You love free stuff. You love movies. Read on.
Our pals over at SPEC have free tickets to advanced screenings of MacGruber on Thursday, April 22 (based on the SNL skit) and Get Him To The Greek on Monday, April 27 (the new Jonah Hill comedy) at the Bridge. They also have prize packs including a ping pong ball set, shot glasses, bottle opener key chains and other useless but fun trinkets.
If you want a pair of tickets, be one of the first ten to fire away an email to filmdirs@specevents.net. Be sure to indicate which movie you want to catch.
Update: You snooze, you lose. All the goods have been claimed.
Gandhi would have entered.
Whenever we have marketing focus groups about the DP, a disconcerting number of people say that they aren’t sure whether the things they read in Street are true or made up. (Hey, Lowbrow) We assure you that we tell no lies, but for one week only, we’re eliminating all ambiguity. Now you don’t have to think!
This is all to say that we are having a fiction contest! We want you to submit your best piece of short fiction (1800-2200 words) and then we are going to publish it as our cover story on February 25th. It will be illustrated and you can brag to everyone that YOU were the best of the best, the creme de la crop, the bee’s knees, the cat’s pajamas…you get the picture. We’ll also publish two honorable mentions on 34st.com.
The deadline to submit is MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH! Send your piece to mckay@34st.com.
Check out the Facebook invite here for the same information in a different format.
Still haven’t gotten your t-shirt designing fix? Let loose that creative juice for a second round of graphic contests, this time for Fling. This competition actually looks pretty awesome, as in you can win $100 and two floor passes for the concert. They apparently prefer “sweet, flashy designs;” just please don’t use the colors on their flyer or our eyes may bleed. Still not convinced to enter? Just think- you’ll have your design puked on worn by the entire school! Talk about fast track to fame!
Submissions are due by February 22 to springfling@specevents.net in .tiff, .jpeg or 300+ dpi format (we know, you had your hearts set on .gif, but it’ll be okay). Designs also can’t reference drugs or drinking, because we’re classy.
SPEC Film is hosting a free screening of The Fourth Kind Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at The Bridge and it just so happens that they hooked us up with six pairs of VIP tickets. What comes along with that VIP treatment? No waiting on line! Roped off seats! A free poster!
Now, normally we would just invite our 11 closest friends and share an enormous bag of Mike and Ikes while we admire the fruits of Milla Jovovich’s transition from model to queen of the action thriller but we’re going to be so busy blogging! Also, look at that poster. Too scary.
So, here’s how we’re going to do this: the first six people to email us with THE FOURTH KIND as the subject and their name in the body of the message each get a pair of tickets to the screening. Do it right now or you’ll miss out! THE RACE IS ON.
It’s early in June, which means that some people are still surfing Craigslist for the perfect job, while others pass long days in the halls of General Hospital and the audience of Maury Povich. We’re confident, however, that you, our loyal readers, Penn-Linked your way into internships across the country.
This is where our desire to hear about what you’re doing finds perfect harmony with your quest for eternal fame! Whether you’re already getting carpel-tunnel from stapling, or doing something so awesome that those of us in the former category cannot even come up with a good example for this comparison, we (might) want to know!
All you have to do is send us an e-mail at underthebutton@gmail.com telling us who you are, what you’re doing, and why we should choose you, and you’ll be on your way to becoming UTB’s next Internal Dialogue star!
Think Ego of the Week except…summer. And with the possibility of “Where are they now?” follow-ups.
For consideration in Round 1 of interviews, entries are due by noon on Wednesday, June 10th!
Winners for this year’s mashup contest, sponsered by Penn Libraries and the Penn Humanities Forum, among others, were recently announced. We highly recommend that you check out the winning entries, which include a really cool Jay-Z being a G sequence narrated by a W. H. Auden poem, the Muppets taking a different kind of Manhattan, Field of Dreams reinterpreted, and a Penn-style sequel to Slumdog Millionaire, complete with a gratuitous absurd dance finale (see image at right). Each video makes for excellent procrastination fodder, and once you finish watching the winners, you can check out the rest of the entries too, meaning whoops, you’ll never get anything done.
After poring through entries that varied in quality from brilliant to inane for our Fling Wristband Giveaway, we are proud to announce the winners! Your task was to create a fling-themed neologism, and the34th Street staff voted to determine the best definitions.
