weeks (through On the substance, we repur- Jennewein (C operated as an independent entity, the parking lot at the corner of the end of the Fall semester), we posed and expanded the maga- ’76) on Philly’s neighborhoods, with a separate sta and a separate 34th and Chestnut, where Ser- operated 34th Street with the DP’s zine’s reach to include reporting to Buzzy (he was “Buzzy” then) “path” for grooming and promot- geant Hall once stood, belonged sta , and Mitch and I served as about all things Philadelphia— Bissinger (C ’76) on, well, Buzzy ing future editors. By the time I to Drexel. (It had something to its semi–secret co–editors (while politics, sports, neighborhoods, Bissinger. got to Penn, the magazine had be- do with William Penn and how  e “new” 34th Street was sur- far he could spit from the top prisingly well–received and widely of City Hall, but that’s another read. Although the term hadn’t story.) yet been applied to newspapers It has now been almost 45 years in 1975, we were developing a since we made the decision to “brand.”  e 34th Street “brand,” “Let 34th Street stay 34th Street” however, was based on the fact and, in my role as the DP’s law- that Sergeant Hall, the home of yer for most of them, I watched the DP and 34th Street, was actu- with amusement as each new ally located on 34th Street (at the class of Penn students picked up corner of 34th and Chestnut to and learned to love what came to be precise). When, during that be known simply as Street. And, same year, the University booted PlantPlant Based Based Food, Food, I had to smile when, exactly 30 the DP out of Sergeant Hall, years after I rst walked into Ser- which was slated for demolition, Right In University City. geant Hall, my own daughter Right In University City. and shipped us all up to the no entered 4015 Walnut, worked as man’s land that was then 40th and a beat reporter for the DP for a Walnut, we had a new problem. time, found her passion as Street’s Do we change the magazine’s Food Editor, and then moved on name—to 4015, to Walnut—or to a career as a professional jour- do we stick with 34th Street? nalist, rst at magazines and now Needless to say, we chose the at Foodnetwork.com. latter. In that year’s “Freshman is- I’m really glad we didn’t shut sue” (the one and only thing the the thing down! DP published during the sum- mer in those days), I took a stab, in a column entitled “What’s In LEE LEVINE is the Senior a Name?” at providing a timeless 214 S. 40th Street | HipCityVeg.com derivation of the magazine’s name Counsel at Ballard Spahr to an incoming class that thought LLP.

10 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 214 S. 40th Street | HipCityVeg.com MOVING OFF CAMPUS? NEED SOMEWHERE TO STAY? LIVE AT IHP.

• Fully furnished

• All utilities included

• Flexible leases

• Single bedrooms with shared bathroom starting at $785

WWW.IHOUSEPHILLY.ORG/HOUSING     TOURS WEEKDAYS  :PM  CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 11 The mid-1970s: Lu Anne Stewart and Charlie Service Recount Their Colorful Memories of a Black-and-White World and then pasting it onto the in–depth features on timely layout while struggling to issues. We had a section called make it all line up straight. “Scrapple” that featured sever- Compared to the sophisti- al short pieces  oating in bal- cated design of today’s 34th loons around the page. It may Street, we have to admit that not have been brilliant jour- Scrapple, a long since discontinued our vintage issues look like nalism, but we always enjoyed hodgepodge section. something a poorly funded putting Scrapple together be- high school paper would turn cause it provided a home for Lu Anne Stewart and Charlie out these days. Still, think- those random, oddball stories Service were Co–Editors from ing back to that time for this that make life interesting. February 1976 to December 1976 anniversary edition, we have Our cover stories re ected a nothing but vivid memories mix of lighthearted and seri- We served as co–editors of of colorful stories, inspired ous topics, but there was one 34th Street back in prehistoric sta members and a few con- issue in particular that gener- times, journalistically speak- troversies along the way. ated the most backlash.  at "Can Gay Mean Happy?" February 26, 1976. ing. In that 1976–77 era, ev- One of the great things cover featured two stories: one at Penn. Both were uncom- Looking back, the experi- erything was still rendered in about 34th Street, then and by Dave Lieber (C ’79) on his fortable, controversial top- ence of editing a student mag- black and white, and produc- now, is that it captures a wide search for the homeless “vent ics. Both were well–written, azine like this was a valuable ing each issue meant cutting swath of subject matter of man” who was a familiar  gure well–reported and important opportunity to learn how to columns of type with X–Acto interest to the Penn commu- on campus in those days; and stories that we were proud to run something: how to lead knives, running each strip nity, from upcoming concert the other by Je Birnbaum (C publish. Not everyone agreed, a sta , come up with ideas through a hot wax machine listings and movie reviews to ’77) on the life of gay students especially the reader who sent (especially for those blasted a “letter” to Je on a used weekly editor’s columns), and piece of toilet paper. As they get the issue produced and out say, you’d can’t please all of the the door on deadline.  ere On-campus apartments people all of the time. was always a feeling of great In addition to Dave and satisfaction when the new Je , we were blessed with a edition would come out on available! bevy of talented sta mem-  ursdays. We had created bers who contributed to 34th another masterpiece. Alert the Street at that time. We leaned Pulitzer selection committee! heavily on the distinctive pen– At least to us, it felt that sig- Apartments available for and–ink drawings of John ni cant. Auerbach (C ’77), and future We’re glad to see that 34th literary success Lisa Scottoline Street is still going strong, and 2018 and 2019! (C ’77) was a sta photogra- hope that many more genera- pher. We had the privilege tions of students will have the 2, 3, 4, and 5 Bedroom Apartments Available of editing the work of some opportunity that we had: to $1,100 - $2,500 / month incredible writers who went learn on–the–job how to pro- on to prominent careers in duce a magazine that has the journalism and publishing, potential to touch so many as- including Buzz Bissinger (C pects of life for the Penn com- ’76), Eliot Kaplan (C ’78), munity. Dan Akst (C ’78), Mark Hy- man (C ’78), Janet Novack (C LU ANNE serves as the Presi- ’77) and the late Steve Mar- dent/Chief Writer at Lu Anne quez (C '79), for whom the Stewart Writing and Services annual DP event is named. and CHARLIE recently retired (And if we have forgotten to acknowledge some of you, as the Managing Director of please forgive us—we’re old!) UBS Asset Management. www.ConstellarCorporation.com | [email protected] | 215.387.2712 ext. 103

12 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 Eliot Kaplan recounts his time 'Stayin’ The Late 1970s: Alive’ on Street Eliot Kaplan was Street Co–Editor remember it as if I were still from January 1977 to 21 and in full glory. January 1978. I’m not the first editor to realize this, but mainly the whole endeavor was an ego 34th Street was always the trip, centered around writing runt of the litter. The DP was a humor column that was a more hard–core news back blatant rip off of Woody Al- Eliot Kaplan's not–quite–copyedited 1977 DP press then and Street was seen as len and Buzz Bissinger (C credentials. a money losing, lightweight, ’76), who preceded me at the potentially legally–trouble- paper by a few years. It was “lay out” the paper, which came out, you could usually anymore. I thought back some annoyance. all about my inability to get hey, kids, is actually just what see my crooked technique. to my days as the editor of Yeah, so what’s your prob- girls, which, turns out, can it sounds like. Cutting and I’m so glad Street survived. 34th Street. I had been hap- lem? be a pretty good way to end pasting typeset stories with And sounds like it’s kick- py then. Assigning, editing, At the time the paper had up getting girls. a T square in the composing ing ass. I’ve met some of the pushing and pulling with an officious four–named But I digress. We also did room, mellow WMGK in editors over the years and we writers, writing funny head- business guy who was always journalism. Long–form nar- the background, the grown- all have a bit of the outsider lines, verbally primping for threatening to close the damn rative features, or what we ups Rita and Wendy doing with a chip on the shoulder the opposite sex, thinking thing down. We were a mere then simply called “stories.” the heavy lifting and keeping thing. Keep it there. You’ll it up, carrying it through, eight pages, twelve on a good The reporters got out and us from Tarantino–ing each need it later in life. pulling it off. Seeing it show week, and at one point were about, mostly diving into other with X–ACTO knives. And Street helped me sur- up in your hands. Starting forced to take on TV listings ideas that interested them, My layout contribution con- vive. In my early 20s, I was again. to keep the magazine afloat. which is a pretty good early sisted of finding single little foundering after some per- I ended up doing that for I later convinced one of my lesson on what to do as an ed- letters to cover typos and sonal tragedies. Had com- most of my professional life. fraternity brothers to come itor. Find passionate report- then gluing them on the pletely lost my way and had There are a hell of a lot worse in and sell ads exclusively for ers and (mostly) get out of page. When the magazine no idea what made sense ways to go. Street. It kept us going. He the way. They did top notch went on to retire in his 40s stories on corrupt state sena- from Goldman Sachs. tors, Gamblers Anonymous, I started off at the paper as Kent State revisited, an early a sports reporter—working look at the neighboring West my way up from freshman Philly radical organization lacrosse to sprint football to MOVE. Plus lots of l o n g varsity basketball (the year and earnest reviews of the- BEFORE the team went to ater, film and art. WEDNESDAYS the 1979 Final Four!) I do remember a good Partly because my room- headline I wrote. It was for 11AM - 4PM mate would have run against a story on Annenberg dean me for sports editor and George Gerbner and his 1/2 PRICE BURGERS partly cause I would rather theories on why television work 20 hours a week than could be so corrupting and 40, I applied instead for 34th dangerous. “Rare is the Me- Street co–editor after hav- dium Well Done.” Not bad. ing written some features for Sure it was ripped off from Charlie Service (W ’77) and somewhere. Lu Anne Stewart (née Trac- Wednesdays were our all– ey) (C ’77). nighters (as opposed to pret- I have my bound volume ty much every day for that Trinidelphia THURSDAYS in the basement but, frankly, aforementioned sports editor Tonight! I’m afraid to look. I might roommate who was literally 5PM - 10PM move rapidly from mortifica- touch and go to make the 6:30pm-9:30pm tion to laughter, but better to graduation rolls.) We would $9.99 FAJITAS ELIOT KAPLAN recently retired as Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Hearst Magazines. He was formerly Editor–in– 40th & Spruce St., University city • 215-382-1330 • copauc.com Chief of Philadelphia Magazine and Executive Editor at GQ.

