Month: February 2014
Somehow, fecal microbiota transplantation is a real, scientific treatment that actually cures diseases. That is, in real life, not an Austin Powers film or a bad episode of South Park, you can get other people’s poop implanted into your colon to treat your Clostridium difficile, a deadly digestive infection. And it works! But until now, there’s been no place […]
This is the new Pussy Riot for “Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland,” starting with delicate music and some waves, until the bright balaclavas emerge triumphantly out of the water and hell breaks loose all over the Olympic International Committee’s fantasy of non-involvement. Though the IOC’s Mark Adam said “what happened wasn’t in the context […]
Police commissioner Bill Bratton announced this week that the NYPD will begin enforcing rules to ensure horse-and-carriage rides are done in as humane a fashion as possible. Previously, that duty was held by the ASPCA. According to CBS, cops will conduct stable inspections and are “trying to figure out how police will enforce rules banning […]
In a deal sparked by an NYCLU lawsuit, New York State will scale back the use of solitary confinement in its prison system, banning the practice for prisoners under 18 and limiting it for pregnant and developmentally disabled people. “New York State has done the right thing by committing to comprehensive reform of the way […]
Cleopatra & Antony, First Park. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Courageous urban explorer and photographer who goes by the name 2e (or @gothamr on Instagram), has turned the act of trespassing into NYC’s transit system and documenting tunnels an artform. (Photo: @2e) […]
Cubist painter Maximo Caminero was charged with criminal mischief after destroying an artwork by contemporary Chinese artist and dissident activist Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum Miami on Sunday. According to his arrest report, the 51-year-old artist picked up one of the Colored Vases on display at Ai Weiwei’s “According to What?” exhibit and after a security guard told him to […]
Shawn Thomas recorded the video above at the Utica Avenue 3/4 stop last Saturday. In it, we see a police officer standing on the platform with a calm civilian to whom he’s issued a summons. The clip proceeds without action for a few minutes, until Officer Efrain Rojas arrives. First, Rojas begins recording with his iPhone. […]
Earlier today, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and others were brutally attacked by Cossacks in Sochi, 20 miles from the Olympic Park, while performing a Pussy Riot action. The Cossacks are part of Sochi’s internal security force, beefed up for the Olympics. Shortly after, the IOC denied violations of the Olympic Charter as it was a “local” Sochi issue […]
Photos of British urban explorer Lucinda Grange standing atop various tremendously high structures have been making the rounds lately, and though this photo of her relaxing on the edge of the Chrysler Building was taken last year, it’s too cool not to post. Here’s a quick video detailing some of her exploits. Logan Hicks pulled […]
