Month: January 2015
New Yorkers refer to the subway car that houses a particularly pungent person as the “bum car” so often that it has it’s own Urdan Dictionary entry. The somewhat insensitive phrase is used something like this, “oh no wait, don’t go in, that’s the bum car, let’s squeeze into this one.” According to Queens Crap, some riders in […]
As increased security brings more cops to Penn Station, MTA cops are facing more assaults and attacks. The New York Post reports that in the past year, 10 cops were attacked and a total of 21 were assaulted; in 2013, no cops were attacked. Only eight were assaulted. During this time, Governor Cuomo also increased […]
Daphne, Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina) […]
You Go Girl, Brooklyn Navy Yard. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Planet Ludlow is a fascinating little documentary that explores the shops, galleries and work that the people on Ludlow street were doing in 1995. The LES still looks like it did in the eighties but the narrator, Ronnie DeMonarco, informs us that this is right at the time that the neighborhood got the drugs and crime […]
“Legalize it, don’t criticize it,” officially bellowed reggae great Peter Tosh in 1975 when he recorded what would later become one of the most popular songs of all time. Four decades later, lawmakers in Jamaica are finally getting the message. Although elected officials are not fully legalizing cannabis like in Colorado and Washington, a bill […]
The street artist Insa is known for his Gif-iti, a technique in which he paints a mural over and over with slight changes and documents each piece to create an animation later. Normally if one stumbles upon a piece by Insa, the animation can be viewed through an augmented reality app, but his latest work required […]
If you found the sardonic anthropomorphized animals in Bojack Horseman hilarious, and Adult Swim’s comedic experiments continuously excite you, then you’ll probably love Animals — an absurdist animated series about NYC starring talking horses, rats, and pigeons. There’s just one problem: it still needs a network. The LA Times has devoted a fairly lengthy article […]
Hot on the heels of his Grammy-nominated album Syro, Aphex Twin just dropped more new music. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2 EP is the second release from one of the best electronic music-makers in just 4 months. After a 13 year absence from the scene the man has said in interviews that he has a ton of unreleased music […]
The New England Patriots are being investigated for supplying under-inflated footballs in an important game they won against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Dubbed #DeflateGate, the incident has morphed into a highly publicized controversy that has the word “balls” coming out of everyone’s mouth, from sportscasters to players and pundits. Everyone’s balls deep in balls, […]
