Month: March 2015
Diclazepam, clonazolam, flubromazelam are three new designer benzodiazepines drugs that have the five classic benzo properties — they are sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, muscle relaxant and anticonvulsant. To translate into normal speak: Benzos will make you chill, take a nap, stop worrying, loosen up, and — if you happen to be seizing — end your seizure. […]
Students in NYC public schools can now bring their cellphones to school without fear of getting caught. The Department of Education officially ended the ban on cell phones — enforced since 2006 — on Monday. Mayor de Blasio and the Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced in January that the new policy will increase the safety […]
The city is working with an independent group to survey the diversity — or lack thereof — within New York’s cultural institutions. Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl has noticed that cultural organizations across the country are overwhelmingly white. But “if you’re living in a city like we are in New York — with […]
Filmmaker Jeff Seal tagged along with some of New York’s most ambitious and youngest urban explorers, all in the pursuit of Instagram greatness. The social media platform is apparently a big motivator for these thrill-seekers and the reason why there’s so many photos of feet dangling over ledges, people spinning steel wool on fire, and […]
DNAinfo reports that a new website called amirentstabilized.com can help you determine whether you live in a rent stabilized building. Using publicly available data, Parson’s MFA Design and Technology student Chris Henrick created a database of the city’s rent stabilized buildings. The simple interface asks you to input your address, and then tells you if […]
Charles, Bowery. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
KLOPS makes fun of the ironic string of conservatism in graffiti with all its rules and whatnot via this piece in Queens. (Photo: KLOPS) […]
New York’s Armory Show hasn’t even started and one artist’s piece is already generating controversy. The Observer reports that sculptor, painter and Pioneer Works founder Dustin Yellin shredded $5, $20 and $50 bills totaling $10,000 in a wood chipper. He then then applied the valueless, torn-up money to eight canvases. Titled, “The Riches of God’s […]
In 1967, the Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon as an act of protest against the Vietnam War. The levitation itself was unsuccessful, but it did result in Norman Mailer’s classic book The Armies of the Night. On Tuesday, inspired by the Yippies, musical collective Talibam! attempted to levitate Vice Media’s office off its foundation […]
Republican Millenials — a dickish demographic too young to be as cynical as they are — tend to be much cooler with ending the prohibition on pot than the older curmudgeons in their party, according to a Pew Research poll. A whopping 63% of young GOPers showed support for the legalization of weed compared to […]
