Rachel Friedman

With genuine hospitality reminiscent of a Southern diner, an extensive menu that's uncharacteristic of generic pizza joints, and a casual yet sophisticated decor, Mama Palma's is several notches above your ordinary neighborhood eatery. The menu boasts 34 pizzas (not to mention the create-your-own option), over a dozen breads and salads, plus panini, calzones and pasta.
April 19, 2007 at 12:00 am

Street sat down with College seniors Greer Longer and Kimberly Rust, the director and producer of The Vagina Monologues (part of Penn's larger V-Day effort). We learned that when it comes to raising awareness, shouting obscenities on Locust Walk is fair game. Street: How do you think that the concept of The Vagina Monologues contributes to raising awareness about women's issues? Kimberly Rust: We've worn our Vagina Monologues shirts everywhere for the past couple of weeks, and they always start conversation.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

One thing that connects us all - beyond age, gender and cultural lines - is the appreciation of good comedy.
November 16, 2006 at 12:00 am

Do you know what you're doing next year? It's the question that I, as a senior, hear almost every single day, posed by everybody from random classmates in recitations, to people I meet at parties, my grandparents, my parents, friends of my parents, friends of friends and then, of course, my friends themselves. Unless you're a senior who already has a job lined up for next year, there's no way you can definitely know what you're doing after graduation.
November 9, 2006 at 12:00 am

Tired of studying for midterms? Need to escape the mundane going-out routine of frat parties and Smoke's?
November 9, 2006 at 12:00 am

Tired of studying for midterms? Need to escape the mundane going-out routine of frat parties and Smoke's?
November 2, 2006 at 12:00 am

Described alternately as a wunderkind and a hack, Jonathan Safran Foer entered the literary world with his first novel, Everything is Illuminated, at the age of 25.
November 2, 2006 at 12:00 am

I've never been a big fan of going to Haunted Houses for Halloween, because, frankly, they scare the shit out of me, and I try to do my best to limit the number of traumatizing experiences in my life.
October 26, 2006 at 12:00 am

Street: When did you first decide to become a writer? Curtis Sittenfeld: I always wrote starting when I learned to read and write, which I think was about first grade, and you know I don't think I knew I would support myself as a writer until probably.the last few years, but I went to graduate school at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
September 21, 2006 at 12:00 am

It's not every day that more than 100 arts groups from all over the world converge in Philadelphia to showcase their talent.
September 14, 2006 at 12:00 am

The artist Dennis Oppenheim once said, "I was drawn to ravaged sites. When I wanted to undertake a piece I would go to New Jersey and stomp around chemical dumps.
April 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

It's Sunday night. All the work that you should have been doing all weekend now stares you in the face and you'll do anything to ignore it.
February 16, 2006 at 12:00 am

This morning I watched, with the aid of TiVo, the season premiere of Laguna Beach. For those of you who don't know, and are obviously missing out, Laguna Beach is MTV's reality show version of Fox's popular show The O.C. Like its fictional model, Laguna chronicles the lives of incredibly beautiful and lavishly rich high school students in "the real" Orange County, California.
July 28, 2005 at 12:00 am

This summer I've been working at a certain ubiquitous coffee chain. I never thought it would come to this, but because the universe turned a blind eye to my ideal summer plans, I have found myself dropped in the world of lattes and crumb cake.
July 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

There are many good things about that first week of summer at home. Your parents understand that you are exhausted from what I call the emotional roller coaster of the last week: studying for finals while trying to spend as much time as possible with friends who you might not see again until the fall, and simultaneously dealing with the annoying process of packing.
May 19, 2005 at 12:00 am