If you didn’t shoot up heroin on the F train, you’re not going to wallow to the clinic for a gulp of methadone like a peasant, right? From designer Morey Talmor, here’re some very stylish rehab supplements in sleek, semi-discreet packaging. Swig your medicine with swagger. Gussy up that struggling schlep towards sobriety. Ooh, and you must see this little nicotine patch compact case, fit for a darkly dandy… This stuff… looks nice. Read more »
Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings have been relentlessly hated on by my art blogger comrades, so, for purely empirical purposes, I decided to go to see them in person and… uhh… be open to them. But first, I had to somehow purge myself of anger and that unceasing belief that Mr. Hirst is kind of a shit and his spots are nothing but bombastic, colorful turdlets. And so, I made merry with my temporary displacement in California and reaped the medical perks, hint cough hint. Read more »
Premiering tonight at the FilmForum, Gianfranco Rosi’s El Sicario: Room 164 takes you into a drab hotel room where a hooded narco hitman with $250,ooo contract on his head will boast about his 20 years of killing and torturing hundreds. Read more »
According to a new survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, alcohol and cigarette use amongst teens has dipped to its lowest levels since 1975. Which is great! However, researchers also say they found pot smoking by young people on the rise, reaching its highest levels since 1981. Which is also great, comparatively. Weed is a lot less addictive and dangerous than tobacco or booze, and doesn’t cause teenagers to do nearly as much dumb shit as they do when they’re drunk.
Photographer Nan Goldin’s legendary Ballad of Sexual Dependency slideshow was meant to dazzle and depress at Rio de Janeiro’s Oi Futuro Museum in January. Alas, they’ve cancelled the show, deeming it inappropriate because won’t somebody please think of the children?!!! Read more »
Or maybe it doesn’t. The Texas doctor who proposed the theory linking K2 and other crappy brands of smokeable incense to heart problems admits the results of his vast test group, three teenagers in all, are still inconclusive. But hey, there’s no harm in a little speculating. Similarly, the DEA used its emergency powers a few months ago, to ban the chemicals used in making the herbal blends, potentially staving off mass deaths or more likely, lots of headaches.
Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky was tapped for The Meth Project’s aggressive TV campaign to, as per Agency Spy’s guess, “scare children to the point that they will never want to leave the house again.” You know some ba-a-ad stuff’s about to happen to this chick. Read more »
Surely lured by the extremely graphic videos and photos of Russian DIY cheap alt heroin addicts with decomposing brains and sickly green flesh sliding off their bones, Vice has sent a pretty journalist into the Siberian town of Novokuznetsk to investigate. Enlightening. Read more »
This immaculate stop-motion animation Mound from artist Allison Schulnik is increasingly frightening, in a good way. See plasticine creatures melt in the face, ripple in the skin, undulate, change hue, dance like witches, grow giant mouths and swallow each other and then there are some mushrooms. Hint? Read more »
Let’s face it, folks, this economy blows. Everyone from lawyers to window washers are feeling the pinch and New York City coke dealers are no different. Guys who used to stroll into high-rises or meet you at the club are now having to sell their goods on the streets, becoming less selective of their clientele. Read more »
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