Month: January 2014
The appearance of what looked like a Craigslist ad to rent the recently shuttered 285 Kent space for $8,000 per month caused a minor tizzy yesterday before it was pulled from the site without any explanation. ANIMAL contacted venue owner Todd P before the post was removed to ask whether it was legit, and he […]
Peyton, Riverside Park. (Photo: @ShellyS) […]
The message on this police dog’s lapel in Penn Station is a good rule of thumb. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Gemma Moss, a 31-year-old British woman, reportedly died this week of a cannabis overdose. This is notable because it’s widely understood that death from pot is virtually impossible. The only other dubious report also comes from Britain: in 2004, Lee Maisey was said to die of cannabis poisoning at age 36. A study cited in […]
Lotfy Nathan’s 12 O’Clock Boys documentary about inner city Baltimore dirt bike race gangs is finally hitting US theaters via Oscilloscope Laboratories. Dramatic slow-motion wheelies aside, it looks like an engrossing and intimate look on the subculture. Follow Pug, who has “been on this Earth a decade and some years… a grown-ass man,” trying to join a […]
New York-based pop artist Steve Ellis has installed a public exhibition inside the Condé Nast building. “It’s my biggest show yet, hanging in Times Square,” Ellis tells ANIMAL. “I made a billboard-sized piece about the gritty and glamorous history of the area.” The center-piece Coming to Times Square is a collage compilation in the style of Times Square […]
Eclectic Method’s on-again-off-again Mix the Week series returns this week with musical cuts and loops of Obama’s State of the Union address, the Grammys, snow and ice in Atlanta, and more. Last week’s, which we missed, had the producer’s take on remixing Rob Ford. Watch above. […]
Remixers, rejoice: the culturally anarchic noise/rap/etc crew Death Grips has released the individual vocal and instrumental tracks to two of its albums, No Love Deep Web and Government Plates, for free online. Grab the former here and the latter here. A quick SoundCloud search for “Death Grips remix” shows producers are already getting to work with […]
One of Bill de Blasio’s key campaign promises involved ending the city’s appeal of a federal lawsuit aimed at the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, and now, he’s delivering on it. In a deal laid out by the mayor’s administration today, the city will accept a court-ordered monitor to oversee the NYPD for three years to ensure […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Momofuku Má Pêche 15 W 56th St, Midtown West, Manhattan The Smile 26 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan Kittichai 60 Thompson St, Soho, Manhattan Whiskey Soda […]
