If you want to see the Banksy film, but don’t feel like heading out to Sundance, you do have another option: the UK. Tickets are officially on sale. |Curzon Cinemas via @Nuart09|
Although cycling advocates and the Hasidic community were unable to reach an agreement over the Bedford Avenue bike lane, they did find a common enemy: the DOT. |Gothamist|
To protest Canada’s brutal seal hunting policies, a PETA activist from NYC pushed a tofu pie into the face of Oceans and Fisheries Minister Gail Shea at a press conference in Ontario on Monday. The woman was promptly arrested and faces assault charges. Shea shrugged off the incident and said the baby-seal killing fun will proceed.
Hailed as one the greatest painters of our time, works by Pablo Picasso typically sell for tens and hundreds of millions, unless that is, they’re damaged by clumsy people. A woman who accidentally fell into one of the the famed artist’s paintings at the Met, putting a 6-inch tear in it, just reduced its value by half according to a “top appraiser” quoted in the Post. Now it’s only worth a measly $65 mill! |NYP|
According to The Art Newspaper, officials have buffed a lot of Banksy’s work in Park City and Salt Lake, which is true, EXCEPT for the cameraman piece they posted with their article, the only one located on private property. ANIMAL contacted the Java Cow Cafe by phone and reached Lucia the manager, who walked outside and informed us that the piece is still on their wall. Read more »
One of the things conservatives love to deride President Obama over is his use of a teleprompter when delivering public speeches. While much of this is petty nonsense seeing that most modern politicians use them, setting up two teleprompters to give a speech to a group of 6th graders is pretty ridiculous, thus, Jon Stewart weighed in with ridicule last night. Read more »
Kanye West is at Paris Fashion Week with gal pal Amber Rose and they’ve been sporting some pretty ugly furs around town. This has enraged PETA, naturally, and the animal rights group called him an “ethical dropout” and her a “sleazy sidekick.” Read more »
The Worst Marsupial Abuse Since “Kangaroo Jack”
Or maybe, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Why do ad agencies hate animals so much? They hate cheetahs, hippos, birds, and even ants, just to point out a few recent cases of Photoshop abuse. Now, to coincide with Australia Day (today), GlaxoSmithKline, via Sydney ad agency Whybin/TBWA, has digitally jammed cancer sticks into the mouths of an emu and a ‘roo (click ads) to help sell their Nicabate pre-quit nicotine patches. Why? Read more »
A report by NPR has found that some inmates in American jails and prisons are there because they can’t afford the bail, even as low as 50 bucks, set for their release after being arrested for petty crimes. One man featured in the report is an unemployed oilfield worker from Texas who was living in his car. Read more »
Justin Dior Combs (Yes, that’s actually his middle name) turned sixteen over the weekend, so, naturally, his father Diddy had to do it up Diddy-style, so he bought him a $350,000 Maybach. Justin was gifted with the car at M2 Ultralounge in New York over the weekend (Sandra Rose has a bunch of pics from the party), where the shindig was filmed for an upcoming MTV reality show “My Super Sweet Sixteen.” With that said, it’s possible that MTV footed some of the bill for the ride, but I’m still going to predict that Diddy will be this generation’s MC Hammer in about 10 years. |Celebuzz|
Editor-in-Chief:
