Category: Culture
Last month, we posted about the breakthrough discovery that the comet known as 67P smells terrible, but little did we know that would be the least interesting thing about the flying ball of ice. The European Space Agency has recorded a “song” being emitted by the comet. Ahead of its historic landing on the comet — which […]
“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. This weeks playlist comes to you from Brooklyn-based band Edith Pop. Edith is playing […]
He may have slipped in polls recently, but President Obama is still popular within the internet community, having just joined the fight for net neutrality. In a video and two-page statement released by the White House, Obama urged the FCC to support an open internet that treats all data and providers on the internet equally. […]
“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. This week’s playlist comes to you from beat-master Falside. You probably already know his […]
NY1 news heroes Pat Kiernan and Roger Clark just got finished reporting live from the Halloween Day Parade. They were dressed as sailors from Broadway musical On the Town and towards the end of the broadcast, the duo attempted to sing “New York, New York” — the Leonard Bernstein version, not the Sinatra one — […]
On Thursday evening, hip hop star Nas posted a photo on Instagram of pop star Madonna licking his face in a studio. The caption reads: “It’s a NY & Detroit thing.” Then he got down to business and posted this soon after: Speaking of NY & Detroit…. "The Season" coming out any minute #SeasonOfNasir #RipDilla […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Hamish Todd about Music of the Spheres, a game inspired by Islamic art and viruses, which have only one thing in common: math. “I don’t […]
NYPD Deputy Chief Salvatore DiPace spoke with CBS this morning about the potential of a terrorist attack using increasingly available commercial drones. Chief DiPace says that an attack with a chemical weapon or a remote controlled gun are of particular concern. According to CBS, the wake up call to law enforcement around the world was […]
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26TH New York City’s Ebola skills are way more on point than Dallas’. Brooklyn church prays for Ebola… patient. Kids who live in public housing can check out the Museum of Natural History for free. Check out the flying dinosaurs exhibit. The so-called “Ground Zero mosque” is by far the New York Post’s […]
Though they weren’t the source of the original leak for eponymous album Run The Jewels, El-P and Killer Mike got ahead of the game this time around, releasing their new album RTJ2 online in the wee hours of Friday morning. The album isn’t commercially due out until October 27 by label Mass Appeal Records, but […]
