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Girl Scouts of the United States of America

  • Voice Choices

    March 28, 2012

    BE PREPARED

    Tupelo Hassman earns her literary badge with Girlchild

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    What Women Talk About When They Talk About Shooting Guns

    ​According to the latest New York Post

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Art

    February 2, 2011

    Laurel Nakadate, Pickup Artist

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

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Columns

    March 25, 2009

    !Ask a Mexican! Know Nothings Take Over

    Loving the legal, hating the illegal

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 29, 2007

    Mediocre Girl Gone Good

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

  • People

    October 24, 2006

    Life of the Party

    Talking with Amy Sedaris, the hostess with the mostess

  • Dance

    September 5, 2006

    All Together Now

    Fall showcase mines the dance world for talent

  • Theater

    August 8, 2006

    The Fest and the Curious

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

  • NYC Life

    August 1, 2006

    Friday 8/11

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

  • Dining

    November 22, 2005

    Letter From Chicago

    Strange and scientific culinary doings invade the Windy City

  • NYC Life

    October 25, 2005

    All Signs for the Treasure Trail Guide You to Smith Street

    Strange and scientific culinary doings invade the Windy City

  • News

    September 20, 2005

    Peace Moms Get Ready to March

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

  • Theater

    September 6, 2005

    Theater

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

  • Screens

    June 14, 2005

    Great Balls of Fire

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

  • Art

    April 26, 2005

    Whatever Laurel Wants

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

  • Columns

    February 22, 2005

    Horoscope

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

  • Film

    April 6, 2004

    Film

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

  • Art

    February 10, 2004

    Still Waters

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

  • Art

    January 6, 2004

    Listings

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

  • NYC Life

    August 5, 2003

    Listings

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

  • News

    June 17, 2003

    Over the Hillary

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

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Where Do I Go Now?

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

  • NYC Life

    October 15, 2002

    Floor-Through Apartment in Tenement

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

  • People

    August 13, 2002

    Doing the Robot!

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

  • Dining

    September 11, 2001

    Adult Entertainment

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

  • Books

    October 10, 2000

    Who Stole Feminism?

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

  • Books

    February 29, 2000

    Bush Wacko

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

  • NYC Life

    March 9, 1999

    Scout Clout

    Girl Power vs. Domestic Violence

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