Month: September 2014
Poster Boy, the billboard remixing artist who isn’t afraid to be political, altered yet another subway ad, making it a little more accurate. (Photo: Amy K. Nelson/ANIMALNewYork) […]
As more and more states decriminalize and legalize weed, the Northeastern Institute of Cannabis (NIC) in Natick, Massachusetts is trying to get in that other increasingly profitable field — education. School founder Mickey Martin has experience in what not to do, having pleaded guilty to conspiracy seven years ago after his edibles company in California was shut down. Martin […]
Until Milo Manera‘s cover art for “Spider-Woman #1″ dropped last month, many avid comic book readers might not have considered pounding a Spiderperson arched-back doggy-style. Sure, the Amazing Spider Man’s suit is tight, but Spider-Woman is glazed with body paint thin enough to accentuate the deep split of her crack, as she perches in an ass-sharply-up position that has zero tactical value, […]
According to a new study by the Americans’ Use Of Time (AUOT) project, though people believe they are too busy and have less free time, we actually have been gradually getting less busy over the last 40 years. It’s taken as common wisdom that we’re getting busier as a society. With Americans scrambling to acquire jobs, trying […]
In a disturbingly Orwellian display of double speak, 36-year-old Rosella Best was arrested by the police and charged by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office with a hate crime for equating the NYPD to Nazis. Ms. Best vandalized a police car with “NAZIS=NYPD” along with a 卐, and other messages. When police arrested Ms. Best, she loudly […]
The NYPD’s SkyWatch towers — now mofidied to fit vans with surveillance platforms extending from the roof — have become a ubiquitious fixture in the city, especially in areas where there’s lot of tourists or poor people. Artist Zaq Landsberg is so discomforted by the platforms which were originally designed for border protection that he was inspired to […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 84° LOW 73° Saul Williams at Le Poisson Rouge. (6pm, $20, Manhattan) diNMachine / rawmean / G.S. Sultan / sri experimental music and video games at Babycastles. (7pm, $7 suggested donation, […]
Dutch nonprofit Mars One announced Thursday that if you donate money or buy some swag from their shop, you’ll be entered in a raffle for a trip to sub-orbital space. “Ticket to Rise” is an effort to help fund a test Mars mission in a recreated environment on Earth in 2015 and a demo mission to actual Mars by robots in […]
(UPDATED 1PM) Artist Tom Otterness, whose bulbous and unthreatening public art sculptures appear all over the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway station and many other places in the city, has repeatedly apologized for shooting a shelter dog for an art project in 1977, when he was 25-years-old. He said that it was a “mistake” which caused him […]
Despite warnings emailed to the United Federation of Teachers on Wednesday, several groups of teachers have decided to wear their pro-NYPD t-shirts on the first week of class anyway. The Department of Education asked the UFT to remind them “that as public employees, one must remain objective at all times” and that “certain tee shirt messages may appear to be supportive, […]
