Month: September 2013
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Crystal Stilts’ signature sound involves blanketing classic doo-wop and rock-and-roll sounds with an almost-imperceptible layer of dread, and accordingly, their playlist dips into the weirder corners of summer-of-love jangle. There are good trips […]
This summer, the entire fifth floor of the New Museum was transformed into a devoted archival lab. This functioning exhibition and lab “XFR STN” allowed for any New York-based artist to set up an appointment and work together with one of the museum’s digital media archivists to carefully extract artworks from their recently antiquated storage devices. […]
While mindlessly cruising Instagram last night, as I am wont to do, I came across an account posting seemingly pro-Assad comments on a particularly funny image from the Onion about the situation in Syria. Morbid curiosity led me to click through to the person’s profile, because whatever your feelings on the politics or the seemingly […]
The landscape of New York keeps on changing, but Coney Island is cruising through time with the same vivid and dissolute charm, against its own “transition.” As summer wraps up, the gritty seaside amusement district is effervescent, the boardwalk filled with bronzed and tattooed flesh and grinning characters, chasing and squeezing in the last bit of […]
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office continued its quest against shady massage parlors this week, shuttering Bay Ridge’s notorious Bright Ocean Spa and four other spas in the area for alleged prostitution. Last time, evidence showed human trafficking may have been involved, and that seems to be the case in at least one instance here. According to […]
Last Friday, a woman was hit by a car riding her bike in Brooklyn, scraping her chin on the pavement. A friend posted about the incident in a post on Tumblr, describing the following altercation between the five feet tall bike rider and the driver. The driver rolled down his window and called her a, “Stupid […]
Wrigley, Jacob Javits Center. (Photo: Allison Bagg/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mayor Bloomberg, Chancellor Walcott, and entourage set a bad example on the first day of school by breaking the cardinal rule for appropriate footwear on the gymnasium floor. (Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office/Flickr) […]
UK’s most famous graphic designer Peter Saville isn’t fazed by the never-ending throng of tributes, homages and rip-offs of that one most famous thing he did. In a recent interview with the Guardian, he refers to the time Disney tried to sell it as a Mickey Mouse silhouette a “the total car crash catalogue of […]
The happy father in the photo above likely has tiny little itty bitty testicles. His lil’ baby balls are probably so small he can hardly see them when he showers. How do we know? Because he looks empathetic, nurturing, and involved in his daughter’s life–all qualities that decrease when a man has great big cojones, […]
