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Now Open: Milk Jar Cookies in Mid-Wilshire

In spite of, or perhaps because of, all the cupcakes and whoopie pies, Courtney Cowan and her husband Adam Tiller opened Milk Jar Cookies this past Tuesday. Their Mid-Wilshire cookie shop offers up to 14 flavors -- all Cowan's recipes -- at a time, such as cinnamon sugar and white chocolate raspberr ... More >>

California Ranks Low on 2013 Locavore Index

California chefs -- think Alice Waters and Suzanne Goin -- have led the way in using seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients, practically inventing the concept of "California cuisine" in the process. And so it's surprising to learn that our state placed a miserable 42nd of 51 in a national index ran ... More >>

Colin Sawyer: Girl Scout Cookie Bandit Seen On Video Now In Custody, Cops Say

If Southern California had its own Florida -- you know, a place where all the crazy-dumb crime happens -- it would be the Inland Empire. True to form, cops last night announced the arrest of Colin Sawyer, a 20-year-old super-tough guy whom they say stole cash from a Girl Scout cookie sale right fro ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies: Sugar, God Questionable Math Skills

It's Girl Scout Cookie season again, and in offices across America, helpful parents will be hawking cookies to their co-workers. Come March, you'll see the girls themselves embedded in front of local shopping centers pitching their wares. Those Thin Mints are as tasty as the girls are adorable. Bu ... More >>

Ricardo Lara Wants To Remove Tax Exemption For Anti-Gay Boy Scouts

California Sen. Ricardo Lara is introducing the "Youth Equality Act" to try to remove the Boy Scouts of America's tax-exempt status because it discriminates against gays. Lara aims to pass bill SB 323, which would end 501(c)3 status for all youth groups that continue to discriminate against homose ... More >>

Happy National Girl Scout Cookie Day: There's an App for That

Today is National Girl Scout Cookie Day (it's also apparently National Kite Flying Day, which, given the expected thunderstorm, you may or may not want to celebrate). And if you haven't already ordered your Samoas from the co-worker who sent around his kid's cookie ordering form as if it were a rout ... More >>

Cookie Monster Slays "Call Me Maybe" With Rich, Cookie-Focused Parody

We liked Cookie Monster when we were five. We realized we loved him seven years ago when he went nuts on Martha Stewart, begging like a pitiful junkie for the cookies she hadn't finished baking, even trying in vain to pimp out Bert for a freshly iced specimen. Now there's yet another reason to app ... More >>

14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention

It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning on heading to New Jersey for The Steampunk World's Fair later this month or counting down for San Diego Comic-Con in July, there are a few esse ... More >>

Eat Well Underground Market: January 29 in Altadena

In these DIY times, what consitutes "underground?" If you have a website and a sign up list, is your function really off the radar? For the underground food event Eat Well Market founded by Aimee Silver and taking place on Jan. 29, the term seems to mean a single layer of secrecy -- she's not widel ... More >>

'Occupy the Rose Parade' Plans to Form Human Float, Slip Into Parade Lineup

OWS got puns.​Ah, the Rose Parade. That fresh, floral, ferociously American march of Girl Scouts and City Councilmembers and high-school tuba nerds -- who, every New Year's, make Pasadena's main drag into a 1950s-era celebration of tissue-paper patriotism, and the center of the televised natio ... More >>

Girl Scouts Offering a "Locavore" Badge

​Once upon a time, Girl Scouts received badges for staying fit, enjoying nature, and peddling cookies. Now, for the first time in 25 years, they can also win a badge for achievement in a wide variety of increasingly relevant fields. In an October 12 All Things Considered report, Girl Scouts ... More >>

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Wanna Go to a Secret Linkin Park Show in L.A.?

Linkin Park got heart​Want to make someone else buy you a ticket to a secret Linkin Park show, and feel good about doing it? If you raise at least $500 for Japan Tsunami Relief, you'll be invited with a guest to a private Linkin Park concert in a "small, intimate venue" in the Los Angeles are ... More >>

Girl Scouts Give the Ladyfinger to Girl Scouts of the USA Over Palm Oil's Environmental Toll

Maigh/FlickrThin Mints palm oil​ As the awesomely-named Julie Jargon reports in The Wall Street Journal, a couple of Michigan Girl Scouts are making their cookie-slinging organization a bit queasy. With the sort of earnest, honest, single-minded conviction only young people can muster, high ... More >>

Asians in the Library's Revenge: UCLA Accepts Freshman Class That's 45 Percent Asian American

'Revenge of the Nerds'Nerds.​You knew there would be some revenge of the Asians after Alexandra Wallace's racist YouTube rant about "Asians in the library" at UCLA. And here it is. The fall, 2011 freshman class just admitted by the school is a whopping 45 percent Asian and Asian American, rep ... More >>

The Girl Scout Cookie Locator: Or, How to Find Your Nearest Box of Thin Mints

where we are now​ Thanks to LAist for the headsup on this one: The Girl Scout Cookie Locator, courtesy of the Scouts themselves. Now you have only to enter your zip code to find the nearest booth to where you are sitting right now, chugging bad coffee, loathing Mondays, wishing your hangover w ... More >>

Y2K, 2011-Style: We're Running Out of Internet Protocol Addresses

hotgirlswithiphones.comOne IP address at work.​When the precursor to the Internet was developed at UCLA in 1969, little did the pioneers know that we would all someday be connected by this thing many times over: Your computer at work has an IP address. Your laptop has an IP address. Your iPhon ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies: Thin Mints a Runaway Favorite Amid Thinning Competition

Maigh/Flickr​ Late last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that some Girl Scout councils are tightening their sashes this cookie season -- by bailing on a few peripheral varieties and cutting back on excessive packaging. Cookies sales garner the Girl Scouts of America a staggering $714 mi ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The Boozy Baker And Her Sweet, Sweet Cocktails

​Wouldn't it be glorious if the parentheses of dinner -- cocktails and dessert -- collided to form one sweet, liqueur-infused moment? In the just-released The Boozy Baker cookbook, that's almost what happens. Author Lucy Baker (yes, her real name) delivers 75 recipes for spirits-infused cake ... More >>

Notorious Kitty Cat Tagger Arrested After Allegedy Painting Feline Images Around Downtown Los Angeles

SanrioDon't you know I'm loco?​Authorities on Wednesday announced they've taken one of the Los Angeles region's most hardcore criminals off the streets -- a man who surely strikes fear into the eyes of Hells Angels, Crips, Bloods and Girl Scouts alike. That's right, he's the ... kitty cat graf ... More >>

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The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

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L.A. Fashion Week Smackdown

Jared Gold’s runway spectacle competes with Smashbox shows as Bobby Trendy says he never took money for interviews about Anna Nicole Smith and disses Howard.

Jared Gold's Not-So-Quiet Army

It was billed as "the wildest front row in all of Fashion Week." You sometimes get a tranny or two in the audience at Smashbox Studios, site of L.A.'s official Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, but never in the numbers or caliber of the sparkling array of gorgeous cross-dressers in falsies and heels that ... More >>

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