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 13 34 3434 ST STSTFILMFILMFILM HowHowHow Penn Penn Penn Students Students Students Watch Watch Watch Movies Movies Movies DODODO YOU YOUYOU PAY PAYPAY PER PERPER VIEW? VIEW?VIEW? Sabrina Eaton Remembers BeingBorrow BorrowBorrow from from from Library Library Library The mid-1980s: 24.6%24.6%24.6% Don'tDon'tDon't Watch Watch Watch Movies Movies Movies FilmFilmFilm polled polled polled you you you to to fito ndfi find ndout out reviewersout how how how you youwould you are are are getgetting getting togetting keep your your your Sunday Sunday Sunday afternoon afternoon afternoon 'Under Pressure’ SABRINA EATON was Features TheatersTheatersTheaters moviemovieEditormovie fromfi xes.fi fi xes.January xes. Here’s Here’s Here’s 1984 towhat Julywhat what we thewe welearned. records. learned. learned. BY BY ANTHONYBY ANTHONY ANTHONY KHAYKIN KHAYKIN KHAYKIN FreeFree FreeStreaming Streaming Streaming 1984 andhoughhough Co–Editorhough we we allwe from all knowall know knowSeptem- the the the watch watchwatchMy Hugo Hugofirst Hugo in intheaters.experiences in theaters. theaters. And And And wewere we we you you youguess guess guess then then then that that thatPenn Penn Penn stu- stu- stu- 47.7%47.7%47.7% disappointing. The music 16.9%16.9%16.9% PaidPaidPaid Online Online Online Services Services Services berInternet 1984InternetInternet to Decemberis isfor is for for 1984porn pornporn fi t fithis tfi thist thismold mold mold of ofoverworked of overworked overworked Ivy Ivy Ivy dents dentsdents would would would prefer prefer prefer to toget to get theirget their their TTT(thanks(thanks(thanks Avenue Avenue Avenue Q ),Q Qthe), ),the the League editorLeagueLeague students studentsgave students well,me well, well, withthe with with onlyworst only only RomCom RomComRomCom fi xfi onlinexfi xonline online with with with free free free bedroombedroombedroom is nois isno longerno longer longer the the theonly only only about crapaboutabout 17% 17%to 17% ofreview. ofPenn of Penn Penn undergrads Iundergrads undergradsthought streaming streamingstreaming websites websites websites like like likeSideReel SideReel SideReel areaarea areabeing being being ceded ceded ceded to todigital to digital digital terri- terri- terri-watchinghewatchingwatching kept movies themovies movies best at theat at recordsthe Ravethe Rave Rave ev- forev- ev- andand andCh131 Ch131 Ch131 rather rather rather than than than pay pay payfor for for 9.2%9.2%9.2% 34th Street tory.tory.tory. DearFor For Forevery every every girl girl withgirl with withEditors, daddy’s daddy’s daddy’s ery himselfery semester.ery semester. semester. and his friends. But servicesservicesservices provided provided provided by by Netfl by Netfl Netfl ix andix ix and and AmEx,AmEx,AmEx,Your window windowrequestwindow browsing forbrowsingbrowsing my on col- on on otherButBut Buthow freebieshow how about about about suckedthe the otherthe other otherme ste- ste-in. ste- Redbox?Redbox?Redbox? 1.5%1.5%1.5% FifthFifthlegeFifth Avenue Avenue Avenuereminiscences has has beenhas been been replaced replaced replacedmade reotype, Ireotype, reotype,did thea fewthe onethe onefilm onethat that thatreviews,says says saysall allcol- all ascol- col- I WhileWhileWhile 75% 75% 75% of ofus of uswatch us watch watch mov- mov- mov- withwithmywith online day. onlineonline My shopping. ownshopping.shopping. kids, And whoAndAnd lege alsolege legestudents studentslacked students are the are poor?are disposablepoor? poor? The The The free freein- free ies ies online,ies online, online, nearly nearly nearly 50% 50% 50% pay pay payfor for for FYEsFYEsareFYEs roughlyeverywhere everywhereeverywhere your have haveage,have virtu- groan virtu-virtu- movementcomemovementmovement to of see ofinformation of informationmovies information and made made thismade it. it.Iit. hearI Ihear hear Horrible Horrible Horrible Bosses Bosses Bosses — — a— a a WhyWhyWhy do do doyou you you go go goto to theto the the movies? movies? movies? when I when I talk about allyally allybeen been been rendered rendered rendered useless useless useless (pun (pun (pun possible waspossiblepossible before by by theby thefolks interwebthe interweb interwebcould makes watchmakes makes new newnew release release release on on iTunes on iTunes iTunes — — is — hys-is ishys- hys- 3.1%3.1%3.1% 6.3%6.3%6.3% intended)intended)theintended) old with dayswith with the thewhen theexistence existence existence nobody of of of things on the internet. In an terical,terical,terical, but but isbut is is OtherOtherOther had cell phones or laptops or thethe multifariousthe multifarious multifarious iTunes iTunes iTunes store. store. store. eraWhoseWhose whenWhose recommendations recommendations personalrecommendations computers do doyou do you take?you take? take? it itworth itworth worth the the the It's It'sa It'sway a waya to way hang to tohang hangout out with out with friendswith friends friends Thingsemail.ThingsThings Inare are thosenoare no differentno fardifferent different off heretimes here here were50 50 50 rare, The DP had word47.7%47.7% 47.7% 1.51.5 1.5salads salads salads at at at 25%25%25% before iTunes and Spotify, OtherOtherOther 40.6%40.6%40.6% It's It'sa It'sgood a gooda goodstudy study study break break break fi lm feature music arts lowbrow highbrow ego food & drink fi lm feature music arts lowbrow highbrow ego food & drink fi lm feature music arts lowbrow at highbrow ego food & drink fi atPenn,at Penn, Penn, where where where the the theRave Rave Rave gets gets gets processors40% 40%that40% staff could SweetgreenSweetgreenSweetgreen 40 40 40 A FriendA FriendA Friend nearlynearlymusicnearly half washalf halfthe transmittedthe thetraffi traffi traffi c forc cfor toforthe the the use to write their school pa- it it it wouldwouldwould It makesIt makesIt makes you you feel you feel relaxed feel relaxed relaxed and and happy and happy happy CinemaCinemaCinema Studies Studies Studies midnightmidnightmassesmidnight screeningsvia screenings screeningsthe radio of of block-of orblock- block- on 30 30 30 havehavehave cost cost costif if if 25%25%25% RequiredRequiredRequired for forClass for Class Class pers.26.2% 26.2%A26.2% local pizza25%25% 25%place25%25% 25%paid MajorMajorMajor busterbusterblackbuster hits hitsvinyl hitslike like likeTwilight discs Twilight Twilight calledas Huluas as Hulu Hulure- for its DP ads by delivering SabrinaProfessorProfessorProfessor orEaton TA or orTA TA(right)I hadI Ihad and hadseen seenher seen it successor it it Alexis Lierberman (left). cords. Disco ruled the radio 20 20 20 doesdoesdoes the the theday day dayafter after after the the thenewest newest newest pizzas every night, so I didn’t namedStreetStreetStreet Bob andin inDaveintheaters? theaters?theaters? were and undergarments were in The next year, I was one episodeepisodeandepisode I ofhated of 30of 30 Rock30it. Rock RockI airs.didn’t airs. airs.This haveThis This RamenRamenRamen noo- noo- noo- have10 10 10 to scare up dinner. And put*Students*Students *Studentsin surveyed charge surveyed surveyed were were were of the maga- his desk drawers. The pair of the magazine’s editors. makesmakesenoughmakes sense. sense. sense.money We We WePenn Penn toPenn students buy students students the allowedallowed allowedto choose to chooseto morechoose more more dles dles dles aren’t aren’taren’t es essevenes seven seven movies, movies, movies, more more more or or less,or less, less, writing for 34th Street got zine.than thanonethan Theyoption.one one option. option. did not get along. had trouble deciding what We got non DP–people who arearepunk aretoo too toorockbusy busybusy recordsprocrastinating procrastinatingprocrastinating I wanted 0 0 0 thatthat thatbad, bad,bad, I I Ievery everyevery semester. semester. semester. Simple Simple Simple arithme- arithme- arithme- me decent enough clips to Dave was manic and Bob was to put in the magazine. In were contemplating journal- ononand Pennon Penn Pennthat’s InTouch InTouch InTouchwhat and first and anddesign- leddesign- design- me guess.guess.guess. tictic provestic proves proves that that thatit’s it’s $40it’s $40 $40cheaper cheaper cheaper BYBYBY THE THETHE get paid journalism intern- depressive. Bob also seemed an attempt at Hunter S. ism careers to write for us ingingto ingfunny 34thfunny funny lacrosseStreet lacrosse lacrosse Magazinepinnies pinnies pinnies for . for Itfor entertainment entertainmententertainment accessible accessibleaccessible and and and TheTheThe average averageaverage Penn PennPenn student studentstudent to towatchto watch watch said said saidmovies movies movies on on Netfl on Netfl Netfl ix ix ix ships during summer breaks. to live in the office, as arti- Thompson style “Gonzo” as a way to bolster their clip thetheran theclubs clubsan clubs adwe’re we’re thatwe’re involved saidinvolved involved it inneeded in toin to to inexpensive inexpensiveinexpensive to to anyoneto anyone anyone with with with an an an (who (who(who is anythingis isanything anything but but butaverage, average, average, if if ifthan thanthan at atthe at the theRave, Rave, Rave, and and andan an addi-an addi- addi- NUMBERSNUMBERSNUMBERS Eventually two guys facts believed to be his socks journalism, Dave scandal- portfolio, and folks interest- leaveleaverecordleave the the comfortthe reviewers.comfort comfort of ofour of our Andourbeds beds beds tothe to to AirPennNet AirPennNetAirPennNet account. account. account. Wouldn’t Wouldn’t Wouldn’t you you youask ask Amyask Amy Amy Gutmann) Gutmann) Gutmann) watch- watch- watch-tionaltionaltional $20 $20 $20less less lesson on iTuneson iTunes iTunes (cost (cost (cost ized The DP’s more “serious” ed in art to assist with layout of ofpopcornof popcorn popcorn and and andMike Mike Mike and and andIkes Ikes Ikes editors by taste testing dog and graphics. I assigned far notnot notincluded included included in in thesein these these calcula- calcula- calcula- tions).foodtions).tions). Thein The The thelow low lownewsroomcost cost costof ofwatch- of watch- watch-and $153,701more$153,701$153,701 material than needed ingwritinging sevening seven seven moviesit movies moviesup onlike on iTuneson iTunesa iTunesrestau- for for for because I realized some writ- rant review. I supplied more >>ers>> would>>Total Total Total amountcop amount amount out orof submitof of lessless lessthan than than 30 30 bucks30 bucks bucks is worthis isworth worth the the the moneymoneymoney spent spent spent in in moviein movie movie manymainstreammanymany conveniences conveniences conveniences fare bythat that profiling thatonline online online articles that required triage. comedian John Candy and theaters*Duringtheaters*theaters* my editorby by Pennby Penn stint,Penn I was paidpaidpaid services services services afford afford afford us: us: notus: not notbe- be- be- studentsstudentsstudents each each each semester semester semester inginterviewinging inginterrupted interruptedinterrupted members by by byincessant incessant incessantof the shocked that many people bufferingbandbufferingbuffering REM and and andcommercials, to commercials, commercials,promo theirthe the the who considered themselves immunityappearanceimmunityimmunity to to computeratto computer Irvinecomputer Audito-viruses viruses viruses good writers had no grasp of andrium.and andmost most most importantly, importantly, importantly, not not nothav- hav- hav- punctuation, spelling, and inging ingUpsetto to waitto wait bywait 54 Dave54 54minutes minutes minutesand afterBob’s after after sentence$196,136$196,136$196,136 structure, let alone watchinghijinks,watchingwatching 72 some72 minutes 72 minutes minutes members of ofa ofmovie a amovie movieof storytelling.>>>> >>Total Total Total amount amount amountAnd ofplenty of of of ontheon Megavideo.on Megavideo. DPMegavideo. Board of Manag- peoplemoneymoneymoney whospent spent spent didn’t watching watching watching think of ersNotNot discussedNot to tomention, to mention, mention, shutting it’s it’s ait’s smalladown asmall small themselvesonline,online,online, if allif ifallas peopleall peoplegood people whowriters who who pricethepriceprice tomagazine. topay to pay paywhen when when Instead, you you youlook look lookthey at at at werepaidpaidpaid fornaturals. for onlinefor online online As services servicesan services editor, Dine-In,Dine-In,Dine-In, Catering Catering Catering & & Delivery& Delivery Delivery theformedthe bigthe big picturebig picture a picture committee — — the — the combinedthe combined oncombined how Iused focusedusedused iTunes* iTunes* iTunes* on unscrambling to improve it. I was on that prose and helping writers HappyHappyHappy Hour: Hour: Hour: Mon-Fri Mon-Fri Mon-Fri 5-7 5-7 5-7 savingssavingssavings of of theof the the47.7% 47.7% 47.7% of of Pennof Penn Penn studentscommittee.studentsstudents who who who pay To pay forpay avoid for their for their their theonline online sortonline more clearly say what they LunchLunchLunch Special: Special: Special: Mon-Fri Mon-Fri Mon-Fri $8.95 $8.95 $8.95 servicesofservicesservices difficulties rather rather rather than than thanthat going going goingresulted to tothe to the the wanted to say in their own moviefrommoviemovie theater Bob theater theater andis somewhereis issomewhereDave’s somewhere feud- be- be- be- words.$295,344$295,344$295,344 Hopefully, I im- tweentweentween $196,136 $196,136 $196,136 and and and$295,344, $295,344, $295,344, EarlyEarlyEarly Bird: Bird: Bird: Sun-Thur Sun-Thur Sun-Thur $10.95 $10.95 $10.95 ing, we decided to have three proved>>>> >>Total Total Totalstaffers’ amount amount amount writing of of of and dependingeditorsdependingdepending instead on on whetheron whether whetherof two, they they they usewith use use helpedmoneymoneymoney them spent spent spent decide watching watching watching whether NetfloneNetflNetfl ix outrankingixor ix or iTunes,or iTunes, iTunes, respectively. therespectively. respectively. others journalismonline,online,online, if allif ifall was peopleall people peoplesomething who who who MoraltoMoralMoral avoid of ofthe of deadlocks.the storythe story story is: is:we is: Wewe won'twe won't alsowon't theypaidpaidpaid couldfor for onlinefor online doonline forservices services servicesa living. judgetriedjudgejudge if youtoif ifyou figureyoujust just juststay stayout stayin inbed. waysin bed. bed. to Someusedusedused Netflix*future Netflix* Netflix* pros who wrote

