Fighting the crimes of the future
It’s not quite the stuff of science fiction, but Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology does seem to be taking a page from Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report."
XPN meets Y
Penn's acclaimed adult-alternative radio station partners with a former Phliadelphia alternative rock station to bring cutting-edge music back to the local airwaves.
Live, in U. City
Experimental dance, a stage set reminiscent of a World Trade Center stairwell and an electronic/classical music fusion are just some of the highlights to hit University City stages during this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe.
Animating Chaucer
A few years ago Penn's Wendy Steiner found herself teaching a class on Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” When she came to the Wife of Bath’s Tale—about a knight who is condemned to death unless he can find the answer to the question “What do women want most?”—she marveled anew at the story’s beautiful structure and tightly drawn plot. So marveled, in fact, that she ended up writing an opera about it.
