Rupert Murdoch is Late to the Nannygate Party

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What on earth do you think Maggie Gyllenhaal has done to incur the wrath of Rupert Murdoch?

In Sunday's New York Post, Page Six "reported" that Maggie Gyllenhaal may be among the Park Slope Food Co-Op members who have a household employee working co-op shifts. Then the story takes a left turn!  In an uncharacteristic move of what appears to be something akin to journalism, the Post actually bothered to make a phone call to Maggie's publicist, who said that Maggie doesn't have a personal assistant or any "staff," so according to the well-established standards of physical possibility, the story is not true.

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Rumorsville: Was a Dad Arrested For Leaving his Kid & Dogs in the Car While Shopping at the Food Coop?

It's been quite a week for Park Slope parents. While many of you thought that leaving your kid at YMCA while you get a mani/pedi was not cool, at least those parents made sure SOMEBODY was watching their bebes. Apparently another Park Slope dad had some alternative ideas about childcare: i.e. just lock your kids up in the car!

An anonymous tipster sent along the following account: 

I was walking down Union on February 3rd around 1PM when I noticed some major commotion. A firetruck and two cop cars were near the Food Coop. They had a "slim-jim" and were frantically circling a parked van. At first I thought, "Oh, thats nice to see Tax dollars hard at work! A firetruck and three cop cars just to help some idiot get the keys out of their car?!" Then one of the firemen crawled in through the driver's side door. He unlocked the sliding side door and out came two frantically barking dogs on leashes.  I thought to myself, "that's so fucked up that you would leave your dogs in the car while you run into Union Market!"

Then it got worse. 

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The Food Coop's Kid's Variety Show Only Wants *Real* Singers

As Instagram user KimberlyBeth so perfectly puts it, "No lip-syncing. Even the variety show is all-natural."

[Thanks to our fab FiPS writer Meredith for passing this gem along!]

Another food coop opens up near Fort Greene

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What's better than one local Food Coop for us to mock relentlessly?

A second food coop! The cutesy named "Greene Hill Food Coop," whose member-run supermarket opened this past weekend, is located at 18 Putnam Avenue between the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods.

As it turns out, the organic apple doesn't fall far from the local, sustainable tree. Just like the Park Slope Food Coop, the new shop will require members to work 2-hour shifts every month for access to its organic produce, meat and dairy.

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MISSED CONNECTIONS: Haaaay, Single Co-op Boys!

You a single, a Park Slope Food Co-op dude looking for some action? Out yourselves! Wear a special armband or something! Corrall yourslves near the organic tofu! 'Cause this chick wants to get it on with you:

to all the cute boys at the co-op - w4m - 26 (park slope)

I realize that 95% of you are married and have cute-ass kids who love kale as much as you do. But that other 5% MUST exist and I'm determined to find you...let yourself be known! 

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