34TH STREET Magazine December 1, 2011 34TH STREET Magazine December 1, 2011 34TH STREET Magazine December 1, 2011 draw in more writers and to for the magazine while I was PattayaRestaurant.comPattayaRestaurant.comPattayaRestaurant.com • 215.387.8533• • 215.387.8533 215.387.8533 encourage*A* A*simpleA simplesimple DPrandom random randomstaff sample to sample sampleuse an editor include financial *$12.50/ticket*$12.50/ticket*$12.50/ticket at theat at the Rave the Rave Rave 400640064006 Chestnut Chestnut Chestnut Street Street Street • University• •University University City City City ofthe of100of 100 100 magazine’sPenn Penn Penn undergrads undergrads undergrads format were were forwere journalist Jean Sherman surveyedsurveyedsurveyed to tocollect to collect collect data data data about about about *$3.99*$3.99*$3.99 to rentto to rent arent movie a amovie movie on oniTunes on iTunes iTunes more ambitious projects. Chatzky*$7.99/month*$7.99/month*$7.99/month (C on on’86),Netflix on Netflix Netflix The At- 8 88 theirtheirtheir fi lm fi lmfi viewinglm viewing viewing habits. habits. habits. 14 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 teens when I helped ush- sion of newspaper and wire 34th Street provides. I’m glad er it past some adolescent service jobs and currently the magazine survived into misadventures. When my serve as Washington corre- middle age, and hope it does editing term was over, I ex- spondent for the Cleveland not succumb to any midlife tracted myself from it as best Plain Dealer and its Cleve- crises. I could. I was dating the land.com website. Although person who succeeded me I went the hard news route, I SABRINA EATON is the Wash- as editor, and did not want think it’s important for Penn ington correspondent for the to be a buttinsky. I was also students to get the chance Cleveland Plain Dealer and its eager to launch my post– to read and write the sort of Cleveland.com. college life. I got a succes- arts and feature coverage that

