34th Street Magazine

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34th Street Magazine is the weekly arts and entertainment magazine published by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. It is also known as 34th Street or more simply, Street.

34th Street contains a variety of local and arts and entertainment-related features and reviews. Its sections include Film, Music, Food & Drink, Ego (fashion, style, and student trends), Guides (local listings and features), Page 3 (opinion and general introduction), and 35th Street (humor). The magazine also contains a researched or investigative 2000- to 2500-word piece that usually features ties to the university or its surrounding city, Philadelphia. Additionally, the magazine is satirical in nature, and is written as comedic relief from its more serious counterpart, The Daily Pennsylvannian.

34th Street is published every Thursday during the academic year except during examination and vacation periods by a staff of over 30 student editors and writers. During the summer, 34th Street is combined with the weekly version of the Daily Pennsylvanian featuring one or two pages of arts and entertainment coverage produced by a much smaller staff. The 2006 executive board consists of editor-in-chief Jim Newell, managing editor Todd Grabarsky, and design editor Jasmine Fournier.

A regularly featured opening article of 34th Street each week is known as "Word on the Street." It is a student-written opinion column about the ongoing life of a university student, with an accompanying editorial cartoon each week. The current 2006-7 featured artist for Word on the Street is Philadelphia cartoonist and Penn undergraduate Chris Gorman.

Another popular feature of 34th Steet is the biannual shoutout article. This article allows for Penn's student to anonymously air their grievances with other Penn students, faculty, or the university at large with highly anticipated and humorous results.