Category: Culture
When you want to get people to listen to what you have to say, blasting lights into their offices and homes is a great way to get their attention. As world leaders visited the UN headquarters in Manhattan for the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to discuss how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons this […]
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 Sean Vesce of E-Line Media and writer Ishmael Hope about Never Alone (Kisima Inŋitchuŋa), a lesson in “accidental ethnography.” Until a few years ago, E-Line […]
Men in blue today get a bad rep, but they look like schoolyard bullies when compared to Michael Dowd, the ex-NYPD officer who slung crack cocaine in Brooklyn’s murder capital, East New York, at the height of the drug’s epidemic. Dowd, who served the 75th Precinct for a decade, made up to $4,000 a week […]
“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. Soul singer Van Hunt has been around for awhile and even won a […]
Mayor de Blasio, working to keep the NYPD from turning their backs on him again, snapped at reporters during a Thursday press conference who questioned the NYPD’s aggressive crackdown on demonstrators during Wednesday’s Freddie Gray protests. “When the police give you instruction, you follow the instruction. It’s not debatable,” the New York Times quotes de […]
“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. Nadine Shah is the reincarnation of mid-90s PJ Harvey (who’s still alive, but […]
We all know about the Golden Age of Hip-Hop, but did you realize there was a simultaneous golden age in New York City dance and hip-hop radio? Red Bull Music and director Joey Garfield brought together just about every notable living figure from that time, including DJs Marley Marl and Tony Humphries and producer Strafe, […]
“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. Prince Rama is a Brooklyn-based New Age/pop/psychedelic freakout band made up of sisters […]
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 James Beech of Neon Serpent LLC about Ultraworld, the story of an artificial intelligence paralyzed by uncertainty. Lots of video games break the fourth wall, […]
If you’re looking for a place to park in New York City this week, you might be surprised to see that “No Parking Zone” you’re eyeing is also now a “No Catcalling Zone.” The signs, first reported on Tuesday, are a street art collaboration between New York-based non-profit Feminist Apparel and Philly-based feminist collective Pussy […]
