More than 90 people died in Oslo on Friday after a bomb tore through a government building and a gunman opened fire on children at a youth camp. Although authorities have arrested Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old, blond-haired, blue-eyed, anti-Islamic nationalist in connection to the attacks, three media properties owned by News Corp. linked the carnage to Muslim extremism. Read more »
A young Brooklynite found a fun way to stay cool before a record-breaking scorcher took hold of NYC and didn’t let go. (Photo: Carlito Brigante/Flickr)
Although it was officially banned in New York State late last year, there’s still plenty of places to cop Four Loko in the East Village reports The Local. Well, that is until the authorities get a whiff of this post and swarm in, Untouchables-style and smash up this illicit ring of retailers.
British street artist K-Guy wasn’t satisfied with Prime Minister David Cameron’s jeered, cliché apology attempt for hiring Andy Coulson — former editor of phone-hacking News of the World tabloid — as one of his senior aides. He wouldn’t have hired Coulson if he knew of his unethical shenanigans, oops. Here are two stenciled tiles of carpet, for the PM to sweep his “20/20 hindsight” under, conveniently available around Westminster.
Have you heard about geomancy? It’s generally defined as “the art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously.” In other words, there’s a very strategic or occult reason why certain things are put where they are. Did you actually think Manhattanhenge would even be possible if they weren’t? Read more »
The NYCLU needs New Yorkers to help them by filling out a survey detailing their “full range of experiences” with the NYPD. It’s in multiple choice form and all answers will remain confidential.
According to The Daily, Mayor Bloomberg is engaged in “secret negotiations” with HBO to sponsor a concert in Central Park featuring Bon Jovi and other musical acts that can only be appreciated by baby boomers on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Hasn’t the city suffered enough?
A fire at a major wastewater treatment plant in Hamilton Heights is fucking things up for the rest of the city. The facility, located on the Hudson River between 137th and 145th Streets, is discharging millions of gallons of raw sewage, effecting that waterway as well as others. Read more »
Canada/NYC-based photographer Kristie Muller’s images of lo-fi, grainy, often nude rambunctiousness and abstract mementos fit right into PPOW Gallery’s upcoming group show. The theme is everything personal, lived, documented and “inward and solipsistic,” because it takes a creative sort of vanity to turn your day-to-day into “ritualized” “occult experience.” See more fuck-the-world, look-at-me-do-this work at “Magic for Beginners” Various Artists, Jul 28 – Aug 26, PPOW Gallery, NYC
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