Just as the NYPD announced they will investigate Lt. Officer Anthony Bologna’s now infamous pepper spray attack on 25-year-old Brooklyn resident Chelsea Elliot that was caught on video, sparking lots of outrage, a second video has surfaced of him doing the same to another group of protesters. Read more »
Since Bravo’s “Paint the Town” NYC gallerina reality show press release prompted us to await hot, young industry-arty party whore action, it got all quiet. Now, Bowery Boogie reports that the show has started filming at the DCKT Contemporary gallery in the Lower East Side. Read more »
One consistent thing about New York City is this: Consensus is impossible. So, it’s not that surprising to hear that some mom and pop shops aren’t big fans of the new High Line park according to amNewYork. “The High Line sucks,” said the owner of an auto parts supplier. He told the paper that his profits are down more than 30 percent since the debut of the fancy train trestle. How’s that possible? Read more »
Graffiti writer COPE2 gussies up a Chelsea auto-shop. (Photo: i_follow/Flickr)
Earlier today, we hit the Financial District to see exactly what its like for protesters as their Occupy Wall Street demonstration enters its 11th day. They marched through the narrow streets and past the Stock Exchange with a bevy of cops in front, behind, and to their sides. Read more »
Japan’s Power Rangers sentai erotica Love Ranger features some “verypopularTVtalent,” wink wink, and kind of beats out American-made porn parodies, if not by wankability, definitely by kitschy weirdness. Read more »
New York-based painter Lisa Yuskavage’s show of new works has just opened at the David Zwirner Gallery and there’s a deliberate yellow-green haze weaving through each one of her Dalí-esque pastoral scenes of paganistic nudes, letting their mystically-luscious long locks and pendular breasts swing in the dusk. There’s something “vulgar” and “angelic” about them, sprawled erotically in the fields, surrounded by pots, apples and Russian peasants. Lisa Yuskavage, Sep 27 – Nov 5, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC
Just in case you didn’t get your fill of crazy for the day, professional Islamaphobe and aspiring Thundercat, Pam Geller, has filed a lawsuit against what she calls the “Pro-Jihad” MTA because they won’t accept another one of her disturbingly xenophobic ad campaigns that insinuates Muslims are savages. Read more »
In the ongoing battle of humans vs. animals, Prospect Heights resident Dylan Thurston and his roommates have come up with a novel solution: coyote urine pellets. Read more »
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