Either Iran is suddenly home to the most beautiful women in the world or press photographers have become bored of snapping drab-looking, Westernized protesters in hand-me-down TJ Maxx attire. It’s time to sex up this revolution a bit. Full gallery of pretty Persians below. Read more »
Strip clubs are in cahoots with pedicab drivers! In a 116-word investigation by no less than 3 writers, the Post discovers Rick’s Cabaret in Midtown is using the same exact tactics every strip club in the world has been using with taxicab drivers for eons: advertisements, free passes for passengers and rewards (“free meals and private tours”) for drivers who deliver them. |NYP|
Succumbing to Ashton Kutcher’s peer pressure, pro skater Tony Hawk took a short roll in the White House on Friday. Hawk skated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the Grand Foyer while attending a Father’s Day celebration hosted by President Obama. Shortly after blurry photos of Hawk’s presidential skateboard ride were posted to Twitter, a handful of nobodies jumped at the chance to criticize the “asshole” skater and the Obama administration for somehow disrespecting the sacred building. I wonder if they felt the same way when President Bush let Israeli Prime Minister Olmert rip around on a Segway. See the inane twitter attacks, both real and sarcastic, after the jump. Read more »
As part of their ‘Encastrable‘ series, artists Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet create temporary installations inside various Home Depot-like chains and other major department stores around Paris. The guerilla sculptures are devised to disrupt consumers using products and materials found inside the store. See more of their “résidences” here. |WeMakeMoneyNotArt|
The death toll climbs to 800 in the goose genocide going down around New York City. Inside a five mile radius of city’s airports, officials are targeting 2,000 geese for trapping and gassing, regardless of the fact that none of the resident birds had anything to do with taking out Captain Sully’s US Airways jet. |NYDN|
Just click the ads, and look for all the familiar faces in these positively puzzling puzzle ads by Grey Beijing for Panadol Cold & Flu. First the Bush ad. It’s got all the vile Evil Doers of the moment, including Kim Jong-il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Osama bin Laden. It also has a few unfamiliar busty women (Lower, middle. Mistresses?). But my favorite two parts are the three flight attendants—upper left—executing the seatbelt instructions portion of the useless pre-flight safety routine, and Eliot Spitzer and his favorite hooker Ashley Dupre (middle, far left). The Britney ad is more predictable with the likes of K-Fed, Paris and Lindsay, Brad, Angie and Jennifer. The grip holding the mike over Nic Cage’s noggin’ is slightly amusing. But…what the FUCK is the lesson here? Politicians and celebs have weak immune systems? Stay away from Spears and Bush because they don’t wash their hands? I guess let’s hope neither of them get H1N1. Previously in: China Ad Watch. |Images: IBIA|
As the Environmental Protection Agency decides whether to make Newtown Creek a Superfund cleanup site, a public health study is getting underway interview deadly illness afflicted neighbors of the polluted waterway. The study will focus on collecting narratives in Greenpoint, East Williamsburg and Maspeth towards a final report early next year. |NYDN|
A 70-year-old woman was arrested at Washington-Dulles International Airport last week by Customs and Border Patrol agents for attempting to smuggle almost a half pound of good weed from Amsterdam “concealed inside a newspaper wrapped bundle of Der Spiegel magazines.” She supposedly told authorities that the publications were “research material for a book she was writing on Germany,” prompting the Feds to release this DEA-style quip: “On the cover, she looks like any elderly traveler returning from a foreign visit, but that’s why we turn the page and look inside.”
240 bicyclists raced the Skyscraper Harlem Cycling Classic yesterday, the city’s oldest continuous bicycle race, now in it’s 36th year and first without founder David Walker, a community affairs police officer who passed away last summer. The three-quarter-mile circuit around Marcus Garvey Park is nicknamed the Skinscraper for its frequent crashes, to which organizer John Eustice says, “Some of the local guys call it that, but you know what they need to do? They need to ride their bikes better.” |NYT|
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Following the millions spent on Washington Square Park’s facelift, fence and centered fountain, a group of “wealthy, high-level” Greenwich Village residents plans to hire private security to keep the park from suddenly regressing to its “bad old days as an open-air drug market.” Suggesting the NYPD and their invasive network of monitored surveillance cameras are ineffective at controlling law breakers, “The Coalition for a Better Washington Square Park,” a group composed of nearby co-op boards and NYU, plans to use anonymous donations to hire off-duty cops to beat back any crime that crops up.
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