Month: June 2013
First, guess how many bars there are in the area of the Lower East Side and East Village bounded by 14th Street, Rivington Street, Avenue B, and the East River today. I’ll give you a minute. There are 74, according to the State Liquor Authority. Nothing to turn your nose up at, but a little […]
They got Marat Guelman. Unbelievable. Marat Guelman — one of Russia’s most forward-thinking high-ranking art figures with vast experience in pushing Kremlin’s sensitive buttons, has been fired as the director of the vital Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, which he created in 2008. In an Ai Weiwei-style manhunt, Guelman’s finances are being “looked into” and the galerist […]
The pharynx, the space between the tongue root and the back of the throat, is used for gagging, deepthroating and the Afroasiatic languages of North Africa and the Middle East. Arabic’s use of the pharynx is one of the most extensive. Not only does it use the breathy H-like fricative /ħ/ and its voiced counterpart […]
Who is Diablo? Where did he come from? Why he is running in his pink jumpsuit alongside the cyclists of the Giro D’Italia? Dieter “Didi” Senft (born February 7, 1952 in Reichenwalde, Germany) is known as the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia devil or El Diablo. Since 1993, he has been seen in the […]
During his time at the Royal College of Art, artist David Hockney made himself a fake diploma and submitted it as his final assignment in place of the required essay needed in order to graduate. The defiant drawing was a satirical version of the Royal College of Art’s actual diploma: The artist felt that he should be judged […]
This is getting out of hand. Sparklers, along with all other fireworks, are currently illegal in the state of New York. The Bloomberg administration would like to keep it that way, and is pushing Governor Cuomo to veto a bill that would legalize the novelty devices for a few months a year–even though the bill […]
This isn’t your usual “hackers in legal trouble” news story. An unofficial hacker school known as Bitmaker Labs is facing some trouble from the Canadian government and it all started with a charming piece at the Globe and Mail about Bitmaker Labs founder Matt Gray and his intent to “change the world.” Toronto may be no Silicon Valley, but Gray […]
Fiona, East Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Photographer Tod Seelie documented Jeff Stark‘s crazy, illegal party inside an abandoned DUMBO subway station for the Gothamist, but was kind enough to send us this pure graffitied vault shot. (Photo: Tod Seelie) […]
Due to the sheer amount of skaters tearing up the streets at any given time, every day seems like Go Skateboarding Day in New York City, but it officially happens–worldwide–on June 21 and has becomes an annual event since 2003. It was even given Congressional approval. For this year’s GSD, things got turned up a […]