Distinguished Jurist Lecture with Sabrina's rst Letter from the Editor, announcing new changes in 1984. HON. THOMAS AMBRO lantic editor Jeff Goldberg more parties by people who U.S. Court of Appeals (C '87), Fast Company’s Sue were into status–y stuff like Karlin (C ’85), the late rock titles. Towards the end of my for the Third Circuit critic Jimmy Guterman (C tenure, I pulled some all– '84), Texas Monthly’s Jeff Sal- nighters to enter dozens of amon (C’86), Politico’s Peter people’s work in the Colum- Canellos (C’84), NPR’s Ste- bia Scholastic Press Associa- fan Fatsis (C’85) and New tion contest. We won more York Times restaurant critic awards than The DP itself How Some Pete Wells (C’86). (mostly for design), which Editing 34th Street made helped shut down those me realize I didn’t particu- who entertained thoughts of Appellate Judges larly enjoy being an editor, shutting down the magazine. although I got invited to 34th Street was in its late Think Tuesday, October 16 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Silverman 245A, Penn Law Reception to follow lecture - all are welcome.

Information: http://www.law.upenn.edu/ile

The Institute for Law and Economics is a joint research center of the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences.

This program has been approved for 1.0 substantive law credit hour for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credits may be available in other jurisdictions as well. Attendees seeking CLE credit should bring separate payment in the amount of $40.00 ($20.00 public interest/non-profit attorneys) cash or check made payable to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economics, a joint research center of the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. "Frustrated in Philly," December 6, 1984. Edited by Sabrina Eaton.

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 15 In its review, Street reported Janis Jo- tunities and the promise of arts coverage Still, the oldest issues re ect many of Talleyrand–Perigord. Too obscure for plin was “wailing, moaning, screeching, o ered women a previously uncovered the same topics that Penn students still the casual Penn audience? Street didn’t stomping, jumping, crashing, twisting, campus niche. Early female writers, like chew on in print. “Higher education think so: on April 18, 1974, Street swinging and tearing herself and 17,000 Valerie Wacks (C, W ‘73) and Claudia once prepared young people for life, printed a book review of the “fast–read- others to pieces.” e deluge of shows Cohen (C ‘72), found a voice in Street. whereas now it prepares them for jobs,” ing” volume by Jean Orieux, opening led one Street writer to speculate in an “She and I would sometimes go to a Street editorial railed in 1969, arguing the article with an excerpted exchange October 1968 issue that “maybe Philly events together. ey weren’t really a Bachelor’s degree was the cultural between Talleyrand–Perigord and isn’t so dead after all.” dates because she was very clear to me equal to the “‘U.S.D.A. choice’ stamp Countess Sophia von Kielmannsegg Just assembling the paper was she wanted to marry a rich guy,” Arnie on meat leaving the Chicago stock- and anointing the book a “massive more laborious in the ‘60s and ‘70s. said about Cohen. “Which is exactly yards." Sound familiar? Probably. contribution to the controversy.” A bullpen of manual typewriters was what she did.” Claudia Cohen Hall on In its  rst decade, Street lived entirely Berger’s vision for the magazine was centered in the Street o ce. To print on campus, is named after her. in e DP’s shadow. Mitch Berger (C, more Philadelphia–focused, summed a continuous page, writers would glue Following alt–weeklies in other cities, G ‘76), Co–Editor with Lee Levine (C, up by the credo, “Don’t be so insular, stick sheafs together. As Editor–In– Arnie spearheaded distributing Street G ‘76) in ’75, decided to “take on” 34th don’t be closed in, leave camps.” Chief, Arnie laid out the pages into the across Philadelphia. After recruiting Street after a year as a top DP editor. He As Philadelphia approached the massive printer on production night, a fellow Penn student to drive, he describes it as a resuscitation e ort. bicentennial, the city was shifting from lining the type to his T–square. Arnie mapped out distribution points around “I don’t think anyone on campus a backwater “cheesesteak kind of city” shouldered the  ve– to six–hour process the city: record stores, malls, other col- read it,” Berger recalled. “It was an to a destination for consumable culture. each week. He left the printer’s o ce lege campuses. in–house organ of the Philomathean Inspired to record the new opportuni- at 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. and drove back to e plan  zzled out, but it cre- Society.” ties for student revelry, Berger in- campus before dawn (except the night ated a precedent for Street to be more At that time, Street covered a nar- jected new voices into the paper. Street’s his car was stolen). Philadelphia–facing than other Penn row band of “obscure, avant garde” backbone became ongoing columns Just a few years after Mandel’s “99% publications, a trend it has continued entertainment that ranged from student written by four campus men, including male” DP o ce, women were breaking to alternately embrace and buck during poetry to the 677–page biography of Buzz Bissinger, current Penn professor through the ranks. More writing oppor- its run. French statesman Charles Maurice de and Pulitzer prize winner. In uenced

An March 27, 1969 letter announcing a change in Street's editorial sta .

Street covers a Janis Joplin concert in its Music section, then referred to as "Longer Hair."

Street's January 25, 1990 interview with Matt Groenig, the cre- ator of 'The Simpsons.'

"Is Pope Coke Fiend?" Street's February 25, 1981 Joke Issue.

18 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 Following 34th Street's paper trail, from 1969 to the present. 50 Years By Julia Bell

“First, a soothing word.” credit. Although he enjoyed a career in journalism spot in e DP’s e opening sentence of the  rst–ever 34th Street like many Street alums, he did so without a Bachelor’s executive board, Magazine is this promise. Below a shakily hand– degree. but was o ered drawn masthead, the inaugural letter from the e  rst issue established boundaries that Street the Street position editors prefaces the new magazine. On October 11, would rede ne and push against over the next 50 instead. 1968, while Penn’s campus was hungover from the years: it was a magazine by, but not necessarily “After a Summer of Love, swarming with anti–war protests, about, the Penn community. It primarily covered moment’s surprise, I and watching the newly–released 2001: A Space entertainment, but it was also political (“Don’t took to it like a duck Odyssey, Street entered the “renaissance of non– Oink Back” was its  rst feature). e writing had to water,” Holland said. ennui.” e editors hoped to “elicit articles from  air but wasn’t obnoxious (okay, sometimes it was He was passionate about "Steven Winn Centerfold" November 11, members of the community who have had little or obnoxious). Street began as a supplement to e DP music and movies, and inspired by 1973. no previous outlet in print” and o er a “compleat” to expand its arts coverage and explore feature–style publications like e Village Voice and e Boston entertainment guide in each issue. writing. In addition to the Art, Cinema, and Drama Phoenix. And with that letter—wrapped in a cover of an sections, Music was divided into “Oldtime” and “ e war in uenced everything because we didn’t enormous pig sni ng a police o cer’s cap—Street “Secular.” know if we’d get drafted after college,” Holland entered the Penn community. It has been conceived “Subtle hatred of University’s guts is displayed by said, recalling listening for his draft number on the by Charles Krause (C ‘69), known then as Chuck, neighbors,” Street wrote in its  rst issue about Penn’s o ce radio. While working for e DP, he covered who ceded the position to Bill Mandel (C ‘69) relationship to Philadelphia. In the next handful of the anti–war movement at Penn and elsewhere; after he was named Editor–in–Chief of e Daily years, Street would interview Kurt Vonnegut, the he wrote about getting tear gassed at a Cleveland Pennsylvanian. Mandel, who had also applied for Jerry half of Ben & Jerry’s, Jamie Lee Curtis (pre– protest. the top DP spot, accepted, and began what would Activia), and the New York Times Crossword Editor. By contrast, Street was a way to  irt with political become a decade–long tradition of DP–hopefuls “ ose were crazy days,” Mandel recalled. “We’d subversion while getting free albums and concert being given control of Street as a consolation prize. run around, we’d stay up all night [...] I’m sure it’s tickets. Managers sent writers passes to Philadelphia’s “It was a life,” said Bill Mandel. “Not a lifestyle.” the same now.” Electric Factory or the Spectrum eater in exchange Mandel spent so much time in the DP o ce that Arnie Holland (W ‘71) was a freshman when for reviews of Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Cream— he didn’t graduate from Penn, missing one Spanish Street began in 1968. He had been gunning for a top whichever musician was touring in Philadelphia.

