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An animal rights group in Finland obtained video footage of deplorable conditions at fur farms in their country and, as you can imagine, the animals are all messed up looking and treated terribly. But there is a semi-happy ending. After a major network picked up the story, the Minister of Labour moved to outlaw the inhumanity.
Bernard Kerik, the corrupt asshole former head of the NYPD under Giuliani who the city jail was once named after, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison, where he will be ass-raped repeatedly.
Beware: The Animal Collective’s Art Show is All ‘Psychedelic’
 
Despite the fact that most of that Animal Collective droning bores my brain into staticky soup, their upcoming ‘psychedelic’ art show at the Guggenheim might be worth an ogle. A three hour site-specific arty shin-ding promises something about city noises, “music, projections, costumes and props.” Premiering at the celebration of the museum’s 50th b-day, Transverse Temporal Gyrus is an Animal Collective collaboration with Danny Perez. This is the same collaboration that made their new “visual album” ODDSAC, so expect this kind of pyromaniac splicing or whatever.
Transverse Temporal Gyrus, Animal Collective & Danny Perez, March 4th, 9pm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser still hates the pedestrian plazas in Times Square and with news that the car-free oasis of sorts will be permanent, she sprung into action to lash out against progress yet again. You may recall her piece last year, that blasted the concept based almost entirely on the “cheapo” furniture the city temporarily provided. Well that’s long gone and has been replaced with sleek new furniture, but that didn’t stop Post editors from running a misleading photo from last summer along with her “Real New Yorkers” invoking diatribe. Maybe she should watch this video? Peyser also does a wonderful job in describing the harmful effects of secondhand cigarette smoke while ignoring the fumes from tailpipes and making cyclists out to be the real danger. Brava! Can someone please send this woman a gift certificate to Babeland? It could do wonders for us all. |NYP|
Art Bazaar’s Picks Hustle Their Way From Obscurity to the Fountain Fair
The Art Bazaar Collective seems to be living up to its grapevine epithet of “New York’s Next Top Artist” by continuing to dangle the chance at art world superstardom to undiscovered artists. Participating in this year’s Fountain Fair NY are Art Bazaar’s favorite few, picked from relative unknowns exhibited previously at the Lyons Wier gallery in the open call, first come first serve Art Bazaar show. Read more »
Earlier, a small plane crashed into a building housing various federal agencies like the IRS (MSNBC says the FBI shares an address but is located across the street) creating a “huge fireball.” Anyway, the pilot reportedly set his own house on fire and stole a plane before flying into the offices, which if true, would indicate this was more of a suicide mission than it was an accident. |Statesman|
So Joel Surnow, the conservative who is the writer/creator of the TV series “24,” is producing a mini-series about the Kennedy family for the History Channel. The script for said series made its way into the hands of some historians, who are so appalled by the distortion of facts contained within — like that the Berlin Wall was JFK’s idea — that they’re now trying to kill the project. Read more »
A new study by British researchers has found that in the last 10 years there’s been a 40% rise in married men who have no interest in fucking their wives. The reasons for this are varied, according to the researchers who conducted the study, with one of the big factors probably being, you guessed it, INTERNET PORN! As the infinitely wise John Mayer put it: Read more »
Sorry, guys: that whole Taxi Driver remake thing was definitely a cruel lie and the most annoying rumor at the Berlin Film Festival. It didn’t sound very real anyway, pfft. I had a hard time believing Lars Von Trier could scrape together enough funding for an art film so soon, lest more Willem Dafoe penis torture was involved. Oh well.
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