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June 30, 2015 Liam Mathews

Some girls just wanna shred. Artist Megan Carli understands this. She’s the founder of Wearskate Jewelry, and she makes jewelry out of recycled skateboard parts. She’s using her jewelry as rewards to help fund another project, a weeklong skateboarding camp for girls ages six to 11. “By giving to this Kickstarter you are supporting women […]

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March 23, 2015 Liam Mathews

The March/April issue of Luxury Listings NYC has an article about the supposed Brooklynification of the affluent North Fork of Long Island, and it is a doozy of a moronic “Is ___ the New Brooklyn?”/ “the hipsters are coming!” trend piece. The article is pointlessly titled “Blurred lines,” which tells you pretty much everything you […]

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September 16, 2014 Marina Galperina

A school in Dallas County, Missouri is very, very committed to their “drug-related and alcohol-related zero tolerance policy.” To them, just writing about weed in a personal notebook constitutes “possession of a controlled substance,” punishable by suspension. The high school girl accidentally left her notebook at school last year, when it was discovered and read by school […]

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March 7, 2014 Andy Cush

Greenpointers, beware: busloads of midwesterner Girls fans may soon be swarming your neighborhood, jumping at the chance to see Hannah Horvath and crew’s homes, hangouts, and places of work. On Locations Tours, the company that brought you the Sex and the City sight-seeing trips, is planning a similar tour centered around Lena Dunham’s most famous creation. Destinations include Café […]

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January 15, 2014 Marina Galperina

“My story is about something really beast-like, wild and dirty inside these pretty creatures and how it suddenly comes out,” photographer Sasha Mademuaselle tells DAZED. There are hundreds of photos, many channeling that wild something, reminiscent of every big party in every big place, but what ties them together are the chosen details — the […]

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April 5, 2013 Andy Cush

I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone rolled out a male-centric parody of your favorite television program of all time, HBO’s Girls. I would have called it Boys, but no matter–24-year-old Manhattanite Anthony DiMieri premiered Bros this week, a show about four former frat-boys and their zany antics on that weird island west of Brooklyn. The show’s […]

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February 27, 2013 Samer Kalaf

New York will be joining Texas, Hawaii, Washington and California when the Public School Athletic League establishes a wrestling league entirely for girls, beginning in March and ending with a tournament in May. The plan is to have 16 teams for around 300 girls, spanning from all five boroughs. There will be 12 weight classes. […]

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January 22, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

After months of grueling marketing research, this Emmy-winning reality TV production company has officially concluded that “*** in the city” and “an ensemble of wise-beyond-their-years young ladies… living the dream in Hipster Brooklyn” would make some great reality television fodder! A radical concept, but so crazy, it just might work! So, was Girls not real enough for you? […]

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