"Fuck You," 1969. Co-edited by Bill Mandel. 17

16 of 34th Street 16 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 17 Street's October 10, 2004 cover story about John Legend.

Street's January 23, 1983 issue cover, featuring an "Are You Ready to Rumble?" Street's February 22, interview with John Waters. 1996 interview with Jackie Chan.

by Gonzo journalism, the men penned abduct them, 3) ship them back home, sue’s front page headline: “Is Pope Coke ticle to call its “casual treatment” of cults’ self–referential columns on topics such as 4) where the women’s daddy’s pay the Fiend?” indoctrination e orts “patently unaccept- local martini fare (“ e o erings vary in postage due.” By the mid–’80s, the erudite refer- able.” A College graduate of ‘85 inquired taste from rancid to very potable”), police Even so, some coverage was “a world ences had been largely leached from the in a Letter to the Editor: brutality against black Philadelphians, di erent in 1976 than 2018,” according pages, with a new emphasis on more “Why do you feel it necessary to  ay and fantasies about riding a silver stallion to Service. For instance, an article about accessible entertainment. In contrast to its certain musicians and  lmmakers with down Locust Walk. gay students on campus called “Can Gay review of the encyclopedia–sized French non–funny one liners?” In 1975, Street’s namesake was razed Mean Happy?” prompted a homophobic biography, Street covered a 1984 “beer– As Street entered the ‘90s, it was by the University. Sergeant Hall, on the letter to the author written on used toilet drinking guide” written by three “Yalies.” re ning a breezy, infotainment style a eponymous 34th and Chestnut Streets, paper. Capitalizing on the local cult meetings, la Entertainment Weekly. Street printed a was a former apartment building– Almost ten years after its conception, a student reporter went to consecutive coupon for a Tabard Society party in Feb- turned–women’s–dorm–turned–DP–of- Street was going through a growth spurt Hare Krishna and “Moonie” (Uni cation ruary 1990, o ering “emotional rescue”  ce. Since its demolition, e DP and and re ning a style and tone recognizable Church) meetings to compare the free for students excluded from the guest list. Street have lived at 4015 Walnut Street, a to today’s Quakers. food o ered to cult members because During the collapse of the Soviet Union, former fur storage facility. Howard Gensler (C ‘83), the Co–Edi- “they may well invite you to dinner in Street—ever abreast of current events— As Co–Editor with Lu Anne Stewart tor in 1981 with Aphrodite Valleras (C hope they’ll convert you to their religion.” reported: “In a very big country whose (C ’77), Charles Service (W ‘77) created ‘86), con rms Street “started with a politi- “ e Krishnas didn’t stop feeding me red  ag has tools on it, a lot of people got the  rst beat reporter positions in 1976. It cal bent” but had retooled to a mostly until I felt like the fat man from Monty together to say they want to have lots of was the  rst time the  edgling publica- entertainment focus by the time he Python’s Meaning of Life. But the food di erent parties rather than one big one.” tion didn’t source its talent by siphoning assumed the top position. As an editor, he and the service was excellent,” concluded Inspired by publications like e A.V. o of e DP. saw much of his role as a curator for how the writer, giving the Krishnas four stars Club and Spy magazine, Street entered the e old issues show how Penn ste- students should spend their entertain- and the Moonies just three and listing the ‘90s with takes on mostly–mainstream reotypes have changed over time—and ment budgets. mealtimes and transportation routes for “funny goofy pop culture snarky bullshit,” remained the same. In 1976, a Street “We didn’t take some of it that seri- hungry students. according to Matt Selman (C ‘93), Edi- cartoon featured a male pre–med student ously,” Gensler admitted, remembering e irreverent writing didn’t impress tor–In–Chief in ‘92. clobbered by a Gucci bag, explaining that the one–liners hidden in the pages, listing all readers: an Annenberg sta member In a 1990 issue dedicated to fashion, Penn women, “1) entice their mates, 2) fake movies, and the inaugural joke is- wrote to Street after the “Soul Food” ar- students pose in moody black–and–white

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 19 shots wearing lycra tennis suits, “Let me spell it out for you. unread copies in garbage cans needlessly current rayon dresses, and strappy P–A–R–T–I–E–S. You gotta each ursday said otherwise. mean. events with sandals. e gossip column, have more parties,” the Street Raucous meetings with lots of Even snarky Street Society, reported weekend Society columnist, pen name laughter were a bigger draw than so, the com- misadventures of Penn students Roy G. Biv, declared. “I can’t circulation numbers, anyway. maga- mentary, using their full names (not as subsist on the porage you folks Some coverage was “the  u - zine campus chilling in the pre–Google era). pretend is a social life. And est  u ever to be pu ed out,” inter- gossip, An older incarnation of the frankly, I’m not getting enough Selman recalled. viewed and now–dead Round Up, Street free alcohol.” A photo of two dogs having e Simpsons Society was mostly preoccupied “I always pretended every- sex cost the magazine advertisers. creator Matt with who vomited at Greek one cared and read it,” Selman Sometimes the deadpan style Groening, the quip- events. said, even when “hundreds” of was funny. Sometimes it was band Weezer, py and wrote "Under Wraps" February 12, 2010 observa- features on fake issue of Street. tions. IDs and club- As the bing in Philadel- recession phia. hit print By the mid–aughts, Street was media especially hard, advertis- still operating like an alt–weekly ing dried up. Rubin remembers for West Philadelphia. e sta short 16–page issues: “It would was “very cool, no one was in be like, ‘You guys have a lot of Greek life,” according to former pages because we don’t have ads, 5-8 BR houses available for Managing Editor and Editor– but this issue is going to be very In–Chief Julia Rubin (C ’10). few pages because you don’t 2019-2020 school year! Rubin took on the role of have ads.’” Managing Editor and Edi- As Street entered the 2010s, Properties located on Delancey, Pine, and tor–In–Chief back–to–back—a the sta , led by Rubin, who was Locust Streets. two–year stint that launched a sorority member herself, got her career in digital media after “more Greek and, dare I say, Act now to get in on great locations and graduation. mainstream.” Coverage shifted renovated houses. “I spent an incredible amount more exclusively to Penn stu- of time in that o ce,” Rubin dents, birthing landmark Street Family-run business for over 50+ years in student housing! laughed, recalling the window- projects like the sex survey. less room and dirty couch and e current iteration of Street (215) 222-5500 Monday night pizza. “So much will be swept away as surely as university UE enterprises 4019 Locust St. time. But it made me feel really new headlines push down the ServingApartments the Penn community & Townhouses for OVER 50 YEARS! [email protected] adult.” old ones. New names on the While the 2008 recession was masthead, new leadership, new speeding the shift from print to ideas for ways to package Penn online media, blogs  owered on will replace the ones now. at Welcome the unpro table internet. Fol- isn’t unusual for anything at lowing schools like Columbia, Penn, where the shelf life of in- NYU, and Penn State, Street’s volvement is no longer than four Exp.Exp. 2/23/12 4/11/12 CLASS OF then– years. But unlike For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-1941 Editor– most extracurric- In–Chief ular groups, there Kerry Jones isn’t so much 20164004 chestnut street | (215) 386-1941 conceived output—50 Under the years of archives. Button, Physical evidence All You Can Eat BuffetExp.Exp. 2/23/12 4/11/12 originally a that demands to For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-1941 Street blog. be touched and Every Day! e original paged through concept and revisited to was an see how Penn has TAKE 15% OFF $2 beer special! o shoot of changed. WITH THIS AD $3 beer! shots! wine! Street’s old "There's Something About But  rst, a Highbrow Molly" October 13, 2011 issue of soothing word. VALID UNTIL 10/31/18 Welcomesection— We Deliver! Street. student discount with I.D. | order online @ newdehliweb.com | closed mondays Exp.Exp. 2/23/12 4/11/12 20 CLASS OF 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-1941 2016

Exp.Exp. 2/23/12 4/11/12 For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-1941 SHOPSATPENN.COM Calling all Movers Shakers + Quakers SHOP PENN Day Leaders Friday, October 12 Readers + Eaters A day full of deals along Spruce, Walnut, and Chestnut Streets. Discover the bargains, BOGOs, and sales at bit.ly/shoppenndeals

Shop smarter. Shop Penn. #SHOPPENN @SHOPSATPENN Thinkers Scholars + Ballers

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 21 The 1980s: Ellen Flax Considers Her 'Second Chance’ on Street

