Month: August 2013
Allen Moye, a 54-year-old, legally blind black man has filed the first stop-and-frisk-related lawsuit since the federal court decision that ruled the tactic unconstitutional. Moye alleges he was wrongly stopped while waiting for a friend in Harlem in 2010. “It was racial profiling, what they did,” he said. “It’s a different Jim Crow. They try […]
Harrington, Times Square. (Photo: Allison Bagg/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In addition to DALeast and MOMO, El Tono also created some art for Dumbo Walls. (Photo: Garrett Ziegler/Flickr) […]
Earlier today, the MTA shut down service on a section of the B and Q lines in Brooklyn for about two hours because two kittens were spotted roaming around the tracks of the Church Avenue station in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. According to the transit agency, this is standard operating procedure. “If train personnel see anything […]
Whether it’s the prying eyes of the NSA or government surveillance drones, many of us want nothing more than to just go on with our lives without the constant feeling of being watched. The Lower East Side’s New Museum proves to be on point once again and has started their own “Privacy Gift Shop,” selling only the finest wares for your modern privacy […]
We all know the internet hates loves twerking, but just how much does the internet hate love twerking? To find out, we turned to Twitter. How many times has “twerk” been tweeted in the past month? Past week? Day? Hour? We present you with Twerking on Twitter, the infographic: There you go. According to social analytics […]
Big news in Colorado and Washington: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of the two states that the federal Department of Justice would not interfere with their recent legalization of recreational cannabis. Though the citizens of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize last year, that hasn’t stopped federal authorities from raiding dispensaries in […]
Russian news organization Russia Today has recently been banned from the popular Reddit forum r/news for allegedly spamming and manipulating upvotes on the thread, subsequently promoting its own stories as not only factual, but popular on the site as well. Doesn’t that sound just a little bit like propaganda to you? However, fans of the news organization have equated this […]
The technology behind teletext has been around for a long, long time but hasn’t ever really taken off as an artistic medium for expression. Due to the growing trend of artists utilizing older technologies, perhaps as a response to the clean and crisp images we’ve become accustomed and desensitized to, this forgotten medim as might be […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Between a new music streaming service and file format, a Stereogum list, a book, and a new-ish Crazy Horse album, Neil Young seems to be having a late-career moment. […]
