Month: March 2015
“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. Guitar virtuoso Ryley Walker is celebrating the release of his second album, Primrose […]
The state’s outdated property valuation system is resulting in the super-rich paying a fraction of the property taxes they should be, the New York Post has learned. To put the inequity into perspective, the Post notes that “the buyer of the most expensive apartment ever sold – a $100 million duplex overlooking Central Park — […]
Just after New York got over the illness that is Fashion Week, Paris caught the designer bug — and it’s thriving. If you’re in the mood to refresh your wardrobe, look no further than Paris’s showcase for inspiration. Face masks, jeweled birds, black string-like face masks, and furry boots are likely the very practical accessories […]
Seriously, good luck. […]
The city is making it easier to become a cabbie. The New York Times reports that the Taxi & Limousine Commission has dropped a significant portion of the geography questions from its rigorous 80-question test, meaning that cabbies won’t know New York City’s streets as well as they once did, which was never that good. […]
Dennis, Jamaica Station. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists SP ONE, YES2, and AROE spruced up the gates of CLAW’s space at 101 Delancey to promote their new group show that opens tonight. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
On Friday, millions of Hindus across the world observed Holi, the Indian festival of spring. It’s the sort of party that even the non-religious can appreciate; the focus is on fun, and when done right, people flock to the streets to dump water on each other, throw colorful powder and get high. Holi is one […]
Last month, Caters News Agency published an account about a “drunk” gorilla who punched a photographer, accompanied by some remarkable photos. The story was picked up verbatim by several media outlets and went viral. Here’s how the news agency framed the encounter: “Completely drunk from eating bamboo stems, which ferment in gorillas’ stomachs causing them […]
What if a bridge could also be a community center? That’s what architect Sunggi Park envisioned in his Harvard thesis project “Re-configurable Infrastructure,” which just got a special mention in the annual d3 Unbuilt Visions competition — an annual celebration of visionary and theoretical architecture across the world. Using the Queensboro Bridge as an example, […]