Ellen Flax was the Features Editor thought I would get. visited an alumna of my the end of the fall semes- the then–mayor, and Penn from January 1986 to May 1986. I had joined The DP high school, who herself was ter, I was assigned my first alum, Wilson Goode (C virtually the moment I an editor of 34th Street, and real beat—the student ’86), ordered the deadly came to Penn, in Fall 1982. was blown away by The DP government—and had a bombing of a house (and by My turn as the Features Heck, The DP was one of newsroom. Yup, I said to tete–a–tete with the then– extension, an entire block) Editor, the number two slot the prime reasons I even myself, I can totally picture Editor–in–Chief, who told in West Philly that was then on 34th Street, represented decided to go to Penn: as myself here. me that she thought I had home to dozens of anarchist a second chance that I never a senior in high school, I So I jumped all in. By the potential to one day be activists—and their chil- the Editor–in–Chief myself, dren—who were members assuming I plotted my DP of the radical MOVE group. career correctly. As the city, and campus, The spring of my fresh- grappled with the aftermath men year was an exciting of this tragedy, The DP, and time in the DP news cycle. by extension, 34th Street, Without question, the story devoted resources to cover- of the year was the charge ing West Philly. by a student that she had Beat–less, I spent the fall been gang–raped by a num- of my senior year writing ber of fraternity brothers news feature stories about at an ATO frat party—and West Philly. And then a Open 6 Days a Week (CLOSED TUESDAYS) the University’s botched minor miracle happened: handling of the case. one writer who was herself FREE Delivery Meanwhile, on my student in line for a leadership posi- government beat, there was tion on Street decided to go Lunch and Dinner Buffet a referendum about whether away for the spring semes- the Undergraduate Assem- ter, leaving an opening on Present your bly should be abolished. the Board. In the right place (It was voted down, thank at the right time, I agreed Student ID for 10% OFF! goodness, but I got a couple to serve as the Features of page 1 stories out of the Editor of 34th Street, and (215) 662-0818 | 60 South 38th Street mess.) as a member of the 102nd As the semesters passed, Board, until my graduation I rose in the beat hierarchy. in May. And then, in my junior year, At that time, 34th Street when it was time to decide was known for a couple of about a potential Board things: 1) “colorful” editors position, I took a U–turn: I and writers (I was easily the decided I wanted to spend most vanilla member of the part of my junior year in staff); 2) high–quality arts Vienna, on a program that coverage—indeed, a number focused on the then–Com- of our critics went on to munist Eastern bloc. Since careers as reviewers; 3) end- Board positions ran the cal- less event and TV listings endar year, and I was going (in the pre–internet era, to be away in the spring, the there was no choice but to two options were mutually devote a lot of space to this exclusive. I cleared out my information) and 4) a will- dorm room at the end of ingness to take risks with the fall semester, knowing our feature stories. Some- that my dream of serving on times, these risks definitely the DP Board would likely crossed a line—I doubt that never come to fruition. anyone who read 34th Street The following fall, I re- in that era can ever forget a turned to a somber campus former editor’s piece about and city. While I was gone, personally taste–testing dog

22 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 food(!)—but for the most Street Editor–in–Chief, Clockwise from top left: DP article announces Ellen Flax as new Street editor; feature story about ecstasty use that part, these risks involved Chris Downey (C ’87), Ellen edited; and the infamous dog food tasting story.; and Atlantic City gambling story that Ellen Flax assisted on. tackling complicated stories and I had a good work- in a longer, feature format. ing partnership, we some- After paging through my times tussled over tone and bound volume, I was re- content—he was more into minded that during my ten- entertainment cover pieces, ure, students wrote well–re- and I favored news features. searched and sourced pieces Probably our most serious about such issues as medical disagreement concerned a malpractice, pay equity, the cover story about ecstasy, impact of the gambling in- timed to run around Spring dustry on Atlantic City, and Fling; I felt strongly that race relations in Southwest the story, as written, was Philly, where two newly encouraging the (illegal) moved–in families with drug’s usage, but after a African–American members little judicial editing, we were greeted with jeers by were both satisfied with the their white neighbors. final version. Gia Pronto Kitchen Of course, there were Chris and I were fortu- a number of more light– nate to have the best staff, PROUDLY BREWING hearted features—such as bar none (yes, I am biased, a piece about a burgeoning but these guys were really retail war between cookie good!) on the paper. I am makers, a cover story about grateful to all of them, and La Colombe Coffee comic–book heroes, and to the 101st and 102nd long profiles of musicians Boards, for giving me a AT PENN SINCE 2003 and writers. While my 34th second chance!

After an initial post–graduate career in journalism, ELLEN FLAX received rabbinical ordination and now 3716 Spruce St. • 215-222-7713 3400 Civic Center Blvd. • 215-386-1350 serves as the Director of The Hadassah Foundation. www.kitchengia.com

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 23 The Early 1990s THINGS I LEARNED THAT HAVE HELPED ME PRODUCE 'THE SIMPSONS' Matt Selman was the Editor– Editor material for the then was 19 and thought EW was the the magazine, and he seemed to in the spirit of my beloved EW in–Chief from January 1992 to ve–day–a–week Penn paper of pinnacle of journalism: that snark feel better. Lists, I now present: December 1992. record. After a test stint as Enter- was funny, pop was culture, and 1992's 34th Street wasn't a fail- THINGS I LEARNED AT tainment Editor of the Summer lists were actual writing. ey fell ure of execution. (Our movie re- 34TH STREET: Pennsylvanian (a hot Philly hang– for it. I was in. view headlines were just as punny Create a space where it's okay to In December 1991, I had sesh with e Fabulist himself Looking back at the 1992 as EW's.) But it was a failure of say very silly ideas. been a Daily Pennsylvanian beat Stephen Glass (C ’94)), I was en- bound volume, our EW–y ver- vision: ours was not unique, not Ridiculous digressions are cru- reporter for two years, with couraged towards the direction of sion of 34th Street seems very, personal, and not special. We cial to getting good work done. mixed results. ( e mixture was 34th Street. very soft. Squishy, even. It val- could have done anything! Com- You must have good night pizza. between "not very good at jour- Now, I wasn't really a "Street" ued celebrity interviews above edy, story–telling, satire, car- Share your passion with your nalism" and "please don't re Person in that I was A) some- actual reporting (see "account- toons, observations of the actual team; you will get even more pas- me.") My beats included at vari- what–to–extremely uncool, B) ability, aversion to" earlier), re- human condition, ction, politi- sion back. ous times: Research (dry), Legal not into indie music or foreign viewed mostly mainstream mov- cal writing, pranks, or really just Never lose your temper in front (huh?), the College of Arts and lms, and C) not a partaker of ies and records, then threw in a anything resembling magazine of people; it is a sign of weakness. Sciences (help!), and, eventu- any drugs my parents would be few random creative essays and journalism. We had free reign to When you do lose your temper, ally, Any Story I Turned in with upset to hear about. But as a lover the occasional restaurant review create something innovative (or make sure you unleash it at the a Funny Headline. I had accu- of TV comedy, Hollywood mov- (free food = good review). And at least super weird). right person. mulated a number of bad habits ies, and all things predictable, I then there was Street Society, a When my reign came to an Befriend the Business People— for a young reporter: misquoting felt Street was a good t. (I'd in- gossip column written by the few end, I turned to 34th Street alum- you will need them. sources, wanting my sources to terned at MTV, back when they cool people we knew (not me). nus Stephen Fried (C ’79), a Staers are going to screw up. like me, feeling sad when sources still played videos!) And, I had An angry guy once came to the lushly hair–ed, overcoat–wearing Don't shame them (too hard). didn't want to be friends... Over- a trick to convince the Board to DP oces with a bat because of non–ction writer of the highest Don't be cheap with kind all, an aversion to accountability let me run Street: I was going to some oending item in Street So- order, for career advice. "Com- words; you have a magic wallet in general. make 34th Street into Entertain- ciety. I told him that our research edy or journalism, you can't that never runs out of compli- e wise outgoing board of the ment Weekly. In my defense, I showed that no one actually read do both," he said. "Pick one." I ments. DP sensed I was not really News didn't really have the knack for Eating just one piece of pizza journalism, or even entertain- makes you a hero; two is surviv- ment journalism. And, I had just able; three is a disaster. We’re The only bike read a life–changing article about Gossip is fun, but for the love of how comedy writers got free God be careful. shop on campus! lunch every day. (Still delicious ose DP Sports Folks were AND we have the largest selection of bikes in Philadelphia! after 25 years!) So the choice was onto something with Fantasy easy. I now knew what I wanted Football back in 1992. to nd after graduation: a job like You may expect your audience Specialized Alibi $490 $399.99 what I had at 34th Street—a job to love or hate what you create, where people working for me had but the most common response to pretend to laugh at my jokes. is total apathy. Truly, I had found editing a Always keep in the forefront of derivative weekly college enter- your mind "What are you trying f tainment magazine to be the to say?" and "Why do you love most formative experience of my this idea?" collegiate life. e weekly cycle of Share credit. You know who did Scwinn speedster originally $399.99 panic and elation and pizza was what, that's what matters. thrilling. e 3 a.m. Wednesday No matter what kind of writing "will we get the magazine out" you do, writing is still re–writing. UNIVERSITY CITY lows! e 4 p.m. ursday "see- So thank you, 34th Street, for These tires will never need air 4040 LOCUST STREET ing most of the 34th Street maga- launching me on a lifetime ad- (215) 387-7433 zines thrown out" highs! venture, hanging out in rooms faculty gets 10% OFF non-sale bicycles And years later, I now realize full of funny weirdos, and, most and accessories with valid I.D.SAVE WHILE IN SCHOOL! that running that team of goof- important of all, free lunch. Students and Faculty balls had accidentally introduced sale get 10% OFF non-sale 4040 Locust Street bicycles and accessories me the skills I would use to run $299.99 with valid school I.D. (at the end of locust walk) (215) 387-7433 @KeswickCycle a rewrite room at e Simpsons. MATT SELMAN is an Executive at is, it taught me how to man- Producer and writer at 'The age creative people creatively. So, Simpsons.'

