Just in time for Occupy Wall Street’s planned demonstrations on Saturday, the city has activated the free wifi at Tompkins Square Park. It’s one of 20 public parks around NYC that will offer high speed wireless service, which is great for area residents and this weekend’s protesters looking to broadcast live from the East Village.
Ah, sweet! French designer Elsa Lambinet’s Sweet Play is the modular gourmet experience that will have design-freaks and chocolate lovers salivating both ways. The concept chocolates all come equipped with slotts for custom wafer inserts — caramel? nougat? — and topside orifices varied by chocolate variety, with a waffled beds for pouring jams and liquids (white), holes for fruit (dark) and nuts (milk). Mmm. Check it out in action on video. Aghghh. Read more »
At some point in the last century, humans went from letting dogs roam free and shit wherever they wanted, to bending over with plastic bags and picking up their steaming piles of excrement. Well, technology is finally coming around to handling this problem for the betterment of NYC sidewalks. Read more »
ANIMAL favorite Leon Lim — the man behind that fantastic Julian Assange meta-portrait fashioned out of real WikiLeaks text is part of the cast of Jerry Saltz-judged reality competition, Bravo’s Work of Art, Season 2 premiering tonight. He’s the only one not from the US, the only one “deaf and proud” and he’s enough of a reason for us to start using that #WorkOfArt/#WorkoFart hash tag. Check out the deets on the rest — including the token graff guy “Tez” and the Sucklord, whose rep precedes him – here.
Forever the minx, 37-year-old artist, writer and filmmaker Miranda July takes to her New Yorker column to joyfully brag about her prolific shoplifting past — “the whole world was one giant heist,” citing intermediate level magnet tricks of the trade for cred. Then, the narrative progresses into outright airline insurance fraud, made sound like a hobby. Don’t judge. Read more »
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is criticizing Mayor Bloomberg’s treat-the-poor-like-criminals-if-they-want-to-eat program and said that requiring food stamp applicants to be fingerprinted is wrong. She’s also says it’s a waste of valuable resources. Read more »
POPagandist extraordinaire Ron English celebrates his English 101 show at Post No Bills in Venice/LA by slipping some Cap’n Corn Starch and Killfrog’s Sugar Smack among the more lucratively packaged cereal at a local Ralph’s grocery store in an intervention dubbed Short Shelf Life. Read more »
Crowned by the Daily News as the “squeegee king of New York,” Grover Washington was busted for the 186th time on Tuesday, when he passionately peddled his window washing services to a driver in Murray Hill who didn’t want them. He was arrested at the scene for aggressive solicitation and unlawful car washing. While many of the city’s change hustlers peacefully solicit money, Washington has a history of breaking people’s windows when they refused to pay, leading us to believe that this may not be the best vocation him to pursue.
One of several women who were pepper-sprayed by a high ranking police officer for the heck of it during a protest march, sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, by way of legendary civil rights attorney Ron Kuby, urging his office to file assault charges against Lieutenant Anthony Bologna. Read more »
He may not be liked by Danish anarchists, but he sure is beloved by the American mainstream. Behold the HOPE-y Shepard Fairey hommage in George Clooney-directed presidential election intrigue flick The Ides of March, which the artist had not been involved with. Anybody saw a campaign poster copyright drama side plot in there?
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