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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 >>

Publishers Fight Back Against Schoolbook Piracy

Textbook torrents

Henry Hill, Goodfellas Gangster, on Art, the Witness Protection Program, and His Adult Circumcision

Henry Hill was best known by Ray Liotta's face. An East New York native famously mentored by the Lucchese crime family, Hill was the Lufthansa-heisting mobster whose 1986 memoir, the Nicholas-Pileggi-shaped Wiseguy, served as the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's modern classic Goodfellas. As TMZ re ... More >>

Why I Gave Up On Record Store Day

Last week a ton of stories about Record Store Day percolated through blogs—Feistodon! The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends! St. Vincent! Beach House! Holy crap, you gotta get on line at 8 a.m. to get the best picks! On Friday, when I got an email from a store that contained both a list of records ... More >>

Download Jennifer O'Connor's Biting, Colorful "Running Start"

Amy Bezunartea​Jennifer O'Connor released two confessional, emotionally wrenching records on Matador Records, but when all was said and done the Brooklyn indie-folkie had little to show for it besides exhaustion and an empty bank account. She put music on hold to do odd jobs around the city (" ... More >>

Baseball that Rolled Through Bill Buckner's Legs in 1986 Fails to Sell on eBay

​Have baseball fans suddenly been struck with an epidemic of good sense? Tuesday night the ball that rolled through Bill Buckner's legs 25 years ago in Game 6 of the World Series failed to get a single bid (bidding on eBay closed at 11:37 p.m. EST, the exact anniversary of the error). Of cours ... More >>

Someone Paid $25,200 for a Painting of a Chase Bank on Fire

Alex Schaefer​People really hate banks right now, so much that they are willing to take money out of those banks to buy pictures of those banks on fire. Alex Schaefer, who painted this lovely oil on canvas of a Chase bank on fire and then put it up for sale on eBay -- drawing attention from ea ... More >>

Six Great Musical Moments From The "Law & Order" Version Of New York City

Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe: Not so into rap-metal. ​The news that Law & Order: Criminal Intent would be ripping all those headlines about the struggles of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for an upcoming episode was notable for its lightning-quick turnaround time, and for its fictionalized tak ... More >>

Drunk Dial Viral Video Seems Like a Secret Ad For Jamba Juice

The clip above, which was posted to Viral Viral Videos, Daily Intel and has already amassed over 25,000 views since Saturday, purports to be a visualization of a drunken email meant for a boy named Ryan by a girl named Dominic on an inebriated Friday night, after their first meeting, but accidentall ... More >>

The Bloomberg-Berlusconi Axis: Mark Green Hits the Big Money Boys

Office of the Mayor​There's a tough column today by Mark Green (on Huffington Post and in this week's Observer), a reminder that, no matter how much the ex-candidate sometimes gets on our nerves, he always has something smart to say. Green's subject is the growing trend of mega-millionaires j ... More >>

Want to Dress Like an L Train? Your Subwaywear Lookbook Is Here

​Ever the trendspotters here at Runnin' Scared (high heels for men? Just say no!), we'd like to draw your attention to a whole new way to dress -- i.e., covering your body head-to-toe in one of our favorite New York staples, the subway map. Sure, the subway itself becomes a sweaty, stinky hell ... More >>

The Lives of Others in DDR/DDR

Life in East Germany, caught on camera

Holy Crap! Zac Posen's 24-hr Shopping Extravaganza With Maggie Gyllenhaal and Parker Posey

Angela Ashman​ "It's a dream!" Zac Posen excitedly said about his new Target line launch party last night, which kicked off the 24-hour shopping event -- going on until 11 p.m. tonight -- at a pop-up store in the New Yorker building. And indeed it did feel like a dream as we -- Voice fashion ... More >>

Michael Musto's Year (and Decade) in Review!

Gaga for Google and every twittle thing that made the Aughts fraught with fakery and fun

We Found That Decapitated Shakira Rolling Stone. (Hint: Try the Magazine-Rack Art Section.)

Quick refresher: the Decapitator, the street artist lauded for lopping the heads off actresses, Disney kids, rappers in glibly depicted advertisements, is currently in New York City. (Think Poster Boy with frequent-flyer miles and a dark wit.) Already from this visit, a headless Shakira has been s ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: New MP3s From Love Like Deloreans and Blondes

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Photo of Love Like Deloreans by Doug Olsen The three Tangerine Dreamers in Love Like Deloreans play drummerless krautrock at its warmest and most infectious--the fuzzy-wuzzy stuff of Cluster and early Kr ... More >>

And You Thought Your Investments Had Tanked: Studies in Crap Rages Against The Beanie Baby Handbook

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Beanie Baby Handbook Author: Les & Sue Fox Publisher: Scholastic Date: 1998 Discovered at: Thrift st ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican! Another Pinche Column!

More definitions, and credit given to Matt Groening for his Mexican love

It’s Campaign Season, So Here’s Our 2-Point Plan To Save Gaming News

It's a matter of trust

Class Action Listings for Fall 2008

A Little Sucky-Sucky

Two vampire classics are back. Unfortunately, this time, they bite.

Free Will Astrology

What Counts As Cybersex?

When Good Girls Go Fad

Cheap chic alternatives for when the fashion price is fright

'The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover'

Crafts Bizarre

Duct tape totes? Etsy's eBay-style craft community makes everyone a potential artisan

On Russia, With Love

Gary Shteyngart sings the blues; Tribeca Film Fest goes Bang Bang

Target Agrees: Most Americans Believe in Angels

Games the Bush Regime Should Not See

Flippin' Out

What does the collar on a summer shirt signify? Interpretations go neck and neck.

You Deserve a Bag Today

How to totally blow your tax refund

Shell-Toed Superstar

Nas, Missy Elliot, and the Beasties celebrate the redesign of the Run D.M.C. Adidas

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Slumming with Karl at H&M; The Pottery Barn Rule

Lecture Hall

A speech series from Toronto tries its best to make New Yorkers smart

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Babies on Fire

Like the Sweet Song of a Choir You Light My Morning Sky With Burning Love Like Blood

Björking For The Weekend

Amazing Stories

Michael Chabon's Dime-Store Serenade

Jackin' the Box

Cable Descramblers—Are They Legal?

Hankie-Panky

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Music

Music

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Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

Riffs Are Not Dead

Going? Going? Gone!

Is the Art World’s Cult of Secrecy About to End?

Pirate King Music's No. 1 Bootlegger Gets Busted— Again