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Release: Missbehave To Go Digital

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:23:25 -0500

Missbehave, the quarterly, Brooklyn-based young women's magazine edited by Lesley Arfin (whom The Observer profiled in December), is going all-digital.

According to a press release, the move is "in response to demand from its audience."

The release goes on to quote founder Samantha Moeller as saying, "Why produce a magazine, when our readers would rather access the same sassy original content online, and engage in the Missbehave community online? This is not...

Lineup for December 3rd, 2008

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:55:45 -0500

What are people saying about David Gregory, NBC News' heir presumptive for Tim Russert's job on Meet the Press? Felix Gillette talks to some who say things like, “He’s got great instincts when it comes to what area of stories to probe...I don’t think there’s much of a learning curve when it comes to politics. He knows that world as well as anyone. He gets great stuff out of people" and "He can be...

The New Little Miss Missbehave

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:50:39 -0500

Like so many of us, Lesley Arfin has a Facebook problem. Ms. Arfin, the recently installed editor in chief of Missbehave, a lifestyle magazine for young women whose cultural touchstones (not to mention love lives) slant more towards Freaks and Geeks than Sex and the City, is a bit overwhelmed by her own popularity on the online networking site.

“Should I accept everybody? Or should I only accept people who are my...

Release: Missbehave Magazine Names Lesley Arfin Editor-in-Chief

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:18:21 -0400

Vice 'Dear Diary' columnist and cool gal about town Lesley Arfin has been named editor in chief of Missbehave, the cheeky hipster women's magazine, according to a release.

Ms. Arfin, who probably still isn't over Rosie O'Donnell leaving The View, is described by Samantha Moeller, Missbehave's founder, as "without a doubt the quintessential ‘Missbehave’ chick: Chic, yet badass, she was the obvious choice."

In 2007, Ms. Arfin told The Huffington...

They Aren’t Sluts—Just Missbehavin’

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:27:42 -0400

Last week, deep in the industrial, 99-cent-store-riddled wastelands of Bushwick, Brooklyn, the ladies of Missbehave were finishing up the magazine’s fifth issue. “[W]e’re closing so it’s squalor-town, but have at it,” warned editor in chief Mary H.K. Choi, 27, in an e-mail to The Observer.

The quarterly magazine for the American-Appareled party-girl set shares its offices with the urban subculture guide for skaters and street kids, Mass Appeal magazine (which finances...