Month: June 2013
“Everyone from U.S. teens (70%) to adults (82%) to British teens (80%) forgoes condoms every time they have oral sex,” Jake Blumgart of the Pacific Standard via Salon reports. You’re thinking, “Really? I thought the numbers would be higher.” Of course, the smart thing to do would be to use condoms or dental dams for every act of oral […]
San Francisco filmmaker Brian Emerick created this sweet little film, which relies on a simple premise to communicate its love for New York City: every shot is just one second long, and everything was recorded over a single 12 day visit to NYC. The resulting collage is a little sentimental, and there are one two […]
On an episode of a conservative radio show, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) compared sex education classes in public schools to life in [a cartoonishly exaggerated dystopian version of] the Soviet Union. Apparently, teaching teenagers about contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases in school is somehow the same as parents surrendering all control over their children’s lives […]
New Yorkers looking to pretend they’re Rick Ross, Scott Storch, or Kourtney and Khloe taking Miami for a few minutes are in luck today: that city’s tourism board has a fleet of ludicrously expensive cars stationed across the street from Bryant Park waiting to chauffer you anywhere you’d like, as long as it’s in Midtown. […]
Many of us remember Dante’s Inferno as a pleasant surprise in an otherwise dreary introductory lit course. Sex? Blood? A torrential downpour of shit? You’ve got my attention, professor! Obscenities aside, though, the first poem of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy continues to grip readers with its timeless relevance as an examination of humanity’s dark side. So it’s […]
Some dog lovers are so close with their four-legged friends, they can tell what they’re thinking. Or can they? For ANIMAL’s newest series, What Do You Think Your Dog Is Thinking?, we go to dog parks all over New York and find out. Let’s see what’s on the minds of the city’s canines in Tompkins Square Park. Creator/Animator: Michael […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Keyboard Kid, the producer best known for making the next-level beats for much of Lil B’s vast catalog. And though his tracks tend toward the left-field and […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a permit to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to kill over 90 species of bird within New York State this year, ANIMAL has learned. The birds slated for killing include owls, herons, hawks, and woodpeckers, in addition to the slaughter of Canada geese that has been widely […]
Behold the beach season in Odessa, Ukraine, where all your beach needs are attended to by an ever-adapting class of beach-side vendors on the beach! Want some hot boiled corn? Take a picture with a monkey? Buy some salty fish from the one that looks like Kate Bush the militant sea-captain? Pet a snake. Balloons, also. There […]
Are you too cool for a CitiBike? Here’s an alternative as imagined by the Printed Internet. […]