24 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 OPEN LATE & LATE NITE DELIVERY

Domino’sTM

SUN-THURS: 10AM - 2AM • FRI-SAT: 10AM - 4AM WE MAKE ORDERING EASY! CALL DIRECT OR CHOOSE YOUR ONLINE OR MOBILE DEVICE Smart Tablets Phones

215-662-1400 215-557-0940 4438 Chestnut St. 401 N. 21st St.

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 25 On the Street Scene: a section that was Doree Shafrir dedicated to campus The gossip and attracting Still Wants lawsuits. 1990s: to Know 'Did You Write for Street?’

Doree Shafrir was the Editor– ‘90s: we had a de nitely–not– about a freshman’s naked little ‘Sister Christian.’” It was fun to be the underdogs, in–Chief from January 1997 to fact–checked gossip column sister (with the hindsight of over It was fun but wow, it was a always ghting for resources and December 1998. about drunken escapades and 20 years, this is very understand- di erent time. even our right to exist in the face sexual exploits that used people’s able. Actually, even at the time, In all seriousness though, the of the more straitlaced, serious REAL NAMES—that is, until it felt like we had crossed a line, nights I stayed at the Pink Palace DP sta ers, who always seemed Here’s pretty much the only we were threatened with a law- and yet!). After that dust–up, until 2 or 3 a.m.—usually trying slightly embarrassed by us. (And thing you need to know about suit by a family who was pretty “On the Street Scene” became to gure out why QuarkExpress yet, they complained when they what Street was like in the late unhappy about an item we ran “Style on the Street,” and our (the worst desktop publishing didn’t make the Cultural Elite. intrepid correspondent, the program that ever existed) wasn’t TYPICAL.) pseudonymous Fletcher Towell, cooperating and scavenging stale Now, years later, whenever I turned his column into one that pizza—are some of my favorite meet someone else in media who gently mocked Penn students’ memories of my time at Penn. went to Penn, we always ask each fashion faux pas, with just a dash  e sta were all brilliant, won- other the same question: Did Live music • Film • Dance • Theater Art of now–anonymous, much more derful weirdos who have gone you write for Street? And more Education • Community benign gossip thrown in, like on to be nominated for Pulitzer often than not (at least, for the FREE Workshop on Setting & Measuring Goals! Vision the tale of the “riotously funny Prizes, write blockbuster mov- best ones), the answer is yes. Driven Artists karaoke orgy at 4028 Spruce’s ies, become respected TV critics, Oct 8 2018 @ 6:00 PM Saturday late night, featuring a design video games, and even be- DOREE SHAFRIR is a podcaster http://www.visiondrivenartists.org/ drunken  eta senior we’ll call come doctors. (Didn’t really see and author. Vision Driven Consulting has teamed up with The Rotunda to bring resources Lauren belting out a memorable that one coming, to be honest.) and capacity-building workshops to self-producing artists/musicians, arts organization staff , and event curators in all disciplines. No sign-up necessary. This week: Identify what you want to achieve in your projects, incorporate critical feedback and self-refl ection into your arts practice, brainstorm & receive tools for measuring success. FREE Vocal Master Class with The Vocal Scientist, Dr. Owen Brown Jr. Oct 10 2018 @ 7:00 PM This hands-on workshop is open to beginner and professional vocalists. This workshop will explore: rhythm, diction, posture, improvisation, injury prevention, nutrition for singers, and more! Sign up today! Registration is required. www.thevocalscientistmasterclass.eventbrite.com CinéSPEAK Double Feature: The People Under the Stairs / Get Out Oct 11 2018 @ 7:00 PM cineSPEAK : alternative cinema presents AN EVENING of SOCIAL HORROR -- with a DOUBLE FEATURE of WES CRAVEN'S THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991) starts at 7pm + JORDAN PEELE'S GET OUT (2017), starts at 8:45pm. BYODinner. cinéSPEAK will have popcorn + drinks for a donation. -Admission is FREE- 2018 Sojo Groove Night Oct 12 2018 @ 7:00 PM Join Camp Sojourner for performances by Philly musicians to benefi t our year-round activities! CAMP SOJOURNER, GIRLS’ LEADERSHIP CAMP is a nonprofi t leadership program serving Philly girls ages 8-17. FOOD AND RAFFLE will be available at the event, including gift certifi cates and gift baskets from fabulous local businesses. -SUGGESTED DONATION $25-

As an alcohol-free/smoke-free venue, The Rotunda provides an invaluable social alternative for all 4014 Walnut • TheRotunda.org

26 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 UNIVERSITY CITY HOUSING

UNIVERSITYCITY HOUSING

Find Your New Place in University City! OVER 80 LOCATIONS! STUDIOS TO 12 BEDROOM TOWNHOMES Call or Email the Leasing Office Today for More Information! UNIVERSITYCITYHOUSING.COM | 215-222-2000 | [email protected]

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 27 The 2000s: Ross Clark Wonders Ross Clark and members of 34th Street sta. Ross Clark was the Editor–in– 'How Did I Get Here?’ Chief from January 2003 to graduating from Penn and I’ve December 2003. never enjoyed the level of free- dom I had at 34th Street. Per- When I was the Editor–in– haps it is these trying, disruptive Chief of 34th Street (like, one times where content and media million years ago), a recently must evolve and compete with graduated Street alum came in platforms and technology. But to share his perspective on the I believe the bigger point is that working world and o er some too many folks are playing it words of advice to all the young safe. At a recent job, a senior cre- Street kids. In talking about ative executive and I were having Street versus his current job as a lunch and she shared that one of writer at a top weekly magazine, the reasons magazine journalism I remember him saying, “You’ll is so challenged today is because, never have this much freedom “No one takes risks anymore.” again.” And then I remember In thinking back at my time even more the mental (and at Street, I am certain that one likely physical) eye roll with thing we always did was take which I replied to that com- risks. ere were good risks ment and went about my day like new sections, new voices, thinking about how I was going and provocative cover stories. to continue to do amazing/cool/ en there were the bad risks. having brunch at a restaurant at nian Editor–In–Chief and said made the best friends I had in boundary–pushing things when How about a humor photo es- 40th and Walnut? Check. Later couple, I learned that what you college (and to this day) and I entered the real world. say (titled “Post Coital Brunch”) at a scolding sit–down with our write has real impact on people’s eventually went on to become Turns out, he was right. I’ve about a couple breaking up, shot lawyer, e Daily Pennsylva- lives. And also, that she was the the Editor–in–Chief of Street. had many jobs in media since vérité style with an IRL couple one who got dumped—so at My experiences would go on to least we got the story right. In shape what I have done with my our current era of fake news, this life with a career in media, span- ramenbarphilly.com was a bit too real. Yet the ma- ning multiple areas and func- PENN 4040 Locust Street | 215-243-9999 jority of the time, we took the tions within the industry. DREXEL 3438-48 Lancaster Ave | 215-921-5804 right risks, pushing the envelope Street was such a formative ex- when it came to redesigning perience for me across so many the logo, creating sections that elements of my life. And I had spoke to an increasingly social so much fun doing it. All the and connected campus and in- late nights blur together, but in troducing new, thematic issues. my memory, they are always an- On a personal level, join- chored by the music we played ing Street itself was a risk. Like when closing each week’s issue many young people, I was try- every Wednesday night. Talking ing to nd my tribe. I remember Heads’ Stop Making Sense was a when I was freshman, I went to favorite (nostalgic even then in a weekly meeting for students the 2000s as it’s an album that LUNCH Mon – Fri: 11:30am – 3:00pm HAPPY HOUR who were interested in getting came out in 1984). In particu- Sat – Sun: 12:00pm – 3:00pm Mon – Fri: 4:30pm – 6:30pm involved with the magazine. I lar, when their song “Once in a Sat – Sun: 9:00pm – 11:00pm (drink specials joined Street as a designer in my Lifetime” comes on and David BAR 11:30am – 10:00pm only) rst few months at Penn when I Byrne sings, “And you may ask DINNER Mon – Sat: 4:30pm – 10:00pm was trying to gure out college. yourself, well / How did I get Sun: 4:30pm – 9:00pm $4 Appetizers (excluding certain dishes) Initially, I found the process here,” all I can think of (and it’s $4 Drafts & Well Drinks nerve–wracking as I had never also the answer) is Street. $5 Wines & Sake Bombs used the software or designed a $6 Specialty Cocktails page and I didn’t know anyone ROSS CLARK is the Senior $1 off all other alcoholic drinks else there. In time, I gured out Photoshop and Quark (look Vice President of Business at me dating myself), became Development & Strategy at AVAILABLE FOR DELIVERY ON CAVIAR AND UBER EATS Design Editor of the magazine, EPIX.

