Month: September 2014
Yesterday, the NYPD tweeted a photo of a woman wearing a fuzzy red Elmo suit in handcuffs with her back turned. The 37-year-old woman was arrested when police saw her asking a passerby for cash. They said she will be charged with aggressive solicitation. This weekend, two men dressed as Spider-Man and Batman were arrested, along with […]
The NYPD is investigating another confrontation between its officers and residents after a melee — caught on video — broke out on Sunday in Brooklyn, cops told ANIMAL. UPDATE (2:20PM): ANIMAL contacted DCPI and they confirmed that an officer involved in the incident was suspended. (Read our interview with a person who was arrested and […]
Tyler, Midtown. (Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The “Mona Lister,” Anthony Lister‘s unauthorized contribution to the L.I.S.A. Project. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
American Libertarians were thrilled when it was announced that a community modeled after Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, was in the works in Chile. The South American country was apparently an obvious choice due to their low taxes and temperate climate. This utopian retreat concept, dubbed “Galt’s Gulch Chile,” was founded in part by Jeff Berwick, who sold […]
Holy shit, it’s another app. Shrub is the new drawing app for iOS by Linked by Air/Jeffrey Scudder. The world around you is your paint. It’s free today! It’s easy; “paint” to capture, move camera to change what you’re capturing and “paint” on some more. Look, those are all my eyes. And face hole. I’m Fritz Lang, […]
New York State Senator Liz Krueger will be proposing a bill to legalize weed, again. The ardent Democratic attempted to introduce legislation earlier this year, but apparently it was dead in the water due to the political climate at the time (an untoppable Republican-controlled senate and a hesitant governor). Then something miraculous happened and New […]
John Darnielle is the lead singer and songwriter of the Mountain Goats, a wordy indie folk band with an obsessive cult following. In addition to being “one of the best lyricists of his generation” (as his book bio generously, but accurately, puts it), Darnielle is also one of the most prolific. His 14 full length LPs are […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Electronic producer and art troll Nick Koenig, better known as Hot Sugar, has been busy […]
A school in Dallas County, Missouri is very, very committed to their “drug-related and alcohol-related zero tolerance policy.” To them, just writing about weed in a personal notebook constitutes “possession of a controlled substance,” punishable by suspension. The high school girl accidentally left her notebook at school last year, when it was discovered and read by school […]
