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February 1, 2013Blerg.
We felt sad and hungry the second the 30 Rock finale ended last night, so Ben & Jerry's new ice cream is well-timed.
The company teamed up with NBC for their newest flavor, named after Tina Fey's character, Liz Lemon: a lemon-flavored Greek frozen yogurt with a blueberry-lavender swirl.
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January 21, 2013As President Obama brings the gun control fight to Congress, city leaders across the country are taking matters into their own hands.
According to Politico, the National Conference of Democratic Mayors had a quick revelation this past week: regardless of the tirades against gun violence or lobbyin ... More >>
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January 16, 2013Slated for theatrical release January 22, In Organic We Trust is the latest film to take stock of the the current state of the organic movement, which has been co-opted by big food manufacturers, and its original principals diluted by Federal Government regulation. Take a peek at this trailer, via p ... More >>
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November 7, 2012The NY Chocolate Show Returns
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August 9, 2012Could this be the ice cream of your dreams? Or nightmares?
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Update: As we suspected, based partly on the unnatural color of the toothpaste chunks, this new Ben & Jerry's flavor is a comple ... More >>
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November 17, 2011India's growing middle class doesn't just demand luxuries like TVs and cars. The subcontinent has grown wealthier in recent years, and richer people tend to eat better -- driving up food prices, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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November 12, 2011Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was rescued yesterday after being abducted outside his home in Venezuela. Ramos was living in Valencia, a town outside of Caracas, during the MLB offseason and was held in a mountainous region while his captors demanded a ransom. ESPN reports "the fi ... More >>
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September 21, 2011Of all the world's problems, you'd think moms would focus their energies on, oh, improving literacy rates or fixing kids' school lunches, but no. For mothers -- at least those who belong to One Million Moms, a branch of the conservative Christian nonprofit organization American Family Associ ... More >>
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September 7, 2011Where the wild things are
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July 15, 2011"Those are mah cheesy poofs!"If you're a South Park fan -- and who isn't these days -- get excited for a new snack the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo is preparing to launch next month. Finally, Cheesy Poofs will be real, for a limited time.
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May 18, 2011Blogs
February 15, 2011Licking the dream.Last night, Stephen Colbert announced that his Ben & Jerry's flavor, Americone Dream, will as of today be available at Scoop Shops everywhere. And today only you can get two scoops for the price of one at Ben & Jerry's locations. Proceeds from the sale of the ice cream will ... More >>
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February 3, 2011The Egyptian protests could be one of the most serious world events of the last ten years, so it's only natural for Kenneth Cole to liken them to fashion madness. We're not sure anyone in Egypt cares what Kenneth Cole has to say about their situation, but it was pretty ballsy of Cole to makes ... More >>
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September 7, 2010Steve Rattner, the financier and Democratic fundraiser who served in 2009 as President Obama's car czar, takes some guarded shots at New York's political elite in his yet-to-be-released book, Overhaul.
He paints himself as a victim in the ongoing Securities & Exchange Commission investigati ... More >>
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July 19, 2010Illustration via Crain's New York BusinessAt the beginning of the year, the Bloomberg administration pitched the ambitious and dreamily titled idea of the Taxi Cab of Tomorrow, tomorrow being 2014 (maybe then we should call it the Taxi Cab of Today, or the Incomplete Transportation Fiasco?). ... More >>
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June 22, 2010A major highlight of the in-progress (and still plenty loaded) CareFusion Jazz Festival is not to be, alas: Tonight's Carnegie Hall fete with bossa nova deity Joao Gilberto has been canceled due to travel issues. Per the fest's official statement:
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June 15, 2010Where jazz superstars meet the new blood
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November 25, 2009
Murray's is set to spread itself across the country like so much melted brie over toast: According to an article in Supermarket News, the 40-year-old cheese company is partnering with the Kroger Co. to open 50 store-within-a-store locations nationwide over the next three years.
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November 17, 2009As head-scratching as the idea of a processed breakfast food shortage may be, apparently Eggo is suffering its own version of a rainy growing season. According to its website, "Eggo recently experienced supply constraints caused by flood damage at our bakery in Atlanta. In addition, we've be ... More >>
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November 17, 2009Jeffrey Solomon's Santa Claus Is Coming Out
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November 13, 2009
There's a reason that very few chocolatiers can claim to manufacture their chocolate from bean to bar. Transforming raw cacao beans to molded bars is a time- and space-consuming process that doesn't lend itself to the snug confines of most New York chocolate shops. The fact that it takes ab ... More >>
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October 13, 2009Where liquid nitrogen ice cream is born.They've been doing this sort of thing in Utah for awhile now, but until last week, New York was bereft of liquid nitrogen ice cream. Per Tasting Table, Lulu & Mooky's, which just set up shop on Allen Street, is now serving 50 flavors of the stuff, which ... More >>
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July 23, 2009galleyslave/flickrNot the New York foodshed. In an article he wrote for the Huffington Post last week, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer outlined his plans for making food policy a priority for city government. Among the initiatives he mentioned was a city "foodshed...consisting of far ... More >>
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June 1, 2009The Smart Asset celebrates the GM bankruptcy: "We will own about 70 percent of an enfeebled GM, and we're still going to be bailing it out." It is hard to believe that General Motors was once literally a pillar of the American economy: according to a fascinating story in Automotive News, in its glor ... More >>
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January 15, 2009
The press is demanding more heath information on Steve Jobs, who yesterday announced he was taking a leave of absence from his Apple CEO duties due to health issues. Jobs characterized these issues as nutritional, but some doctors speculate that the pancreatic cancer survivor may have chronic pancr ... More >>
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March 21, 2006Míssha offers makeup at a bargain—if women will trust it
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May 25, 2004The wizard of id: Orgasmic spells and naughty wand usage in a hormonal third installment
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