Heads up, hipsters: Those keffiyeh scarves, long associated with Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian resistance, are officially ‘so over.’ While the choice of keffiyeh as fashion accessory – at least when sported by sweaty, coked-up white kids mincing for Cobra Snake – has about as much political heft as a neon Che Guevara thong, the trend’s death knell has been rung not by a sudden surge in good taste but by divisive food celebrity Rachael......

Photo of Dunkin' Donuts in Sheepshead Bay via Lisanne!'s Flickr. The city may be divided on where the first coffee of the day comes from: Starbucks? Dunkin' Donuts? Local caffeine purveyor? Everyone can agree that a free coffee is welcome, though -- especially with prices per cup running about the same as per gallon gas. Tomorrow Dunkin' Donuts is offering free 16-ounce iced coffees from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. at participating locations for......

A Long Island Dunkin' Donuts employee was arrested for placing a wireless surveillance camera in the ladies' bathroom at a Kings Park Dunkin' Donuts. Danish Qureshi was found out when a nearby resident stumbled onto the electronic peeping. The resident also has a wireless surveillance system--to monitor his front porch--but he picked up the signal showing the Dunkin' Donuts bathroom. The neighbor contacted the police, who found that Qureshi sitting in his car, with......

Whether it was a PR stunt or a legit "teach-in" on espresso, Starbucks shut down for three full hours last night to train baristas --leaving the 5:30 to 8:30pm coffee crowd out in the cold. Today they are back, with a new take on "the customer is always right" policy posted about their stores; it reads: "Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we'll make it right." Reportedly they'll......

The football season is over, but news about the Giants and their Super Bowl win never gets old. Here's what's been happening since the ticker tape parade: Boston Mayor Thomas Menino made good and delivered the Boston items he promised - like 100 cups of New England Clam Chowder from Legal Sea Foods; 42 pounds of coffee from Dunkin' Donuts (in honor of Super Bowl XLII); 12 dozen Boston Cream Pie (Tom Brady is #12)......

Wouldn’t be caught dead with a “latte” from Starbucks or a Coolata from Dunkin Donuts? Well, you haven’t reached the summit of coffee snobbery until you’ve had the self-proclaimed “ultimate” cup of coffee, expertly prepared by computers and pneumatic tubes at the Lower East Side’s Roasting Plant. Since opening last spring, business has been hopping at the sleek Orchard Street café; coffee aficionados are drawn back as much for the fresh coffee as for......

Clockwise from upper left: Photo of Creamsicle from the Lemon Ice King of Corona by joshbousel on flickr; Jamaican beef patties from Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery; Clam Chowder from Legal Sea Foods; artificially steaming coffee from Dunkin' Donuts Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston are putting it all on the line for Sunday's Super Bowl. After winning the awful bet from Green Bay, Bloomberg has a lot more riding on the line......

...and a thousand Photoshop files were launched! Diane Sawyer may be a veteran journalist and may seem totally unflappable, but even she has totally embarrassing moments. This morning, during a segment unveiling Good Morning America's new holiday windows from the New York Botanical Gardens, she called Mayor Bloomberg a "munchkin." Really: “As a little munchkin, did you come to New York?” To be fair, she was asking Bloomberg whether he visited New York during......

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness - we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts......

We doubt that Naomi Campbell eats a lot of doughnuts, but the supermodel is appearing in a television commercial for the Dunkin' Donuts chain. The commercial, that we first noticed at celebrity site IDontLikeYouInThatWay, plays up Campbell's reputation as a woman with a hair-trigger temper and a violent streak. Zach Braff directed the spot.......

Blimpies, Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins, and Starbucks. All these chains have popped up in Greenpoint along Manhattan Avenue since last year. Today, Manhattan Ave. gets an Original Soup Man (aka the Soup Nazi). Gothamist stopped in to sample the wares and went with a bowl of the lobster bisque. We didn't even have to ask for bread, as the franchises seem to give you bread and a choice of fruit for free (sorry, George Costanza).......

When a Dunkin Donuts' manager in Syosset called 911 about a distressed woman, the police were led to a mansion in Muttontown, Long Island. Now, federal prosecutors say that weathly couple Varsha Mahender Sabhnani and Mahender Marliddhar Sabhnani kept two Indonesian woman as prisoners in their home; the U.S. Attorney Demetri Jones said, "The conduct the defendants committed is monstrous. It's truly a case of modern-day slavery." The Sabhnanis allegedly asked Samirah to work from......

Two weeks ago, our friends over at Bostonist posted a very scary map plotting more than 50 Dunkin Donuts locations within a five-mile radius of their city’s Downtown Crossing. The actual number of New York Dunkin Donuts locations, parameters widened to include Port Authority based kiosks and airport locations, is likely to be more than a baker’s dozen for any given five mile radius. So yeah, sure, it seems America runs on Dunkin and all......

Inside Edition, better known for covering tabloid stories and entertainment, has found something that mixes the best of both worlds: Looking for rats in NYC restaurants. Perhaps the most famous restaurant goers these days are city rats, and Inside Edition was on them like paparazzi on Britney Spears:INSIDE EDITION took to the streets of Manhattan between 1:00 AM and 4:00 AM peering their cameras and flashlights into the windows of a wide variety of......

- The Daily News explores the world of the NYC gastropub, including the Spotted Pig, E.U., Spike Hill, recently opened Alchemy and the Inn LW12 (Augieland gives us a preview), and soon-to-come Borough Food & Drink, a Chodorow creation. - A hearty bowl of ramen will keep you warm, and Manhattan Users Guide has highlighted some of the best. - After being on Eater's Deathwatch for a while now, The Lonesome Dove is officially dead.......

