Penn Books: Recommended Reading

What Penn books can you recommend?

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Not written by a Penn Alum, but recommended nonetheless to anyone who needs some inspiration in their lives!

Writers House: Jamaica Kincaid by live webcast

The Kelly Writers House Fellows program presents:

JAMAICA KINCAID

10:30 AM (eastern time) on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 a conversation (with audience Q&A) conducted by Al Filreis

To participate via webcast, simply rsvp to:
whfellow@writing.upenn.edu

Anyone with an internet connection can participate. Participants in the webcast will be able to pose questions to Jamaica Kincaid by email or telephone. For more information about the Kelly Writers House webcast series, see http://www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/webcasts/

Those who rsvp will receive further instructions.

For more about Jamaica Kincaid and her visit to the Writers House:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~whfellow/kincaid.html

Gabriel Mann (C'95) performs at USC tonight (3/2)!

Gabriel Mann will perform an ALL AGES, FREE SHOW tonight at USC, 10 pm

ground zero coffee house
usc campus - 615 child's way
with jeremy silver @ 9p
and special guests - the socal vocals

John Legend (C'99) does Penn promo for NCAA spot

This promotional advertisement video of John Legend (C'99, Counterparts) was just released on the web for an NCAA spot.



Click to check out more articles in the Daily Pennsylvanian about John Legend here.

Andrea Mitchell (C'67) does Penn promo for NCAA spot

This promotional advertisement video of Andrea Mitchell (C'67) was just released on the web for an NCAA spot.

Festival of Violent Film (Annenberg School film)

Something I found online... the opening scene of "Grad-School B-Movie," a feature film produced at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.

Todd Lieberman (C'95) producing The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)

Todd Lieberman, (C'95, AEPi, Mask and Wig) is set to produce "The Fighter" starring Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon.

Based on the life of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and his trainer brother Dick Eklund (Damon), the story chronicles the brothers' early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund's battle with drugs and Ward's eventual world championship in London.

Todd's Other Films Include:

Gabriel Mann (C'95) on Oscars!

Did you catch Musician Gabriel Mann (C'95) on the Oscars last night? He was in the "Elements in Motion" ensemble.

At Penn, Gabe was prominently known as an extremely talented singer, composer and songwriter in Off the Beat. Since then he has been based in Los Angeles and has been touring the world with his band The Gabriel Mann Situation. More notably, he has toured with Alanis Morissette and his music has been featured on such shows as What About Brian and Arrested Development.

Check out Gabe's music at http://www.gabrielmann.com