Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 26, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. This week, we find ourselves in a State of Wonder (incidenta ... More >>

Girl Scout Calls for Cookie Boycott over Transgender Scouts

Honestly, Gut Check was starting to get annoyed that the Girl Scouts of America hadn't gotten back to us about the unfortunate associations with the name of their new Savannah Smiles cookies. But then we heard about this story and realized the organization has PR problems that aren't the result of a ... More >>

Girl Scouts Introduce New "Savannah Smiles" Cookie, Gut Check's Thoughts Turn to Porn

​Gut Check is going to go out on a precarious limb here and assume that if you were to make a Venn diagram of a) Girl Scouts of America executives, b) aficionados of early 1990's porn and c) fans of the band Okkervil River, it would feature very little overlap.So we're not sure what it says about ... More >>

The 2011 Unreal News Challenge

Holiday Cocktail Countdown #9: Mangia Italiano's The Grinch

Like any red-blooded American, Gut Check uses liquid medication to cope with holiday stress. Not only does a good winter cocktail make it possible to tolerate family members, say, inquiring about your procreation plans, it helps keep you warm, too. From now until Christmas, we're calling upon local ... More >>

The Eight Best Food Scenes From Season Eight of Curb Your Enthusiasm

HBOLarry David and pals curb their enthusiasm tableside.​This weekend HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm ended its eighth season, which was rife with even more food humor than ever before. Which is saying something from the show that, in past seasons, brought us the Tourette's Syndrome chef and the ch ... More >>

Girl Scouts of the USA Gives Its Rules on Driveway Cookie Sales

Wikimedia CommonsNot every Girl Scout sells cookies door-to-door. ​Believe it or not, despite our grumblings, Gut Check is heavily involved in Girl Scouts. We co-lead a troop of Brownies who, yes, spend one month a year selling Girl Scout cookies. With all the kerfluffle in Hazelwood about a ... More >>

Hazelwood Girl Scouts Lose Their Appeal

Verboten without a permit: Girl Scout cookies​Score one for the bureaucrats.KMOV (Channel 4) is reporting that the judge hearing the appeal of two Hazelwood Girl Scouts hoping to sell Girl Scout cookies out of their driveway has dismissed their plea without comment.The Girl Scouts were represe ... More >>

Girl Scouts Take the City of Hazelwood to Court For Permission to Peddle Cookies

Watch out: These could land you in court.​The problem began with Girl Scout cookies. This is a strange truth, to be sure, but that problem progressed when Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills were barred from selling those cookies in their home driveway. In March, their home city of Hazelwood ... More >>

Girl Scouts Take the City of Hazelwood to Court For Permission to Peddle Cookies

Watch out: These could land you in court.​The problem began with Girl Scout cookies. This is a strange truth, to be sure, but that problem progressed when Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills were barred from selling those cookies in their home driveway. In March, their home city of Hazelwood ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Jennifer SilverbergA drink being poured over the ice cylinder at Taste​This week Ian put his regular review on ice, and paid a visit to Taste to check out their innovative ice instead. He also shared #10 on the list of Ian Froeb's 100 Favorite St. Louis Dishes. What else did we do this week ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies Make Us Want to Puke -- Episode 3: Shortbread (a.k.a. Trefoils)

Doesn't that face just scream shortbread cookie!?​If Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa of Food Network fame, baked up a batch of shortbread cookies for a Girl Scout troop in her neck of the Hamptons, here is what the ingredient list might look like: ​ If, on the other hand, you bought ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Dogs Can Sniff Out Cookie-Hating Idiots

Today's comment of the day comes in response to John H. Tucker's report about the city of Hazelwood barring local Girl Scouts from selling cookies out of their driveway.As Tucker reported, Hazelwood claimed the cookie sales were causing neighborhood dogs to bark -- which triggered this insightful co ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​This week, Gut Check paid visits to Petri Cafe, Nora's and the Wicked Lady Pub, and Ian counted down numbers 13, 12 and 11 of his 100 Favorite St. Louis Dishes. What else did we do this week? We named the Fig-Hattan at Ernesto's the Drink of the Week. We took a closer look at Girl Scout ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies Make Us Want to Puke -- Episode 2: Caramel deLites (a.k.a. Samoas)

​It's Girl Scout Cookie season, and Gut Check is celebrating by taking a more-than-cursory glance at this annual sugar and saturated-fat bacchanalia and, well, kinda throwing up in our mouth. In our first episode, we decried the non-nutritive abominations known as Peanut Butter Patties, or as ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies Make Us Want to Puke -- Episode 1: Peanut Butter Patties

Why are these girls so cheerful? Must be the partially hydrogenated palm kernel, and/or cottonseed oils.​Gut Check is sick and tired of people gushing about their love of Girl Scout Cookies. We're no hectoring health-food nutjob. We eat (and drink) our share of crap that's no good for us. But ... More >>

Florida Woman Earns Girl Scout Badge in Effin' Someone Up over Thin Mints

Image viaThin Mints: So delicious. So tempting.​Oh, Girl Scout Cookie season. A time for friendly arguments over which cookie is supreme* and whether Thin Mints are best at room temperature or frozen.** A time for impulse purchases from your neighbor's daughter and mandatory purchases from your bo ... More >>

Food Fights Signal Bad Manners, End Times.

