Month: October 2014
It looks like the FBI has some explaining to do. When experts examined the evidence presented against the alleged founder of dark net drug market Silk Road, something didn’t add up. Specifically, the method the FBI claim to have used to find Silk Road’s servers was apparently fabricated. The feds claim that they found the Silk Road server location because Silk […]
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 69°F LOW 61°F In theaters: David Fincher’s Gone Girl. Stray Dog at New York Film Festival (6:15pm, $15, Manhattan) Alan Smithee Directed This Play at BAM (7:30pm, $20, […]
Remember the busy-work worksheets your math teacher assigned you in grade school? Well, if you want that tedious feeling back — without even a single gold star sticker as a reward — then electronics blogger Ken Shirriff has made a video just for you. Watch him “mine Bitcoin” with pen and paper. I decided to […]
A study based on data from the lunar GRAIL mission is putting many previous scientific theories about the surface of the Moon into question. Looking closely at its mares (“seas” filled with darker rock) suggests that the planet’s largest feature, Oceanus Procellarum, is the spot from which the planet shat all over itself and “fed magma into its other features.” “The new information […]
In the wake of hysteria over bicyclists being dangerous for pedestrians, a new study finds that injuries are actually declining steadily. The study was done jointly by professors from NYU and Hunter, using hospital data from the past ten years. Between 2004 and 2008, the rate of cyclist-caused pedestrian injuries in New York State went […]
A new gallery show of artists who work in NYC’s subways will open tonight at Bushwick’s Armature Art Space. “Showtime: Underground Arts” will feature at least one artist you probably know from your commute. That guy who cuts portraits out of paper (Ming Liang Lu), that guy who paints subway maps (Edwin Class) and one “It’s showtime!”-shouting dance crew […]
This week’s winner for most batshit rant at a routine community board meeting goes to Mr. Salsano of the Upper West Side. Seems like residents near Riposo 72 are terrified that the wine bar’s yet-to-be-built 16-seat sidewalk cafe and liquor license will “erode” the “quality of life” and “complexion” of their “bedroom community” near Central Park West and the Dakota. Their […]
Dwight, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Bik Ismo, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Are you in Berlin and on Grindr? Want to go make pancakes, trim nails or play chess with artist Dries Verhoeven inside a glass-walled container in a Berlin Kreuzberg square? Potentially lucky participants are being solicited right now by the Dutch artist via the gay hook-up app. He says, “we’ll shave one another or read to one […]
