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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 >>

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 >>

Henry Rollins: Embrace Your Homophobia, Boy Scouts of America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Football, Violence and America I never had any interest in being invo ... 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 >>

Tug-O-War Severs Two Student's Fingers at South El Monte High School: Nylon Rope May be Cause of Terrible Maiming Trend

On Monday, two students at South El Monte High School tragically lost their fingers during a game of tug-o-war for Spirit Week homecoming celebrations. An unidentified male football player and senior female soccer player are today at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where doctors are trying to ... More >>

Boy Scouts Rethink Anti-Gay Rule: Los Angeles Scout Troops Lay Low as Conservatives React

The Boy Scouts of America's decision to let local chapters in Los Angeles and nationwide decide whether or not to continue a controversial ban on openly homosexual members is generating near-silence in Scouting in L.A., which has one of the nation's largest population of gay young people. The natio ... More >>

Burning Man Decompression Is Just Like Burning Man, Minus the 12-Hour Drive and $390 Fee

Thumping EDM? Check. Lasers? Check. Fishnets and booty shorts? Check. Now that we've got that out of the way, we can get on with what the more ambitious scope of the L.A. Burning Man community's goals, achieved through its big fat Decompression event, which was held at Los Angeles State Historic Pa ... 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 >>

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 >>

Free Food Today at Cafe Rio in Lakewood

​The newest location of Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, in Lakewood, is giving out free meals all day today, form 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. It's part of a promo to mark the restaurant's opening. There will, however, be a tip jar next to the cash register soliciting donations for The Boys and Girls Club. ( ... 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 >>

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 >>

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