El Rey’s cheesy tortilla wonders accessible by way of home frying pan

Columnist Caitlin Weigel gets friendly with a zucchini in her kitchen. If you have a penchant for delicious Mexican food and kitschy art, look no further than El Rey (http://elreyrestaurant.com) for your next Center City dining experience. Located at 2013 Chestnut St., (easily accessible via subway and the shoe-leather express), El Rey specializes in Mexican [...]

Letter to the Editor: “TSG committee change causes controversy”

Dear Editor, Last year, we in Temple Student Government had the opportunity to work with Students for Environmental Action on a project commonly known as the green fee. For nearly eight months, people in TSG and SEA, led by then-SEA president Korin Tangtrakul and TSG Senate President Colin Saltry, created a formal green fee proposal, [...]

Finding what lies beneath the ghost stories

Explore the experiences of the paranormal world before ghost hunting grew popular on TV. Ghost hunting has gone from a taboo topic to a national pop cultural frenzy. Ghost hunters have become a new class of celebrity. But before the days of “Paranormal State’s” Ryan Buell or Jason Hawes of “Ghost Hunters,” there were life-long [...]

Celebrating Irish theater with skulls and grave digging

“A Skull in Connemara” is one of two  McDonagh plays featured  during  Irish Theatre Festival. They needed 100 skeletons to be made, only to destroy them a few weeks later. They needed graves to be dug, night after night. It wasn’t for a science project or a Halloween party. The props were needed to construct [...]

Community Voice: Gun concerns shift to local level

Cleaning up his beard after a morning at church, Willie Lightly put his comb in his pocket while waiting for the 3 bus at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Lightly and his friend Gwen Toler used to live at 24th and Berks streets before moving to South Philadelphia, where Lightly said things are [...]

Necessary Precautions

Taking extra measures is about keeping safe, not living in fear. On Sunday, Dec. 19, three students on the 2200 block of North Camac Street were the victims of another armed robbery close to Main Campus. Under The Temple News’ count, it was the fifth armed robbery of students since the beginning of November if [...]

Strumming life into music

Volunteer-run webshow “191 Live” is striving to revitalize the Philly music scene by offering local bands the opportunity of a lifetime. Walking into the doorway of Rebecca “Athena” Martin’s house was like walking into another world. At first glance, it was a normal home filled with furniture and typical household items. The basement, however, was [...]

Study finds lack of scientific literacy

A Michigan State study finds college students don’t perform  well in science. A recent study conducted by Michigan State University researchers, which surveyed 525 college students at 13 institutions across the country, found a majority had low levels of scientific literacy. Their low level of scientific literacy means they did not use scientific, or “principle-based,” [...]

Temple Tweets

Through my pre-coffee morning eye crust, I managed to see something strange. An older woman looks over at me and says, “They’re like horses, huh?” as three girls, all wearing the same style of brown boots with jeans and black coats, were crossing Broad Street. Not only did they look identical, but their unbreakable, horizontal [...]

Street Sounds: Dave Patten

Tune in each week as The Temple News highlights a touring band that has made its mark on the city. Exposure is something Dave Patten wants and is working hard to get. The recent Temple graduate is combining his film education with his love for music and creating a sound unlike any other. With hip-hop [...]

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