Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Girl Scout Cookies Easy to Find with Mobile App and Roaming Food Truck

Perhaps we love Girl Scout cookies so much because they're so hard to find. You practically have to stalk a co-worker's daughter or stake out the checkout line at the grocery store, hoping a troop has set up shop there for the day. All anybody wants is a crispy Thin Mint, a gooey Samoa, or addictive ... More >>

Antisemitic "Rape Camp" Elmo's Real Name Is Dan -- And He's Kind Of A Perv

The New York Times ran a story yesterday profiling a man who walks around Central Park hugging children while dressed as Elmo -- and whose antisemitic rant outside the Central Park Zoo was caught on tape earlier this week. For whatever reason, the Times made a (poor) attempt to protect the man's tru ... More >>

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Tupelo Hassman earns her literary badge with Girlchild

Happy Birthday, Cookie! Nabisco to Launch Birthday Cake Oreo

The Oreo, America's favorite cookie sandwich, just turned 100 (just like the Girl Scouts!), meaning it's time to par-tay. Nabisco, the company that produces the creme-filled treat, is launching a special Birthday Cake flavor limited edition, featuring a simpler cookie design hearkening back to the ... More >>

Dr. Keith Ablow: Misinformer Of The Year On LGBT Issues

​Media Matters says that in 2011, Fox News' Dr. Keith Ablow "brought a toxic mix of homophobia and pseudoscientific anti-LGBT talking points to new lows. "The 'Fox News Medical A-Team' member has been a prolific source of anti-LGBT misinformation, disguising his animosity toward gay, lesbian ... More >>

Food Trucks Get Their Own Book; Mickey D's CEO Defends Ronald McDonald

​Sbarro, which recently announced it might file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now considering a sale instead. [Nation's Restaurant News] Prague is getting on the foodie bandwagon, as it gears up for the Prague Food Festival, which will feature cuisines from around the world. [NY Times] A new ... More >>

What Women Talk About When They Talk About Shooting Guns

​According to the latest New York Post

Stock Up on the Samoas! It's the Last Week for Girl Scout Cookies

Best. Girl. Scout. Cookie. Period.​All the Girl Scout cookies are great, but Samoas are truly the greatest of them all. At least according to New Yorkers who prefer the caramel-coconut-chocolate delight over Thin Mints, which is the most popular cookie nationwide. And really, there's no comp ... More >>

Samoas! Thin Mints! Here Are the Girl Scouts Cookie Pop-Ups

lugaluda.comYum​Let's face it--New York City is a tough place for the Girl Scouts to sell their cookies. It's not like door-to-door sales work well, given stringent apartment regulations and all those white-gloved doormen barring entrance. Well, the clever girls have come up with a solution: ... More >>

Laurel Nakadate, Pickup Artist

It's panties and panting at P.S.1's 'Only the Lonely'

Girl Scout Cookies Going Extinct; Little Italy Is Back

​Padma Lakshmi's custody battle with baby-daddy Adam Dell is heating up as Dell reveals the Top Chef mom had hoped billionaire Teddy Forstmann was Krishna's biological father. [NY Post] Gabriel Stulman of Joseph Leonard, Jeffrey's Grocery, and now Fedora has created not only a series of popul ... More >>

Choice Eats Now Has a Foursquare Badge

Better than a Girl Scout badge.​Exciting news from the Department of Choice Eats: The Village Voice is partnering with Foursquare and introducing a special Choice Eats badge for this year's culinary tasting event.

2010 Commencement Speeches: the Good, the Bad, the Hideously Ugly, and Lisa Kudrow

​Graduation is upon us, which means ... commencement speeches will soon commence (indeed, some already have). The question on the minds of everyone who hasn't yet graduated: If you have a shitty speaker, does that mean you'll have a shitty post-graduate life? As someone who can't remember much ... More >>

SNL's Appeal to Girl Scout Cookies: "Have Some Pride in Yourselves; You Are Not the McRib"

The latest episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted this past weekend by a very funny Gabourey Sidibe, featured a commentary piece during "Weekend Update" on the Girl Scouts' absurdly short cookie-peddling season. Quoth writer John Mulaney: "Have some pride in yourselves, Girl Scout cookies. You ar ... More >>

Monster Magnet, Bourbon Eggnog, and Potty-Mouthed Kids at the Bell House's Cookie Takedown

Syd LondonThe spread at the Cookie Takedown​ The Cookie Takedown, brainchild of Matt Timms (he of the Bacon, Chili, Fondue and Cheese Takedowns), took place under the dangling chandeliers of Brooklyn's Bell House last night to the strains of stoner metal. "I bet people would prefer a DJ, but I ... More >>

Rightbloggers Remember 9/11 With Attacks on Obama, Other Terrorists

As we observe another 9/11 anniversary, rightbloggers identify the real villains of the day: President Obama, and various others of their fellow citizens. Many continue their assault on the national day of service and remembrance the President called for September 11, despite the involvement of Ga ... More >>

Top Chef Master Makes Pasta in the Bathroom

There's only so much Top Chef Masters could have offered. The chefs are all already established so the drama of a career hanging in the balance doesn't exist. The critics, all from the print world, seem a little too awed by seeing their celebrity chef subjects in person to judge them harshly enough. ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican! Know Nothings Take Over

Loving the legal, hating the illegal

Get Girl Scout Cookies

photo by Merelymel13/flickr, some rights reservedYes, it's Girl Scout cookie time, but if you're like me, you don't know any of these Girl Scout people. No worries. Blondie and Brownie brings word of a magical place to buy Girl Scout cookies called The Girl Scout Council of Greater New York's Cookie ... More >>

Cheyenne Diner Gets Moving

The Cheyenne Diner began its move to Alabama on Sunday as its iconic sign was removed and lifted onto a flatbed truck. [NY Daily News]Jack in the Box is experimenting with outsourcing its order-taking to a call center elsewhere because apparently it's just too expensive to have teenagers making mini ... More >>

Shana Madoff "Reserved" -- But Only After a Fashion

from New York Social Diary Bernie Madoff's niece Shana is "reserved," according to the Wall Street Journal. What the Journal fails to mention is that Ms. Madoff was less reserved when it came to exhibiting her expensive taste for high fashion. Back in 2004, the then 33-year-old Madoff, who work ... More >>

Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

Mediocre Girl Gone Good

Rihanna's triumphant, only occasionally cringeworthy pop-star coronation

Life of the Party

Talking with Amy Sedaris, the hostess with the mostess

All Together Now

Fall showcase mines the dance world for talent

The Fest and the Curious

Fringe Festival roundup: Gay penguins, fart jokes, Oingo Boingo, macramé, and more

Friday 8/11

Letter From Chicago

Strange and scientific culinary doings invade the Windy City

All Signs for the Treasure Trail Guide You to Smith Street

Peace Moms Get Ready to March

On the eve of Saturday's demonstration, Sheehan again challenges Bush for a meeting

Theater

Great Balls of Fire

Denis Leary (and his flaming lips) return in testosterone-fueled firefighter dramedy

Whatever Laurel Wants

Arriving with a video camera, convincing men to enact strangely suggestive scenarios.

Horoscope

Film

Still Waters

As a photographer, the filmmaker continues to make deliciously perverse 'little movies'

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Over the Hillary

'Living History': Reading the Senator's 500-Page Résumé

Where Do I Go Now?

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

Floor-Through Apartment in Tenement

Doing the Robot!

Adult Entertainment

Who Stole Feminism?

Bush Wacko

Scout Clout

Girl Power vs. Domestic Violence