In first place, winning two wristbands, was Stephanie Costa for this oh-so-true speech descriptor:
flinguistics (n) – random drunk babble as a result of too many hours in the quad
ex: “I…really…oreos, and sumo wrestl….HAHAHA….did you seeeee….I don’t feel…::vomit::”
And in second place, scoring one wristband, was Tali Yahalom for this all-too-common social ill:
maflingerer (n) – that guy who didn’t drink but pretends he’s hungover the next morning
ex: “Danny says he’s too hungover to clean the puke off the toilet, but I know for a fact he barely had anything to drink at our vodka breakfast. What a maflingerer.”
Congrats, kids! After the jump, read a few submissions that didn’t make the cut. And check back later today for UTB‘s own contributions to the Fling lexicon! Read the rest of this entry »
$23, sweeeet! Almost as sweet as an Akon wristband
Public service announcement: don’t forget about our contest, your only chance to score a wristband for the Spring Fling concert. The deadline for submissions is Friday at 5 p.m.
Um, we take this back, because apparently the Class of 2010 isn’t capable of selecting a T-shirt design without a voting scandal. Oooh, 10-sion! Class prez Arthur Gardner Smith just e-mailed the class announcing that there was “a problem with how the votes were cast” and that a recount is imminent. Sounds pretty suspicious — if you know any more details, tip us.
The e-mail in full, including the stringent new voting procedure, after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »
This one, by Brynn Shepherd:
You’ll have a chance to see more of Brynn’s work later this week as part of our Penn survival series.
Hear ye, hear ye, our benevolent Social Planning and Events Committee (or more specifically, SPEC Concerts Co-Director Preston Hershorn) has generously provided UTB with three Fling concert wristbands to give away. Wristbands, which are totally sold out otherwise, will give you floor access at the Akon/Guster concert on the 17th. So how can you win? Submit your favorite Fling-ism with an Urban Dictionary-style definition. For example:
Flungover (adj) – the state of being hungover during Fling weekend as a result of excessive intoxication and fried Oreo consumption
Submit your entries to underthebutton@gmail.com with the subject line “Wristband Contest.” In addition to being published right here on UTB, the winner will receive two wristbands, and the runner-up will score one. You have until Friday at 5 p.m. to submit your entries.
Now that it’s April, Hey Day draws nigh. Juniors, you know what that means: time to vote on your t-shirt design. The current options are posted on the Class of 2010′s website. History shows that the coolest design will probably not win; why, for example, was last year’s t-shirt Monopoly-themed? Still, you should go ahead and vote anyway. Voting goes until 11:59 tonight. Make it work, junior class.
Vroom.
It’s time for another ticket giveaway! Street has ten free tickets to an advanced screening of Fast & Furious, this Wednesday night at 7:30 at the Bridge. Each ticket admits two, and comes with F&F condoms, an F&F Frisbee, and an F&F poster! Swag just doesn’t get better than that.
To win, all you have to do is email street-film@dailypennsylvanian.com with suggestions of how to use all three of those items at once. The ten most creative ideas win, and the contest closes Tuesday night at midnight.
On your marks, get set….go!
"Sup?"
After some painstaking deliberation, we decided on the three winning lists of songs for our Girl Talk ticket giveaway. Combining the new and the old, the goofy and the sincere, the Haddaways and the Snoop Doggs, the winners crafted hypothetical mixes that would make Gregg Gillis proud. We’ve posted them after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
If 34th Street is Claudia Kishi, then the DP is Janine: our smartypants older sibling who, deep down inside, we love. Below, Photo editor Alex Remnick explains why you should enter the DP‘s photo contest.
This year will go down in history for many reasons, but surely one of the most historic happenings has been the creation of a monthly DP photo contest. Each month has a designated theme, and readers can submit relevant photos. Last month, the costest kicked off with its inagural theme: Inauguration (get it?). This month, we avoided the all-too-easy February theme of love and valentines and instead went for music as our theme. So if you have picture of your boyfriend playing guitar, a crazy snapshot of Amy Winehouse passed out at the Electric Factory, or even just your iPod (but from, like, a really cool angle), you could win!
The deadline for submissions is February 25th. The winner will have their photograph printed on page two of the paper, not to mention all the glory, fame, and popularity that comes with it. Submit photos to dp.photo.contest@gmail.com. Good luck!
