Month: February 2014
That’s pretty cool of Park Avenue Methodist Church to quote Bill Nye the Science Guy, but what do they think about evolution? (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
MTA Bus Time is great. If your line of choice has it and you’ve got a phone, you can know exactly when a bus will arrive at your stop, rather than having to deal with the transit authority’s sometimes unreliable static schedule. Now, the program — which already covers Staten Island, Manhattan, and the Bronx […]
As a Muslim, I’m calling out this latest decision by the Fatwa Committee under the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the United Arab Emirates. One-way trips to Mars are against Islam? That’s some interstellar bullshit. Nice attempt at trying to hijack the hot topic headline though. “Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to […]
Harold Ramis, a giant of 80s comedies is dead at the age of 69. He’s credited as the writer of cult classics such as Animal House, Caddyshack, and Ghostbusters, the latter of which he also acted in. In that film he played Egon, who prophetically declared that “print is dead” in 1984. He’s also famously […]
Here’s a freshly-released trailer for late Aleksei Yuryevich German’s last film Hard To Be A God. Based on the novel by Strugatsky Brothers (who also wrote Roadside Picnic which inspired Tarkovsky’s Stalker), the black and white sci-fi Russian-language film premiered earlier at Rotterdam. Watch the trailer below, via Twitch, for erratic gorgeously-filmed Middle Age-like chaos… with something very alien, far less […]
Today, at the opening of the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Oral-B unveiled what’s being called the “world’s first smart toothbursh” (although that “first” bit is up for debate). PhysOrg reports: “It is a world first,” said Michael Cohen-Dumani, head of Procter & Gamble’s Oral-B brand, which plans to sell the product in Europe, the United States […]
Last we heard from Allen Henson, the boob-friendly photographer was under threat of a lawsuit from the Empire State Building’s ownership after he published photos of a topless model atop the iconic structure. He hasn’t let the legal action dampen his appetite for public breasts, however, and posted the above photo of trans model Sarina […]
See that sign in the window of this old Chevy van? The “MSTF”stands for Midtown South Task Force, a NYPD unit that occupies a stationhouse on 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenue. It’s also a designation that you’ll find on all their police vehicles. This one was sitting out front Friday night. If it […]
This fireworks festival happens once a year at the end of the Chinese New Year in the Yanshui District of Tainan City, Taiwan. “Here, thousands of bottle rockets are ignited from a ‘beehive’ to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to those who are in the path of the rockets,” Farnworth writes. Those who are […]
Snow is a scourge. It has held our city in a virtual stranglehold for months — this weekend’s pleasant weather notwithstanding — turning sidewalks into skating rinks, screwing up parking, and keeping the Department of Sanitation from picking up trash. And there’s more coming this week. But that doesn’t change the fact that it can […]
