Category: Culture
Police tracking down a high profile murder suspect by collecting DNA from a piece of half-eaten pizza crust in a pizza box that was discarded into a public trash can on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, is one of the craziest (and most New York) details to emerge out of the highly publicized arrest of Rex […]
“A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived […]
Mexico City, Mexico – From the outside, La Posada del Sol doesn’t look like much, just another grouping of dilapidated, graffiti-covered buildings with boarded-up windows. Widely known amongst urban explorers, the location is notoriously hard to access: Round-the-clock security and green steel gates adorned with barb wire makes entry nearly impossible, unless you’re resourceful. I […]
📷: Meryl Meisler. Courtesy of CLAMP, New York As a young girl growing up in Massapequa — aka “Matzoh Pizza” — during the ’50s and ’60s, Meryl Meisler ’s childhood on Long Island was filled with scenes of suburban bliss. She plié’d and releve’d in ballet class, dazzled at twirl, and amassed an impressive array […]
📷: Recon Sign, photo by Manabu Okamoto Reconstruction was an all-volunteer run hardcore – punk records store in the East Village that was open from 1991 to 1993. Taking a cue from San Francisco’s Epicenter Zone collective and referencing earlier NYC hardcore emporiums like Ratcage and Some Records, coincidentally Recon being located on the same […]
📷: (L) Slick Rick by Sophie Bramly (R) Slick Rick by Janette Beckman | Courtesy of TASCHEN Picture it: Detroit, the late 1980s. High school student Vikki Tobak awaited her turn to speak as the teacher asked the class: “What do you want to do when you grow up?” The teen, who first arrived in […]
Above: Tony Hawk’s first skateboard. (📷: National Museum of American History) In the newish Tony Hawk documentary, the often-spotted but identity-mistaken skater casually mentions how he donated his first skateboard to the Smithsonian. It was a “Bahne skateboard with red Stoker urethane wheels on metal trucks” according to its listing in the government’s colossal collection […]
📷: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Decades ago, when American kids started engaging in wildly interesting and fun new activities such as skateboarding, graffiti, rapping, breakdancing and gaming, the media struggled in its attempt to define these emerging subcultures. Many of the vintage articles on these subjects share some common threads: they’re typically condescending, alarmist, and […]
For “Listen In,” we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length 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. When rapper Your Old Droog‘s first mixtape dropped in June 2014, it stirred up a flurry of conspiracy theories […]
For “Listen In,” we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length 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. Cayucas is a West Coast answer to Vampire Weekend. The Santa Monica-based indie band uses Ezra Koening & co’s […]
