Month: April 2014
April 15, 2014 may go down in history as the day that ended the debate on pot legalization. On that date, the Dayton City Paper published an installment of its “Debate Forum” column that focused on the issue, with the intent that one staff writer would argue in support of legalization and another would argue against it. […]
In 2002, when Richard Linklater began making Boyhood, Ellar Coltrane was seven years old. Over the next 12 years, Linklater crafted a coming-of-age film with Coltrane at the center; by the time they were finished, Coltrane was a young man and so was his character. The trailer, released today, will probably make you tear up. This […]
For his “Relics of Technology” series, photographer Jim Golden didn’t just take immaculate, clean photographs of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a vintage typewriter and a brick-sized cellphone, so perfectly you’d think they were actually CGI renders by Takeshi Murata. He didn’t just incorporate minimal, gestural animations of softly spinning reels, blinking buttons and a franticly jittering… uh… whatever […]
As Curbed points out, the news archive British Pathé just put 85,000 historical newsreels onto its YouTube channel, one of which is this delightfully old-timey segment on the 1964 World’s Fair. It’s timely, and not just because the fair’s 50th anniversary is this week. The New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the Fair […]
The Summerstage series of outdoor concerts released its 2014 lineup this week, and as usual, there’s a slew of good shows from artists across the genre spectrum. For your convenience, we’ve dug through the schedule for the best hip hop, rock, reggae, and dance music events of the summer, many of which are free. Highlights […]
Palcohol, the powdered alcohol that will completely change the way we brunch and justify our one bottle of wine a day habit, had its label approval cruelly torn from it after the alcohol law blog Bevlaw reported on it. The makers claim it was just an error in the packaging but from the history of […]
Vice News journalist Simon Ostrovsky who was detained by armed gunmen in Ukraine has been released. Yesterday, Vice has confirmed his release and declined to comment further. This morning, Ostrovsky described what happened: On Thursday, armed gunmen who held me prisoner for four nights and three days released me into the streets of Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine. My release was […]
For now, the collected writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are available for free download on the Marxist Internet Archive, a distribution method that’s decidedly in keeping with the two giants of socialism’s ideas. However, Lawrence & Wishart, a UK-based radical publishing house, is claiming copyright infringement and ordering that the works be taken […]
Earlier this year, archaeologists dug up a series of centuries-old artifacts at City Hall, including a douche made of animal bone that dates back to the 1800s. Now, that douche has a new home in Midtown. A new space called the New York City Archaeological Repository, at 114 W. 47th Street, will hold the feminine hygine product […]
Yesterday, City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed on a plan that will allow the redevelopment of Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Factory to go forward. The deal involved lowering the Area Median Income, which determines who will qualify to rent the new complex’s 700 units of affordable housing. “We came up with a framework that […]