Sure, we all love food. But are we willing to fight for it? Go to jail for it? Or, perhaps, die for it? Judging from recent headlines, the End Times have arrived, signaled by that famine horseman who's prompting people to ape shit on one another over snack foods. Or maybe it's just time to offer ... More >>

Twelve Crazy Drinks You've Probably Never Heard Of (Videos)

​One day Gut Check was sitting around the office enjoying an after-hours libation when someone said, "Hey, have you ever heard of a Red-Headed Slut?" As a matter of fact, we had. It soon became evident, however, that our colleague was referring to a cocktail. There quickly ensued a lengthy d ... More >>

Totally Safe For Work: Kendra Holliday Redux

The Baking Kind​Mom, sex-blogger and Riverfront Times profile subject Kendra Holliday has taken some serious heat lately: When she revealed her true identity after anonymously blogging about her (shall we say advanced) sex life for many years as The Beautiful Kind, some folks decided they'd rather ... More >>

St. Louis Should NOT Host the 2012 Democratic Convention

Face it: St. Louis just can't cover up all its zits.​Sure, the 2012 Democratic Convention could bring millions of dollars to the St. Louis economy. And, yes, it would be a great way for St. Louis to showcase to the world its recent downtown renovations -- City Garden, Washington Ave., Post Office ... More >>

St. Charles County Could Put Smoking Ban on November Ballot

​A meeting of the St. Charles County council last night pitted Girl Scouts versus a bar owner. Both were there there to talk about a proposed smoking ban that could be placed on the St. Charles County this November. Can you take a wild guess as to which opposed the ban and which supported it? The ... More >>

Fish Fry Frenzy, Week 3: Epiphany of Our Lord

A church with a bowling alley's a bit out of the ordinary. Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church is also a school, though. What? Your school didn't have eight lanes and an arcade with a smoking lounge and bar? Or a Lenten fish fry in the gym next door? Robin Wheeler​Having learned from last ... More >>

St. Louis Legislators Sponsor Bills to Exempt Missouri from Federal Health Care Reform

Jane Cunningham: Some call her a senator, some call her Nurse Ratched.​Two local legislators -- State Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) and State Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) are sponsoring bills that would exempt Missouri from any federal health-care reform mandates. (Never mind that Congress ha ... More >>

Con Man Bill Jakob: In His Own Words

Bill JakobIn the course of reporting "Hornswoggled," this week's feature story about the con man Bill Jakob, RFT obtained a transcription of a sworn deposition that Jakob gave earlier this year as part of a $7.25 million civil rights lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court.Federal investigators warne ... More >>

¡Ask A Mexican! Lovin' Legals: The results of the Mexican's essay contest for wabs who love the legals but hate the illegals

La Dolce Via is Back and All's Right With the World

Jennifer SilverbergLa Dolce Via owner Marcia Sindel, once again the baker of the city's finest scones.Things to make St. Louisans happy this weekend: the (temporary) onset of spring, lovely warm weather (also temporary), waking up in the morning to the happy chirping of birds, the sight of Girl Scou ... More >>

It's Girl Scout Cookie Time!

Little Brownie BakersBack in the day, there were few times of the year that made me more miserable than the Girl Scout cookie drive. Every afternoon and on weekends, I would put on my oh-so-stylish brown polyester jumper and sash and roam the streets of my neighborhood, knocking on doors and, if any ... More >>

2007 RFT Music Showcase

Week of May 31, 2007

Must Love Dogs

Misty wants your affection (um, not that kind). Plus, one St. Louis man teaches us how to come back from vacation alive, while another reveals our dishonesty.

Jogging While Intoxicated

Just in time for the worst storm in recorded history, Unreal catches up to Hash House Harriers, the drinking club with a running problem

Derby Rolls Again

Roller derby's St. Louis roots run deep. Now a new generation of skaters vows to bring this rock-'em sock-'em sport back to life.

Running on Empty

Truck firms are so desperate for drivers that just about anybody can get behind the wheel

Highly Rank

An embarrassing month for Washington University

Letters

Week of November 11, 2004

Letters

Week of September 22, 2004

Afternoon Delight

Minions Cafe's down-home food might be better than Mom's -- but don't tell her we said so

Repent, Sinner!

And your love of punk-pop may be forgiven

Breakfast of Champions

He scaled an intellectual Everest at age twelve. What's he like at sixteen? Meet George Thampy.

Baseball Been Very Bad to Me

The Frontier League shows the way

Girl, Interrupted

Eighteen-year-old Amy Walker was abandoned in a hospital parking lot, slumped over her steering wheel. It was the first time she had tried heroin — and the last.

Welcome to Brooklyn

Damn the criticism -- Mayor Ruby Cook runs Brooklyn her way. But in this historic town, best known for its sex trade, she's not the biggest problem. Brooklyn is broke, divided and sinking fast.

Urban Caverns

The homeless take a hike so that a "community" can come together.

Grrl Crazy

Artist Jim Mahfood produces a comic for young-adult hipsters in his Grrl Scouts