China’s Big Chill now extends to celebs. Ai Weiwei’s friend of 16 years, popular musician and artist Zuoxiao Zuzhou and his wife Xiao Li have gone missing since being detained at a Shanghai airport. Zuoxiao Zuzhou just published the article “Who Doesn’t Love Ai Weiwei?” in a Hong Kong newspaper. There’s your answer. Read more »
On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, FEMENistas went into the radioactive “Zone” wearing only gas masks, little gloves, big boots, festive underwear, wreathes and ribbons to protest “the exploitation of the Chernobyl theme,” I shit you not. NSFW Read more »
In the wake of Fukushima and the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl disasters, Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the headquarters of BNDES in Rio de Janeiro to protest the company’s sponsorship of Brazil’s third nuclear power plant. (Photo: Greenpeace/Flickr)
Shocker: According to an investigation by WNYC, the NYPD routinely engages in illegal tactics when conducting stop-and-frisk searches, resulting in a marked increase of low level pot arrests, especially amongst minorities. Through outright deception, cops have been very successful in trumping up charges. Here’s how they do it. Read more »
This is a morbid classic. Artist Julijonas Urbonas’s Euthanasia Coaster is a kinetic sculpture/concept ride for a 3 minute 20 second “fatal journey.” You will soar, you will fly, you will spiral as g-force strategically snuffs out your neurons in this “pleasing, elegant and meaningful” suicide by roller coaster. Read more »
There’s been no shortage of crazy in the City Council lately, with members proposing everything from intrusive bike registrations to a ban on neighborhood nicknames, and now Margaret Chin enters the fray. Her district includes Chinatown, the city’s bootleg Mecca, and she’s hoping to pass a bill that would punish shoppers who buy knockoffs with a hefty fine or jail time. Read more »
That’s it. Game over. Cinexcellence just made the nerdiest supercut ever. Happy 50th year anniversary to the Wilhelm Scream, that indubitably long-ass Hollywood prank. Read more »
If you prefer your bubbly sweet, crisp, 200 years old and salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, well then, you’re in luck! Acker Merrall & Condit of New York is putting two of 150 recovered bottles of champagne on auction in Finland in June. Obviously, if you like your whiskey in a can instead of a frosty crate found in Antarctica, you are not sophistimacated enough to pay $82,000 for this hot shit right here.
The Taxi of Tomorrow program had been whittled down to three models, but it’s still years from fruition and in the meantime the TLC has just okayed a new cab design: the Mercedes Benz E350. Joining the other industrialized nations of the world, the luxury vehicle could be hitting the streets of NYC soon enough or not… As it is, cabbies shell out a premium and that’s for crappy Crown Vics. I can’t imagine why they’d wanna pay more for your sake.
Someone calling themselves “Looons” gave this tree in Hells Kitchen a very illegal and custom Knitta Please-type covering to either the delight or dismay of area residents… Read more »
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