Month: January 2015
At this point in America’s ongoing loss of privacy, it’s becoming clear that if one can imagine a way for an agency to spy, it’s probably happening. Hot on the heels of the recent announcement that the DEA collects call data on citizens, the ACLU has discovered that the drug agency is tracking millions of peoples’ […]
With a total ban on travel and no food delivery, New Yorker City residents had little else to do Monday night but cook, sit around, and watch a few flurries fall. The city that never sleeps was incredibly boring by night. But a few individuals kept the city’s spirit alive, refusing to be defeated by […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Cosbe 1. Name/Alias: Kid Cosbe Decade you were born in: I caught the tail end of the 70s and grew up moving all over the world with my army dad. When my parents got divorced I was raised […]
Stacy Bell, a reporter for NBC News, had a close call yesterday when a car almost smashed into her while she was reporting from the streets of Long Island. Bell was just doing the usual field report and pointing out the desolate streets as the much-hyped blizzard was forcing everyone inside when a passing car […]
Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High movement, has been served with an eviction notice for his rent-controlled apartment. According to McMillan, it’s because his landlord wants the rent to be higher. The firebrand gubernatorial candidate’s landlord claims that the East Village apartment on St. Mark’s isn’t McMillan’s primary residence, so he […]
New York City’s subway is system is just now crawling back to life after Governor Cuomo mandated a service shutdown effective at 11 PM on Monday night ahead of what was deemed to be a “potentially historic” blizzard. This was the first time in the city’s history that the subway has halted for a snowstorm. […]
Lao, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Heavy snow means good cover for mischief. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
While the East Coast hunkers down for a “historic” snowstorm, the rest of the world will have the opportunity to see an asteroid pass by Earth — the likes of which we haven’t seen since 2007. Asteroid 2004 BL86 is “roughly a third of a mile across,” writes Space & Telescope, but not to fear: […]
John Waters is probably the most famous director of “obscene” films that ever lived. His unlikely rise to fame from the underground world of grainy 8mm movies that were designed to be unpalatable trash has never been repeated by anyone. This is a man who spent a decade taking acid and having his troupe of […]
