Hey remember Peter Braunstein, the deranged former Women’s Wear Daily writer/editor/sex fiend who posed as a fireman to rape a Chelsea woman he was obsessing over in 2005? Well, he occasionally writes long, unhinged diatribes to the New York Post, and a recent one contains a doozy of a revelation: his anticipation for season three of Gossip Girl is just about the only thing keeping him from killing himself in prison! Read more »
Although Brooklyn is all the rage according to the UK’s Daily Mail, the paper describes how some New Yorkers view the famed borough: “To die-hard Manhattanistas, it is solely the route to JFK Airport.” Actually that would be Queens! |DailyMail|
After a mission, the space shuttle routinely lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California and is flown back to Florida. Amazingly, the 200,000 pound orbiter is affixed to the top of a specially-fitted 747 making it quite the spectacle. Here’s some photos of Discovery in Texas, one of several refueling stops on its $1.8 million flight back East.
Photos by Tony Boyer
One of the benefits of live TV are moments like this. This afternoon, MSNBC’s Brian Mooar attended the thoroughly right wing “Values Voters” Conference where issues like “countering the homosexual agenda” and “fighting the vast left wing conspiracy” are being discussed, when audience members asked him to leave. Unimpressed with the whole freedom of speech concept, security had to intervene after several attendees demanded he move his news reporting operation outside. Watch a clip of the attempted censorship after the jump. UPDATE: Video of a Fox reporter getting heckled added as well.
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Street artist Shin Shin seems to be starting beef with DICKCHICKEN, covering up his pro-meat propaganda with an animal-friendly bag of apples.
Photo by Jake Dobkin
A dizzying display by Barbara Kruger is the latest addition to the Lever House Art Collection. Reminiscent of the illegal ads covering vacant storefronts around the city, every surface from floor to ceiling is covered with Kruger’s bold black and white vinyl slogans. The collage artist’s installation, commissioned by real estate mogul Aby Rosen, is on view in the lobby of 390 Park Avenue. |16 Miles of String|
A Cuban artist is reportedly saddened that nobody is paying attention to her recent performance, just the trays of cocaine at it. According to Artnet News, Tania Bruguera staged the controversy-generating piece at an arts and politics conference in Bogota, Colombia on August 27th: Read more »
So…that old weed in the spare tire trick? Probably not a good idea. Customs and Border Protection found compressed dirt weed during a routine traffic inspection at a California checkpoint. Agents say they seized approximately 30 lbs. of the Mexican brick, which should make a whole lot of people who were looking forward to smoking crap very unhappy. |CPB|
The mostly meaningless Obama-Joker image was effective, but much to innocuous for the current racially tinged debate on health care that even 80-year-old white southern men are complaining about. So it was only a matter of time before a much more offensive depiction would emerge. Meet Obama the socialist witch doctor. Fun! |CNN|
Tonight, photographer Trevor Traynor brings his collection of hip hop portraits to PowerHouse Arena. Part of a five-city tour, the suggestively titled “I Shoot People” exhibition is the “debut unveiling” of Traynor’s last six years spent capturing artists such a Afrika Bambatta, Rakim, KRS-One, Nas, and Wu-Tang Clan. The show opens from 6 to 10 PM tonight and is on view through October 4 at 37 Main Street in Dumbo.
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