In case you didn’t notice yet, the New York Post really hates bikes, almost to a comical degree. Today, the paper gleefully reports on the NYPD ticketing cyclists who “recklessly blow through red lights in Central Park” on their “sporty bikes that sell for up to $10,000.” Damn those dangerous rich people! Read more »
Natalia Almada’s artful documentary film El Velador follows Martin as he looks after “the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico’s most notorious Drug Lords” and, when needed, picks up severed heads left as warnings. Read more »
A new alphabetic piece by Eine – in time for his “Greatest” solo show at White Walls Gallery – fits in with its San Francisco surroundings. (Image: Steve Rhodes)
The DEA and other federal agencies raided several dispensaries all across Montana on Monday, demolishing equipment, seizing plants, and aggravating otherwise law abiding citizens like Brett Thompson, who posted a photo gallery on Facebook of his legal-under-state law-farm after authorities tore through it entitled: “THE FEDS DESTROYED OUR LIVES TODAY.” NORML has been feverishly documenting the transgressions that President Obama promised wouldn’t happen in states with medical weed laws, which means all politicians lie or the DEA has gone rogue.
It’s been a while since we checked in with the Ortiz ‘Fun’ Home in Williamsburg and almost three years later, not much has changed. It looks like they’re missing another letter in the fluorescent sign, which in this case, can be considered an improvement, but it’s also a problem that isn’t likely to be fixed anytime soon. “The owner knows. I can’t tell him how to run his business,” explained a representative reached by phone. True, but how about making a friendly suggestion?
London’s Pure Evil Gallery is selling this handsome signed and stamped Hokusai Tsunami print. Proceeds will go to the Japanese Red Cross Society to benefit earthquake and tsunami victims. Read more »
Japan is having some major nuclear problems right now and with radiation from leaked reactors reaching Tokyo, has everyone asking: Could it happen here? At least one prominent billionaire isn’t too concerned. “The closest nuclear plant is Indian Point, and it’s far away from New York City,” said Mayor Bloomberg on Monday. Read more »
Here’re some randy artworks from the “Pornucopia” excess and porn-themed art show at the Allegra LaViola Gallery. Randy! Yet, it was the relatively tame nude pizza-face and happily-nippled skipping girl in the window display that caused vocal protesting from the adjacent Orthodox community, three visits from the police in the past two weeks and Yeshiva schoolboys banging on the glass. Read more »
On Monday night, the DOT handed in their 34th Street redesign homework to local community leaders and the proposal is much tamer than previous iterations. The pedestrian plazas are gone and the bus lanes won’t have barriers, but there’s still plenty of things for the pro-car tabloids to bitch about, since vehicles will only be given one lane in each direction to clog up during rush hour.
The Single Fare art show is back! See simple MetroCards transformed into John Jacobsmeyer’s surreal multi-panel epic My Own Private Wolfenstein, nude girls swirling in bathwater by Alyssa Monks and Katrina Balling’s grinning dog entirely painted in nail polish. Read more »
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