Month: April 2015
At a time when scrutiny toward police brutality and wrongdoing has reached an all time high, with new incidents popping up daily, the NYPD recently decided to get back in on the action. In a video uploaded to Facebook/YouTube by Diane Malikah Moomin Pinkston, a group of plainclothes officers can be seen forcing their way […]
Like other crimes, the laws against graffiti vary from state to state and from country to country. There are many places such as Bogota, Colombia where the fine is relatively minor and then there are others, like Singapore, that will get straight up medieval on someone’s ass should they get caught tagging. The makers of […]
A chill ran up my spine, as I lay naked upon an inverted plank. Not because there was no heat in the Brooklyn loft, but because Mangina was approaching me with a bucket of hot wax. My legs were elevated and my clit had just been engorged thanks to Mangina’s fluffing. Yet, despite my hooded […]
Last month, a startup called Party NYC launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for a product called Disco Dog, an LED-light-equipped vest for dogs. It seemed very silly. Now, DNAInfo reports, it’s very successful: with a little more than two days left in the campaign, the project has raised more than $5000 over its goal. […]
Harmonious co-existence is a lofty aspiration for a city as cramped as New York. To help establish peace, and to keep New Yorkers from strangling each other, mediators are scattered across the five boroughs, solving conflicts between families, neighbors and community members. Mediation is not like most legal proceedings. For one, it won’t cause your […]
This is a video of two subway dancers trying to perform a tandem flip. The one kid lifts the other up too far and smacks his head against the roof of the car. They then continue the routine like nothing happened. The MTA wants to take moments like this one away from us, which would […]
A New Jersey-based rapper named Wais P the Pimp was charged with promoting prostitution on Thursday, according to the Daily News. Not since C-Murder went to prison for murder has a rapper been arrested for something so on-the-nose. Wais P the Pimp appeared on a 1998 Jay-Z song called “If I Should Die.” He doesn’t […]
Barack, Bushwick. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A mural memorializing the 43 Ayotzinapa college students who were kidnapped in Mexico was recently painted in Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Although the DEA classifies shrooms as a Schedule 1 drug — a classification that’s supposed to be reserved for the most dangerous of substances — according to scientists, it’s not nearly as dangerous as the the government claims. Researchers Teri Krebs and husband Pål-Ørjan Johansen argue in a letter to Lancet Psychiatry journal, that the […]
