An earthquake shook the New York City area today and along the eastern coast of the United States. A 5.8 magnitude reading was recorded between Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia. Buildings including some on Delancey Street were evacuated shortly after tremors struck, but the real reverberations were felt on Twitter. UPDATE: The earthquake has just been upgraded to a 5.9 magnitude reading.
Sandra Lee, the host of Food Network’s “Semi Homemade” and the live-in girlfriend of Governor Andrew Cuomo, loves to drink. Every episode of her show features a cocktail recipe and she even decorated her Christmas tree with her empty bottles. Read more »
Ooh, concept supercut! Follow a string of walking film scene protagonists in a new viddy from EditCadet. Trail behind the bouncy steps of Mr Blonde about to slice an ear, Henry Hill strutting through the club backdoor and Jack out to play with an axe. Now run! Dinosaurs! Read more »
Jeff Boss prints a lot of posters with eye-catching phrases, but the middle-aged man isn’t creating street art, nor putting up outdoor ads. He’s running for president. Read more »
Mayor Bloomberg said this morning that a record 23 shows are now filming in New York City. Reuters says that the TV business brings in $5 billion dollars and 100,000 jobs. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz called his home “Hollywood East” — yuck. Read more »
French expat Ultra Violet rolled around quite a few of Andy Warhol’s Factory films and she fucked Salvador Dalí, so this 75-year-old artist’s got star rep. Now the rebel Catholic girl turned godless Superstar turned Mormon has a submission for the 9/11 Ground Zero museum. It’s a 9/11, specifically, a 10-foot-tall IXXI. Read more »
After a series of high-end collaborations with reputable brands ranging from Jimmy Choo to Sonia Rykiel and Lanvin, among others, clothing colossus H&M has decided to pair up with former Downtown “it girl” Leigh Lezark for their next joint project. Read more »
According to a new federal report that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone familiar with the MTA, the Second Avenue subway isn’t expected to be completed until 2018, or 16 months after the beleaguered transit agency said it would be done, giving Upper East Side residents a slight reprieve from their inevitable day of reckoning. Still, despite the lack of a physical product, the T train is still a good seller. (Image: Joyce Chen)
A certain obsessive compulsive vampire has wandered off far from Sesame Street and onto a train car in Calgary, Canada via graffiti writer XOAN. (Photo: A&P/Flickr)
Staten Island, which today enjoys its 350th birthday, has good reason to celebrate. S.I.’s very own Midland Beach was named the best beach in New York by an organization called New Yorkers For Parks in their annual report. Read more »
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