Book-ending 85th street in Jackson Heights, Mama’s Empanadas and Papa’s Empanadas caught Gothamist’s attention on a recent food-finding mission to the borough. Separated by mere yards and boasting suspiciously similar storefronts, our minds—driven as they are by block lettered tabloids—turned instantly to scandal. Oh, the delicious rivalry we conjured! Wars fought over family recipes, secret ingredients leaked to sources undeserving, bitter enmities born of pockets of dough! An angry pair of merchants courting Jackson......

Who doesn't love whipped cream on their hot chocolate? But assaulting a Dunkin' Donuts employee repeatedly over the lack of whipped cream seems to be stepping over the line. The Post calls it "Gal Goes Cuckoo Over Cocoa" in the headline - the "cocoa imbroglio" occurred at a Brooklyn Dunkin' Donuts on Wednesday morning when Aburaykl Rajadaev gave Jasmine Aly her order of a bagel with cream cheese and a cup of hot chocolate. Aly......

Crossover in the entertainment industry is as prevalent as Dunkin' Donuts built next to Weight Watchers. You have music stars breaking in movies, actors releasing albums, sports stars invading reality TV and you know they’ve all released a line of clothing and a perfume or two. That being said we’re still not sure if we should be shocked that apparently the next frontier for these enterprising celebrities is the world of wine. Famous people......

Last weekend, a 24 year old Pakistani immigrant was beaten up by a group of Orthodox Jewish teens. Shahid Amber had been outside a Dunkin' Donuts in Midwood when one of the teens asked him if he was Muslim. When Amber said he was, the group attacked him. Witnesses called 911 to say 10-12 men had jumped him and Amber told the Daily News, "They hit me in the face with brass knuckles four or......

#1 I have a coworker who is running the marathon on Sunday. Where are some good locations to cheer the runners on? #2 Is there a better map of the course out there? The official map is missing an amazing amount of information about the actual roads of the course? The ING New York City Marathon is one of the world's great road races, attracting more than 90,000 applicants from all over the world.......

Chinatown wakes up in the morning much the same as any other New York neighborhood—with a jolt of caffeine. Every block seems to have its own bakery where throngs perch at tiny tables to slurp hot tea or coffee before starting the day. But these are no Dunkin Donuts. The pastries everyone nibbles alongside their steaming cups are anything but ordinary—though some look familiar on the surface. What appears to be a custard doughnut is......

Testimony in the Nicole duFresne murder trial continued yesterday with Adam Chavez, who said he was mugged earlier by the same group of youths who later had a fatal confrontation with duFresne in January 2005 on the Lower East Side. Chavez testified that Rudy Fleming, who is on trial for duFresne's death, was the man who pistol whipped him into giving up his leather jacket. But Chavez instead ran from the group towards a cab.......

While Wal-Mart decided not to build a store in Rego Park last year, the NY Sun says the behemoth retailer working on surround then attack approach by opening up stores in just outside the city limits Last month a store in Kearny, NJ opened, and next up is one in White Plains that will be an "urban model." As in an urban model with "design elements that could be incorporated into a New York City......

Nothing you order at Randazzo’s Clam Bar will be the best thing you ever ate. But you can’t say you know Sheepshead Bay unless you know Randazzo’s. It is the indisputable heart and soul of the neighborhood, a hold-out from the days when working class clam bars lined that storied waterfront. Today, you’ll still find a thriving seaside community, but the vibe is decidedly contemporary. New luxury condos are going up all over, and......

Last Sunday's killing of a Harlem Dunkin' Donuts manager is still a puzzle. Police felt the MO (silver gun, robbing a fast-food-type establishment) matched that of Otis Cain, a man wanted in 15 robberies, though he had never killed anyone. But Cain surrendered himself, saying he had been watching the Super Bowl in Poughkeepsie. According to AMNew York, the NYPD believes that Cain is the perpetrator as they have two witnesses who claim it's him,......

A woman who had just picked up coffee from an East Village Dunkin' Donuts was forced into a car by a man posing as a police officer. She managed to escape when police pulled over Richard Padilla's car - he had cut off their car at 119th Street and 2nd Avenue - yelling that he had raped her. Padilla had told the woman he had a gun and kept her captive in his car from......

Police released the Dunkin' Donuts surveillance video that shows manager Sanjoy Kar being shot multiple times by a would-be robber on Sunday. They also identified the shooter as Otis Cain, who is suspected in connection with 15 other Manhattan robberies at stores like Haagen-Dazs, Subway, and Dunkin' Donuts. (We wonder if the Subway robberies we wrote about in 2004 are ones that Cain was involved in. ) Cain apparently used the same kind of silver......

- Jury selection starts for Moussaoui's terrorism trial and he yells "I am Al Qaeda!" - Betty Friedan's funeral was held today at Riverside Chapel; she is now buried in Sag Harbor - There is a suspect in the Dunkin' Donuts shooting - Trader Joe's looks underwhelming at this point - Oh, snap - reference Office Space and get called Miss Piggy - NY magazine looks at Charles Grodin's one-act play about a Fifth......

A man who tried to rob a Harlem Dunkin' Donuts shot its manager to death yesterday. The attempted robbery was during broad daylight at 1PM, with the Post reporting that the robber waited in line until his turn and announced a stick up. The 20-something manager, a student at Baruch College, tried to flee, but was shot in the back, and then shot two more times as he tried to leave the store. The robber......

The Post looks at the growing chasm between old school bagels which tend to be small and the bagels that are the size of a cat. Now, Gothamist didn't realize there was this chasm - we only were aware that there were "NYC bagels" and "crap bagels" (which can even come from NYC, but then they are from Dunkin' Donuts or Au Bon Pain or some other huge chain). The Post's Chris Erikson explains:The smaller......