28 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 A late night in the Street oce circa 2012. The Early 2010s: Joe Pinsker was the Managing whatever our thankfully– Editor from January 2012 to now–defunct gossip col- Joe Pinsker Recalls a Street That Was 'Not December 2012. umn was called then) and she threatened legal action; Terribly Dramatic,’ but 'Contagiously Fun’ I went to sleep worrying I wish I had more exciting I’d be sued into oblivion. I nior year, and even then I stuck stories to tell about my time on woke up with nary a lawyer on around to review some restau- sta at Street. ere was that one my doorstep, and life went on. rants with my pal and photog- night—my rst seeing an issue e rest of my time at Street rapher Adrian Franco, (W ’13). out the door as Managing Edi- was not terribly dramatic. It (Nothing tastes as good as a Live music • Film • Dance • Theater Art tor—when I took a call at ap- was, however, contagiously fun, comped meal.) I have heard that Education • Community proximately 4 a.m. from a class- starting with the writers’ meet- since I graduated, e DP’s roof mate in Tabard. She was furious ing I attended the rst week of access has been restricted—it’s a Taja Lindley’s The Bag Lady Manifesta at what she’d heard was already my rst year on campus. I didn’t shame, given how much hang- Oct 14 2018 @ 6:00 PM on its way to the printers for e leave until custom said I had ing out happened there before, In a world that treats Black life as if it’s disposable, The Bag Lady Round Up (or e Gutter, or to, mid–way through my se- during, and after sta meetings. is an urgent reckoning and revelation. She is the accumulation of discarded lives and abandoned histories reeking havoc on the amnesia, the forgetting, the erasure and the silencing. Remembering is the responsibility of the living. Are you doing your work? Because an unacknowledged history produces ghosts. Performed by Taja Lindley, The Bag Lady Manifesta features an immersive installation of memory followed by a participatory performance ritual where audiences are invited to (re)consider what to let go of, and what to remember – individually and collectively. Through dynamic movement, burlesque, text, soundscapes, ritual and projection Lindley adorns and activates her Black, queer, female body with trash bags to traverse the dumping grounds and shadow side(s) of herself, the audience and the United States. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online. Seating is limited so we recommend buying in advance! PURCHASE TICKETS: https://therotunda.ticketleap.com/the-bag-lady-manifesta/ details

As an alcohol-free/smoke-free venue, The Rotunda provides an invaluable social alternative for all ages. 4014 Walnut • TheRotunda.org

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 29 For a group of people having spect I view this as our reaction as much fun as we did—not to the fact that many of our class- to mention keeping up with mates tuned out the vibrancy of schoolwork and a punishing so- the city around them in favor cial environment—we certainly of the often barbaric order and put out a product of unexpect- traditions of an elite college cam- edly high quality (usually). What pus. strikes me now, ve years out, is A strange feature of graduating just how similar the work I did in the Class of 2013 is that after then is to the work I do now, we left, the nature of campus from questions about framing life changed across the country, stories to debates over even the and quite quickly. e debates smallest decisions about diction. and scandals and protests and Working on Street didn’t “pre- suicides that followed soon after pare” me for a journalism job so read back then as somewhat for- One bite and you’ll be a loyal subject for life

Joe Pinsker staples the newest print issue of Street to the wall.

much as give me the chance to eign to me, even though a year On 39th street between do one without having to gradu- or two earlier I had been in col- ate rst. e number of my Street lege myself. Since then, I’ve been peers who are working in jour- impressed to see how Street has, chestnut & sansom! nalism, already producing excel- accordingly, turned its attention lent work in their young careers, back on Penn, covering racism, is a testament to this. gender discrimination, sexual e Street of the early 2010s, as assault, mental health, and the Open late I saw it, was de ned by the atten- school’s norms around eating, tion it paid to things in Philadel- drinking, and ingesting. My phia that weren’t Penn. We’d do successors made the wise choice a lot of service journalism (where to look inward. I’m eager to see Friday & Saturday to eat, what to do, etc.) but also what their successors do with a features and shorter pieces whose magazine that will always be dear underlying message was, "Hey, to me. there’s a big, interesting city out there, where a lot of people think JOE PINSKER is a sta writer dierently than Penn students. at The Atlantic. 3836 Chestnut St • (215) 921-6494 Maybe check it out?" In retro-

30 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018 The Late 2000s: Julia Rubin Reflects on Gossip and the Great Recession

Julia Rubin was Editor–in–Chief the era of anonymous Shou- Nothing was more satisfying from January 2009 to December touts, Cultural Elite blurbs than getting an email from 2009. about the senior class, and a a fellow student with no ties million different gossip col- to Street, telling us about umns—none of which, un- something weird we should “Filth and trash—an derstandably, exist anymore. look into. Our listserv was abomination to God. You're We liked to think we had a constant stream of leads, working for Satan himself!” eyes and ears everywhere, from rumored shootings and How did we know what thanks to nosier–than–thou IFC scandals to food truck we were doing at Street was staffers and a vast network drama and celebrity sight- working? We got voicemails of student (and in some ings. We wanted to know from strangers telling us we cases, faculty) tipsters. everything, and then we had made a deal with the devil. To work at Street in the “God sees everything, even your late aughts was to fashion yourself a campus shit–stir- dirty mind and what you are rer, someone who loved Penn but also wanted to giving to people. Thank you, but keep it humble. We alter- nately shared truths about, expressed admiration for, keep your nasty newspaper to and poked fun at the admin- Photos from Julia Rubin's 2010 Ego of the Week photoshoot. istration and every campus yourself.” group imaginable. This was looking so hot for print, and we still say it was the best we knew we weren’t immune thing we were a part of at wanted to tell everyone to what was going on in the Penn. about it. industry at large. There were, of course, This sometimes got us “Due to the economic frustrations. Editors blew in trouble. There was the turmoil of our world,” our deadlines—a lot. Some writ- time we almost got sued, managing editor wrote to ers really didn’t like being and then the other time the staff in mid–Great Re- edited. Stories fell flat, sto- we almost got sued. But cession 2009, “ads aren't ries fell through. In these mostly, we kept on push- selling very well for The DP ways, it was like every other ing to be better and funni- (and thus Street is affected magazine, which only fur- er than we were the week as well). That means LOTS ther elevated Street in our before. OF ROOM for content this minds. This was a real publi- It’s this impulse that led week. Please OVER AS- cation, one that mattered to to the founding of Under SIGN your stuff. We're gon- our peers and our professors the Button, a blog in the na need lots to work with.” and to people who found spirit of Gawker and Daily So we filled our pages us on the internet and left Intel, which meant we with reported features about comments like this: “God could put out stories even Penn’s place in the mili- sees everything, even your faster and connect with tary–industrial complex and dirty mind and what you readers every single day. Street style shoots focused are giving to people. Thank The internet was where solely on white V–neck T– you, but keep your nasty the most exciting writ- shirts; on our beloved blog newspaper to yourself.” ing was happening in the we posted dispatches from greater media world, and Amy Gutmann’s Christmas JULIA RUBIN is the editor we wanted to be a part party and our own version of The Goods by Vox. of it. Plus, things weren’t of Sex Diaries. Years later,

OCTOBER 10, 2018 34TH STREET MAGAZINE 31 TODAY IS THE DAY

NOW LEASING

FOR FALL 2019-20

ApplyFREE TODAY LIMITED TIME

215.222.4212 | THERADIAN.COM

32 34TH STREET MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 2018